News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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It seems empathy is in high demand these days. Helping professionals, healers, or simply those with caring personalities may feel overwhelmed and even exhausted trying to meet this demand. Having a caring heart and a tendency to put others ahead of ourselves makes us especially vulnerable to "compassion fatigue." Compassion fatigue, a term coined by Dr. Charles Figley, is a "state of tension and preoccupation with the suffering of those being helped to the degree that it can create a secondary traumatic stress for the... Full story
