Avoiding Burnout in a Burning World with Liz Moyer Benferhat

absolutely as i was reading your bio and looking at your website and looking at the work that you do i was thinking about how we show the value of someone's work and when i think about the frontline folks who are doing a lot of this work and what they get paid And the emotional toil that happens.

When I first started working at a domestic violence organization, I was the only bilingual person.

And so I would have to sleep with a pager 24 hours a day.

in case there was a call for a victim who spoke only Spanish.

I wasn't paid 24 hours a day,

but I

also couldn't sleep because I just was so worried.

What if I didn't wake up and that person was in need? And so I think about...

the way that we ask that 30% to take on 100%.

And we do such a poor job societally.

And I'll be really honest, I've been in part of so many organizations, consulted for so many organizations.

And then even managerially, I mean, we can really get down to how poorly we take care of people who are taking care of the world.

100%.

Yeah, Rebecca, go ahead.

That quote is really sticking with me.

I feel like we had really similar experiences.

So there was that sort of awareness of the world and the things happening in the world that was a huge awakening in graduate school.

And so often I see posts from people who work in younger education being like, we shouldn't bring politics into elementary school settings or whatever.

But I mean, to wake up at 20 something and not understand the injustice.

And here you don't want someone swaying a political view and We have to have awareness as citizens.

But then I also have this question as a therapist and as people are coming in who are ready to look at emotions that they're either looking into being that 30 percent or they have been and they're trying to make sense of it.

that are trying to process the world.

And I don't think that we were meant to know 100% of the world's problems.

I think our brains cannot process it and our hearts cannot process it.

So I'm just holding this question as we're talking about this, about should we take on 100% or process 100%? Can we even? And how do you relate to that? Because I always have this fear of...