Compassion Fatigue: What to do if you feel like you’re taking care of everyone else but not yourself

Do you feel overwhelmed, emotionally and physically exhausted? Do you have a diminished ability to empathize or feel compassion for others? Compassion fatigue can be very frustrating as you really do care about people but find yourself at odds with your own values when you find you are feeling irritable and angry and low on patience with others. And living out of alignment with our values leads to things like overeating, over drinking, and/or just a huge sense of dissatisfaction in life and this leads to more stress, anxiety, and depressive symptoms. In this episode I talk about ways to heal and get back to being who you are…that caring, compassionate, helping person and feeling back in alighment with yourself.