Burnout & Breakthroughs Blog
Holiday Burnout & Compassion Fatigue: Your Survival Guide for Helpers
From Understanding to Action If you listened to Episode 7, you heard why compassion fatigue hits differently during the holidays. When everyone else is celebrating, you're holding onto other people's heaviest moments on top of your own trauma, grie…
The Atlas Complex: From Parentified Children to Burnt-Out Caregivers
"Other duties as assigned" feels less like flexibility and more like destiny. Working in service, I've had the pleasure of meeting a variety of people from all over, but one of the things that I've noticed is that there's a particular type of perso…
No One Told Me This: The Silent Truths of Nonprofit Work
"You can't pour from an empty jug. And yet, here's the thing nobody put in the job description—so much of nonprofit culture teaches us to keep pouring anyway." There's a moment in every nonprofit career—maybe it's three months in, maybe…
The Giving Tree Problem: Why Nonprofit Workers Deserve Boundaries
"And the tree was happy... but not really." If you've ever worked in the nonprofit sector, you've probably felt that quiet, persistent pressure to keep giving, no matter the cost. The late nights that blur into early mornings, the skipped meals at …
Decoding the Body's Response to Nonprofit Stress: Lessons from 'The B…
Welcome to the Burnout & Breakthroughs Blog! In this post, we're diving deep into a topic that's incredibly important, especially for those of us working in the nonprofit sector: the impact of stress and trauma on our bodies. Drawing insights fr…