What Is Secondary Trauma? 7 Signs You May Be at Risk

<p>Sitting in a room with three women twice my age, I realized: I couldn&rsquo;t run this support group anymore.</p> <p>We were in the middle of a reflective listening exercise. The point was first to listen, then to repeat the story back to the person who shared it. This was a way of letting them know they&rsquo;d been heard.</p> <p>What I found myself reflecting involved lots of physical and emotional abuse which had happened decades earlier. That&rsquo;s how long the woman in front of me had been kepeing her story in silence.</p> <p>As she shared it in the group after all these years, I felt myself freezing.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/civlead/what-is-secondary-trauma-7-signs-you-may-be-at-risk-7580804a25b1">Click Here</a></p>
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