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"Compassion is the combination of the consciousness of others’ distress and a desire to alleviate it. It is a basic quality needed to best support the needs of our children and family. Resilience is the ability to recover and continue in the face of adversity without being overwhelmed or acting in dysfunctional ways. If our goal is to lessen our child’s distress while maintaining our well-being, we can seek to grow our compassion resilience. Simply, compassion resilience, is the ability to maintain our physical, emotional, and mental well-being while responding compassionately to people who compassionresiliencetoolkit.org/parents-caregivers/compassion-resilience/ are suffering.

Compassion resilience for parents and caregivers is:

• 1. Caring for ourselves while acting with compassion in interactions with children, family members, and those we count on to support us;

  2. Practicing skills to effectively engage in compassionate action with and towards children, family members, and those we count on to support us;

  3. Identifying, preventing, and minimizing compassion fatigue within ourselves."

-Compassion Resilience Toolkit.org- Click to learn more- https://compassionresiliencetoolkit.org/parents-caregivers/compassion-resilience/