The Age of Overwhelm
Strategies for the Long Haul

This was a helpful and easy to digest resource explaining different ways overwhelm shows up in our current cultural context and specific research based practices, habits, and tools that can alleviate the impact of overwhelm. A few specific ideas I really appreciated: Metabolizing exposure. In other w......more

Having read Trauma Stewardship and attended her trainings, I was really excited for this follow-up. However, it was a pretty big letdown. I think this book is meant for non-practitioners or possibly those who are college-aged and looking for direction. She watered down most of her ideas with anecdot......more

a helpful and useful book, especially for people with access to trauma. Not my favorite writing style but some gems within.......more

I wanted to like this book. I attended the author's workshop towards the end of 2019 or early 2020 as part of a training opportunity for work and got the book as a complimentary gift. The training itself was excellent, but the book (which was supposed to cover the same topic but in more detail) fell......more

The main reason I didn't give this book a full five stars is because it's a bit anecdote-heavy for my liking. It's important to illustrate a point by describing real-world scenarios, but it seemed overdone here. I would have liked to read a bit more of the theory--and the development of the theories......more