Gabrielle Kassel

Here's your complete guide to compassion fatigue, including how it differs from burnout and how to avoid it.
What Is Compassion Fatigue?
Who Is at Risk for Compassion Fatigue?
What Are the Signs of Compassion Fatigue?
How to Determine If You Have Compassion Fatigue
How You Can Address Compassion Fatigue
The Takeaway
If you've been feeling "meh" and have been helping someone more than Sookie helps Lorelei, Jules helps Rue, or Gary helps literally everyone else on A Million Little Things, you m...

Whether you're looking for ways to support workout recovery or just want to maintain a moderate protein consumption, protein water can help.
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Between pre-workout powders and post-workout protein chips, electrolyte chews, and creatine pills, it seems a new sports supplement is hitting the market every day. One of the latest options ...

Learn about the main benefits of walking, plus expert tips for how to get the most out of your walks.
Any (responsible) dog owner will tell you: Nothing boosts your mood quite like a midday stroll with your pooch. And TikTok influencers have been trying to rebrand the soul-enlivening strut with a concept called the "hot girl walk."
During a hot girl walk — seemingly created by TikTok user @exactlyliketheothergirls — a person (of any gender!) takes a midday walk while listening to motivational...

Periodization training is as complicated as it sounds, but incorporating the strategy may help you reach your fitness goals faster.
For the unfamiliar, periodization training may sound like a workout program that takes your menstrual cycle into account, but periodization training is actually a method that involves structuring your training to simultaneously maximize gains and minimize risk. Win-win!
People who take their sweat sessions very seriously (marathons, triathletes, CrossFitters, Oly...

For one: "Nearly everyone will get HPV at some point in their life." Learn more about HPV vaccines, symptoms, tests, and treatment to protect yourself.
Unless your Google calendar says you've got an upcoming Pap test or HPV vaccine appointment, odds are you aren't actively sitting there thinking about HPV. Still, given the statistics on just how prevalent the virus is, maybe you should.
HPV, or human papillomavirus, is the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States. Curre...

It might surprise you to know that syphilis still infects about 130,000 people in the U.S. every year.
Syphilis may have made an appearance in your social studies textbooks (its stigmatized history is surprisingly well documented for a sexually transmitted infection), but that doesn't mean it's an issue of the past.
"There's a widespread misconception that syphilis is an infection that used to impact people but doesn't anymore," says HIV expert Emily Rymland, D.N.P., F.N.P.-C., clinical devel...

More than half a million people in the U.S. test positive for gonorrhea each year.
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Question: How many times have you thought or talked about gonorrhea since you started having sex? Odds are, your answer is "basically never" or "only while watching Mean Girls."
As a society, we're still pretty hush-hush around the topic of sexually...

"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers" might be the most common tongue-twister, but there's another tongue-twister you should know about if you're invested in your sexual health: Trichomoniasis.
Trichomoniasis is a sexually transmitted infection that is not commonly discussed but is super common amongst sex-havers — particularly those with vaginas. In fact, trichomoniasis is the most common curable STI — period. Data shows that nearly 2 million people in the U.S. test positive for tri...

HIV may be the story line of your favorite movies (Bohemian Rhapsody, Dallas Buyers Club, Philadelphia, Rent). But unfortunately, because these films take place in the early 1990s, many people wrongly assume HIV is a virus of the past.
With the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services reporting nearly 35,000 new infected individuals in the United States in 2019 — for a total of more than 1.2 million HIV-positive people in the country — data shows that HIV continues to touch (and take) the l...

If you've ever considered taking up journaling of any kind — for any reason — these benefits of journaling will show there's no time like the present. Get started with these tips on how to journal.
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Raise your hand if you've ever bought a blank journal, convinced it would change your life only to let those blank pages burn a hole i...

There are more than 150 (!!) strains of HPV, including some that cause genital warts. Here's what that means for you.
*Taps microphone.* Good evening, ladies and femmes, gentlemen and gentlethems! We have gathered you all here (the internet) today to talk about genital warts.
Genital warts are a sexually transmitted infection typically caused by strain 6 and strain 11 of the human papillomavirus, better known as HPV. (FYI, there are more than 150 different strains of HPV.) Far more common tha...

There's more to hepatitis than meets the eye. Here, learn about the transmission, symptoms, and treatment options for all the different types of hepatitis.
Hepatitis is... confusing, admittedly. But even though it's not easy to understand at a glance, it's worth knowing about.
That's because, globally, more than 350 million people are currently infected by viral hepatitis — and less than half of those infected know they have it. In some instances, hepatitis patients can lead long lives that a...

Yes, it's different from being asexual, and it's not a sexual orientation.
With popular shows like Sex Education and BoJack Horseman all featuring main characters who are asexual, odds are you have some idea of what asexual means. (If not, check out this guide to asexuality, then come right back). But do you know what aromantic means? Spoiler alert: the two terms are not synonymous. At its most distilled, aromantic is a term used to define a lack of regular romantic attraction — but there's a...

If you have any intention of setting — and crushing — goals, having a growth mindset is key.
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Growth mindset may be a phrase you've heard gurus such as Glennon Doyle, Brené Brown, and Mark Mason use off the cuff. But far more than a woo-woo filler phrase, a growth mindset is a specific approach to the world (and yourself) that can ...

Real gratitude is so much more than saying "thank you."
Even the least chivalrous among society will toss a "thank you" at the stranger who holds a door open or the Uber driver before hopping out of the car. But there's a massive difference between a casual, reflexive "thanks" and true gratitude.
Real gratitude is a deep feeling of appreciativeness — and when felt, cultivated, shared, and acknowledged, can bring a lot of real perks (read: health benefits!) to your life.
You've likely heard al...