Category: Wellness for Animal Workers
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Foster Kitten Grief: How to Cope With Losing a Foster Kitten
Read more: Foster Kitten Grief: How to Cope With Losing a Foster KittenLosing a foster kitten is heartbreaking yet often overlooked. If you’re dealing with foster kitten grief, here are 4 gentle ways to process the pain, nurture for yourself, and begin to heal.
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Compassion Fatigue & Animal Rescue Burnout: What You Need To Know
Read more: Compassion Fatigue & Animal Rescue Burnout: What You Need To KnowFeeling emotionally drained from working with animals? Learn what compassion fatigue and animal rescue burnout are and why they happen.
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5 Mindfulness Lessons We Can Learn From Cats
Read more: 5 Mindfulness Lessons We Can Learn From CatsDiscover how to learn from cats and bring more mindfulness into your daily life. These five soulful lessons from our feline friends will inspire calm, presence, and joy.
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Cat Therapy: How Pets Support Mental Health & Healing
Read more: Cat Therapy: How Pets Support Mental Health & HealingDiscover the surprising ways cats support mental health during grief, depression, and anxiety—plus the science behind why cat therapy is so healing.
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How To Prevent Compassion Fatigue As An Animal Empath
Read more: How To Prevent Compassion Fatigue As An Animal EmpathAs animal empaths, we desire to help animals in need. However, we tend to overgive which can lead to compassion fatigue. To avoid this, we must learn to recharge and safeguard our energy.
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Are You An Animal Empath? How To Recognize & Use Your Gift
Read more: Are You An Animal Empath? How To Recognize & Use Your GiftAn animal empath deeply connects with and suffers alongside animals. We intuitively understand their needs and have a strong desire to help them. But we can also take on too much, leading to burnout and compassion fatigue.
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5 Life Lessons I’ve Gained From Losing My Cat
Read more: 5 Life Lessons I’ve Gained From Losing My Cat1. Pet grief is totally valid, 2. The pain of pet loss is unavoidable, 3. We can still connect with our pets after death, 4. Turning your pain into purpose is how you heal, ensuring his legacy lives on through my actions and words, 5. Our time with our pets…
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How To Deal With Pet Loss: 5 Coping Strategies
Read more: How To Deal With Pet Loss: 5 Coping StrategiesHealthy ways to deal with pet loss include giving yourself permission to grieve, practicing self-care, seeking support, commemorating your pet, and finding purpose in the pain.
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Why Is Pet Loss So Painful? Disenfranchised Grief Explained
Read more: Why Is Pet Loss So Painful? Disenfranchised Grief ExplainedDealing with pet loss is so challenging as it is a type of disenfranchised grief that is not validated by society. Those around us minimize our pet grief, which as research has found, prolongs our emotional pain.