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Growing Weary in Well Doing: Acknowledging and Recovering From Burnout and Compassion Fatigue

  Realistically, you can grow tired of doing well. You can get sick of showing up when no one else appears to be willing to do so and you can feel stopped up from all of the complaints that you hold in. Your own silence can become to loud and you can feel lonely because of a lack of available avenues to authentically express your emotions about everything that appears to be going well for you in the eye sight of others.     It’s easy to feel alone in a wilderness that is filled with flowers because you have not carved out the space that you need to enjoy them. I understand this place. I am in it with you, and I want to encourage you as I encourage myself.   “So let’s not get tired of doing what is good. At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don’t give up”.  (Galatians 6:9 NLT).   It is important for me to acknowledge the feeling of desiring to isolate myself because of weariness, compassion fatigue, and burnout as a Christian because it’s so easy to feel oblig