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Coles The Sum of Light: Preventing and Healing Trauma, Moral Injury, and Burnout in the Helping Professions at Village Green Shopping Centre in Vernon, BC
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Burnout is not a personal failure. It is an occupational hazard.
In The Sum of Light , trauma therapist and educator Lara Palay explores the hidden costs of caring: empathetic distress, moral injury, and burnout. Drawing on decades of clinical experience, neuroscience, trauma theory, and lived experience, Palay speaks directly to those in the helping professions who encounter and endure trauma every day.
Through vivid stories, memorable metaphors, and practical wisdom, this book illuminates how trauma can affect helpers even when they are not the ones directly harmed— and how it can slowly erode meaning, hope, and connection if left unaddressed.
The Sum of Light offers ways forward: tools for emotional regulation, reconnection, ritual, and self-compassion that make sustained, humane work possible.
Written for clinicians, caregivers, educators, first responders, and anyone who serves on the front lines of human suffering, The Sum of Light affirms a simple truth:
Those who give care also deserve care.
And tending to that truth might be the most important work of all.
Burnout is not a personal failure. It is an occupational hazard.
In The Sum of Light , trauma therapist and educator Lara Palay explores the hidden costs of caring: empathetic distress, moral injury, and burnout. Drawing on decades of clinical experience, neuroscience, trauma theory, and lived experience, Palay speaks directly to those in the helping professions who encounter and endure trauma every day.
Through vivid stories, memorable metaphors, and practical wisdom, this book illuminates how trauma can affect helpers even when they are not the ones directly harmed— and how it can slowly erode meaning, hope, and connection if left unaddressed.
The Sum of Light offers ways forward: tools for emotional regulation, reconnection, ritual, and self-compassion that make sustained, humane work possible.
Written for clinicians, caregivers, educators, first responders, and anyone who serves on the front lines of human suffering, The Sum of Light affirms a simple truth:
Those who give care also deserve care.
And tending to that truth might be the most important work of all.
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