Do you miss me talking about domestic violence when I keep talking about my scooter?

[terrypurple73]

This summer, I was at a conference put on by the Colorado Coalition Against Domestic Violence. (As opposed to a coalition FOR domestic violence?) One of the keynote speakers talked about secondary trauma, the trauma we as workers feel as observers, as caretakers, as story-receivers of the trauma of other people. She asked us at one point to

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[joirerson]

This is something that has come up before as a nurse- I think we work in similar situations a lot, although you are immersed in a specific kind of trauma. I get a low level of lots of different tragedies, punctuated by occasional mind numbing horror. I wonder if there are different ways that our respective professions have trained us to think about these things.

Nurses have been accused of eating our young, and while I think that varies by institution (I love my hospital) we are expected to be able to take things without flinching, and to be immune to a lot of the pathos we deal with. We're also a profession of women as well, and women do have more room to express emotion, but as a professional I'm expected to blink and then move on.

Steward is a good way to think about it, I am going to try thinking about it that way and see if it helps me process.

[whoiskatie]

I shall try to call you tomorrow afternoon/evening, when I will be in Fargo. In the meantime, I was at a meeting this past week where there was a presentation from the local domestic violence um...not a shelter, but a place you can go to say "I need help" and they'll get you connected w/ all the right people, etc...I was thinking about you!

[terrypurple73]

So nice to be thought of! I work Monday from 1230-830, so I'll be home around 9ish my time. You might not still be in Fargo then.... But I've got your home number- I'll try you some time if you don't catch me while you're in the big city.... :)

[terrypurple73]

I lied- I have plans tomorrow after work with a friend before she leaves town. Let's find another time to catch up on you life in the non-big city?

[transparenteye2]

Question...my mom and i are getting rid of a TONNNN of stuff she doesn't need. A sort of spring cleaning in the fall.

Anyways, she has a ton of (nice, nearly new) clothes that are like size 14ish, which she can't wear anymore since she has lost a ton of weight and she wants to give them to a worthy cause. Do you guys ever need nice/going go to an interview clothes to give to the women in your shelter?

On a related note, we have a tonnnn of kids books that we hate to get rid of, but most really need to go somewhere else to open up bookshelf space. Do you ever need kids books?