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Red Maple Leaves on Blue
This mixed media work sets three red maple leaves against a textured blue and white painted panel scratched with crosshatched marks. The leaves cast soft shadows that read as movement across the field of blue.
Zanna Smith · August 29, 2026
When you die, what do you want to leave behind?
Agape, love of fellow being, is my ministry while I’m alive. I would want the people I leave behind (whether it’s a passage into death, or a physical move away) to believe in their abilities to have intuitive communication with all living things, and still feel the connection, albeit different, with those which are no longer physically here.
Zanna Smith · August 17, 2026 · Quora
Woman Posing by a Waterfall
A woman stands in front of a multi-tiered waterfall and rocky landscape. She is wearing a patterned long-sleeved shirt and dark pants, with a stone wall and fallen leaves visible in the foreground.
The Zanna Smith Archive · August 20, 2026
How do you meditate to find an answer to something?
I write the question down, and leave it before meditation, no matter what kind of meditation or mindfulness practice I engage it. Sometimes I let solid sleep come in between writing the question, and having insight for an answer. Insight usually occurs in the in-between moments between alertness and meditative or sleep state (or vice versa).
Zanna Smith · August 17, 2026 · Quora
What would you do if you lost absolutely everything and everyone tonight and what is the first thing you would do in the morning?
I would kneel on the ground, scoop up energy from the ground, look up through the leaves or needles of a tree to the sky, bring energy down into myself. I would be numb to my pain of loss, and immersed in nature. In this meditative transcendence, I would allow nature to flow through me and dispose of my corporeal being. I believe in a universal, timeless soul-energy.
Zanna Smith · August 17, 2026 · Quora
Development of CF (1.2): Daily exposure ―to loss – loss of expectations, loss of
Ch. 4›Results
life and limb, whatever‖ contributes to the development of compassion fatigue ([A6, December 7, 2012](/dissertation/references)). Compassion fatigue comes from ―having to face situations in which compassion is required, as a professional, every day, hour after hour, minute after minute, every single day. And after so much time, you‘re going to become fatigued‖ (P5, 23 November 2012).
Zanna Smith · August 17, 2026
Experience of CF (1.3). Six of the seven participants had experienced CF at
Ch. 4›Results
some point in their careers. The participant who never had CF had avoided it early in her career by understanding which nursing areas would create problems for her: ―When I was deciding on what career to go in , I don‘t think I could have been effective when I had a three-year-old at home – working a pediatric unit with a three-year old.
Zanna Smith · August 17, 2026
Coping Strategies to Avoid Developing Compassion Fatigue
Ch. 2›Literature Review
There are, however, people who have developed effective coping strategies, the focus of this study. In addition to healthy habits of self-care, the positive reinforcement of watching patients recover, feeling effective, and being able to interact compassionately with patients helps HCPs avoid CF.
Zanna Smith · August 17, 2026
How do other vets cope with euthenasias and cases where they feel inadequate professionally? How do I know if I have compassion fatigue?
Compassion fatigue begins gradually, then in an instant crisis blooms fully. It shuts down your ability to have “normal” emotions in all parts of your life. Intense grief differs, but has similar physiomental effects: lowered immune system, numbness, irritability, feeling your mind is out of control, memory impairment, lack of focus and concentration.
Zanna Smith · August 17, 2026 · Quora