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For Parenting Educators: Burnout

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Exhausted. Nervous. Cynical. Headaches. Sad. These symptoms persisted, and I began to realize this wasn’t me. I used to feel optimistic, light, and joyful. These emotions appeared after a profoundly stressful time at work, and I didn’t like who I was becoming. Sometimes, I knew exactly why: there were WAY too many things on my […]

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Managing Secondary Traumatic Stress

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By Megan McQueen Early in my career, I left work close to tears after listening to a heartbreaking story from a family. I called my sister, then a family counselor, and asked her how she handled challenging emotions after listening to others’ trauma. We talked through strategies that might help me separate myself from my […]