Resources

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Resources for Healthcare Workers

Wild Geese

By Mary Oliver

You do not have to be good.

You do not have to walk on your knees

for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.

You only have to let the soft animal of your body

love what it loves.

Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.

Meanwhile the world goes on.

Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain

are moving across the landscapes,

over the prairies and the deep trees,

the mountains and the rivers.

Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,

are heading home again.

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,

the world offers itself to your imagination,

calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting -

over and over announcing your place

in the family of things.

Mental Health Supports in the US

Employee Assistance (EAP) counselors through your workplace can meet with you one-on-one for short-term counseling / coaching and/or refer you to individual counselors or community supports for ongoing mental health counseling. They are obligated, ethically and legally, to keep your concerns separate from your employer.

National Suicide Hotline 24/7: 988
Call, text, or chat at 988lifeline.org

US Counseling Directories
National Board of Certified Counselors

Directories for therapists of color, as posted in JustDavia
https://www.justdavia.com/blog/directories-for-therapists-of-color

Therapy Den

American Art Therapist Directory

Psychology Today

Peer Supports

The Trauma Stewardship Institute

The Short Shake – a weekly online drop-in quiet creative space specifically for healthcare workers. Facilitated by this website’s curator, Amy Ponteri.

VOA | ReST (Resilience Strength Time) – online, peer-facilitated support program

The Shay Moral Injury Center at Volunteers of America is dedicated to the education and research on moral distress and to the provision of recovery strategies.

Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes Foundation – advocacy and resources for mental health care for healthcare workers

CoVid Art /
Cultural Exhibits

an image of a large mural showing a healthcare worker embracing another, with a man walking in front

Photo credit: AP. Artist unknown. Mural in Acapulco, Guerrero State, Mexico

Julia Hendersen, artist and occupational therapist in Vancouver, BC
Instagram: @frontline_faces_of_covid

Jayashree Krishnan – portraits of healthcare providers from May, 2020 – March, 2021
https://jayashreekrishnan.com/pandemic-portrait-series

Shannon Holm – portraits of healthcare providers - Courage & Compassion: BC Healthcare Heroes. https://www.shannonholms.com/b-c--healthcare-heroes

Other Media

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Podcasts

[Spotify/Apple]. (2023, September 19). Boundaries, Burnout, and the Goopification of Self-Care [Video]. The Ezra Klein Show. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/19/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-pooja-lakshmin.html

Books

Battling Healthcare Burnout: Learning to Love the Job You Have, While Creating the Job You Love by Thom Mayer, MD (2021) Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.

Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others by Laura Van Dernoot Lipsky (2009)

The Moral Injury Workbook: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Skills for Moving Beyond Shame, Anger, and Trauma to Reclaim Your Values by Evans R. Wyatt; Robyn D. Walser; Kent D. Drescher; and Jacob K. Farnsworth (2020).

The Wounded Healer by Henri Nouwen

Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

The Trauma Spectrum: Hidden Wounds & Human Resiliency by Richard Scaer

Articles

Murthy, V. H., M.D., M.B.A. (2022). Confronting Healthcare Worker Burnout and Well-Being. New England Journal of Medicine, (387), 577-579. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMp2207252

Ross, India (Mar. 24, 2021). ‘I just feel broken’: doctors, mental health and the pandemic. Financial Times.

Jacobs, Andrew (Feb. 4, 2021). A Parallel Pandemic Hits Health Care Workers: Trauma and Exhaustion. The New York Times.

Karlamangla, Soumya (Feb. 3, 2021). ‘I was just bawling in my PPE’: Surge fades, but anguish remains for healthcare workers. Los Angeles Times.

Lesley, Marsha (2021). Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Moral Injury in Nurses on the Frontlines of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, 27(1), 72–76. DOI: 10.1177/1078390320960535.

National Nurses United (Dec. 8, 2020). Nurses caring for Covid-19 patients are at high risk for moral injury due to betrayal by health care employers and public health and safety agencies. Press Release (link to white paper).

Jeffrey, James (Jun. 23, 2020). Beyond the Battlefield: Moral Injuries and the Pandemic. The Humanist.