Making the decision to say yes or no is often difficult when it comes to offering help or caring for others. Saying no can seem unloving, selfish, and unchristian like…… but often, saying yes doesn’t feel quite right either.
When we extend help to others through a balanced life around our own self-care and available resources, the result is typically a wonderful, feel good gift that we receive deep down inside our beings. Acts of altruism bring about happiness, energy, and many other positive emotions.
However, when our helping and caring goes beyond our own healthy limits, we can become fatigued, burned out, and even suffer from ill health. It is commonly known in the medical field that caregivers often stand a high risk of dying before the loved one they are caring for.
