All year I curate the words of poets, writers, artists, world thinkers, and healing

Interview with Andrew R. Laue, LCSW What are agencies supposed to do when traumatic

Suicide #1 The first time a client I knew completed suicide, I was thirty-two years

Is the phrase “vicarious trauma” out-of-date? A relic from another era that tries

TRIGGER WARNING: While this post is about self-care, I won’t mention anything

“Hey Wayne! I haven’t seen you in such a long time!” First of all: THIS is

This post is taken from a longer Keynote Address delivered at the Through the Eyes

Vicarious trauma—sometimes called “secondary stress”—affects human services

Appeared in Governing Magazine, June 1, 2015.Criminals scare me. They know more

This essay appeared in Common Boundary, July/August 1996. Reprinted in xy magazine