The moment we are living through challenges people with even the most robust coping skills. We are witnessing the loss of life at a massive scale, fearing for the lives of ourselves and our loved ones, grieving for the life we knew before, and that's just the start of it. In this episode, Dr. King reviews seven skills you can develop now to help maximize your resiliency - things like cultivating a survivor narrative, finding meaning, activating positive emotions, and more.

The Well Helper podcast is hosted by Katherine King, PsyD, a clinical psychologist and psychology professor. Each episode explores new strategies and insights to inform the life of a helping professional. If you’re a helper or student trying to flourish in your work, avoid burnout or compassion fatigue, practice mindfulness, communicate better, learn self care, dream bigger, or be a stronger leader, The Well Helper is here to help.

Join the Well Helper community, get show notes, free downloads, and more, at www.thewellhelper.com. Follow Kate @drkateking on FB/TW/IG.

We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to acknowledge the tremendous stress that helping professionals have been experiencing during the current COVID emergency. This episode provides some actionable stress management strategies, tips for decompressing, and ways to use your self-talk to help you through even the busiest days.

The Well Helper podcast is hosted by Katherine King, PsyD, a clinical psychologist and psychology professor. Each episode explores new strategies and insights to inform the life of a helping professional. If you’re a helper or student trying to flourish in your work, avoid burnout or compassion fatigue, practice mindfulness, communicate better, learn self care, dream bigger, or be a stronger leader, The Well Helper is here to help.

Join the Well Helper community, get show notes, free downloads, and more, at www.thewellhelper.com. Follow Kate @drkateking on FB/TW/IG.

In this episode, we are going to take all that burnout jargon you have been hearing - compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, impairment, secondary traumatic stress, to name a few - and organize it into one nice and neat continuum. Even better, you'll also look at some of the ways things can go well, from compassion satisfaction to optimal functioning.

The Well Helper podcast is hosted by Katherine King, PsyD, a clinical psychologist and psychology professor. Each episode explores new strategies and insights to inform the life of a helping professional. If you’re a helper or student trying to flourish in your work, avoid burnout or compassion fatigue, practice mindfulness, communicate better, learn self care, dream bigger, or be a stronger leader, The Well Helper is here to help.

Join the Well Helper community, get show notes, free downloads, and more, at www.thewellhelper.com. Follow Kate @drkateking on FB/TW/IG.

Tired of well-meaning advice about getting massages and doing yoga? This episode looks at self care a little differently, and describes four key strategies that I think are the most useful. Pick up  the companion cheat sheet and self-assessment tool at www.thewellhelper.com/2.

Looking to step back, reboot, and get a fresh start? This episode will walk you through a step-by-step process of reflecting on the past, gleaning what you've learned, brainstorming big dreams for the future, then planning the key next steps to start taking real action. Great for birthdays, New Years, and anytime you need a little life re-visioning. Grab the companion worksheet free at www.thewellhelper.com/1. Let me know how it goes on FB/TW/IG @drkateking!