To watch the video of this episode, please go to: https://youtu.be/aOviXQOrFCs
What is compassion fatigue and caregiver burnout?
How does this show up in personal and professional settings?
What are some easy ways to relax, recharge, and receive?
Tune in to a joyful and inspiring epi...
To watch the video of this episode, please go to: https://youtu.be/aOviXQOrFCs
What is compassion fatigue and caregiver burnout?
How does this show up in personal and professional settings?
What are some easy ways to relax, recharge, and receive?
Tune in to a joyful and inspiring episode of Kaleidoscope of Possibilities: Alternative Perspectives on Mental Health in which authors, coaches, and caregivers Dr. Adriana Popescu and Lauren Polly discuss the plight of the caregiver in our world today and what profound shifts, tools, and strategies can be used to create a different possibility.
There is also a powerful exercise of gratitude that will immediately increase your energy of receiving.
In this episode:
- Compassion fatigue defined
- Personal and professional caregiving
- Exhaustion
- Toxic masking
- Burnout
- Getting out of autopilot
- From survival to thrival
- Self-care strategies
- The superpower of empathy and caring
- Life hacks for stress release
- Access Consciousness® and Who does this belong to?®
- Caring vs. carrying
- Empaths and highly sensitive people
- Lifeboat metaphor
- Quiet quitting
- Receiving and gratitude
- Simple exercises to calm and care for yourself
- The value of connection and community
Resources mentioned in this episode:
Dr. Adriana’s Website: https://adrianapopescu.org
Lauren’s Website: https://laurenpolly.com/
Firebird Healing: https://www.firebird-healing.com/
Workshop: https://www.firebird-healing.com/tools-for-caregivers-to-release-stress
Access Consciousness: https://www.accessconsciousness.com
About Lauren Polly:
Lauren Polly, MEd, CCC-SLP, RYT, is the founder of the Mental Wealth Movement, multi-award-winning author of The Other Side of Bipolar, and medical Speech-Language Pathologist.
She earned her master’s degree from the University of Virginia in Communication Disorders with a focus in Speech and Language Pathology in 2005. She has worked in America’s top hospitals since that time, where she eventually ran the speech therapy department.
Lauren interweaves her communication therapy skills with her yoga, meditation, and energy transformation training to provide cutting-edge content focused on un-locking the unorthodox talent of the neuro-emotional divergent population.
In her book, The Other Side of Bipolar, Lauren shares her own personal journey of receiving a bipolar diagnosis and how we can change other mental illness labels into empowering gifts for people who are diagnosed, their families, and the professionals who support them.
Her mission in life is to help others thrive beyond their labels, reclaim their innate gifts and blaze a unique trail in the world.
“What if you could be that light that lightens everyone else’s load? What if you are already are it? What if now is the time to start receiving it for yourself?” – Lauren
Would you like to continue this conversation and connect with other people who are interested in exploring these topics? Please join us on our Facebook group! (https://www.facebook.com/groups/kaleidoscopeofpossibilitiespodcast/)
About your host:
Dr. Adriana Popescu is a clinical psychologist, addiction and trauma specialist, author, speaker and empowerment coach who is based in San Francisco, California and practices worldwide.
For more information on Dr. Adriana, her sessions and classes, please visit: https://adrianapopescu.org/
To learn about her new trauma treatment center Firebird Healing, please visit the website: https://www.firebird-healing.com/
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