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Drowning in Empathy: The Cost of Vicarious Trauma | Amy Cunningham | TEDxSanAntonio
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

Caregivers and emergency responders are empathetic individuals who risk suffering from Compassion Fatigue, a form of PTSD that is treatable using the steps described in Amy’s presentation. Amy Cunn...

Burnout and post-traumatic stress disorder: Dr. Geri Puleo at TEDxSetonHillUniversity
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

Dr. Geri Puleo, SPHR, is the President/CEO of Change Management Solutions, Inc., a boutique B2B consulting firm helping clients who are planning, implementing, or struggling with change. The creato...

To the Churches Whose Missionaries Have Come “Home”
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

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 over the next several years. It was a fairly isolated...

Living with Trauma Memories
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

Dr. Diane Langberg presents an overview of phases one and two of trauma recovery to Rwandan counselors and NGO workers

By: Dr. Diane Langberg    Length 49:13

Lori Anne Thompson
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

Lori Anne is a Survivor/Storyteller specializing in Child Abuse and Clergy Abuse. Her second stream of emergent expertise( Registered Kinesiologist

4 Things You Should Know About Reverse Culture Shock
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

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, but something feels off. Things …

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Burn Up or Splash Down: Surviving the Culture Shock of Re-Entry
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

Just like a space shuttle struggles and strains to re-enter the earth's atmosphere, so those returning from living overseas can find themselves confused and in a state of panic at coming home. Whil...

When Transition Gets The Best of You
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

Ahh transition.  I teach this stuff.  I do seminars.  I write a blog for crying out loud.  So I hate it when it actually applies to me.   Some of the best advice I ever got...

When Re-Entry is Hard
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

No one can prepare you for re-entry, not even your closest friends and family who have walked alongside of you through this season. Neither can a countless number of books and podcas…

Repatriating Normally: 10 Things That Make Coming Home Feel Weird
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

You’re going back to normal. Your normal. Normal normal. And there it is.  The reason that repatriating is weird.  Because it was supposed to be normal.  Turns out . . . it’s not.

Think Home: A Reentry Guide for Christian International Students
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

This popular workbook helps Christian international students think through the challenges they will face upon returning home. It includes thought-provoking questions, exercises, Bible studies, comm...

Leaving well when leaving well is not possible
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

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 your expat experience get blasted by circ…