Life Balance

You may be thinking, Oh sure. It’s easy enough to write nice-sounding articles about balance and stress management but actually achieving balance or reducing stress is hard to do when you’re juggling a dozen different priorities.

AAHA appreciates how difficult life is for veterinary and veterinary technician students. That’s why you won’t find long, lofty articles in this section. Instead, you find clear, specific, actionable strategies you can put to use today.

Want to achieve some level of harmony between what you have to do, what you want to do and what you think you ought to be doing? Learn how here.

Learn how to reduce stress where you can and better manage the stress that remains here. Then, test your Life Balance IQ with a real world scenario that includes advice from key experts.

Compassion Fatigue

Medicine is one of the most rewarding professions one can pursue, but without appropriate precautions, the stress and strain of caring for others may be harmful to your health and well-being. This ailment is called compassion fatigue. It’s serious, but it can be treated.

AAHA has compiled information to help you learn more about compassion fatigue and discover how to diagnose and treat it before the situation becomes critical.

If you’re not sure if you have compassion fatigue or if you want additional information, these online resources provide tips, self-diagnosis tests and applicable research results.