Jen Blough
Jen Blough (Jennifer Blough, LPC) is a licensed professional counselor, compassion fatigue educator, and author who owns Deepwater Counseling in Michigan and specializes in the mental health of animal-welfare workers.
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Aug 25, 2026
Stacy LeBaronHOST
I'm feeling burnout tomorrow." Is that what we should be doing as we're faced with these different feelings?
Jen BloughGUEST
So first of all, as of today, the, the definition of compassion fatigue is actually the combination of secondary traumatic stress, and we can break that down, and burnout, and we can go ahead and break that down.
Jen BloughGUEST
So you take those two elements and you put them together, that's where you come up with compassion fatigue.
Jen BloughGUEST
So for your listeners who maybe they have a job in corporate America and they're doing something that has really nothing to do with caregiving or helping or being a first responder, anything like that, they can burn out.
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Jen BloughGUEST
Yeah.So I had a special needs parrot named Albert who was, I don't know if you believe in soulmates or not, but he was my little feathered soulmate.
Jen BloughGUEST
He was under veterinary supervision, and we were medicating him, and something took a turn for a worse, and he died one night.
Jen BloughGUEST
And it was my husband who, you know, finally had to say to me one day, he's like, "Jen, you, you've got to get out of bed.
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