The Path to Wellness

Once you realize that you are a candidate for compassion fatigue, or are already suffering its effects, exploring this new awareness can lead to insights concerning past traumas, pain, and defeating behaviors. A common and understandable coping mechanism in care giving is to simply stuff the overwhelming emotions that surface repeatedly in your work. How else can you keep going? Eventually, those emotions refuse to be ignored. All too often, psychological and physical crisis occurs.

With support, insightful information, and authentic self-care, you can begin to understand the complexity of the emotions you’ve been juggling and, most likely, suppressing. Most people never take the time to understand how their jobs affect them emotionally. Give yourself credit for moving forward and affecting change. Your hard work will pay off.

Authentic and Sustainable Self Care Begins With You:

Be kind to yourself.

Enhance your awareness with education.

Accept where you are on your path at all times.

Understand that those close to you may not be there when you need them most.

Exchange information and feelings with people who can validate you.

Listen to others who are suffering.

Clarify your personal boundaries. What works for you; what doesn’t.

Express your needs verbally.

Take positive action to change your environment.

Your Continuing Journey...

Healing the symptoms of compassion fatigue is an inside job. You’ve been loyal to your self-care plan, clarified personal boundaries in both your personal and professional life, and now understand your negative behaviors and their origins. As you continue to do the necessary internal work, you will reap the benefits. Your life will begin to change for the better.

In order to move forward on your path to wellness, you must continually commit to authentic self-care that includes:

• Health-building activities such as exercise, massage, yoga, meditation.

Eating healthy foods

Drinking plenty of water

Use natural healing products to care for and heal your body

Practicing the art of self-management. Just say no

Developing a healthy support system: people who contribute to your self esteem, people who listen

well, people who care

Organizing your life so you become proactive as opposed to reactive

Reserving your life energy for worthy causes. Choose your battles.

Living a balanced life: Sing, dance, sit with silence

For more information call Wholistic Health and Wellness Program at 613-575-2341 ex.3104