The Motivated Helper: Finding Your Professional Why
This guide helps helping professionals rediscover their sense of purpose by reconnecting with their professional "why." Through reflective activities, goal setting, and values alignment, readers can reignite passion, prevent burnout, and create a more meaningful and sustainable career path.
Helping Others Helps You Too: The Healthful Impact of Pro-Social Activities
A compassionate guide exploring the health benefits of helping others, with practical ways for professionals to engage in pro-social activities that support both personal well-being and community connection.
Self-Care Essentials for Helping Professionals
This practical, research-informed guide outlines five core dimensions of self-care for helping professionals: physical, social, spiritual, professional, and psychological. Written in a warm, accessible tone, it offers real-world strategies to prevent burnout and support sustainable well-being in the helping professions.
10 Rules for Work-Life Balance
This research-backed guide explores 10 compassionate, practical strategies to help helping professionals create a more sustainable work-life balance. Written in a warm, human tone, it offers reminders for rest, boundaries, connection, and long-term wellbeing. A resource from The Helper’s Field Guide.
The Empathy Trap: How to Help Without Hurting Yourself
Feeling drained from caring for others? Learn the Empathy Trap, brain-smart habits, and quick resets that let helping professionals stay resilient and fulfilled.
Practical Self-Care: How Helpers Really Recharge
Discover practical self-care strategies for helping professionals. Learn how active rest can recharge your nervous system, reduce burnout, and fit into real-life schedules—no retreat required.
Multiculturalism in Rural Helping Professions
A practical guide for helping professionals on practicing cultural humility and ethical multiculturalism in rural communities—featuring real-world scenarios, reflection prompts, and tools for showing up with integrity at every level of service.
Cultivating an Imposter Syndrome–Proof Mindset
A compassionate, research-informed guide to understanding and overcoming imposter syndrome—created for helpers who want to reframe self-doubt, build confidence, and remember they belong.
Making Plans That Matter: PRECEDE-PROCEED Model
Helps helpers design, implement, and evaluate community programs with impact—this guide breaks down the PRECEDE-PROCEED model in a clear, practical, and human-centered way.
Healing Forward: How Helpers with ACEs Can Build Resilient Lives
Discover how Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) affect helping professionals, influencing empathy, boundaries, and burnout risk. Learn strategies for resilience and thriving beyond past adversities.
Burnout Is Not Inevitable: Strategies for Workplaces to Support Helpers Without Burning Them Out
Discover practical, research-backed strategies to reduce burnout in helping professions like healthcare, education, and social services. This article explores how workplaces can support staff through mindfulness practices, manageable workloads, peer support networks, job crafting, and mental health normalization. Learn how systemic changes—not just individual self-care—can create healthier, more sustainable work environments for those who dedicate their lives to helping others.
Holding Space Without Losing Yourself: The Art of Boundaries in Helping Work
Burnout and Compassion Fatigue aren’t proof that you care—it’s proof that you’ve been carrying too much for too long. Holding Space Without Losing Yourself explores the essential skill of setting boundaries in helping work. Learn research-backed techniques to support others without sacrificing yourself, so you can keep showing up in a sustainable way.
How to Be There for People When the World Feels Wobbly
Discover practical, compassionate ways to support vulnerable individuals and communities during times of crisis and political unrest. This guide offers actionable strategies for teachers, community leaders, and everyday helpers to create safe spaces, foster connection, and provide meaningful support without overstepping boundaries. Learn how small gestures can have a big impact in helping others navigate fear and uncertainty, while protecting your own emotional well-being.
When Helping Starts to Hurt: Navigating Resentment
Resentment can creep into the work of helpers—whether in healthcare, social work, education, or nonprofit spaces—slowly draining purpose and joy. This article explores how frustration builds, how it impacts both individuals and teams, and most importantly, how to navigate it before it turns into burnout. Through self-awareness, boundary-setting, and reframing expectations, helpers can protect their energy and sustain their ability to give. Because helping others shouldn’t mean losing yourself. Includes reflection questions to spark personal and team discussions.
How to Keep Showing Up Without Falling Apart
Helping others shouldn’t mean burning yourself out. This guide explores the realities of helper fatigue, why burnout happens, and how to prevent it—without sacrificing your passion or purpose. Learn practical, research-backed strategies for sustainable helping, and discover how to create a culture where support isn’t just given, but also received. Ready to help and stay well? Read on.
Holding Steady: How Helpers Can Navigate Political Stress Without Losing Themselves
The world is loud, politics are exhausting, and helpers—well, they’re running on fumes. This guide is for the people who keep showing up, even when the system makes it impossible. Learn how to set boundaries, manage political stress, and protect your energy so you can keep helping without losing yourself in the process. Because saving the world is hard. Burning out is harder.
How to Change the World from Your Pocket: An Organization’s Guide to Social Advocacy on Social Media
A comprehensive resource for individuals and organizations looking to harness the power of social media for advocacy. This guide explores the psychology behind digital activism, ethical considerations, combating misinformation, and building inclusive engagement strategies. Learn how to craft compelling messages, navigate algorithmic challenges, and turn online interactions into real-world impact. Whether you're a solo advocate or part of a larger movement, this resource will help you amplify your voice responsibly and effectively.
Not Broken, Just Blocked: Rethinking the Way We Help
Discover how we can shift from managing poverty to truly ending it. This article explores Jane Addams' belief that poverty is treatable, not a personal failing, and challenges outdated systems that create barriers instead of solutions. Learn how survival, dignity, and economic mobility intersect—and how we can ensure that help actually helps.