grief & emotions

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

In this episode I'm sharing with you my current raw, unfiltered and not yet completely understood experience with grief after losing my mom suddenly last week. I have many things to yet figure out as

Your work with animals often finds you face-to-face with others who are grieving the loss of their pet. Your responsibility isn't to shoulder their grief yourself, it isn't yours to take. But there ar

I believe much of why we get compassion fatigue is because we experience so much loss in our work with animals but we never actually grieve. We may intend to but something else or someone else needs u