'Mental Health Matters' When Caring Hurts: Compassion Fatigue & Burnout featuring Dr. Meghan Breedlove Artwork

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Tails from a Vet Tech is a podcast dedicated to highlighting, educating, and advocating for veterinary, shelter, and behavior animal professionals. Our mission is to provide education, information, and dialogue that will create a supportive environment that empowers animal professionals to take care of themselves and the animals they work with. Tabitha and her amazing guests share reflections and experiences from their lives in shelter and vet med. We will have thought-provoking conversations about the ugly and beautiful moments and share success stories with the goal of supporting and inspiring others.

TFAVT is hosted by Tabitha Kucera (Elite Fear Free and Low Stress Handling RVT, VTS (Behavior), Certified Cat Behavior Consultant, Karen Pryor Academy Certified Training Partner) In addition to doing this podcast Tabitha also owns her own business, Chirrups and Chatter, and loves doing speaking engagements all around the world!

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'Mental Health Matters' When Caring Hurts: Compassion Fatigue & Burnout featuring Dr. Meghan Breedlove

July 03, 2023 • Season 2 • Episode 35

CW: Suicide, Depression, Compassion Fatigue.

Compassion fatigue and burnout are very common in the veterinary, training, and shelter industry among many others. We need to advocate and care for ourselves the same way we do for the animals we work with. YOU MATTER!

We all need to take care of each other, compassion fatigue and burnout are difficult to go through alone. Please reach out to someone and if you are being reached out to, don't ignore. You are not alone!

I talk to Dr. Breedlove about compassion fatigue and burnout in this episode. We talk about what it is, its symptoms, and techniques on how to combat them including compassion and resilience. Tabitha shares her experiences with compassion fatigue and what has helped her.

Resources:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8543697/
https://www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org
https://www.nomv.org/resources/

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