Compassion Fatigue

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Compassion Fatigue By Janet Holm McHenry The Lord is a refuge to his people. –Joel 3:16 (ESV) From a recent training for local teachers on social-emotional learning I learned a new term: compassion fatigue. As teachers have doubled up duties to teach both in an in-person setting and in a distance learning model, they have also encountered countless cases of students and parents and peers in emotional distress, while also trying to manage their own families’ needs and their own. Compassion fatigue is real. I have experienced this often over the last 22 years as I’ve prayer-walked the streets of…

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Overcoming Overwhelm

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Warm greetings to all of my fellow CANers! This is my first post, and I am delighted to have the opportunity to share my heart with you and, I trust, to bless you. Thank you for blessing me! Today, I’d like to talk about an issue I’ve struggled with and some solutions I’ve discovered. If you’re like me, you may have experienced the same struggle, especially at this time of year. The 21st century with all of its technological discoveries has engendered a new disorder called Overwhelm. Grammatically speaking, "overwhelm" is a verb, not a noun. But the case is…

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