Compassion Satisfaction to Compassion Fatigue

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OBIE - OUR NEW KITTEN
THE FIRST OF OUR FIVE STEPS TO HEALTH AND HEALING
BACK TO
COMPASSION SATISFACTION

WHEN YOU CARE
YOU
ARE
VULNERABLE
Greetings, We are Lynn and Ruby Johnston.  We are walking a journey with LAMb International - serving across the globe helping to build the capacity of those persons working with Orphans and Vulnerable Children.  We have been in this ministry for almost 20 years, working in over 30 countries.  

We have experienced many wonderful moments in our time of ministry with LAMb International/Global Capacity Building Network.  Compassion Satisfaction is something we've experienced over and over again - the joy of serving and helping, being called to do this amazing work in our senior years of life...yet over time, something started to happen.  Sadness, doubts, disappointments, fears, sorrow, guilt, self-judgment, on and on....and today, we have a name for it.  Compassion Fatigue.

Yes, Compassion Fatigue had stepped into our lives, perhaps we should say it crept into our lives, taking a toll on our joy and happiness.  We have been training and teaching about this for years and WOW it got us.  But that is not the end of the story.  We are on the journey to strength, power and once again feeling and experiencing the joy that has fueled us for the last 20 years and will fuel us once again for the next part of our life's journey.

This new blog will be for you and for us - it will help each of us walk in health and healing.  We will tell you our story, keep you posted on our healing strategies and bring to you the stories and ideas from others. 

JOIN US - MARK THIS BLOG AS ONE OF YOUR FAVORITES AND JOURNEY WITH US TO YOUR OWN COMPASSION SATISFACTION.  



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