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Breaking the Silence about Childhood Trauma | Dani Bostick | TEDxGreenville
Most discussions of PTSD focus on veterans to the extent that many people who suffer from PTSD are often undiagnosed or misdiagnosed, especially among our children. Since PTSD can masquerade as ADH...
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 the steps described in Amy’s presentation. Amy Cunn...
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 over the next several years. It was a fairly isolated...
The effect of trauma on the brain and how it affects behaviors | John Rigg | TEDxAugusta
In his work with trauma patients, Dr. Rigg has observed how the brain is constantly reacting to sensory information, generating non-thinking reactions before our intelligent individual human brains...
Lori Anne Thompson
Lori Anne is a Survivor/Storyteller specializing in Child Abuse and Clergy Abuse. Her second stream of emergent expertise( Registered Kinesiologist
When Re-Entry is Hard
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…
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 confused and in a state of panic at coming home. Whil...
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 your expat experience get blasted by circ…
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, He has given you the courage to step out and the ...
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 supposed to be normal. Turns out . . . it’s not.
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 those less traveled it may not even…
When Transition Gets The Best of You
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...