Self-compassion
Being warm and understanding toward yourself during times of pain or failure
Self-kindness
Describes the emotional exhaustion that comes from long-term caregiving without sufficient support.
Caregiver fatigue
The type of rest that includes sleep, naps, and gentle movement like stretching.
Physical rest
This sensory-based mindfulness activity grounds you by focusing on five senses.
Five senses grounding
Name one way to recharge while still actively caregiving
practicing self-compassion in the moment
This practice involves observing negative emotions with openness and balance.
Mindfulness
Name two common emotional symptoms of caregiver fatigue.
Frustration, irritability, avoidance, loneliness, etc.
Journaling and short breaks during the day can help provide this type of rest
Mental rest
Taking a walk in nature and giving yourself space from a problem helps with this type of rest.
Creative rest
Positive emotion, it is inherently energizing
compassion
This emotion is empathy plus love, and it energizes rather than drains.
Compassion
This self-care activity is ironically more regularly done to our phones than to ourselves.
Recharging
Limiting screen time before bed helps with this type of rest.
Sensory rest
Signs you need creative rest
no free time in your day, struggle brainstorming, can’t see awe in nature
A source of emotional pain
Empathic distress
This element of self-compassion reminds us we are not alone in our suffering.
Common humanity
A more accurate description/term of compassion fatigue.
Empathy fatigue
This rest occurs when we are honest about our emotions instead of saying “I’m fine.”
Emotional rest
Volunteering or connecting with a larger purpose can promote this form of rest.
Spiritual rest
Needed to have genuine compassion for others
caring for others requires caring for oneself
Usual advice given to parenting students that can have limitations of happening off the job
self-care
This mental attitude allows us to stay balanced in success and failure, joy and sorrow.
Equanimity
This rest relates to knowing whether social interaction energizes or drains you.
Social rest
This bonus type of rest involves giving your body a break from processed foods and caffeine
Cellular/systematic rest
Defined self-compassion of being composed of three main elements
Kristin Neff