Teaching through Emotions

Teaching through Emotions

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Vicarious Resilience

Vicarious Resilience

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Betsy Burris
Nov 04, 2022
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An antidote to

vicarious trauma.

Which is what happens when you’re infected by others’ trauma and experience compassion fatigue, which is, well, exhaustion that drains you of the capacity for compassion. (In my experience, compassion fatigue feels more like unregulated compassion, like being flooded by sadness and helplessness and despair. Which renders m…

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