Preventing Parent Burnout and Building Resilience with Eileen Devine

Today, some wisdom from a professional who has real, lived experience. Eileen Devine, LCSW, and host Kendra Wilde discuss how compassion fatigue and caregiver burnout can happen to parents and what we can do to safeguard our physical and emotional wellbeing. Parents of children with special healthcare needs (of any kind, but especially those with severe emotional and behavioral challenges) experience higher levels of stress, illness, depression and anxiety than other parents -- but this fact is too often ignored. As the adoptive mother of a child with significant neurobehavioral challenges and a professional with over a dozen years of clinical experience in supporting parents, Eileen knows this subject. When I read Eileen's blog about secondary trauma and looked further into her workshop, "Building Resilience in Families and Organizations," I knew I had to have her on the show. In this conversation, she explains how to recognize the signs and symptoms of stress and shares some practical strategies for filling your bucket and building resilience, so you can be the parent you want to be.

 

For show notes and resources mentioned, visit: https://www.wildpeace.org/podcast-1

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