Couch Talks: Does Burn Out Mean I Need a New Job?
You Need Therapy
iHeartPodcasts
2.4 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Kat answers a listener’s question about compassion fatigue and talks about burn out in helping professions.
Our listener has been having a difficult time coping with work lately – she works with cancer patients trying to help them engage in meaningful leisure activities. The job is so rewarding but she is feeling drained.
She’s finding a lack of motivation in motivating others and asks Kat for advice because compassion fatigue is real!
Most jobs come with their struggles, you can have gratitude for the specific brand of “hard” that you get to deal with but also acknowledge that things are difficult, frustrating and there will be times when you are “over it”.
Couch Talks is the bonus episode of You Need Therapy where Kat answers questions that listeners send to kathryn@youneedtherapypodcast.com.
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| 0:38.9 | Hi guys and welcome to a new episode of Couch Talks on Unite Therapy podcast. My name is Kat and I am the host. If you are new and are not |
| 1:00.7 | sure what Couch Talks is, it is the special bonus episode of Unite Therapy where I answer questions |
| 1:07.0 | that you guys send to me and you can send those to Catherine at at you need therapy podcast.com. Now usually we answer one question a week and we always keep it anonymous. So if you're worried about somebody finding out that it was you, if you and all your friends listen to you need therapy every week and you all text about it, you have a question, you're like, well, I don't want to send it in because then they're going to know it's me and maybe I'm talking about one of them. Good news is it's anonymous. So just don't give me any details that you wouldn't want to give me and nobody will ever know. So this week we're going to go along with the normal theme, answer one question and let's just get into it. Here is our question. Hey, Kat, I love the podcast and thought of you today as I have |
| 1:48.0 | been having to be. and let's just get into it. Here is our question. |
| 1:57.4 | Hey, Kat, I love the podcast and thought of you today as I have been having a difficult time coping with an aspect of my work lately and can't help think you or someone else might feel this way in a similar line of work. |
| 2:02.2 | I'm a recreation therapist and work with cancer patients who are in the hospital going through chemotherapy and radiation. My focus is on helping them engage in a meaningful and |
| 2:07.5 | purposeful leisure activities to promote a positive quality of life while they're in the hospital. |
| 2:12.7 | I've been in this setting for 12 years and I love what I do. It's so rewarding, but for the past few years, |
| 2:18.3 | I've been feeling more drained from a typical day. I feel like a broken wheel with some of my |
| 2:22.8 | patients lately, trying to encourage, motivate, and support positive coping strategies. |
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