Couch Talks: Does Burn Out Mean I Need a New Job?
You Need Therapy
iHeartPodcasts
2.4 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2023
⏱️ 15 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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| 1:21.2 | Music on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, guys, and welcome to a new episode of Couch Talks on Uni Therapy podcast. My name is Kat, |
| 1:27.2 | and I am the host. If you are new and are not sure |
| 1:31.8 | what Couch Talks is, it is the special bonus episode of Unite Therapy where I answer questions that you |
| 1:38.2 | guys send to me and you can send those to Catherine at Unitherepepodcast.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 union 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 |
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