Tag Archives: trauma

Yesterday’s news: a tsunami survivor asks for help for Samoa

The Pacific tsunami has brought back painful memories for Australian journalist Kimina Lyall, who was living in Thailand when a tsunami struck there in 2004.
She wrote about her experiences in a book, Out of the Blue: Facing the Tsunami.  She will donate the sales of her remaining copies to aid the Samoan disaster victims [...]

Reporting on bushfires and other trauma is a health issue…for all concerned

In the past few days, I’ve swung between devouring stories of bushfire trauma and turning away from them, unable to bear any more. I read not only because I want to know but because I feel I ought to.
There is a duty to attempt to understand something of what people are experiencing and suffering. I [...]