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Balancing Life: Caring For Self While Caring for Others (and Secondary Trauma) Part 1 of 2

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ALCE-237NP

Authors as Published

Crystal Tyler-Mackay, Ginger Dotter

This resource is available as a video only.

There's often an unrecognized toll taken on those working to make the world a better place at work, home and as volunteers. Do you ever feel tired? Cynical? Numb? Like you can never do enough? Join this important conversation on strategies to maintain emotional, psychological and physical health while doing the difficult and demanding work of helping and supporting others.

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Publication Date

January 13, 2021