Online Virtual Event

Ongoing, unrelenting, caregiving can wear a person down.

It slowly and gradually exerts PTSD-like effects on the brain and nervous system. Whether providing care to a family member or working as a professional healthcare provider, caregivers face loss, change, and transition on a daily basis. Because the losses are chronic, they may not even be recognized, subtly robbing the care provider of their own sense of self (a Soul Injury). This can produce notable physical and emotional symptoms, interfering with personal and professional well-being. The literature now recognizes this as “Secondary Traumatic Stress Disorder” (STSD). This presentation validates the hardships that care providers have incurred, teaches them how to reset the brain with a self-compassioning process that awakens the body where memories are stored so that hardships are prevented from turning into burdens.

Objectives:

Learners will discover how to move from:

·       Numbing their pain, to mourning their pain

·       Hiding their guilt, to using their guilt to learn how to forgive themselves and others

·       Being ashamed of not being “good enough,” to releasing their fear of who they are and who they are not

·       Controlling things they have no control over, to feeling their helplessness and loss of control so they can cultivate the courage to “let it BE”

1 Continueing Educstion Credit will be offered for nurses attending the live presentation