Jennifer Blough, LPC
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To Save a Starfish: A Compassion Fatigue Workbook for the Animal Welfare Warrior
***New edition - updated and expanded in February 2023***
Make your passion for helping animals sustainable! Learn to manage the compassion fatigue, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress so often associated with animal caregiving and protection.
You'll learn about:
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The symptoms and causes of compassion fatigue
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The human-animal bond and the grief of losing animals
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Secondary trauma and the difference between "pain and suffering"
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Organizational compassion fatigue and burnout
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Cultivating compassion satisfaction and a healthy work environment
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How to manage compassion fatigue with self-regulation skills, self-care, mind-body exercises, physical activity, changing unhealthy thinking patterns, creating boundaries, sleep, nutrition, and more.​
An invaluable resource for shelter workers, animal rescuers, animal control officers, humane investigators, veterinary professionals, sanctuary staff, wildlife conservationists/rehabbers, dog walkers and trainers, pet sitters, animal attorneys, TNR volunteers, animal rights activists, vegans, and anyone else on the front lines of fighting to protect animals.
Color Away Compassion Fatigue:
A Self-Care Coloring Book
Got compassion fatigue? Add coloring to your self-care toolbox! Coloring allows you to take a break from caregiving while reducing stress, anxiety, and depression. Coloring also improves sleep, relaxation, and mindfulness. By building resilience, you can make your passion for helping others more sustainable!
Featuring 60 unique designs of animals and self-care tips, Color Away Compassion Fatigue was created by Jennifer Blough, author of To Save a Starfish: A Compassion Fatigue Workbook for the Animal Welfare Warrior, and encourages you to be creative while combating compassion fatigue. So grab your crayons or colored pencils and get ready for some serious self-care!
Saving Starfish: A Self-Care Journal for the Animal Welfare Warrior
This self-care journal was designed specifically for those who help animals! It features self-care tips and 120 journal pages for you to track your goals, nutrition, exercise, sleep, challenges and triggers, and much more! By taking care of yourself, you can be a better advocate for animals and make your passion for helping sustainable!
Ideal for shelter staff and volunteers, animal rescuers, veterinary professionals, animal control officers and humane investigators, TNR volunteers, wildlife conservationists, animal rights activists, and anyone else on the front lines of protecting animals.
Saving Starfish: A Vegan Self-Care Journal
Self-care is just one of the many tools we have to combat the compassion fatigue, anxiety, and depression so often associated with living as a vegan in a non-vegan world. Self-care is not about indulging in luxuries – it’s a necessity if we want to make this lifestyle sustainable. It’s about building resilience by caring for ourselves on a variety of levels: physically, emotionally, socially, spiritually, mentally, and professionally. This journal, created by a vegan therapist, features 120 journal pages with daily prompts, space for you to set goals and track your self-care activities, such as logging your meals, water intake, sleep, and exercise. There’s space for jotting down any challenges or triggers you may be struggling with, as well as space for gratitude and positive journaling. Finally, there’s a section to track your moods. Used consistently over time, this journal can help you to identify situations, triggers, thought patterns, and behaviors that may contribute to compassion fatigue, anxiety, and depression so you can take steps toward creating emotional balance, increased energy, improved self-esteem, and positive well-being.