When I was in high school, I read the novel First Blood, which is the novel that the Rambo movies were based on. As is often…
The longer I am away from doing work on the streets, the more I realize how traumatic that work actually was, the ways it impacted me…
Some years ago, I was talking to the person who was my spiritual director at the time. I was in the midst of unrecognized (by me,…
It was September of 2016, and I was fried. It was my 10th year of doing frontline work with virtually no break for very little money.…
Since posting my story of burnout, I have had no less than 5 conversations with people in similar places. All people in the so-called helping professions,…