Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐*"Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others" is an exceptional and deeply insightful book. The author offers invaluable guidance on managing the emotional and physical toll of caregiving, making it an essential read for anyone in the helping professions. The practical advice and thoughtful reflections are both empowering and comforting. I had the pleasure of meeting the author at this year's 50th NOVA Conference, and her passion and dedication to the subject were truly inspiring. Her approach to trauma stewardship is both compassionate and practical, and her personal engagement at the conference made the experience even more memorable. This book is a must-read for anyone looking to balance self-care with the demands of caring for others. Highly recommended!"

Really worth the time to read it. A lot of great information in it.

This is a book that has applications for anyone dealing with trauma; trauma from their personal lives, work, natural disasters, etc. Learning how to understand and work with your trauma is essential.

This book was exactly what I hoped it would be. It validated my experience, it helped put words to what I was experiencing while working in the trauma field, it posed excellent questions for me to think about and provided practical guidance.

I’ve bought this book at least 5 times so far. I gift it, read it, give it to someone who needs it more. It is excellent, the author does an amazing job.

This book was referenced many times during a volunteer training by an organization devoted to survivors of human trafficking. What struck me about the book was the substantial amount of cartoon material dealing with trauma. I have always been a person with a strong sense of humor, and I use humor to help me deal with stress, but to have so many cartoonists deal with burnout, trauma, depression, mid-life crises, etc shows how prevalent these things are in our lives.What did I learn from this book? That anyone who tries to do good gets push-back from the universe/system/bad-guys. The profiles in the book range from NGO workers going to war-torn countries to an assistant to a US President and all felt like they had given their last molecule to their causes. I’m older now and I what l learned the hard way was – this is just the way it is. If you are going to try to do good, expect it to be an uphill battles. Laura van Dernoot Lipsky describes the process of burn out, and gives names to the holes into which we can fall which is incredibly validating. This was the main value of her book for me – I did not realize the stages that those engaged in trauma stewardship traverse through actually have names!

Foster Care case manager here. Very excited to dive into this book!

Needed for school

Book arrived in good condition. Delivered was faster than I expected.

I bought this based on a Vicarious Trauma course I had taken. This book covers trauma from all types of stewardship - animal rescue, species conservatorship, planet preservation, and human caregiving. I did not realize that I had trauma from my years of cat rescue, I had assumed it all came from my work with humans. This book said things that I had only heard but never acknowledged in my head - it was like it was written just for me. In reading this book I recognized the signs of trauma in every one of my coworkers and how realized how much we had changed and hardened ourselves because of our job. This wonderful book talks about how important it is for workers and management to work through and support each other with this, and what you may need to do to help and heal yourself. Most books just point out your trauma, this book also recommends paths for healing and ways of prevention and the use of mindfulness. I have been therapy for a couple of years and this book still blew me away. Everyone from vet techs to scientists to human caregivers needs to get this book!

ich arbeite schon lange in dem Feld und mir hat der umfassende Blick auf die Betroffenen sehr gut gefallen. Keine einfachen Antworten auf komplexe Fragen, sondern Schritt für Schritt schauen wo man sich befindet und wohin man will.

The author compassionately and intelligently deals with the area of being exposed to others' trauma; how we unconsciously become saturated with our own resonances, and others' pain, hopelessness, helplessness; what we do with this - how our strategies to protect ourselves can result in damage to our personal lives and professional roles; and strategies to work with these impacting experiences. Highly recommend this inspirational book!

I highly recommend this as a tool for ppl in helping professions--it truly was one if the best read in years and I've likely read over 30 types in this topic.