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May 17, 20155 min read

Training Not Effective in Mitigating Secondary Traumatic Stress

For several years I have been researching stress and the effects of secondary trauma on aid personnel and how to mitigate these. The...

May 10, 20154 min read

Psychological Harm Remains Long After the Rescue Teams Leave

In February I wrote the post below about the necessity of providing psychosocial support to communities prone to be hit by traumatic...

Apr 27, 20152 min read

Psychosocial Support: More Than 30 Minutes Lecture on Stress

The UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific concluded that: "The lessons from 2014 clearly show that building...

Apr 26, 20152 min read

Guidelines for Expressive Psychosocial Support

This post was intended for next week, but due to the terrible disaster that yesterday devastated so many communities in Nepal and...

Apr 11, 20153 min read

Don't Tell Me to “Think Positive” When I am Stressed

Transitions are hard. My family and I are in the midst of a major one right now as we move from the Philippines to Maryland, USA, our...

Apr 5, 20156 min read

How I Found My Rhythm Back After Trauma

Free as a bird In the family of my childhood, music, dancing and laughter were a coping mechanism for our many difficulties. I danced...

Mar 8, 20156 min read

Expressive eTherapy

Several years ago I lived and worked in a highly stressful environment with no access to professional support, for over three years. ...

Mar 6, 20151 min read

Revised - Links between Stress & Trauma and Nutrition

As a trauma survivor and trauma therapist I have learned to pay a lot of attention to diet as part of a strategy to alleviate...

Feb 18, 20152 min read

Take this Step in Response to Transgenerational Trauma

The Canadian Globe and Mail carries a story this week, "The Intergenerational Trauma of First Nations Still Runs Deep". Reading the...

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