1 At this point, you can pull both ends of the bow tie to make it as tight around your neck as you will be comfortable with.  Once you have the bow tie at the proper tightness, toss the longer end back over your respective shoulder. You wonât need it for the next step.
Empathy fatigue (also called Compassion Fatigue) is an epidemic in healthcare. You give and give until your own personal tank of energy and empathy is empty â¦. then what happens? Often it is behavior that is reactive, dismissive, demeaning to the very people we are called to serve and heal.
Preparatory Empathy. Empathy is such a central part of what makes therapy therapeutic that it's almost a cliche. You know what empathy is-understanding someone else's experience from within their experience, rather than superimposing your own experience, assumptions, etc. However, in all of our discussions of empathy, we often forget about a important but very difficult kind of empathy: preparatory empathy.