TRAUMA

• Experience your thoughts and feelings – you have a right to whatever you feel.
• Talk about your thoughts and feelings – find someone safe with whom you can share how this has affected you.
• Take care of yourself – eat, exercise, don’t self-medicate.
• Take time – don’t rush yourself, be patient (including with you).
• Have empathy – including for yourself.
• Moderate your news intake – you may need a break.
• Seek support – you are not in this alone.  We are in this together.
• Like the pandemic, this trauma is both corporate and personal.
• Like the pandemic, this all takes a toll on each of us and all of us together.
• Like the pandemic, religious platitudes can often be the opposite of helpful.

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• Since Thursday morning, what has this been like for you?
• What has this arisen in you personally?
• What has it done in your church community?
• How do you frame this with your faith?

• PCUSA through PDA, FLAPDAN, and the Presbytery all have resources on trauma.
• There are learning opportunities we can undertake corporately.
• The Board of Pensions continues to offer the Employee Assistance Plan as part of coverage, people are available 24/7.

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• What resources could help you?
• How might continued engagement help us all?