Share your favorite books on trauma. What has been the most helpful in your healing journey? Here is a list of 5 of my favorites: 1. "The Body Keeps the Score" by Bessel van der Kolk - This book is an excellent resource for understanding how trauma affects the body and mind and provides practical tools for healing and recovery. 2. "Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma" by Peter A. Levine - In this book, Peter A. Levine explores how trauma affects the nervous system and provides a step-by-step approach to healing and recovery. 3. "Trauma and Recovery" by Judith Herman - This book offers a comprehensive understanding of the effects of trauma. It provides a framework for healing based on empathy, respect, and empowerment. 4. "The Complex PTSD Workbook: A Mind-Body Approach to Regaining Emotional Control and Becoming Whole" by Arielle Schwartz - This book provides a comprehensive guide for those suffering from complex PTSD, offering practical tools and exercises to help individuals regain control over their emotions and find healing. 5. "Healing Trauma: A Pioneering Program for Restoring the Wisdom of Your Body" by Peter A. Levine - In this book, Peter A. Levine provides a step-by-step approach to healing trauma through working with the body's natural intelligence.

I am working on a compassion fatigue recovery program and wanted to share one of its graphics with you. I would love your feedback on an article that goes with it...does it apply to you? How have you been affected by compassion fatigue? Feel free to share your thoughts. Meaning Erosion: When Nothing Feels Like It Matters Anymore Do you remember when you used to love your work? When a good day felt good. When you went home, tired but full. When helping someone meant something — really meant something — deep in your chest. And then one day... it didn't. Not all at once. It happened slowly, like air leaking out of a balloon. You didn't notice at first. You just kept going. But somewhere along the way, the meaning went quiet. You still show up. You still do the things. But it feels like going through a car wash with the windows up — everything moving around you, nothing really touching you. You help people. But you don't feel it anymore. You used to care so much it hurt. Now you're not sure what you feel. And that scares you a little. Because not caring doesn't feel like you. This is called meaning erosion. It's not laziness. It's not a weakness. It's not burnout exactly — though it often comes with it. It's what happens when your heart has given and given and given... and nobody ever helped it get filled back up. The meaning didn't disappear because you're broken. It disappeared because you were never told that you needed tending too.

Three weird rules I choose to live by: 1. Protect my peace more than my pride. 2. Let curiosity speak before judgment. 3. Measure success by who I’m becoming, not what I’m accumulating. What are your weird rules?