A Blueprint for Self Care: Creating Time, Space, and a Peaceful Healing Sanctuary for Those in the Helping Professions - Softcover

Kyer, Beverly

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1530318971 ISBN 13: 9781530318971

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

#1 National Bestselling Author in SIX Amazon Categories, including Work-Related Health, Alternative Medicine Healing, Healing, 90-Minute Health, Fitness & Dieting Short Reads, Energy Healing, and Death & Grief.

Providing services and caregiving to struggling, victimized and traumatized children, youth, adults and the elderly is mentally and emotionally taxing. It can and will wear our bodies out. This book gives a seven-point blueprint to help promote self-care for your health and wellness.

In this book, you’ll learn the P.I.B.S.E.R.A. technique to manage caregiver fatigue:

1. Prepare
2. Impact Control
3. Bounce Back
4. Say NO
5. Evaluate
6. Recharge
7. Appreciate

Compassion Fatigue is a natural outcome of the intense nature of the help we provide. We each may feel the impact of secondary and vicarious traumatic stress and burnout. However, we can take steps to recover and increase our resilience for the ongoing highly intense moments in our work.

About this title

About the Author

Beverly Kyer is highly sought after speaker, trainer and coach on Compassion Fatigue. She has a Master’s Degree in Social Work and is in the Academy of Certified Social Workers. She has postgraduate certificates and three plus decades of experience in integrated Approach to Readjustment Counseling; Post Traumatic Stress Disorder; Social Research for the mentally ill and Employee Assistance Program Coordination. Beverly became a Clinical Social Worker for Pediatric Oncology; Vietnam Veterans; Psychiatry and Child Welfare. She spent a major portion of her career with the Veterans Administration Veteran’s Outreach Center and Medical Center in Bronx New York. Beverly also spent more than a decade in Foster Care, and five years as an urban High School Counselor providing emotional and psychological support for students and staff. Two episodes of Heart Failure lead Beverly to make a major downshift in her life by resigning from full time employment; joining the self-employed and devoting her efforts to help others who work in highly stressful environments. Beverly Lectures around the country on Compassion Fatigue AKA Secondary and Vicarious Traumatic Stress. Beverly has two natural sons and an adopted daughter; each of whom are independent adults, and really considerate and compassionate people. Beverly makes her home in Northern California in a quiet cul-de-sac near the Delta. Oil painting, music, movies and good books are among her passions

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1530318971
• ISBN 13: 9781530318971
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 60