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Breaking the Silence about Childhood Trauma | Dani Bostick | TEDxGreenville
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

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
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...

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

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...

Teaching Students with Reactive Attachment Disorders with Nicola Marshall
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

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 peers can be a challenge. In an effort to not be a...

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

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…

Re-Entry Challenges
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

Survey results In August 2013, I used Survey Monkey to find out more what challenges repatriates face on returning “home.” In this article I am summarising my findings, so if you’d like more inform...

The Seven Lies of Repatriation
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

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 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…

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...