Rekindling with Julie Squires:

Do you know what you're bringing to your work with animals? Are you owning the difference you are making? Do you acknowledge your efforts? If not you're probably really struggling with compassion fati

Compassion fatigue isn't a disease but a set of signs and symptoms. And while there may be no "wonder drug" for everyone to alleviate it, I feel confident that I know what the 6 main tools are that ca

Your brain is like a puppy. An untrained puppy! It is more interested in survival than your happiness so if you want to grow, be happy and have a semblance of wellbeing, you need to train it. Yes it t

Dr. Pope has been in veterinary medicine for over 20 years, practicing in both the large and small animal sectors. She developed a movement called 1 Life Connected which provides wellbeing support for

So many of us are wanting our job to make us happy. It's not our job's job to make us happy. Our emotions don't come from our circumstance, remember? They come from within us, they come from what we t

To define mental health as the absence of mental illness is subpar yet that's what you'll likely find as a definition. In veterinary medicine we have an alarming suicide rate and yet not much in the w