When caring gets tiring
Like anything in life, you can take compassion too far – known as compassion fatigue. It tends to look a little like this:
Feeling hopeless
Difficulty concentrating
Hypervigilance; being easily startled or edgy
Irritability
An overall prolonged sense of stress on the system, which can lead to depression/anxiety/PTSD symptoms
What I have learned (and unlearned) as an invisible illness exercise physiologist
Spoiler alert: a lot.
Post-exertional situations
Why people feel exhausted after exerting and what can be done about it 🪫
Unwrap the gift of pacing
On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me… ample rest breaks and and salty snacks 🎶