Secondary Trauma

A longtime trauma worker, Laura van Dernoot Lipsky offers a deep and empathetic survey of the often-unrecognized toll on those working to make the world a better place. We may feel tired, cynical, numb, or like we can never do enough. These, and other symptoms, affect us individually and collectively, sapping the energy and effectiveness we so desperately need if we are to benefit humankind, other animals, and the planet itself. Through Trauma Stewardship, we are called to meet these challenges in an intentional way.

Rena Lipiner Katz grew up in the shadow of the Holocaust, believing that the price of her parents’ survival and her own birth was a life of sorrow and guilt. Lipiner Katz explores how her parents’ childhood trauma affected her emotionally and physiologically.

This substantive collection from noted scholar Serene Jones explores recent work in the field of trauma studies. Central to its overall theme is an investigation of how individual and collective violence affect one's capacity to remember, to act, and to love; how violence can challenge theological understandings of grace; and even how the traumatic experience of Jesus's death is remembered.

Amina Wells never planned on becoming a nanny. But when she takes the job caring for billionaire Grant Wilder’s grieving niece, she finds herself drawn into a world of glittering penthouses, whispered gossip—and a man who terrifies her as much as he tempts her. Grant lives for control. For order. For keeping his emotions locked behind boardroom walls. But Amina is nothing like the polished women in his world. She’s sunshine and music, the one person who can reach through his armor… and the only one who can soothe the little girl who’s become his entire world. Their connection is ...

In "Sacral Chakra: Healing the Power of The Passion Portal," embark on a transformative journey to unleash the true potential within you. Dive into the depths of your being as you explore the significance of the Sacral Chakra, a powerhouse of emotion, creativity, and sensuality. Within these pages, you'll discover the profound impact of trauma on the Sacral Chakra and learn effective techniques to heal and release emotional wounds. Embrace and honor your sexual energy as you unlock the secrets to tapping into a deeper sense of pleasure and fulfillment. Delve into the realm of love and ...

Transform Your Reading Experience Into Life-Changing Discovery Have you read "Journey to the Center of the Heart" and felt God stirring something deeper? Ready to move beyond inspiration to personal transformation? This comprehensive study guide and resource collection takes Pastor John Miller's powerful redemption story and transforms it into practical tools for spiritual growth, recovery, and ministry development. What's Inside This Essential Companion: Complete Study Guide with 9 Detailed Chapters Thought-provoking questions for each chapter of the original memoir Personal reflection ...

Lennon Wells and Beckham Sullivan should have been perfect for each other. Both vulnerable, both striving to please difficult families, and both broken by the past. Going from friends to lovers seemed inevitable. So did a bad ending. They thought—they hoped—they’d never see each other again. Years later, bad luck or fate, Lennon and Beckham find themselves working for the same magazine. The wounds are still raw, but the chemistry is there. Then they’re forced to work together on a project.

In this poignant and deeply moving memoir, Sigal Magen reflects on her life as a second-generation descendant of Holocaust survivors. Through vivid recollections and heartfelt introspection, she weaves together stories of childhood fears, inherited trauma, and the resilience that shaped her into a beacon of hope and connection. From climbing a playground slide to carrying the weight of generational fears, Sigal shares how her father’s unspoken pain and her grandfather’s symbolic train journeys shaped her view of the world. Her journey takes her from moments of personal struggle to a ...

Marriage, Secrets, and a Race against Evil I should have known everything was going to change the moment I kissed her. Marriage of convenience. Easy in theory. Impossible in practice. She’s fiery, guarded, and hiding a storm behind her brave face. I’m used to racing at breakneck speeds, dodging danger, and crossing lines no one else dare. When I first saw her, I knew she was trouble. The kind of trouble that made my heart race and my instincts scream. But I also knew, without a doubt, I’d do anything to protect her. She's got secrets—dark, deadly secrets—that could blow everything...

The Fairest of Them All Particularly if we're talking about cold, hard justice. I am the law, at least I am until I'm framed for murder by those who resent my competence at cutting through red tape and the underbellies of corrupt mages. Some call me cruel. All right, everyone calls me cruel, but when you need someone without scruples to go undercover and reveal the impossible, I'm the go-to witch. Apparently, because I'm also being forced to work with the mage I'd like best to rip apart. Convenient that he's so hard to kill, or I just couldn't resist the temptation. He's the golden ...

Cecelia “CeCe” Woodmark battled with depression after the death of her parents. Family support and therapy helped her get her life back on track and thrive again. CeCe has an incredible job, a great boyfriend, and a wonderful family. Things would be perfect if her boyfriend would finally pop the question. Unfortunately, he breaks up with her right before she surprises him with a romantic trip to Alaska for his birthday. Sad and confused, CeCe goes on the trip solo to escape her funk and meets people who change her life, including the man she has avoided for twelve years. She returns ...

What if the thing that saves your child opens a door you’re not ready to walk through? When author and journalist Bennett Carlton takes his young family to a London park, he doesn't expect to watch his four-year-old son vanish beneath the cold surface of a lake. Nor does he expect the mysterious woman who rescues him—a stranger who moves through the water like she belongs to it. Charlene “Charlie” Morrow is a psychiatrist with a past she doesn’t talk about and a gift she tries not to use. But the lake doesn’t care about her boundaries. Neither does the whisper of a little blonde...

In the dust of a modern cattle ranch, a girl with wrangler dreams and her childhood protector build a bond that falters under unvoiced desires. On a sprawling modern cattle ranch, two kids bound by loss forge an unbreakable bond. After losing his mother when he was only ten years old, Brandt wants nothing to do with the fatherless five-year-old ragamuffin, Mazie, whose mother runs the ranch house. But as years of dust and dreams shape them, he becomes her protector, and she his constant shadow, chasing her goal to wrangle cattle alongside him. Their friendship is unshakable until one ...

Mom told me that when she came with her mother and little brother, a Nazi asked her how old she was. Grandma had instructed her to give a younger age so that she could be with the other children. But, like a flash from clear sky, my mother tugged at her cheeks and said she was older instead. Mom said she was seventeen, and Grandmother shook her arm, shouting. Mom was in shock and ran and ran into the forest. (1) (2) See Inanna's journey and the description of the myth for an understanding of the descent into the underworld and all the difficulties she faces. My mother was forced as a child ...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes a “heart tugging and emotional” story in the Baxter Family collection that will “touch readers deeply” (RT Book Reviews) featuring two people who lost their parents in the same national tragedy—two people desperate to find...

THE WAY IT ENDS Some love stories are about how they began. This one is about how it survived. Twelve years after the affair that nearly broke them, Amelia and Jason are still married. Still trying. Still waking up in a life they chose to rebuild—one painful truth at a time. To the outside world, they look like they made it: two kids, shared holidays, therapy, forgiveness. But inside their home, silence stretches longer than conversation. Resentment simmers. And their daughter, now a teenager, is starting to ask the kinds of questions Amelia doesn’t want to answer. When an old message ...

She woke up with no memory of him. But he never stopped loving her. After a devastating car accident, Shannon Callaghan wakes up to a world she doesn’t recognize—including the man at her bedside claiming to be her fiancé. Jack MacCarrick was ready to build a life with Shannon. But now she looks at him like he’s a stranger. As she struggles to piece together her past, Jack is forced to confront a heart-wrenching truth: the woman he loves might never come back to him. But Jack isn’t giving up—not on her, not on the love they shared, and not on the future they still deserve. Even if...

A Hearts of the South Book Nurse Landra Beck always wanted to be loved for herself. Devastated to learn her lover only became involved with her to help him get over a thwarted attraction to another woman, she ran – straight into a nightmarish marriage. Now pregnant but free of her abusive husband, Landra has no goals, no plans – only the task of surviving each day and creating a new normal. Her life is nothing she’d planned. ER physician Jay Mackey knows what he lost when his unthinking confession sent Landra running from him. He’s spent a year coming to terms with his feelings for ...

Raven was taken by monsters. By a ghost. I dragged her out of hell, but it followed us home. She’s back on her ranch, hiding behind sarcasm, silence, and horses that don’t ask questions. She says she’s fine. She’s not. I see it in her eyes. It’s the same darkness that’s living inside me. But she’s not broken. She’s surviving. And I’ll be damned if I let her do it alone. I’ve done a lot of things for the club. For the patch on my back. For Raven? I’d do anything to make her lose the lost look in her eyes. When The Ghost resurfaces, everything changes. The past we ...

A lie started it. The truth might end it. When billionaire Damian Maynard meets Chiara Mackenzie for the first time, he’s instantly drawn to her and travels halfway around the world to meet her again. But Chiara Mackenzie doesn't exist. She’s really Chiara Halstead, the sister of Tristan, Damian's enemy. What begins as an undeniable attraction, soon becomes something more. Chiara never intended to lie. She only wanted one night where she wasn’t the Halstead daughter trapped in her brother’s battles. But Damian is the one man she can’t walk away from. One kiss becomes an affair ...