Self Care | The Resilience Resource

Critical Choices: Assessing Family & Team Risk

It is important to understand the unusual types of decisions people are forced to make in response to a crisis. These are not typically decisions people were making just weeks before the crisis hit. Not all of these are risk decisions; some are moral or ethical in...

Building Resilience Through Change; Navigating Transitions in Humanitarian Aid Work & Disaster Response

by Mark Langham

We live in a world where nothing under heaven is constant, except change. When we are returning from the field, leaving for the field again, or entering a new realm of life or work, there is always an onslaught of change. But change does not equal transition. Change...

Moral Injury

by Scott & Josie Gwin

Moral Injury is a term that is starting to be more commonly used in relation to a collection of behavioral responses to traumatic events. The term developed from research studies conducted with military personnel who had witnessed, or been involved in, violent...

The Hidden Dangers of Self Care

by Scott & Josie Gwin

I once knew a healthy and strong gentleman that had reached retirement age. He had spent his adult days as a tradesman, working with his hands over the course of his career, and saw retirement as an opportunity for some well-deserved rest for body and soul. Soon...