A short conversational transcript of two speakers discussing the emotional strain of being a social worker and the value of peer support. One speaker (Speaker B) describes carrying clients' pain and needing ongoing coping strategies and peer conversations; the other speaker offers empathy and affirms the importance of the work.
First time. Second? Yeah, first time's a little tough. A lot of noise going on.
Yeah.
You know, but usually in a smaller group is a little bit more intimate, a little easier, a little bit more easy to express.
There was releases happening. It just wasn't as grandiose.
Okay.
You know what I mean?
We start small. You know, breath starts kind of these sensations. It starts building things, starts loosening things up. And part of the.
Issue, too, is I'm a social worker.
Okay.
And so I feel like I take a lot of people's pain with me.
Yeah.
I carry it all with me. And so having all of that accumulate, you know what I mean?
100%.
It'S hard to let it all out in, you know, a sitting or a day, you know what I mean? I have to talk it out with my, like. Like, other peers.
And stuff like that.
But, you know, I'm doing the work I need to do. It's just a lot of it accumulates.
So I have other.
Coping skills that I have to utilize to grid it out. But.
And you're always welcome here.
Thanks.
Awesome. Thanks for the work you do, too, by the way. That's really important work.
