How to Build Resilience: Mastery of a Life Skill
In the past several weeks, we’ve explored what resilience is and how we can create resilience in our lives and organizations through...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
Apr 13, 20222 min read
How to Build Resilience: Connection to Faith and Cultural Traditions
Last week, we talked about building resilience through positive and stable adult relationships. Today, we’ll explore how a deep...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
Apr 7, 20222 min read
How to Build Resilience:Positive Stable Adult Relationships
Resilience is built in three core ways: positive and stable adult relationships, a strong connection to faith and cultural traditions,...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
Mar 30, 20223 min read
Organizational Strategies for Resilience: How to Promote Resilience and Agility
No matter what type of organization you help run, if you are a leader, you should be promoting resilience and agility in the workplace....
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Shenandoah Chefalo
Mar 14, 20224 min read
Trauma Brain: How Our Survival Instincts Keep Us Stuck
Connecting Fight Flight Freeze to Trauma Brain and what is happening in the world.
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Shenandoah Chefalo
Feb 28, 20224 min read
Why You Should Focus on Improving Trauma-Informed Leadership
Recently, I've noticed a plethora of articles written about vulnerability in leadership, empathetic leadership, coaching leadership and...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
Oct 18, 20183 min read
We Know Better - So When Is It Time To Do Better?
I live in a world full of people with giant hearts. Its true. Everywhere you look in the world of Human Services and Child Advocacy you...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
Mar 6, 20183 min read
Foster Care: There is No One Solution
Sorry I’ve been silent. I’ve been brooding, angry over the system, policies and government. I find it is best that I don’t write when I’m...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
Oct 1, 20174 min read
Burning Coals of Emotional Abuse: Minimizing, Invalidating & Gas Lighting
Since the release of Garbage Bag Suitcase, I have had some interesting human encounters. I have traveled around the country and even into...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
Sep 3, 20173 min read
LIAR, LIAR - Looking Beyond the Lie
Lying is a topic that I have been meaning to cover on this blog for sometime, but frankly every time I sit down to write it, I get...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
Aug 2, 20171 min read
Incarceration, Homelessness & Addiction: The Foster Care Problem
I was recently asked to be on the Incarcerate US podcast that is hosted by Dante Nottingham, an inmate who has been locked up since the...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
Jul 5, 20173 min read
THE IMPORTANCE OF TRAUMA INFORMED CARE: AND IMPLEMENTING IT INTO PRACTICE
It's almost impossible to help a child or a parent in need and not be affected by what we are seeing. This is true for any professional...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
Mar 30, 20174 min read
Self Help: More Than Just A Book
I have written before about how I was a self-help book addict. I read every book I could find, re-reading several of them and even going...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
Feb 1, 20173 min read
A Nation Triggered: Using Powerful Questions to Coach Ourselves in Bi-Partisanship
A NATION TRIGGERED Using Powerful Questions to Coach Ourselves to Bi-Partisanship It’s official: in the United States we have a new...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
Sep 26, 20163 min read
Can Living Alone Heal Trauma? A Year to Find out
I have never really been good at relationships. Intimacy scares me, and trust is something that is earned. When I travel now, speaking...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
Aug 30, 20164 min read
Comfort in Chaos: Understanding Trauma Brain
I make no bones about it, as a foster child, I don’t think I was an easy person to get along with and I certainly wasn’t trying to make...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
May 20, 20164 min read
Reaching the Fourth "R": Schools and Classrooms Make the Difference
I am very excited to bring you my first guest blog. In full disclosure, I met Cathy Anther-Fialon, at a webcast on a seminar regarding...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
Apr 13, 20163 min read
Healing Trauma: One Grocery Store Line at a Time
There’s a women standing in front of me at the grocery store. I can see her fidgeting, shifting her weight back and forth. She glances my...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
Feb 2, 20161 min read
You Gotta Believe-Podcast
This evening we interview Shenandoah Chefalo (author of the recently published memoir “Garbage Bag Suitcase”) about a blog she recently...
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