Trauma Stewardship

This book helped me recognize how burned out and traumatized I really was by my work. These days I’m recovering and on my way to my next chapter, and I know I will be better able to recognize when I’m working myself too hard in the future.

This book helped me in ways that I didn't think of especially in my everyday career and personal life. It teaches me ways to protect my mental health and from burnout. It's an amazing book. A good read if you're struggling on an everyday basis with second hand trauma.

It was helpful.

This book was really good! Clear and easy to read. Definitely a must read for all people working in social care and education fields!

This book was fantastic and should be a requirement for all those in the helping professions.

I love this book. I work in the field of early childhood special education and this book has helped me to understand how compassion fatigue impacts me and the importance of keeping my own life balanced between work and personal things so that I can continue in this field.

Some of the information in it was outdated, but overall it was a great read that emphasizes the importance of taking care of yourself to continue to provide support for others. There was a lot of information on how we can identify burnout and prevent/mitigate it. I would definitely recommend this book to others.

Amazing book highly recommend

I've been in the mental health field, working in educational settings, for nearly 20 years. I've acknowledged carrying secondary trauma throughout my career, yet this book has helped me see how my trauma response may be impacting my personal relationships and characteristics seen among my colleagues and within the work place. While I wish there was more explicit information and attention given to systematic oppression, the text does help illuminate challenges within our systems and institutions and provides a little guidance and hope for balancing the personal impact of secondary trauma and agency and advocacy in the work and organization.

What an amazing book. Really spoke to the importance of the work I do every day. Recommitment to my job and purpose.

Trauma Stewardship was a delightful read! I found it very helpful as it provided tips on how to navigate vicarious trauma. The author shares personal stories which made the content very relatable in regards to secondary trauma experienced in the workplace/environment.

Invaluable resource for anyone working in fields with vicarious and secondary trauma present. I have listened to this audiobook on several occasions, cried when it activated me and mourned the self I had lost in the world of being exhausted from the trauma around me. This book has made me better at my own self-care and encouraging self-care to be a priority for staff and coworkers.

Easy to read book, with a lot of practical information. Had some insights into the whys of how we feel the way we feel and the impact on ourselves and our work.

An amazingly thorough, relevant and warm hearted book for clinicians and those in health services

This book is a game changer from the very first page! I am so impressed with this book and the wisdom it holds. The author reminds us of the very real way this line of work affects us and how to manage our compassion fatigue and burnout. A must read for anyone in our field.

Poignant book with lots of valuable and applicable information. As a person with a complex PTSD background I was triggered quite often when reading the book; therefore I had to read it in small chunks and my head had to be clear and ready. It is definitely not casual reading. This book is a commitment. A very worthwhile commitment.

This book is so useful, whether you experience trauma in your work environment or in your personal life.

As a therapist and supervisor for a treatment team, this book provided insightful and powerful reminders on creating spaces of felt safety both the clients and within the workplace.

This is Essential reading for organizational transformation in the recognition of trauma and its affect on all of us. This is a useful book for teams to read together more practical applications.

Wonderful book full of resources, highly recommend!

This book included a thorough foundation for trauma stewardship. I was happy to have this book as a resource both during and after the pandemic.

This book was very eye opening. I had no idea the intricate outcomes and factors involved in a person's life and relationships based on trauma events in one's life experiences. A very good read.

Absolutely pivotal read for anyone working with people.

Its a great book! Learned a lot and its an easy read

As someone who works in human service I needed the message of this book!

This book was really informative and spot on for my experience as a social service advocate.

I attended a training with the author and she definitely knows her stuff when it comes to trauma. This book is a wonderful companion to the age of overwhelm, and is a support to my and my spouse’s work in social work and law enforcement.

This book was very applicable to my work in social services. Its reminders to stay grounded, engage in self-care, and form supportive bonds with others were very good. I have recommended it to others in the field.

This book is a must-read for anyone in the helping field. It dives into the ins and outs of trauma and how we can coexist with our work without letting it take over.

Excellent book with so much practical information and actionable resources.

This book is a deeply insightful tool for those working in trauma concerned fields. As a disaster recovery social worker, it has helped me to be mindful of my own symptoms of trauma exposure response, and give me ways to ease them.

I work with a lot of people who are having the worst day of their lives. They are injured and broken and have a lot of trauma that they try to work through (and sometimes they do t try to work through it, they give up). This book not only helped me to understand their traumas, but also how their traas affect me. There is a lot of great information to help caretakers to care for themselves.

As a behavior specialist in an elementary school, I work with kids daily who are impacted by trauma. This book as wonderful take aways to support my work and my students.

Good book for helpers! It was a bit dense at times and took me a while to get through, but there were a lot of good stories and real-life application in it. I've been gifting it to helper friends who are graduating this year (nurses, therapists, etc).

This book is a godsend for those of us that spend our lives giving to/caring for others. Please read this if you are a teacher, social worker, caregiver or any other giving back career. It is a must read!

This book was very helpful in my work but also in my life with my family. I tend to be the trauma steward within my family and this was a very unique perspective

As a case manager working with a population that is riddled with trauma and struggles it is easy to take on those as your own when you are empathic. This was a great read on how to manage those feelings. We want to be empathic and connect with our patients in order to create trust and an environment where they can share their needs with us, but it is not our responsibility to feel those feelings either. Creating good boundaries with our patients and within ourselves is what this book helps you do. I recommend it to all who are empathic, share actual trauma, and work with a population that is challenging.

This is a great read for anyone in the social work or care giving industry or even someone caring for a family member. This is a well written and down to earth take on making sure we identify our own needs and how to cope with a very emotionally taxing type of stress. As a social worker it is very easy for the emotional responses to take a toll before we even notice we are burning out.

Great resource that has helped me immensely!

I’m still reading this, but it made a profound impact right away. It feels like this book was written for me. I didn’t know I needed it, but I do. I highly recommend, especially for anyone who works with folks who are experiencing trauma.

This book is a great resource for helping children overcome really big inner world challenges.

I love this book! As a trauma therapist and a practitioner of mindfulness meditation I am impressed by the wholistic complexity of the author's analysis and remedy. She makes such a common-sense and down-to-earth case for the daily application of mindful awareness and human-to-human connection that one is invited to try this approach in a welcoming way.

This book was validating and full off growth opportunities. I was pleased to be guided through similar situations with a different lens. Highly recommend to anyone working in crisis, trauma, or service work.

One of the best books I've read in a long time! A must read for sure if you working in a field where you help others.

So thrilled when my copy finally arrived. This book is an excellent guide for maintaining longevity in human service fields of all kinds- Child Welfare, frontline / first response work, long-term care, etc. Well-worth the wait and a good companion book to have alongside "The Body Keeps the Score".

Very easy read, I feel like there is a lot to learn from this book for the size of it.

Lovely and compassionate. I especially appreciate the flow, with the visuals, personal stories, and experiential component.

This book provided me with some very helpful tools as I work with young women affected by trauma. It helped me overcome some recovery myths and will be a useful source!

As an MSW student, this book has helped me to learn more about myself as a provider, my own professional protective factors and the ripple effects of trauma.

This was a good book especially for my line of work where secondary trauma is prevalent and could easily turn into burnout. Highly recommend for anyone who deals with people in crisis or experiencing trauma.

This book provides an excellent way to explore the way we can become distanced and disheartened in doing important work in the helping professions or professions where great compassion or activism is required. Whether we are working to improve the world, the environment, people's emotional experience or their physical experience, it is important to be aware of the concepts in this book that point to the ways we take on trauma as we bear witness to pain and trauma. I highly recommend it.

This book is amazing and full of helpful information. I am so grateful to have had the opportunity to read it. Thank you Ford Family Foundation.

A great read and a wonderful reminder to care for yourself while caring for others.

Really informative supportive book

I love this book was very helpful with my work! We talk a lot about trauma informed care. Was nice to have a book that could show me how to put this practice into action.

Well written & easy to read.

the book was good.

This book was incredibly helpful as a reminder of how to help care for myself and my co-workers while we're working in an area where we hear traumatic stories of clients daily. It's hard to practice for ourselves what we recommend to others

This book was a wealth of information that I have enjoyed sharing with my team.

This book was incredibly helpful to me in my work as a social worker. It validated my experiences and helped me understand my struggles as they relate to my work. I highly recommend it for anyone that works in any helping profession.

Very informative and helpful in understanding a still much ignored but essential topic. We all experience trauma and it often shapes our lives in many different and significant ways and this book helps us understand this complex and sparingly discussed topic. Trauma is even hardly discussed outside of academic and medical circles - it should take a more prominent place in our public discussions, to understand it's impact in our everyday life and on how to alleviate its effects. The contents of this book aren't always easy to understand but it's worth the time and effort to wade into it with an open mind and heart.

This was a good book. Easy to follow and understand

This book was used in my current place of work. Enlightening and educational for Public Service.

Really enjoyed this book and the simple tools it gives for coping with trauma in a trauma filled workplace. I appreciated the real life stories and examples given that I could relate too and the fact that it didn't sugarcoat the realities either.

This book is transformative for those going into or working in the helping professions. It is so helpful and relatable and easy to digest. Highly recommend this book for everyone.

Trauma Stewardship has encouraged and prepared me to work with clients in a professional therapeutic setting. The journey to healing and recovery is just that - it's a journey I can come alongside clients in and help them process their trauma, emotions, and everything else, but I do not have to carry that weight and hurt and pain myself. Being aware and attuned to my trauma history will better inform and influence how I help guide another individual through their life.

Very informative book on the affects of trauma and resources to aide in building strong foundations.

Such a wonderful book to add to my school counselor tool belt. Especially as COVID-19 ensued and continues to be present in all of our lives, Trauma Stewardship has allowed myself and my colleagues to have an increase in our empathy and understanding at the world around us, and with our students.

Such valuable information for someone working in social services. If you also have the opportunity to attend one of her seminars, don’t pass it up!

Excellent resource on how trauma exposure affects us, how to identify it's impacts on us, how to heal, and how to incorporate daily practices to keep us centered while journeying with others through trauma. The comics are a wonderful touch!

I loved reading this book - very affirming, with actionable ideas to manage stress while working with others who have experienced trauma.

Great book! So meaningful for helping professionals.

When challenged with approaching your job as a martyr, this book has challenged me to believe that I can still do a good job and take care of myself. Some things were discouraging because it addressed how an administration could support the workers but, many things addressed individuals and what they could do to take care of themselves. I especially liked the last part of the book where the application part came in. Five different directions were addressed, four are the directions on a compass and how they relate to elements that will help a person to become more centered. With each of these directions there are Try This sections that really help the reader to apply what is being learned. By doing the Try This sections, I truly feel that my life can become more centered and I will not become so burned out with my job. There are many references to different religions, especially Buddhism, but I feel all the references are explained in a way that show the way behind a process and does not necessarily push for the reader to take up a special religion.

amazing. I started a book club in my organization (10-12 members) and we read this carefully and really processed the information. I am appreciative of the opportunity.

An important book for those who work in any capacity while caring for others. Not self-care in the way social media wants us to think about it (bubble baths and wine) but practical advice for taking care of self in meaningful ways by attending to body and mind and healing our own traumas. Wise advice that the author has gleaned by doing her research and using the techniques provided. A must read!

This book is an interesting read. The flow is smooth, and the content is relative to the difficult work that many of us do with traumatized people. I found some useful guidance and encouragement that allows me to be aware of the secondary trauma I experience while working with others and how this impacts my quality of life. Self care is important. It is also nice to know that I am not alone in feeling overwhelmed or burdened with the weight that the work I do sometimes brings.

"Trauma Stewardship" is an excellent, and sometimes painful, book that I highly recommend to all those working in caring professions. Van Dernoot Lipsky has a clean, enjoyable writing style and does a great job in explaining complex issues and concepts in a digestible way. This book also provides a number of helpful tools for self-care that can be immediately integrated into daily life.

I really enjoyed this book. It expanded my understandings and reminded of important concepts I had forgotten in the mix. Thorough references and easy to read format. Appropriate humor and great examples. I would recommend this book to all healers and health providers.

This book was AMAZING and helped me identify the root of my fatigue and how to address my vicarious trauma

As a child abuse medical provider working in a small rural clinic, I find myself working through vicarious trauma and burnout regularly. This book provided fresh insight for me as I reflected on the sacredness of trauma work and also the ways that I can better care for myself and encourage my teammates to do the same. This book was especially helpful as our team navigated the additional trauma brought on by the global pandemic.

Great book.

This book is critical to anyone working or studying in a helping field. If as caregivers we do not take care of ourselves and realize the potential of vicarious trauma, burnout may happen rather quickly. This book spells this out and is a must have for everyone's library

This is an interesting focus on trauma in the social service/health care worker. I appreciate the discussion of what this type of trauma entails, its impact and effect on these professionals and tips and strategies for managing trauma as a trauma steward. This book is worth reading to provide a more comprehensive look at the impact of trauma on individuals who are working with people who have experienced trauma and recognizing that trauma affects these helpers as well.

This is a wonderful book for anyone who is experiencing burnout and serves others in a caregiving role! I am a special education teacher, and I have recommended it to several coworkers. The book helped me to feel less crazy/overwhelmed by my day to day role working with at risk students and families experiencing poverty. Her humor and practical tools helped me to slow down, reflect, and practice better self care during my time off.

12 years into my career in social work and I wish I had read this book at the very beginning! I hadn't realized the cumulative effects that secondary trauma was having. This book helped me to increase my awareness of how I've been personally impacted by supporting others in trauma and developing a plan to better take care of myself so I can continue this hard work. I would 100% recommend this to anyone in a helping profession!

This book was a wonderful addition to my Death Doula library. It gives great practices to taking care of yourself and really stressing what secondary trauma looks like in the day to day.

This is a wonderful book that outlines how to both accept your own trauma and guide people through theirs. It is especially helpful as a Psychology major.

As someone who works in community mental health vicarious trauma, trauma stewardship is something that we are always discussing. "Self care" is always discussed as important to address burn out, it is asked in interviews for potential employees, but it is rarely discussed in more depth. This book will definitely be placed in our resource library for folks to engage with and to better support my colleagues in caring for themselves.

This was such a great read for teachers!

I read this with my work book club and we are all trauma informed therapist. This book was not only affirming but also helpful in learning how to manage the vicarious trauma that therapist experience. 10/10 would recommend for new and seasoned practioners who work with trauma in any capacity.

I found the book to be informative and engaging. The beginning can be a bit cumbersome to wade through as the author tries to discuss multiple forms of trauma exposure at once rather than giving each a section or chapter of it's own. The book takes on a heavy subject and lightens the load with humorous comics. Particularly this year, being aware of our own trauma and caring for ourselves and our mental health is vital. This book is a good resource.

IT was a great book to read during this time as a teacher.

This book has helped me maintain some balance, a sense of humor, and a lot of self-compassion during this overwhelming time since COVID closed schools. As a school counselor in a low-income area, the amount of suffering I've seen and heard about has been at times unbearable. The tools, cartoons, perspectives, and wisdom in this book are easily accessible and useful. This book belongs on every counselor's—or person who cares deeply in any profession's—bookshelf.

This book provided me with language that allowed me to articulate secondary trauma, how real it is, and how it can affect you. Very needed book!

Happy to have my own copy of this amazing book and learn more about this very important aspect of teaching

Wonderfully guide to recognizing indicators of burnout and strategies for care.

Amazing book with practical life examples and applications to prevent burnout.

I wish that I had read this book earlier in my social work career! This book provides a roadmap for those of us who work with trauma to persevere and sustainably manage our work.

As a school counselor candidate, this book was recommended to me in my Clinical Issues SCED 550 class and I could not be more thankful. This book is essential for all human services, social workers, counselors, school counselors, etc. It was a great reminder to take care of myself!

Laura Van Dernoot Lipsky provides an excellent resource for individuals working in care settings with her book "Trauma Stewardship", the book discusses vicarious trauma, emphasizes the importance of self-care and introduced the idea of "compassion fatigue." I would recommend the book to individuals working with people impacted by trauma in a care setting.

I highly recommend this book to anyone

Trauma Stewardship is a wonderful book with amazing insight on how to balance caring for others and caring for yourself. Anyone can benefit from this read!

Found a lot of feelings stirred up reading this. Helped guide me into developing my own resiliency.

Such a great resource not only for the families that I work with but for myself!

I’ve worked in a high trauma field for 10 years. I wish I would have read this book sooner. I’ve cried and released emotions that I held for too long. Excellent for anyone who seeks healing!

This book is an incredible resource for anyone that is engaged in caring for others. As a highly-empathetic person, the strategies in this book helped me learn how to reserve space for my own feelings and emotions while still caring for others in crisis.

This book was recommended to me by a Trauma Informed Care specialist at the hospital I work at. It is a great resource for understanding how trauma impacts our lives and choices.

This has been a great book to use for reference and exercises. I’m working to get my Masters right now and adding this book to my knowledge helps very much.

Such a wonderful guide to help you recognize how caring for others, requires self care in order to not become overwhelmed over time. Each chapter offers questions to ask yourself, or in a group setting, for better understanding.

This is a great book for anybody in the teaching or helping field. It is clearly laid out, explains how to help yourself, but it is a lot. I know I will need to read the book a few times to fully understand and integrate its message.

This is a great book for those interested in our who are currently doing trauma work. Knowing how to take care of yourself in order to take care of others is key to doing this work sustainably and this book really opens up that conversation.

I am thankful for the opportunity to take a deeper dive into this material, to learn tangible tools that I can model and share with my staff, and ultimately do what earlier in my career was frowned upon - take care of myself . I am so glad that this was shared for those who are in service, to learn a new way, and give themselves permission to self care as a necessary professional skill set.

This book connected with me in a very personal way. It was easy to read but often forced me to face truths that I would rather ignore about myself. There were seven times that I stopped to note really insightful comments or strategies that I plan to use as I move forward. Practical tips and real life accounts as well as funny cartoons kept the book from getting too dry or serious. As I read, I was moved, challenged, encouraged and inspired by the book and highly recommend it for anyone who is caring for others.

I found helpful as we move through 2020

An excellent read for anyone who finds themselves in the service of others

This book is really helpful in showing concrete ways exposure to trauma can impact daily life! I recommend this to helping professionals.

Trauma Stewardship should be required reading for anyone in a caring profession. I have been a therapist for 10 years and this last year of 2020 has been more challenging than any other. This book is more than talking about burn out or providing self-care deep breathing. It deeply talks about the change in your reaction to the world that has been hard to label for many people and caring professions. This book helped me label my trauma from my work and still brought encouragement to the ability to continue caring for others while caring for myself during a time of crisis. I cannot think of a better time to read this book.

I really appreciate the author's use of humor and personal stories. I found the book to be very relatable and easy to read. Our agency is working on better vicarious trauma practices and I found this book really helpful.

Very informative read.

This is such an amazing book and a great resource for anyone working in mental health or experiencing trauma or stress!

Loved this book. So timely and useful with practical strategies that many books often lack. Useful for those of us in the mental health field but I would imagine just about everyone could benefit from reading this.

This book is definitely a must read for everyone! There are so many helpful tips and ways to keep myself healthy and well while helping others through their trauma.

This book made me more aware of how important it is to take care of myself while caring for others.

I’m a a child welfare caseworker and this book has been SO helpful in processing the difficulties in this work. The book has many drawings and comics to make it more entertaining.

I work with children who have experienced a lot of trauma in their lives and this book has given me much needed insite. Secondary trauma is very prominent in education and I would recommend this book to anyone who works with children.

Working in child protective services, this book was very real to the emotions and experiences we see and feel daily. We see a lot of trauma and able to reflect on the impact it has on my own personal life, was great to put into perspective.

Great resource for workers that are struggling with compassion fatigue and secondhand trauma.

This is an excellent reminder that to support others we have to fill our own well. It also reminds us that we have to do our own trauma work in order help others. Highly recommended. Thank you to the Ford Family Foundation for a copy.

This book is very beneficial to read, especially if you're in the helping profession. It offers the reader the opportunity to relate to the work we do, while also finding meaningful insights that we can take with us wherever we may find ourselves both professionally and personally.

Fascinating and insightful.

I enjoyed and benefited by reading this book. Others have benefited by my reading it too. I have some trauma in my story and am pretty well recovered. I recently began to work with foster children and major disaster teams. The book "Trauma Stewardship" has helped me to better help myself and others. I gives useful practices for those that would do such. It gives useful stories to to help the readers understanding and to share with those that might benefit. Something for each of us.

Really interesting read. I would recommend to others. I have always struggled making sure my needs are met while ensuring everyone's around me are. So this book brought a lot of insight.

I keep coming back to this book - and each time I read, I come away with something new. The content is accessible, easy to digest, authentic, and actionable. There are also online resources available that compliment the book. Anyone wrestling or struggling with the weight of their work and/or life circumstances, or who support others who are - this is a must read!

This book breaks down the various ways we experience trauma and offers ways to cope and heal.

This is a wonderful book to use- not only to read but use! Take a break and a breathe and read!

A challenging and inspiring read. The mix of learning, interviews and calls to action make it a book that I will pick up over and over again. A must read for those who work with trauma in their day to day lives to ensure that we do our best to do no harm in the process.

I work with people with developmental disabilities and mental health issues. Reading this book opened my eyes and had taught me so much. Jack Kornfield said it beautifully, “ This book is a gift, a wise and compassionate guide for those who undertake the difficult work of caring for the traumas of the world.”

Trauma Stewardship is a helpful roadmap of the internal work necessary to fill our cup and continue supporting others.

I found this book to be insightful in helping me to recognize and understand the impact of trauma work in my personal and professional life. I provided a new lens to look at the work I do and have done in my adult life as trauma work and helped me validate the importance of tending to self care and re-envisioning the purpose I have in my work.

It wasn't exactly what I was looking for, but I volunteer for our local CASA and so I donated it to the office for others to use.

This book was very informational and glad it was chosen for our book club

Great tools

This book is great! I think it can be applicable to a lot of professions, and even to significant others of people in those professions. Let's just say it can be read and used by most everyone. The flow of the book was well thought out, there were real life examples throughout the book, and it wasn't so "clinical" that it lost my interest. The book doesn't just tell you what you need to do to care for yourself and why, but also how. I definitely recommend it!!

This book changed my life the first time a colleague lent it to me in 2014. I left my job and started a trauma-healing and stewardship path which I'm still on to-date. Having the text to read and refer to for personal and professional growth is essential. It's definitely worth reading if you haven't yet, and get prepared for transformation when you do.

As a psychologist in training, I found this book to be immensely helpful in understanding my own response to trauma in my work. I started my clinical training this year and had a difficult time knowing why I reacted to the trauma my clients disclosed in a certain way. Reading this book elucidated what responses to trauma exposure can look like, discussed vicarious trauma, and imparted some ways I can take care of myself as a clinician to better be able to do this hard, important work. This is a must-read for every person who is faced with trauma in their work, whether that be people who counsel others or those in the fight against climate change.

I read this book with a book club I am in. Was very good and insightful.

Very informational. I used the book during a book club, and it provided a lot of content for self reflection.

This was a very informative book and I enjoyed it.

This book was great to read, it was very informative and shed light to self care. As a child welfare worker this was a great tool to utilize and helped me understand why I behaved or though the way I do. It really connects the trauma and my feelings very well.

This book gave me great insight and advise as I continue my journey working with families that have experienced trauma.

This book was an easy read, and very helpful for my first year out of grad school. I can't wait to read her other books. As a social work, this was a must read.

I work in human/social services and have found this book invaluable! The effects of trauma are far reaching and this book has helped me to better keep myself emotionally, psychologically, spiritually, and physically healthy in the face of the sometimes overwhelming scenarios I confront every day.

I work in my community with a diverse population . This book allowed me to find a different type of peace. Its important to understand that its more than just ok to recognize that I to need to download and take care of myself to care for others.

I wish that I would have had the opportunity at the beginning of my career to help create understanding and awareness to not only my own personal past trauma but the trauma that I would be a part of moving through my career. This book is a great guide.

Very good book!

As a child welfare caseworker, this book was so insightful, so well written and offered very helpful tools to cope with secondary trauma. This book was a great reminder that we are not alone and that trauma responses happen to everyone. Highly recommend for any helping professional or anyone who is consistently exposed to trauma.

This book is a great review of how to understand and accept the trauma we are face with through the jobs we do as well as the lives we lead.

This is a powerful book, especially for people working with individuals who have experienced trauma - teachers, medical professionals, social workers - such good stuff. I had a hard time not highlighting everything!

I would recommend this book for anyone who works with children. It helps with making sure that you are able to explore Your own life trauma and work through them in healthy ways so that you are able to help others. This helps to not bring your own issues to situations others are experiencing and be able to help them work through their issues. This would also be good for working with teens and adults. If you don't take care of yourself you can't take care of others.

I enjoyed reading this book I helped me become more aware of how trauma effects the lives of the clients I help. It also brought up some personal traumas I have experienced, so it was a little hard to read at some points. I felt the authors information helped me to heal and to be able to focus on how to help others heal. It was an inspiring book to read. Thank you.

wonderful, thank you!

A group of my team mates and I are using this book to do a virtual book club. The book is amazing and I was able to fine a guide to help guide the weekly book club. The book offers wonderful incite into the helping profession and guides us to be more trauma informed and work through that trauma lens. I enjoyed it very much!

The book includes a lot of advices to recharge your own needs before helping, taking care of others. Usually, caregivers, teachers, social workers and others have big emotional load of worries and thoughts, and if they don’t get rid of it, it will sunk them into stress, trauma and revenge! So, if you carry stress or trauma , you must take care of yourself: set up private time for yourself(besides family time): start exercising (at least 20 mins a day of intensive fast walk, or swimming,or Pilates, or dancing)- the idea to get rid of your adrenaline hormones that makes your overhyped and exhausting . Talk to someone about your worries or write down. Rejuvenate your body and soul and then you become a great help for surrounded people again. Recommend to read this book!

This book covers a broad spectrum of different types of trauma workers and gave me insight into what others go through in their professions as well. The ideas presented in this book are presented from a standpoint of social justice and how we fit into that framework to "change the world from the inside out." There is an emphasis on mindfulness and spirituality. It's a little bit hippy-dippy and has political undertones, but serves as a useful reminder of the importance of our work and the critical role that caring for ourselves plays in keeping the passion for this work alive. If we really want to do the work to change the world we have to do the work to change ourselves first.

Amazing book, as a social worker and someone who supports social workers i would highly recommend this book.

This book is an excellent resource for care givers in all domains. It is especially important reading and very pertinent to the current CO-VID pandemic and the traumatic effects it is having on care givers and families. I found this read very helpful and much needed by anyone giving or receiving trauma-informed care of self as well of others. A keeper as a tool for self-care and self knowledge.

As a community based social worker who has been working at non profits that serve youth and families involved in child welfare, and also runaway and homeless youth, this book provided much insight into prevention and awareness of compassion fatigue.

Insightful book with great messages for those in helping roles. The book is engaging and offers insightful moments that are very relatable. Must have book.

This book was life changing. I could not put it down. The powerful message that the book gives sank deep into my soul. If trauma is a part of your life, or maybe others that you’re working with, this book is must have.

Having been in the area of social work for 32 years, it was enlightening to read Laura's book Trauma Stewardship. I quickly related to many of the symptoms she described about burnout, not only for myself, but for the many staff I have supervised over the years. It gave me many ideas that I can offer to others that I work with to work through burnout and continue to help those in need while recognizing that I must also care for myself.

Great read, quick and very easily digestible. Good insight into burn out and offers practical, realistic ways to address it in daily life. Very validating and helpful! Would recommend to anyone in a helping profession.

This empowering and important book offers the clearest explanation I've seen of the potential impact of a "trauma exposure response" on people who have made it their life's work to help other people. She encourages self-reflection and mindfulness as pathways toward a capacity for trauma stewardship. I found this book to be engaging and hopeful. I appreciated the stories of inspiring people and the many exercises that can help the reader put ideas into practice.

I have had this book for quite some time and finally made the time to read it. It is an absolute must for anyone in the helping profession. While I recently spent three years in grad school (for Social Work) engaging in a lot of self reflection, this guide truly gives an opportunity for deeper self reflection and taking steps towards changing your relationship with the work you do. We all get stuck in ruts from time to time and it's part of our responsibility to make the time to re-engage with ourselves and our work to be the most effective we can be. I have recommended this book to everyone I know in a helping profession. I have also heard of many organizations, smaller teams, using different guides to work through the book together (meeting monthly) and help start to heal their teams, selves and organizations.

This book is exactly what I needed to start my intentional self care. Being a front line worker and working directly with vulnerable populations has a great deal of impact in our personal lives. This book put my response to my work in prospective.

Wonderful read for working with a population that deals with trauma. Really helped me reflect upon my own work and how I can best serve those around me. I am really happy that I got the opportunity to read this book and it gave me a different perspective on "burn-out".

This book was a wonderfully insightful glimpse into the impact of secondary or vicarious trauma on those who work in caring professions. This book helped me to see the importance of self-care and really encouraged me to make it a priority in my daily life. Overall, this book greatly increased me understanding of how to to take care of myself while working as a counselor. I highly recommend this read for anyone who works is a caring profession.

A great book for anyone in a helping profession. A great mixture of information, stories, and humor.

This book, at first, was a pleasure to read, then challenging. There are many examples of how we that work hard to make the world a better, more harmonious environment tend to “marry” our careers. This volume includes many stories written by people telling us about how their work has traumatized them, their families and their workplaces. Great stuff (!) that I had to put down a few times to give myself a break. This is not an everyday guide. It a textbook on self-care that brings us suggestions from a variety of cultures with their seemingly unique forms of spirituality. Being a two-spirit male, in a rural area, in the field of Substance Use Disorder recovery I was challenged to put side my own biases and open my heart to the strains others are experiencing in the cities and wildernesses. Finally, it’s a keeper. Like any good textbook, it will remain in my library for future reference.

Can't put this down. What an eye opener

Good information. Shared with my coworkers too!

Wonderful! Highly recommend to any one in the helping field!

Ms.Lipsky, et al have created an innovative way of looking at what is most frequently called vicarious trauma. I found the concept of stewardship as it related to caregivers of those experiencing trauma insightful. The idea of five directions using north, south, east, west, daily practice as and the elements to assist the caregiver in understanding roots of behavior and successful interventions for self care is innovative. I also enjoyed the insertion of cartoons as a means of example and humor. They were delightful little surprises when turning a page. As a former professional caregiver, current family caregiver and college instructor for those interested in professional caregiving role, this text has been very valuable. I will be assigning it as supplemental reading for students and suggesting its placement in the Umpqua Community College library. Thank you so much for making these books available,

This book..... where do I even start? I am a nurse and I work in a small critical access hospital. I came from a large regional trauma center - working in the operating room, feverishly working to piece together the broken bodies of our patients. Thank you for this book! Thank you for shining the light on the trauma we all carry/experience/survive. I am astounded by the strength of the human spirit to carry on in the face of unimaginable horrors..... this book is a breath, a hopeful, healing, compassionate breath! Thank you, TFFF for all you do!!!

Trauma Stewardship is a book full of grand help for the trauma-informed. Trauma in the schools and filter into the workplace must be addressed this decade!

Great book!! Very eye opening to the affects of vicarious trauma!

For those interested in trauma informed care, this is a must read.

Wonderful and helpful in understanding trauma in more detail.

As someone who works in special education, this book has been immensely helpful in learning how to process vicarious trauma so I can continue to do work that I love.

Laura van Dernoot Lipsky's Trauma Stewardship recognizes the hardships that are faced by those who have chosen careers caring for people who experience trauma. She safely guides the reader through a process of self-reflection and then directs us on a path of self-care. After reading Trauma Stewardship I can better manage my emotional responses to others experiences. I am now using some techniques she shares and will reread this book in a few months for more reflection.

This book has a lot of great information regarding Trauma Stewardship and the benefits of taking care of yourself if you are in a highly stressful career. Being a Special Education teacher, I feel this book has a relevant place on my bookshelf. The only issue I had with it was that the audiobook version, which is what I ordered, is difficult to follow on certain pages because of the descriptive terms for the cartoons presented. Instead of seeing the image, the description made for the audiobook to become choppy and difficult to follow.

Loved it. Relevant and I’ll use it with my staff.

I found this book to be extremely insightful. As someone who has experienced lifelong traumas, and work in a setting with students that have also experienced trauma, this book has helped to understand the dynamics of such complex emotional states. This book has wonderful guidance for self care, and awareness towards others.

This is a great book for anyone in helping professions. It should be required reading for everyone entering social services fields, and wonderful reminders for those of us that entered community services years (or decades) ago.

I am about 1/4 way through the book and enjoying so far. Newly switching my career into social work, I am grateful for the opportunity this book offers as I start to work with families who have experienced different types of trauma.

so nice to have a cd and listen while I'm driving.

It was a great book to read.

I read this book and then immediately read it again. The messages are relatable and the advice is helpful. This is a must read for anyone caring for others.

I really enjoyed this book because I have been working on Trauma Informed Practices at my agency.

I read this book in a staff book-club with counselors and supervisors from my mental health agency and we had long conversations about the noticeable differences in response between very new clinicians, very experienced clinicians, and those with 2-3 years under their belt. One thing we agreed upon is that every counselor who had been with the agency more than 8 years identified intimately with the stories and message of commitment from this book, and that all parties felt convicted over their work as they processed the challenges presented with caring passionately in the midst of broken systems. This book is very worth the emotional work it takes to read.

Must read book

An invaluable resource.

Excellent book for the social work soul.

This book was informative and I was able to recognize some of the warning signs of trauma exposure in a few of my team members. I have started using the practice of centering myself daily and I find I am able to refocus more quickly and I am able to relax easier. This is a great book for anyone who works in child welfare.

This was just what I needed.

Wonderful read for anyone who has ever found themselves in a helping profession. Especially helpful for those who have desire and sense of purpose or call to a helping profession and are new to the field.

This book was very informative and helped make things clearer for me.

Not really my cup of tea. Felt it was not terribly relevant to practice on a truly in depth manner. Just could not get into the body of work.

Get book! Has really helped understand some of my students behavior.

This is an excellent book with clear organization, insightful discussion and illustrative examples. The breadth of coverage on the subject is helpful to encourage stopping and thinking about often unconscious coping techniques that caregivers and others in service adopt, and the environments the wrong kind of coping can create in and around us. An invaluable read and important subject to soak in and take time to think about.

This is such an essential manual for those who work in rewarding yet difficult fields. It gives a easy to understand framework for identifying and addressing negative changes in ourselves. It is interesting to go through the book and see how you have already been impacted by the work you do without even realizing it. Highly recommend.

I enjoyed Laura's engaging narrative. Th is book has opened a door to new ideas and ways of caring for myself that I had not thought of. I keep it near by and find myself making ideas and thought that may help me in the future.

Book very informative. Spoke to me personally as to how to do better self care and its [email protected]

This book is a must for anyone working in the human services field. The graphics are entertaining and help to illustrate the authors points while bringing a sense of humor into a heavy topic.

loved this book. i am very passionate about trauma informed care so it was definitely a good read

Great look into how we respond when we're exposed to other people's trauma and what to do with those experiences.

This is an excellent read and has helped me in exploring how to best care for myself while being in grad school for social work and a trauma survivor. Would recommend.

This book has been an amazing resource for me in my social work position. It can be a little bit heavy at the beginning of the book, but gets lighter and lighter towards the end.

This is a must read for anyone in the helping profession or anyone who cares for others in any capacity. It is full of knowledge and will change your life and practice.

A must for anyone who takes cares of others. I will be passing this one on to my sister.

Excellent book addressing trauma experienced by care givers. If you are a counselor, social worker or a teacher I highly recommended this book. I’m glad to see more conversations on this much needed topic.

Excellent book! I loved that it was filled with a variety of stories, case studies, cartoons and more.

Very informative book!! I really enjoyed the "Try this" part of the book!!! I will recommend this book!!

Trauma Stewardship was a insightful read focusing on helping yourself while embracing trauma and struggles of family, the world, and work environments. This book has many “ah-ha” moments and nuggets of gold that are good to think and dwell upon throughout the day and incorporate into real life.

This has been a great tool in both my professional and personal life.

I haven't finished this book yet but I can tell I haven't finished this book yet but I can tell that it is an essential contribution to helping employees in the social services World care for themselves so that they can care for their clients better. I'd recommend this book to anyone that works and social services or in first responder type situations.

This book was amazing and life changing

love. The author's second book is great also!

I have been waiting months to read this book. Someone at a training I attended mentioned I could get it on this website. I rushed home to order it, and I am so glad I did! With my line of work (social services & human services) this impacted me deeply. I realized some things I was “selectively blind” to. While reading this book, I realized I couldn’t put it down. I was reading it on my lunch breaks, after I laid my daughter down for bedtime, and even in the bath. The way Laura Van Dernoot Lipsky worded things almost made me feel like I was there with her. This book opened my eyes to much more than I thought I could ever see. This book will hold a place in my heart.

Great read on compassion fatigue and secondary trauma for service providers.

This is a fabulous read. The first half of the book really digs into the trauma that those of us in the helping profession experience on a daily basis. It normalizes this experience as well as calling out some of the struggles we have with it. The second half of the book discusses the five directions and gives ideas for how we manage ourselves and our daily lives while caring for others.

This is a great book if you work in a stressful job or if you have a home life with stressful situations

This book is a helpful depiction of vicarious trauma and how it impacts those in helping professions. I appreciated this author's approach to navigating vicarious trauma, and specifically liked her approach of cultivating community. I wish she did more to name deeper systemic issues that impact the experience of ongoing vicarious trauma. All in all though, a helpful resource

This is an excellent book for people who are in helping professions, especially if it feels like all of the challenges in the world are overwhelming. I like the mixture of personal stories and practical tips under "try this." Even if you can't do everything, you can do something small to help make this work more manageable and healthy for you and those who care about you.

I absolutely loved this book a lot easier to read than I thought it would be. Very insightful and will help me in my current role at work.

I love the way this book attends to the needs of helpers in a culturally inclusive and competent way.

Trauma stewardship was a really good book I really appreciate the charts and graphs that are supposed to be getting in the end. I like how it talks about using awareness to notice trauma.

Absolutely amazing book...I definitely understand the dynamics of trauma related care better now and will be more equipped to advocate for those who have experienced it.

Excellent book! If you are in the helping profession this is a must read!

This book was very informative on different aspects of trauma and how to overcome the stresses of caring for others while caring for yourself in difficult times.

Good book. If your work is with people who are in pain or troubled or struggling, this book give a good perspective and how to navigate the pitfalls of this process...

Trauma Stewardship gives helpful reminders and new ways to approach our work. It is well thought out and easy to read and reflect upon.

This book has changed how I interact with the world around me. I will carry what I have learned and inspire others to care for themselves as much as they care for those they serve. Highly recommend.

The book was very helpful for perspective. I have since suggested to several people that they should read it.

This enlightening take you to your knees honest book is far beyond comprehensive. Laura has developed a writing style combined with research regarding vicarious trauma. It’s real. It’s common. And it’s in us all. This book provides options to help oneself in an real manner. This is one of the best book I’ve ever read.

This book brought awareness to the effects of trauma and vicarious trauma and how it subtly changes yourself physically and mentally. It is a useful tool, used both professionally and personally. I really enjoyed the read and insights.

The personal story helped make the book relate-able. The end of the book is the best part and gives really helpful information on self care.

I look forward to using the insight from this book to help spread the healing that people need so deeply right now.

This book is incredibly helpful for anyone working in a helping field. As a social worker I have seen first hand how helpful this book can be.

I found this book to be insightful and allowed co-workers to have conversations and self-disclose feelings we wouldn't have otherwise. Especially loved the humor in the cartoons.

I have the book and now the CD (thank you). I preferred the CD to the book. The CD was read with character voices, making it more engaging and easier to listen to.

This book is good for anyone in a service field. You have to learn how to take care of yourself.

This book made me open my eyes to the effect of secondhand trauma and the effect it has on those in caregiving roles.must read

Must read for anyone in social services.

This book has been very useful in starting conversations about how we can be more trauma informed in the workplace.

I got this book to read while learning about trauma. it was a very interesting and informative book. i was even lucky enough to be able to hear the author speak on 3/15/19

I recommend this book for anyone who feels in need of some inspiration or feels worn down working in their career field. A must read!

Reading this book has helped me understand how important it is to take care of ourselves so we can take care of others.

Trauma Stewardship was a very benifical read. As someone who has undergone trauma and is currently helping someone going trauma i found the book to give a more in depth look at how to help yourself and someone else at the same time without making things worse for yourself.

A great read for anyone taking care of themselves while taking care of others. I really liked the wholistic approach to self care.

Love the content and humor used

Really good overview of the reality of secondary trauma experienced by those in the helping profession. Not so great section on what to do about it. I though this would be more helpful in a step by step fashion. Mindfulness is very helpful just not super specific.

Trauma Stewardship really was an “Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others.” This book had so many amazing ways to stop and think about why you are feeling a certain way. There were many moments of pause and reflection, which is very important when your job is to care for others. This book reminded me that I have to take care of myself to continue the work I do. Trauma Stewardship was a compassionate reminder that taking care of others, is hard! Direct Service jobs are not for the faint of heart, but those who go into direct service, and thrive in it, are usually the same people that put there all into other people before even looking at their own needs. To really address some of the systematic issues around burnout, I think every direct service worker, and their supervisor, should read this book. I know I will continue to read it and re-read it throughout my own professional career.

Trauma Stewardship is a truly amazing and insightful piece of work. The depth noted in each chapter compels the reader to really look into their own behaviors and attenpt to interpret their life through the lense of being trauma informed. I would recommend this book to any beginner or seasoned practitioner.

This book along with Youtube presentations by author have been fantastic for me to identify and remember self care for myself. The stories are very insightful, and I can relate to many of them. It is very easy to read. I am participating in a book group and we are discussing how trauma has impacted our lives, and what we do to take care of ourselves. It has been great to have the support. This a book to come back to over and over again.

This book was exactly what I needed to continue teaching in the public school setting. I think I knew that I had many of the symptoms of "trauma response", and it did not surprise me that I experience them all... regularly. This book gave me some new ways to approach "taking care of myself" in the area of work and trauma exposure. It does not offer an "easy fix", but rather tools for exploration, reflection, and exercises to help you develop your own healing.

Trauma Stewardship: an everyday guide to caring for self while caring for others, Is a great book. Once I started reading it I couldn't put it down, and then I reread it again while highlighting the parts that really inspired me. I have recommended this read to other people at work, as well as friends and family.

Excellent read for those in the social services field! Be sure to get YOUR copy.

This book is a real asset. I would highly highly recommend it to anyone who provides services to others.

This book is essential for anyone working in a filed where trauma is a common occurrence. Rather than carry the weight of the day with you, Laura van Dernoot Lipsky explains ways to unburden yourself. She also explains why we carry the weight of others that we work with and how you can still care without it taking a toll on your own mental health.

This book is so validating. It's full of relatable observations and insights from those living in the land of secondary trauma. The validation alone was heartening. It also relays some things we can do differently, individually and as cultures. This is a book I will be keeping and sharing with colleagues.

This book was such an easy read and helped me reflect on how my works affects other aspects of my daily life. This taught me about self-reflection and the importance of self care.

This book was helpful in learning useful tips to avoid the negative effects of trauma. I also found the author's personal story from her time spent working as an emergency social worker to be compelling and insightful.

I'm so grateful to the Ford Foundation for providing this book. We are making great use of it in my trauma-rich organization. Full of anecdotes that resonate and useful practices, this book should be on the required reading list for everyone who has the honor of working with people who have experienced trauma.

This is a great book that is helpful for anyone in a "helper" career and outlines how many people fall into burnout and vicarious traumatization. It contains many hands-on tools and concepts that provide awareness of overall wellness and self care. Highly receommended!

A great book full of insight to prevent helping professionals from burnout. This book will be kept on my shelf for years to come and re-read multiple times. A highly recommended read.

Been wanting to read this book since I attended the training through my job. Every since that day I used what I learned in those couple hours. Definitely recommend this book 100%.

Initially I must have been experiencing too much trauma fatigue to really focus on what was being said and just wanted to move on (audio book). However, with the personal narratives and cartoon descriptions it got much better.

After seeing Laura at a seminar, I was really interested in her book, and it is such a valuable resource for caregivers and those in helping professions! As a social worker working in a mental health space, compassion fatigue and burnout is very real. Will be sharing with my coworkers who also sorely need this material.

I loved this book with its comics that are spot-on with the topic at hand. Although I believe after 10 years in the field that I have a grip on secondhand trauma, I learned some new things that I am incorporating into my daily practice. Thank you!

Really enjoyed the book. Really opened my eyes.

The helps us understand our own responses to trauma and provides a path of renewal. It offers tools to bring us back to a place of balance where we can be more effective in our work, more present with our families, and more importantly, more at peace in our own soul. The real life stories are mirroring our own experiences.

I work in social services and this book is a wonderful tool for me and my co workers.

Trauma Stewardship is an interesting concept. I love that fact that someone is finally recognizing the emotional and spiritual toll service work can have. When I first picked up the book, I found it hard to read. I read several chapters and put it down for weeks with the thought that it was too dense, that I did not have time to devote to the material. Funnily enough, it was my workplace's focus on trauma stewardship that helped me engage with the material. Once I had taken several seminars about being present and being aware, I picked up Trauma Stewardship once again and started over, this time with clear intention to be present as I read. What a difference it made! I would recommend this book to anyone in a helping profession. I feel more better able to access my center and be more grounded after reading it and it has helped me do better work while creating a better home/work balance.

I like the idea of career specific self help. But feel this info is already available in more engaging books and publications. Still a fair starter book for budding personal care providers.

Important things to remember.

This book was great for anyone looking into or helping others with trauma. I found this to be a helpful tool.

This is a great book for educators and any profession that deals with people who are affected by trauma. We may be using this book as a book study this year with our district's new teachers. Thank you for this resource!

engaging. exposing long held patterns from my own trauma and the years of hearing trauma while working child welfare.

This was an excellent book about integrating what makes us well with what serves the common good of the world. I enjoyed the serious, yet lighthearted approach. The author addressed both the personal and systemic nature of effective self-care. The many case studies were helpful to read real-life examples of applied trauma stewardship. Highly recommended for all caregivers!

This is a must read for all of us who work in with others. It's making me more aware of my own need for self-care and self-reflection.

Good book, thought provoking, I paired it with some of the Authors Ted Talks. I highly recommend reading it if you work in a field where you are dealing with Trauma first or Second hand

It is a great book, we are reading it as an agency at work. So excited for the Author to be at our mid year agency wide staff meeting.

This book gave me a different perspective on how to deal with the secondhand trauma that I receive through my job.

I ordered the audio book on DVD - it won’t play on any of my devices. Borrowed the print version of the book, though, and it’s a very worthwhile read.

I was skeptical about reading this book because I thought much of it would be stating the obvious, but it is written in a thoughtful humorous ,compassionate and practical way. In short, it is a book that makes you step back and think about what you are doing.

When I first started reading this book I wasn't sure what to expect. As I continued there were a lot of aha moments. My favorite thing about this book was when she talks about needing a vacation, everyone around her was telling her that she needed a vacation, her family, her friends, her coworkers. So finally years after they first started telling her that she needed a vacation she went on that vacation. As she is hiking with her family she comes to a cliff, almost a mountain range. She's thinking about the nearest trauma one Center and how many people have committed suicide here, and as she says some of this out loud her family is looking at her like she's crazy. It's then that her aha moment hit her, that the trauma of her work has affected her.For me I think about that stuff all the time and this is my aha moment, this book; so, as I continue to find my Center this book is helping me. It is helping me into realizing all of my aha moment and how I have trauma from the work that I do; which, is also bringing up the trauma for my past. As I find myself, to center myself, I can allow myself to help others.

this is a wonderful book. The things I learned about myself will indeed help me to avoid carrying the load from my clients in my future endeavors. Self-care is so important in the human services field.

I found this book incredible informative and insightful with a plethora of valuable information. I would recommend this book to anyone who works with individuals in stressful life circumstances.

A perfect book for both experienced people in support roles and those just staring the journey.

Absolutely loved this book!

I loved this book. Helped me with a lot of my childhood trauma and looking at situations differently.

Excellent book. Came highly recommended by several of my colleagues. Important information for anyone in social and human services.

Insightful read. I selected this book because I work at a school district with a high rate of poverty and thought I might learn something useful to share with our homeless student advocates. So I was very surprised to discover I was experiencing many of the thoughts and behaviors associated with trauma stewardship. It was also interesting to learn about the experiences of people in career field I would not have associated with trauma exposure.

This book is essential for those in the helping professions. It gives you the warning signs of burnout, steps you can take to combat it, and helps gives you ideas of how to structure your life so that you can prevent it completely. Self-care is so important!!

I enjoyed this book and found a lot of good information in it. The narrator stumbled a little in the beginning, but did a good job overall and was easy to listen to. I really enjoyed the quotes that the author chose to include throughout the book. The author also included cartoons for each chapter. In the audio book she describes these for the listener. This book combines real-life stories with some self care advice. I choose to get the audiobook version to listen to in the car, but was unable to since it is a MP3 disc. If you have an older disc player you may want to consider getting one of the other versions. I used my computer to listen to it and it worked fine.

I had the privilege to meet Laura this year. She is an amazing speaker and her book is even more thorough. It has definitely put into perspective what it is like when you are surrounded by any level of trauma. This book is highly recommended to anyone in the field of Social work as well as anyone who has had trauma in their lives.

Great book! Had a way of getting me to look in the mirror, and actually see the real me. Not just the person that keeps going, and handles what ever I need to do, but the person that really is being effected by all this trauma I deal with. I have been to many trainings on self care, however, until I read this book I didn't really understand why I should practice what I have learned. My thoughts have always been, when I have time someday I will worry about me. Right now I need to just push forward for those that I take care of need my care more then I do. Thank you for opening my eyes.

This book isn't just for professionals and students, but important for every day lives. There are different care givers in the book and how to have different relationships with each or learn how others do. Throughout the book are cartoons that help get the messages across as well. I find it helpful in balancing my mind every day.

I recognize so much of myself in this book. I appreciate the author's calm and nonjudgmental style, as well as her humor in the face of truly difficult issues. Her compassion for herself and the examples allowed me to dig deep and reflect on the ways I need to recognize and shift some of my habits and my mentality. I teach in prisons, and it's a difficult thing to hold many conflicting emotions and painful stories (for all involved) at once. I appreciate not only the suggested mindframes, but also the clear example that I am not alone in the ways I feel in relation to my work.

In my current work field, this book is part of a weekly reading. I listened to the audio book and felt I wasn’t fully tuned in. The paperback version is great! Useful in the human services department but could be shared with many professions.

I had the Opportunity to see Laura speak in Medford, Oregon a few months ago. This book is a must read for Social Workers who feel the burnout from working in this career field. This book beautifully outlines how any of us may fall into burnout and vicarious traumatization, having periodically experienced both over my career and fighting my way out.

Book was very good

This book really gives you a glimpse of reality of the kind of work that we do in social services. I would recommend it to anyone who works close to people who have been affected by some sort of trauma.

This book presents many concepts and ideas of self care that those working in this field likely already have heard, many times over, but have not fully embraced yet. Laura presents the information not as a trainer but as someone involved in the work sharing what has worked and not worked with a peer. This book is full of relatable stories and insights from someone who ignored self care until it was nearly too late. It is worth reading for those tidbits of wisdom that can be personally applied so that one can continue to serve others to their full capacity.

Great book! Highly recommend for those working in the helping professions. Self-care is crucial!

Excellent book. She is also great in person and I hear she is coming out with a new book. Highly recommend! Eye opener in the way of looking at burn out and self care.

This is a fantastic book for everyone, especially people in the health care system. It is a must read. It is nice in CD form so that people that are already too busy can read in the car. A lot of great information and validation found in this book around compassion fatigue and burn out.