Emotional First Aid: Healing from Stress, Trauma, and Emotional Pain
Emotional First Aid: Healing from Stress, Trauma, and Emotional Pain is a compassionate and practical guide for anyone navigating life’s emotional injuries. As a psychiatric nurse practitioner and mental health educator, I blend personal reflections from my own past trauma with clinical insight and actionable tools to help readers recognize, respond to, and recover from emotional wounds. From grief and rejection to burnout and trauma, I share a holistic approach to healing meeting people where they are with empathy, encouragement, and real-life strategies.
CARE-R™ First Aid for Mental Health Training Manual
This manual is the official guide for participants in the CARE-R™ First Aid for Mental Health training course. Designed for everyday individuals teachers, parents, supervisors, faith leaders, and more it offers practical, trauma-informed tools to recognize mental health distress and respond with empathy, safety, and confidence. Grounded in the CARE-R™ model Connect, Assess, Respond, Encourage, Reaffirm and Resource it includes real-life scenarios, culturally responsive strategies, and guidance for crisis and non-crisis situations in community, school, and workplace settings.
Children's Book Coming Soon: Tahir’s Way to Play: Friendship on the Spectrum
I was inspired to write Tahir’s Way to Play after watching my beloved grandson, Tahir, become frustrated when trying to play with other children who didn’t understand his way of communicating. Seeing his joy, resilience, and unique way of connecting with the world moved me to create a story that could help children and the adults in their lives learn kindness, patience, and understanding toward friends on the autism spectrum.
This book is my way of celebrating Tahir’s spirit while encouraging others to embrace differences and recognize that friendship can look many different ways. My hope is that Tahir’s Way to Play will serve as both a heart warming story and a gentle teaching tool for parents, teachers, and caregivers to foster empathy, inclusivity, and lasting friendships.