grief & emotions

Compassion fatigue and grief often go together. When we don't make space to feel our grief, we get filled up with no room left to care. Working with animals exposes you to a lot of grief because you a

Today my guest is Dr. Lynn Hendrix, Certified Animal Hospice and Palliative Care Veterinarian, VIN Hospice/Palliative Medicine/End of Life Care Consultant, President and Co-Founder of the WVPMO and Au

When you work with animals you can have many unconscious beliefs about their lives. Especially ones that relate to the impact you believe  you have over their unintentional death.  Beliefs like "If I

Animal workers are "fixers". You make animals feel better, live better and sometimes die better. But when it comes to grief, our own or other's, there's no making it better. One of the hardest things

This week on the podcast I'm getting real vulnerable and telling you what it's like to be me. Someone who is knee-deep in grief and loss over the sudden loss of my mom. Whether you have lost a human o

Compassion fatigue and grief go hand in hand. I didn't always realize this but I do now. Working with animals exposes you to grief all of the time. Grief is the natural response to loss. When we work