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Beyond Compassion Fatigue: Make Your Passion for Helping Animals Sustainable!

Beyond Compassion Fatigue: Make Your Passion for Helping Animals Sustainable!

Jen Blough

68 episodesEN

Show overview

Beyond Compassion Fatigue: Make Your Passion for Helping Animals Sustainable! launched in 2025 and has put out 68 episodes, alongside 1 trailer or bonus episode in the time since. That works out to roughly 30 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.

Episodes typically run twenty to thirty-five minutes — most land between 15 min and 35 min — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. Roughly 22% of episodes carry an explicit flag from the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Health & Fitness show.

The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed yesterday, with 35 episodes already out so far this year. Published by Jen Blough.

Episodes
68
Running
2025–2026 · 1y
Median length
22 min
Cadence
Weekly

From the publisher

A raw and authentic podcast for those who work or volunteer in animal care, welfare, or activism, who are struggling with compassion fatigue, burnout, grief and loss, secondary traumatic stress, and other mental health concerns. Through both solo and guest episodes, I blend science, psychology, spirituality, and even a touch of "woo woo" to help you manage compassion fatigue, build resilience, and make your passion for helping animals sustainable. If you're involved in animal caregiving, rescue, trap-neuter return (TNR), sheltering, animal control, cruelty investigations, veterinary medicine, fostering, wildlife or marine rehabilitation and conservation, animal law or lobbying, ethical veganism, or any other role in animal care, welfare, or activism, and struggling with the consequences of caring so much that it hurts, this podcast is for you! The host, Jen Blough, LPC, is a licensed professional counselor, compassion fatigue coach and speaker, and author with more than 35 years of experience in animal welfare and activism. She is the author of To Save a Starfish: A Compassion Fatigue Workbook for the Animal Welfare Warrior and the upcoming book, Beyond Compassion Fatigue.

Latest Episodes

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Ep: 66: You Can Love Your Work and Still Experience Compassion Fatigue with Melissa Sherman and Sunny Gandara

Aug 27, 202628 min

Ep. 65: You’re Allowed to Say No: Boundary Affirmations for Animal Advocates

Aug 20, 202617 min

Ep. 64: How One Radio Host Became a Voice for Shelter Animals with Holly Haze

Aug 13, 202638 min

Ep. 63: Emotional Numbness in Animal Welfare: When Compassion Fatigue Leads to Shutdown

Aug 6, 202613 min

Ep. 62: Rock-n-Recovery: How Holly Fontaine Manages Compassion Fatigue with Music

Jul 30, 202637 min

Ep. 61: A Sneak Peek at Beyond Compassion Fatigue: Chapter One

Jul 23, 20269 min

Ep. 60: Finding Your Rhythm: How Carol Sumbry Uses Movement to Manage Compassion Fatigue

Jul 16, 202633 min

Ep. 59: Cognitive Shuffling: A Simple Tool for Anxiety, Trauma, and Sleep

Jul 9, 202613 min

Ep. 58: Sustainable Fostering and Advocacy with Kelly Motter

Jul 2, 202629 min

Ep. 57: Compassion Satisfaction: The Anchor in the Storm

Jun 25, 202615 min

Ep. 56: Behind the Front Desk: The Emotional Toll of Veterinary Support Work with Sam Anderkay

Jun 18, 202634 min

Ep. 55: Guided Meditation: Rooted in Strength

Jun 11, 202611 min

Ep: 54: Two Things Can Be True at Once: Holding Hope and Heartbreak in Animal Welfare

Jun 4, 202610 min

Ep. 53: From PTSD to Purpose with Lisa Beggio

May 28, 202632 min

Ep. 52: Internal Risk Factors for Compassion Fatigue

May 21, 202612 min

Ep. 51: Are You Vulnerable to Compassion Fatigue? External Risk Factors

May 14, 202617 min

Ep. 50: Inside Animal Control: Compassion Fatigue, Anger, and Resilience with Rob Leinberger

May 7, 202640 min

Ep. 49: Dealing with the Public in Animal Care and Advocacy (Part Two)

Apr 30, 202612 min

Ep. 48: Dealing with the Public in Animal Care and Advocacy (Part One)

Apr 23, 202621 min

Ep. 47: 40 Years of Animal Protection Law with Dr. Antoine Goetschel

Apr 16, 202634 min
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