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Licensed professional counselor, compassion fatigue therapist, author and former animal welfare worker Jen Blough offers practical mental health tips, tricks, and tidbits for managing compassion fatigue, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress. The Compassion Fatigue Couch offers snack-size episodes for busy animal welfare workers, animal rights activists, and animal caregivers, plus longer bonus episodes featuring interviews with mental health and animal industry experts. Find more resources at https://www.compassionfatiguecouch.com

A raw and authentic podcast for those who work or volunteer in animal care, welfare, or activism, who are struggling with compassion fatigue, burnout, grief and loss, secondary traumatic stress, and other mental health concerns. Through both solo and guest episodes, I blend science, psychology, spirituality, and even a touch of "woo woo" to help you manage compassion fatigue, build resilience, and make your passion for helping animals sustainable. If you're involved in animal caregiving, rescue, trap-neuter return (TNR), sheltering, animal control, cruelty investigations, veterinary medicine, ...