As a Trauma-Informed Coach, I joined a timely webinar a few days ago: “Compassion Under Pressure: Navigating Trauma, Burnout, and a World in Overdrive”, hosted during PTS Awareness Month.

Appreciating dropping the D in PTS and Complex-PTS. Why? Trauma and PTS are “responses, not flaws”.

Trauma-informed coaching doesn’t replace therapy or clinical support. It means being attuned to how trauma and chronic stress show up in the coaching space and in ourselves. This work asks us not only to hold space for others, but to continually tend to our own healing too.

I want to honour the wisdom of the team at Moving The Human Spirit and in particular, Brad Hardie, MCC, TICC, CTP, MPNLP for hosting and sharing more valuable, relevant insight in the world. Here’s what stayed with me:

• Chronic pressure at work, home, or within can stretch compassion thin.
• Burnout is the nervous system saying: “I can’t do this anymore.”
• Compassion fatigue isn’t failure. It’s information.
• Resilience isn’t just grit; it’s relational, biological, and boundaried.
• Boundaries are compassion.
• We are always sorting for safety. May we honour that in ourselves and others.

As Brad Hardie said: “We can only work with things if we have an awareness of them… May we feel more versus always doing. That’s where compassion falls into place. It’s empathy turned into action.”

Where do you feel the most pressure and how might you meet it with compassion versus criticism?

I’m grateful for conversations as these rising amidst a most complex time in the world, and in our human systems. Thank you Brad and team at MTHS!

With fervor,

Eva