Podcast content overview: Philip Chard defines compassion fatigue and the impact of secondary traumatic stress. Listen to full episodes of OnTopic with Empathia here or on your preferred podcast platform.
End of life care is a truly difficult and emotional experience that often leaves us feeling disconnected from our loved ones. Our guest, Rory Bolton, uses music to bridge that connection and encourage emotions to flow during a time when it’s needed most. In this episode of OnTopic with Empathia, Rory shares his beautiful singing…
Deborah Needham returns to continue emphasizing the importance of empathy in healthy communication. This time we dive deeper into the tools you can use to help others through traumatic experiences, as well as regulate ourselves. We learn more about why we react to others the way we do and how we can use that information…
A healthy body is the ideal home for a healthy mind. Often times the activities we do to maintain physical health release endorphins that will promote good mental health. Our guest today is Fitness and Wellness expert Linda Spaulding. She’s here to share what she’s learned from her career and show us how beneficial movement…
Knowing how to use and control empathy is a powerful tool in both your professional and personal life. Empathy holds our relationships together and helps us better understand others, as well as ourselves. Founder of Crisis Optimist Coaching and Consulting, Deborah Needham, expands on all the ways empathy can help others and the importance on…
Leadership can often be an isolating position – as the sole decision maker, you don’t often have all the variables in front of you to make the best decision for you and your team. Kelly sits down with Erin Peterson for Part Two of their conversation about finding self-confidence in leadership by diving into methods…
Being a confident leader is a difficult task. It’s not always clear which direction is the right way to go, and many leaders tend to struggle with balancing the expectations of success against the passion of their employees. Professional Leadership Coach Erin Petersen joins the podcast to talk about the value of self-confidence in leadership,…
Keeping your mental health in check can be difficult in any profession, but it’s particularly challenging in the emergency services and first responder communities. Often it’s not the trauma that may be experienced on the clock, but rather the lingering effects of those traumas that can truly damage the toughest employees in any organization. Following…
First Responders can suffer a variety of on-the-job hazards, but some of the most dangerous effects may not be visible to the naked eye. Dr. I. David Daniels is a life member of the International Association of Fire Chiefs and served over 30 years in Fire Rescue Emergency medical and emergency management organizations in three…
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise – or at least it would, if so many of us weren’t suffering from sleeping disorders. In their follow-up from last week’s conversation on the effects of sleep on mental health, host Rick Hoaglund and Dr. Rajesh Balagani dig into sleeping…