Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well

Marcus Valerius Martial

Building Emotional Resilience: Are you surviving or thriving?

Personal Support Workers face many challenges, including bravely walking into the homes of people they don’t know, and managing emotionally and physically draining situations. Learning ways to build emotional resilience prevents burnout and reduces the risk of carrying the trauma of what clients are going through.

Wellness Fact

Mother Theresa understood caregiver burnout and compassion fatigue. She wrote to her superiors that her nuns needed to take an entire year off from their duties every 4-5 years to allow them to heal from the effects of their caregiving work.

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