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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 ...

August 21, 2020
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 ...

August 21, 2020
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 ...

August 21, 2020
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 ...

August 21, 2020
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, ...

August 21, 2020
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 ...

August 21, 2020
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 ...

August 21, 2020
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 ...

August 21, 2020
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 ...

August 21, 2020
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 ...

August 21, 2020
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, ...

August 21, 2020