Helping Others Heal Starts with Your Own Heart: Rebecca Taguma on Trauma, Lament, and Healing Together
Trauma Healing Institute and Restoring Hope Senior Director Rebecca Taguma visited MercyCast, Raleigh Sadler’s podcast about compassion, for a conversation about how God uses ordinary people to help others heal from trauma, grief, and loss. Read on to read highlights from their conversation, or listen to the whole episode here.
Heather Evans: Self and Soul Care
Social worker and therapist Dr. Heather Evans, a global expert on trauma healing and post-traumatic growth, addressed the second plenary session of THI’s 2025 Global Community of Practice gathering. She helped normalize the reality of secondary trauma, and offered simple and powerful practices for caring well for ourselves—that our ministry might continue to bear fruit. This transcript has been lightly edited for length and clarity.
Self-Care for Facilitators: Four Simple Practices to Try
With years of experience training trauma healing facilitators all over the world, psychologist Philip G. Monroe knows just how hard it can be for people called to this ministry to be compassionate with themselves. After offering some tips for knowing when it’s time to prioritize self-care, Dr. Monroe wanted to share these suggestions for doing just that.
Self-Care for Facilitators: When Healers Need Healing
Healing group facilitators are not immune to trauma, grief, and loss of our own. Sometimes, as we help others find healing in Jesus, we can forget the importance of caring well for ourselves. Psychologist Philip G. Monroe, THI’s long-time Advisory Council Chair and co-founder of the Global Trauma Recovery Institute, shares encouragement and counsel about self-care for facilitators.