CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - The stress of working in animal welfare can be overwhelming at times. Compassion fatigue describes the physical, emotional, and psychological impact of helping others, ...

in Virginia, traveled to northern New Jersey to consult at the Bon Secours hospitals in Hoboken and Jersey City. She wasn’t there to help take care of the hospitals’ patients, but rather their staff ...

The 20th-century French philosopher Simone Weil once said that compassion was an impossibility. She said it is "a more ...

In professions requiring emotional investment and exposure to others’ struggles, terms like compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma often come up. While these conditions share some similarities, they ...

Can caring too much hurt your mental health? It's called compassion fatigue, and mental health experts say it's a phenomenon that occurs most commonly in people who work in professions like caretaking ...

Empathy is essential for leadership—but constant caregiving can extract a heavy toll on leaders. We even see such leaders within our own teams who struggle to watch them burn themselves out. So how ...

Whether good or bad, we all experience stress. This is particularly true for professional caregivers, especially as decreased funding can lead to higher caseloads and longer hours for many caregivers.

NEWPORT, Wales — Compassion has its limits and doctors need care too, experts warned at a well-being session at the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) Annual Conference 2025. Presenters Dr ...

Therapists often enter the profession because they believe in healing, growth, and the power of human connection. But when a patient’s progress feels slow or uncertain, that same compassion can become ...

Ministry compassion takes a toll. Frederick Buechner wrote, “Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it’s like to live inside somebody else’s skin.”[i] Every pastor knows the slump ...