Hi and welcome. It's episode number 12, hilarious humanitarian's podcast. I'm Francis Etcherborea,

licensed marriage and family therapist. And I am Deanna Silverman, hilarious humanitarian on Instagram,

and licensed clinical social worker. I'm the S on the Humanitarians part of the podcast.

If you were looking for me, you can find Shut Up, Skippy.

So we're jumping into today with a topic that is often found working in mental health,

but also in, well, you could say like all the service areas.

And I think just life in general.

Yeah.

We're going to be talking about compassion, fatigue, and burnout, which are actually two different things. But we wanted to

we just want to kind of dive into what is compassion fatigue, what is burnout, what happens when we

start experiencing one or both

of these things and how we can take care of ourselves so that we don't suffer any physical

or emotional distress over either compassion fatigue or burnout. I wanted to read something I

printed for this episode. It's called transforming compassion,

fatigue into compassion satisfaction. There's like 12 self-care tips. Actually, before I get into that,

I'm going to read something. It says, here's the definition of compassion fatigue. Also called vicarious traumatic.

Okay, I'm going to have a hard time. Traumatic. Wait, hold on. This is us being professional.

Yeah. Carious traumatic. What? So I would always call it a vicarious trauma, but it's traumatic. Tramaticism? I don't know. I'm making this word up. I have no idea what you're looking at. Trauma, T-I-Z-A-T-I-O-N. Trauma to Titus. No. What? Okay, guys, we're going to go with vicarious trauma.

That's what I always say.

And I get tongue tied pretty quick, especially after a full day of work, which is right now.

Right now.

So whatever.

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