Heart-centered work supporting others is not light work. As someone who's spent a majority of my mature years holding space for others, I am more than familiar with burnout, compassion fatigue and sometimes just feeling a lot at once. It was tough carrying that alone, or expressing myself and being met with "why don't you find a new job?" When something is your passion and your purpose, just walking away when things get tough is not the suggestion that really lands. Sometimes we just need to be heard in our experience, and reassured of our inner strength ( after we've really had time to vent and decompress). Here is a space where you can give me the tea ( no HIPPA violations though, but I can hear the depersonalized stories), I am happy to be a gentle witness that gets it. If we'd like to discuss after-care plans or even rest in affirmations of why we do it, that's also an option, but not a requirement. It's okay to just be heard.