“I refuse to eat at school because I don’t want anyone to look at me and think I look gross,” a 14-year-old young woman shared with me during our counselling session. Social anxiety is the fear of being scrutinized and humiliated in front of others to the point of...
Joddie Walker on Building Resilience for the Front-Line Helper: It’s a Lifestyle, Not a Task on Your ‘To-Do’ List!When we work on the front lines and hold positions where we listen empathetically to others’ trauma stories, it becomes imperative to...
Someone you care about has a mental illness – what do you do? The temptation is to try to persuade the person to think or act differently, but that doesn’t work very well. You end up arguing and talking in circles, only to get frustrated with each other....
Having facilitated hundreds of Critical Incident Group Debriefings (CIGD), there’s always a magical moment during the intervention when I reflect to myself, “this process really helps people heal from trauma exposure”. I have used this model in many...
