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When Change at Work Becomes Traumatic
Stress at work is nothing new for many of us – feeling overworked, pressure to meet deadlines, etc. But what about experiencing trauma at work? Some people can and do experience violent trauma at work – teachers, retail workers, restaurant servers,...
Recognizing Trauma in Workplace Colleagues
Trauma survivors can experience a wide variety of symptoms. As a colleague or supervisor, you may recognize some of these, and there are others you just can’t quite put your finger on. However, even if you can’t pinpoint their symptoms, you likely can...
Are you ok? Recognizing Trauma in Others
Trauma sufferers exhibit a variety of symptoms. Understand how you can recognize psychological and physical symptoms and offer support to friends and family.
Recognizing Signs of Psychological Trauma In Yourself
Trauma. Just six inoffensive letters, from the Greek word for wound, developing in the late 17th century into the English word we now recognize. In the dictionary, the basic definition of trauma is an injury. In the medical field, it’s further defined as a physical...
Scaling the Wall of Mental Health
Our attitudes toward mental health are interesting. It’s really just one aspect of our overall condition, along with physical health. In fact, some dictionaries even define the word health as: a person's mental or physical condition. Yet on some levels, we...
Battling Back After the Storm
Events like a storm or a flood ruin possessions and destroy homes, schools, and businesses. Events like terrorist attacks and other crimes destroy property and kill and maim individuals. Those are the stories we hear on the news. What we usually don't hear...
Whatever It Takes – Just Show Up
Many people spend good money on changing their lives - to advance their careers or reach personal goals. They go to college or trade school, or take online courses or seminars. Some people even hire life and career coaches. But what good is spending all that time and...
Mindful Leadership To Create A Vibrant Workplace
In some circles these days, one of the buzziest of buzzwords is mindfulness. The simplest definition: the practice of maintaining a nonjudgmental state of heightened or complete awareness of one's thoughts, emotions, or experiences on a moment-to-moment basis. So, you...
Holding On When Things Get Tough
Very few of us get through life without something bad happening to us. Maybe it’s a “regular” bad thing, the kind of event we expect to experience at some point in our lives. Like the deaths of loved ones, getting our heart broken by someone we cared for, being fired...
In Honor of Gratitude
It’s that time of year – to express gratitude for what you have in your life. No matter the date on the calendar, I work on being grateful and really do pay attention to the things that are going right in my life. Yet, like so many expected feelings we tie...