Sustaining Open Hearts: Self-care for helpers working with trauma in our complex world - Paperback

by Leyla Welkin (Author)

Sustaining Open Hearts is a resource, an inspiration, a guide for people who want to help survivors of violence and forced migration but find the work harder than they imagined. Offering practical approaches, reflective exercises, and stories drawn from the experience of many diverse helpers. Therapists, health care providers, teachers, social workers and many others who want to be helpful to people struggling with the effects of traumatic experiences; readers will find encouraging and informative voices that illuminate a path often abandoned in lonely frustration but sustainable when we turn toward one another and work together.