Episode 75: Painfully Funny: All Fight and No Fun Leads to Burnout

Survivors have had difficult and traumatic experiences. Practitioners can experience vicarious trauma from spending extended time supporting a client’s recovery. However, learning to laugh keeps us from succumbing to the tragedies we see each day. Alexandra Stevenson discusses the critical need for laughter and the power in finding moments of joy, happiness, and even recognizing the irony and dark humor in certain situations. Recovery brings lots of dark days. Without joy, darkness will consume us. One of the necessary ingredients to maintain good health is to continue to reintroduce happiness through laughter. It’s the medicine that both survivors and practitioners need to keep them healthy and involved in the fight.