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Drowning in Empathy: The Cost of Vicarious Trauma | Amy Cunningham | TEDxSanAntonio
Caregivers and emergency responders are empathetic individuals who risk suffering from Compassion Fatigue, a form of PTSD that is treatable using t ...
Teaching Students with Reactive Attachment Disorders with Nicola Marshall
What do you do when your students don’t trust you? For children who have experienced abuse and neglect, forming trusting attachments to adults and ...
To the Churches Whose Missionaries Have Come “Home”
It was 2001. My family had arrived in Kazakhstan in 1996, the first American family in our town, and been joined by other Americans and Aussies ove ...
Living with Trauma Memories
Dr. Diane Langberg presents an overview of phases one and two of trauma recovery to Rwandan counselors and NGO workers
By: Dr. Diane Lang ...
Lori Anne Thompson
Lori Anne is a Survivor/Storyteller specializing in Child Abuse and Clergy Abuse. Her second stream of emergent expertise( August 21, 2020
4 Things You Should Know About Reverse Culture Shock
You can’t prepare for the culture shock that hits you when visiting your passport country. You go, excited to reconnect with friends and supports, ...
Leaving well when leaving well is not possible
Leaving well for expats is all well and good as long as things go well . . . and good. But sometimes they don’t. Sometimes the final weeks of ...
The Seven Lies of Repatriation
Ahhh “Repatriation” It’s one of those words that you don’t even look up in the dictionary until you start going through it yourself. For ...
Repatriating Normally: 10 Things That Make Coming Home Feel Weird
You’re going back to normal. Your normal. Normal normal. And there it is. The reason that repatriating is weird. Because it was suppose ...
Burn Up or Splash Down: Surviving the Culture Shock of Re-Entry
Just like a space shuttle struggles and strains to re-enter the earth's atmosphere, so those returning from living overseas can find themselves con ...
Think Home: A Reentry Guide for Christian International Students
This popular workbook helps Christian international students think through the challenges they will face upon returning home. It includes thought-p ...
Returning Well: Looking Back, Moving Forward
Re-entry. “Re” – meaning “again.” Meaning that you’ve done this before. This is not the first time. Sure, this time will have its differences. But, ...