Executive summary: The post provides resources and strategies for animal advocates to practice self-care and avoid compassion fatigue.
Key points:
Understanding compassion fatigue and secondary trauma is important for animal advocates.
Books on sustaining oneself as an advocate can provide useful advice.
Avoiding overcommitment helps advocates stay within their limits.
Intersectional advocacy brings a self-care mindset.
Therapy, medication, blood tests, and spiritual community can help mental health.
Developing a long-term perspective and grit can sustain advocacy over decades.
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Executive summary: The post provides resources and strategies for animal advocates to practice self-care and avoid compassion fatigue.
Key points:
Understanding compassion fatigue and secondary trauma is important for animal advocates.
Books on sustaining oneself as an advocate can provide useful advice.
Avoiding overcommitment helps advocates stay within their limits.
Intersectional advocacy brings a self-care mindset.
Therapy, medication, blood tests, and spiritual community can help mental health.
Developing a long-term perspective and grit can sustain advocacy over decades.
This comment was auto-generated by the EA Forum Team. Feel free to point out issues with this summary by replying to the comment, and contact us if you have feedback.