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🎥 Sunday Edition: A Video Update of My Guest Room and Compassion Fatigue

“It isn’t a marathon, it’s a relay.”

The Sunday Edition is Tuesday’s little sister—off-the-cuff updates I’d bring up over a coffee catch-up with a friend.

Lunch date in the middle of a hell-fire week

As soon as I hit “publish” on last week’s post on being consumed by little to-dos, I noticed a similar sentiment everywhere . We are dying to slow down! (

) We are tired! () We are finished optimizing! () We are over running on this endless treadmill! () We’re exhausted from an inability to keep up that which, I’m sure many of us felt, was compounded by a broader sense of helplessness this week.

The site where I’m doing my clinical internship is a nonprofit funded largely by state grants, but many of our clients depend on federally funded programs to support their medical and housing needs. It’s been infuriating to watch some of the world’s richest men try to take away these basic rights from those who are most vulnerable, not to mention freeze global aid programs. How do we guard against compassion-fatigue and burnout, while living under an administration that’s taking a wrecking ball to humanitarian efforts??

This all brings me to my decision to publish an update on my own home when so many people are at risk of losing theirs.

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