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Balancing practice and external social justice work
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Tl;Dr: How do SJW psychs balance the demands of giving compassionately at work with giving compassionately to causes/community?

I'm an early career psych, one year into my first paid role. It's an incredibly taxing job in tertiary mental health with kids, teens and family work with their parents. Parents are often desperate for help and with their own trauma histories and the boundary stuff can feel like a drowning person grabbing onto you in the water to stay afloat. I am still growing in this space but seniors of 20 years in the service tell me it never gets 'easy'.

I'm passionately interested in social justice on top being someone (like most of us) who likes to be able to help and support the people around them where I can. I have worked on my saviour complex and I'd say my desire to support family etc is at a healthy level these days!

The rub is, I'm feeling really depleted and like I don't have enough internal resources and compassion to go around.

Are there any psychs on here who have previously been big old SJWs who have needed to adjust once their day jobs became all giving/interpersonal/compassion work all the time? How have you balanced this in a practical sense, and how have you come to terms with it? I'm so aware of how every little bit is needed when we're fighting powerful systems that it feels hard to withdraw any of my efforts here.

Social justice is a big part of who I am and what I've always seen as my role in the world and I'll never stop caring, but I fear something has to give.

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