emotional exhaustion - Barb Fletcher

When Caring Starts to Hurt: The Invisible Pressure Personal Support Workers Carry

There is a kind of pressure that rarely gets named in care work. It is not just the schedule. Not just the short staffing. Not just the heavy lifts, the emotional moments, or the long days that follow you home. Sometimes the deepest pressure is the one you place on yourself. It sounds like this: […]

Barb Fletcher

4 weeks ago

Always On Guard: How to Calm a Nervous System That Never Rests

When You’re Always On Guard There is a moment many people recognize, even if they have never named it. You are sitting at the kitchen table. The house is quiet. Nothing is wrong. And yet, your shoulders are tight. Your jaw is clenched. Your breathing is shallow. Your body is braced, like something is about […]

Barb Fletcher

2 months ago

Are you misunderstood? Would you like strategies to be heard?

We’ve all likely found ourselves in a conversation that didn’t go how we thought it would. Was it about the words, or was it more about how we felt? We all had that rough day, and we’re not in the space to have a good conversation because we’re frazzled, or overwhelmed. But there is more […]

Barb Fletcher

4 years ago

Compassion Fatigue: A Secondhand Stress That You Do Not Need.

Too numb to care? You reach a peak of physical and emotional exhaustion to the point that you lose the ability to empathize with other people. You get tired of suffering from secondary stress and being stressed about other people’s stress. You just lost it all. Not being able to bring your best self to […]

Barb Fletcher

4 years ago