self care Archives - The Community Cats Podcast

April 21, 2018

Interview! Jennifer Blough, Compassion Fatigue Expert and Author

“Self care—it’s not selfish; it’s really charging your batteries so you can go out and have the energy to do what you love to do, which is saving animals.” Jennifer Blough, a licensed therapist, compassion fatigue expert and author of the bookTo Save a Starfish: A Compassion Fatigue Workbook for […]

June 9, 2019

Stacy’s Summer Reading List

When I first started this podcast, I did a few book review shows. I really enjoyed doing them, but I just got so busy with other interviews that I haven’t done one lately. But that doesn’t mean I haven’t been reading. I know so many of us don’t have time […]

August 13, 2019

Betsy Banks Saul, Founder of Petfinder and Heal House Call Veterinarian (Part 2)

“There’s something that can happen in the home that can’t happen in the clinic.” Listen to Episode #312 Now In the second part of this two-part episode, Stacy talks more with Betsy Banks Saul, this time about her new business venture, a franchise of house-call veterinary practices called Heal House […]

March 5, 2020

Caring for Cats, Compassion Fatigue and Moral Distress

At a recent workshop that I ran, the concept of “moral distress” came up in conversation. The thought at the workshop was that we are misidentifying moral distress as compassion fatigue. I found this incredibly interesting. In general, moral distress is the anxiety we feel around the fact that we […]

April 21, 2018