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Kemia Sarraf
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ASTHO's Journey with Lodestar: Enhancing Public Health Leadership with Trauma-Responsive Skills
Discover ASTHO's Transformative Experience with Lodestar and Dr. K First published on: Astho.org The public health workforce has faced...
Kemia Sarraf
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(We're Published by ICF) Trauma-Responsive Coaching: The Advanced Skills Needed to Navigate What’s Next
Coaches increasingly find themselves holding space for the emotional toll that unrelenting toxic stress has taken on their clients....
Kemia Sarraf
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Grateful to Remain Foolish ...
May we be blessed with discomfort at easy answers, half-truths, and superficial relationships, so that we may live deep within our...
Kemia Sarraf
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How we show up
We have a culture that says, “press on, despite.” Press on despite overwhelm Press on despite fear Press on despite pain Press on despite...
Kemia Sarraf
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Coding Chickens & Trauma-Mitigation
Dear Everyone: I had a lengthy, commiserating missive composed for today. I wrote extensively about the impact of chronic toxic stress,...
Kemia Sarraf
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The Light Comes...
Dear Everyone: I know it's been a minute, and I know what y'all were thinking: Now why don't she write? (don't know the reference? You're...
Kemia Sarraf
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A reminder, and an opportunity
Dear Everyone: This edition of Cereal With Hand-Poured Milk (HPM) will be short and pointed. And although there exists the temptation to...
Kemia Sarraf
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Ducks, Memes, and Hope In Broken Things™
Dear Everyone: I recently participated in a lively podcast where the host and I wandered through a range of ideas around wellness,...
Kemia Sarraf
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The Month of Halloween
That is the way Fear serves us: it always sides with the things we are afraid of The Princess And The Goblin Dear Everyone: October...
Kemia Sarraf
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Grandad's Wisdom, Extra Sleep, And A Little Chocolate On The Side...
Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our...
Kemia Sarraf
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Protect Your Bandwidth
Dear Everyone: Life has a way of teaching us the same lesson until we finally demonstrate competence. The universal lesson of now seems...
Kemia Sarraf
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Farm Lessons: Coding Chickens & Micro-Mitigation Moments
Dear Everyone: Farm life carries a unique set of challenges and loves to remind The Husband and I that we, in fact, know almost nothing...
Kemia Sarraf
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The Answer is Us
Pain teaches us the most counterintuitive thing – that we must go down before we even can know what up is. Suffering of some sort seems...
Kemia Sarraf
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Wild Places Make You Earn It...
Dear Everyone: We Repeat What We Don’t Repair. The number of times I’ve recited this fundamental truth can’t be quantified. It’s a...
Kemia Sarraf
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We're All Cracked...
Dear Everyone: A recent influx of new subscribers and site members served as a reminder that it's past time to reintroduce myself and our...
Kemia Sarraf
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Into the Wilderness I go...
Dear Everyone: This week’s edition of Cereal with Hand Poured Milk comes to you from deep in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. ...
Kemia Sarraf
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Healthcare Coaching Through Crisis and Trauma
For more than a decade, industry experts – and practitioners themselves – have been sounding the alarm about critical levels of burnout and
Kemia Sarraf
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ReImagine Tomorrow - Dreamers of the Day
Dear Everyone: This week’s edition of Cereal with Hand Poured Milk is penned by my dear friend and colleague, Antoinette Ayers....
Kemia Sarraf
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Wanted: Adultier Adults
Dear Everyone: Hitch a ride when you need to. Provide safe passage when you can. ~~ For the record, I am a world-class catastrophizer. I...
Kemia Sarraf
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ReLearning in a New Era
As our “post-COVID” (but not really—COVID is still here) world opens up, we also are noticing that uncertainty has grown dramatically....
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