by DrKatieBrazaitis | Apr 2, 2025 | Clinician Wellness, Engaging in Community Care, Expanding Self-Care
Earlier this year, I contributed to the Arizona Veterinary Medicine Association’s monthly newsletter to talk about moral injury in veterinary medicine. Moral injury has the potential to impact all of us in healthcare settings and beyond, particularly with the...
by DrKatieBrazaitis | Mar 21, 2025 | Clinician Wellness, Engaging in Community Care, Expanding Self-Care
Last month, I started talking about what can be done in the face of the fear and uncertainty in our nation. I proposed starting with staying informed while staying sane and getting educated. Today I’m going to discuss coping with the weight of being viewed as...
by DrKatieBrazaitis | Jan 7, 2025 | Clinical Interventions, Clinician Wellness, Expanding Self-Care
As therapists, we use our words to mirror, to validate, to make sense, to clarify, to challenge. We offer words to heal by. We are trained extensively to be selective and intentional in our words. To guide them to land, and be ready to amend when they...
by DrKatieBrazaitis | Jul 24, 2024 | Clinician Wellness, Engaging in Community Care, Expanding Self-Care
During the pandemic, providers across healthcare fields were struggling to remain motivated and hopeful. There were increased talks of compassion fatigue, burn-out, secondary stress (review my blog on this here), moral injury, and self-care. But what do these terms...
by admingabfleming | May 23, 2024 | Clinician Wellness, Expanding Self-Care
What is secondary stress? Secondary stress is the experience of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms because of hearing and bearing witness to the trauma and suffering of others. This can show up as intrusive thoughts of the traumas, nightmares, emotional lability,...
by admingabfleming | May 7, 2024 | Clinical Interventions, Clinician Wellness, Engaging in Community Care, Enhancing Competency, Expanding Self-Care
What is mindfulness? There are many misconceptions when it comes to mindfulness. First, that it entails meditation, which it can; however, meditation is not the end all be all of mindfulness. Second, that it requires “clearing the mind.” I find this...
