Let’s be fair, the news has been difficult to read lately, huh? There’s so much on our plates with a pandemic, homeworking, home learning, caring and surviving that we often lack the capacity to sift through what appears on our news feeds. I get it.
As a counsellor and trainer, I’ve spoken to thousands and thousands of survivors of trauma. I am embedded in how we experience the myriad ways trauma can show up in our bodies and in our lives.
In 2020, as well as surviving under a government which apparently deemed my death something to be ‘taken on the chin’, I’ve also been researching how to engage with the news as a survivor of trauma. I believe that what I’ve learned can support news consumers and journalists too.
On either side of the screen, things are getting tougher.
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