Category: trauma
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Finding a definition of workplace trauma
This is an extended version of a short piece I recently posted on Substack. If you would like to connect with my writing more frequently Substack is the place to do it. You can subscribe free and receive my shorter pieces into your inbox every weekday. I had an interesting conversation with a fellow coach recently. She…
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Workplace trauma and the ‘second violence’
In this post I am going to explore workplace trauma, and the effect that not having our stories heard can have. Trauma is a common word these days, in part due to the efforts of online psychoeducators to destigmatise normal mental health challenges from public and private shame. But the overuse of trauma as a…
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The Wounds that Women Carry
This is a post on generational trauma. It isn’t the article I had planned to write next, and that one is still coming. But as I put together this series on common topics that come up in my coaching practice I realised that there is one that underlies almost all of the conversations I have…
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Trauma, Dissonance, & Disenfranchised Grief in Academia
TRIGGER WARNING: this post contains references to potential trauma triggers In my recent blog posts I have been exploring grief in academia and the need to acknowledge how many losses can characterise our progress in the sector. In today’s post I want to take a closer look at the griefs that emerge from the embedded…
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Traumatic History, Traumatised Researchers
I was recently invited to give a seminar to research postgraduates of history at the University of Edinburgh on the subject of trauma. As a trauma researcher and historian, I was delighted to have this opportunity to bring some mental health awareness into the research space. I’m very pleased that they have allowed me to…
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