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What we learned from 9/11 about quitting work after life-altering events

Penelope Trunk

I wasn’t the only person — just as people started visiting the groups and taking notes to study trauma , people started taking notes about what makes work fulfilling to study job embeddedness , which is what makes someone go back to work after a major life trauma and how they evaluate if a job is worth going back to.

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Self-Rejection vs. Self-Love

International Coach Academy

Your inner voice may think about you based on things you were told, incorrect inferences, false beliefs possibly informed by trauma, emotional hurt, parenting, death of a parent, abandonment, divorce, abuse, past mistakes, criticism, etc. Blog Therapy, Therapy, Therapy Blog, Blogging Therapy, Therapy (goodtherapy.org).

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17 years after 9/11 and I am still surprised

Penelope Trunk

The blog posts about the trauma of that day are also the posts that remind me of the most intimate times with my Ex. Trauma is genetic. I read my favorite – the first one – because it’s still incredible to me that I was at the World Trade Center when it fell. We were both changed people after that day.

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The Hidden Impact of Moral Injury in the Fire Service

Vector Solutions

Trauma, stress, and physical injury are constant sources of hardship for the men and women of the fire service. Moral injury is based on emotion, whereas PTSD is trauma-based…and one of the biggest aspects of moral injury is betrayal, whether by management, or by others, or even by ourselves,” he said. “I

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Asking for advice is hard because accepting reality is hard

Penelope Trunk

For example, this is a blog post I was going to throw out. And writing about trauma promotes healing , but the story you write has to make a clear, linear sense; it’s the process of turning the traumatic memory into a coherent story that helps us heal. The post did so well that McDonald’s sent me a reply.

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How to know if you’re on a good path

Penelope Trunk

And how trauma is not as accurate an indicator of future emotional mess as much as secrets about trauma is. Secrets are what give long-term emotional bite to the trauma. This blog is what keeps me in line. From that information and a few other clues, they were able to narrow down the suspect list and find a killer.

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This guy said I charge too much for coaching, then he showed up to my door

Penelope Trunk

I see myself as the same archetype as Minami’s mom: single mother who takes her trauma and overwhelmed feelings out on her kids. Because I have to believe I’m not the archetype of someone who works really hard on their blog and never makes any money from it. So I’m discounting my coaching sessions from $350 to $150.