AVOIDING EMPTHATY OVERLOAD to protect your energy - with Marie Gervais

Show Notes

Sometimes, as professionals who help others regulate their emotions, it is hard to see the personal toll client stress is taking. The energy and empathy required for listening to and assisting clients out with extreme challenges we all faced during Covid can be debilitating, for any front-line care provider. Even with a personal self-care practice, working from home in isolation, dealing with illness and loss, and the inability to socialize and engage with others takes its toll on coaches as it does on everyone else. A whole new level of self-care is required under these circumstances.
While assisting her coaching clients with their anxiety and stress, Marie struggled with the emotions of her own corporate client revenue loss and increased elder care requirements for her family. Interestingly, those industry clients previously resistant to online training and development, started to awaken to its potential as they worked through their own Covid workplace adjustments. Eventually, industry clients started coming in, and at the same time, Marie’s coaching client intake increased. Upon reflection, Marie notes that working with her own coach to gain perspective on her personal increased needs for emotional regulation, and paying closer attention to her own self-care red flags have been key, even in the most difficult circumstances, to maintain the perspective and detachment required to provide emotional regulation coaching and industry communication training for others while avoiding the dangers of empathy overload.

This is how you can contact Marie: marie@shiftworkplace.com + https://shiftworkplace.com

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