TRAUMA RESILIENCE
Career Resources & Offerings
for professionals, workplace well-being, and burnout recovery
Pick whichever option feels right for you or book a meet-n-greet!
Three Things About Your Career...
- I believe your career doesn't have to feel triggering, overwhelming, and scary.
- I believe your career can support and empower your continued recovery from trauma.
- I've seen and believe that commerce (not capitalism) is a tool with the power to dismantle systems of oppression & cycles of trauma.
Dear Workplace Warrior,
On this page are some of the self-hosted and outside resources that I frequently reference while working with entrepreneurs like you.
Everything on this page is freely available because:
Trauma suuuuuuucks, doesn't it?! Let's make it suck less.
You're my kinda people! (I'm a trauma survivor too.)
I am always down to vent about "I can't believe how sneaky my trauma is!" because, I'm right there with you.
I don't do "sales calls," but if you ever want to schedule a coffee/tea chat, I'd absolutely be down for something like that, click here for the scheduling link.
PS - Feel free to share this page with whomever you'd like or connect with me on LinkedIn!
Career + Trauma?!
Trauma comes with mental, physical, emotional, and financial effects that are often long-term or even permanent. It can take an extremely long time for a survivor to acknowledge that they experienced trauma and even longer to understand or repair the damage.
In the meantime, how is a survivor supposed to keep the lights on and pay the bills?!
Trauma can *increase* your risk for:
- "kindling" (exponentially escalating mental health crises with progressively less extreme triggers and shorter periods of time between crises... uh, yikes.)
- hypertension/heart disease, diabetes, obesity
- stroke, cancer, autoimmune diseases
- addiction, self-medicating, self-numbing
- chronic anxiety & panic attacks
- sleep disorders, night terrors, insomnia, hyper-arousal
- easily agitated or angered, extreme startle reflex
- disassociation, over intellectualizing, monotonous voice, spacey
- cognitive disfunction, poor memory, trouble speaking
- excessive or inappropriate guilt
- intrusive thoughts or memories, flashbacks
- obsessive and/or compulsive tendencies
- self-injury, self-harm, high-risk behaviors
Your career problems might be trauma symptoms:
Note: Everyone's trauma is unique. Everyone's career is unique. Your symptoms will show up differently. Here are some I see frequently with new clients:
impressive feats of procrastination
frequently switching jobs or roles
self-sabotaging behavior
feast & famine bank accounts
constant hustle at the speed of survival
bashful self-promotion
coworkers or bosses that "walk all over" your boundaries
frozen with indecision (aka analysis paralysis)
panic attacks at very inopportune times
and so much more
Featured Consulting Offerings
for career professionals, workplace well-being, and burnout recovery
Consulting is like ice cream; we want what we want how we want it—occasional support on the side, sessions scheduled under a big project, a special calendar container, or a cherry on top of your recurring sessions. Sessions À La Mode are the answer to your flexible scheduling needs and are available in bundles of 1, 3, or 6 sessions. Each session is 50 minutes of 1-on-1 attention with Emily Ann Peterson.
Consulting is like ice cream; we want what we want how we want it—occasional support on the side, sessions scheduled under a big project, a special calendar container, or a cherry on top of your recur…
Build your bravery and resilience one step at a time with regular check-ins and accountability! This option is good for clients working on a longer-term project or those seeking ongoing support from a coach and consultant like Emily Ann Peterson. Each month you'll receive recurring private coaching session(s) via Google Meet and weekly office hours via email. The frequency of sessions is up to you: monthly, bi-monthly, or weekly.
Build your bravery and resilience one step at a time with regular check-ins and accountability! This option is good for clients working on a longer-term project or those seeking ongoing support from a…
then $205.35 every 30 days
You've got questions to clear up about your life, career, and creativity? Maybe you've got some marketing questions? Or you'd like to know the best way to automate a certain piece of your life. Well, Emily Ann's got a house to Marie Kondo! Let's join forces! Reserve your spot in Emily Ann's calendar today!
You've got questions to clear up about your life, career, and creativity? Maybe you've got some marketing questions? Or you'd like to know the best way to automate a certain piece of your life. Well, …
Featured Career Tools & Themed-Sessions
Sometimes it's nice to have a thing to work on.
If you've always wanted to write a book or somehow the creative muse has magically gifted you with a manuscript idea, then let's talk. Self-publishing is the single most effective way for you to get your book *out there* for the world to see as soon as possible.
Every author's book is different, so working with Emily Ann *starts* with six (6) one-hour sessions to nail down your book summary, ideal audience, outline, title, overall strategy, and next steps.
If you've always wanted to write a book or somehow the creative muse has magically gifted you with a manuscript idea, then let's talk. Self-publishing is the single most effective way for you to get y…
Do you have a website? Do you (secretly) worry that it sucks? Or maybe you know it doesn’t do you and your awesome work justice?
Easy! You'll walk away from your 45-min Website Audit with a tangible list of tiny improvements and the confidence to put yourself out there!
Bring a current draft of your most recent CV or resumé. Let's turn each line into the pinnacle of your professionalism. and make it read like "Hired!"
for Entrepreneurs & Small Business Owners
to help your business operations feel as easy as possible!
under construction! come back soon for more or send me an email if you see something missing!
Accounting Apps & Sites
The market "standard" is Intuit-based products. However, I have a big beef with how they run their business in a coercive and domineering manner. (Boo!) So here are some alternatives to Quickbooks:
- Freshbooks—has lots of API integrations, very popular
- Wave Accounting—mostly free! They make their profit elsewhere, like through offering hourly appointments with a bookkeeper or their bank accounts
- Sunrise—a product of Lendio, so everything is geared toward offering business loans
- Capterra has a great short list with methods of comparing platforms
Email Marketing & CRM Platforms
- Simplero—This is what I use, very versatile if you're willing to put in some time for a learning curve, I'm happy to answer questions about it too.
- HubSpot—lots of tools for CRM, email marketing, lead generation; they have a free version too
- Drip—really good integrations for e-commerce (like Shopify)
- Weave—two-way texting, helps boost online reviews, team chat, email, and analytics
- BombBomb—video messaging for email and text
ADA & Accessibility
- The Disability Language Style Guide—from the National Center on Disability and Journalism
- Accessibility Statement Generator—from Siteimprove
- Color Contrast Checker—from Siteimprove
- Disability Inclusion in the Workplace—complementary online course
- Accessibility for Virtual Classrooms—complementary online course
- Accessibility Fundamentals for the Web—complementary online course
Scheduling Platforms
- Acuity—really versatile, plans start at $14
- Calendly—scales well with a brand new business
- YouCanBook.me—works well for teams & their free version connects with 1 Google Calendar
- WhenIWork—for those who need to schedule hourly employees on a regular basis
- Vagaro—good for salons, spas, or fitness studios
- Fons—great community of music teachers and time-for-money professionals
- Capterra maintains a shortlist of their top-rated options for easy comparison.
SEO & Website Analytics
- Siteimprove—excellent for businesses seeking to build their SEO through online accessibility and inclusion
- Squarespace—easy drag-n-drop website builder with built-in analytics and SEO
- SEO Fundamentals—complementary online course
- How the EU's GDPR regulations affect US Businesses—on-demand webinar
Scholarly Research
for career professionals, workplace well-being, organizational leadership, and burnout recovery
under construction! come back soon for more or send me an email if you see something missing!
- Deschodt-Arsac, V., Berger, V., Khlouf, L., & Arsac, L. M. (2022). Degraded Psychophysiological Status in Caregivers and Human Resources Staff during a COVID-19 Peak Unveiled by Psychological and HRV Testing at Workplace. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(3), 1710.
- Annalakshmi, N., Roshni, P., Abhirami, S., & Udita, P. (2022). The consequence of workplace incivility among IT employees: Workplace stress or organizational citizenship behavior? Humanitas, 19(1), 51-66.
- Khairunisa, N. A., & Muafi, M. (2022). The effect of workplace well-being and workplace incivility on turnover intention with job embeddedness as a moderating variable. International Journal of Business Ecosystem & Strategy, 4(1), 11-23.
- Kačerová, I., Kubr, J., Hořejší, P., & Kleinová, J. (2022). Ergonomic Design of a Workplace Using Virtual Reality and a Motion Capture Suit. Applied Sciences, 12(4), 2150.
- Seo, E., Kim, H., Sim, Y., Min-Seong Ha, Uk, K., & Kim, H. (2022). Burnout, Presenteeism and Workplace Conditions of Korean Taekwondo Coaches of High-Performance Athletes. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(10), 5912.
- Maria-Jose Lera, & Abualkibash, S. (2022). Basic psychological needs satisfaction: A way to enhance resilience in traumatic situations. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(11), 6649.
- Fridolin, S. B., Blaese, R., Weber, G., & Winistoerfer, H. (2022). Changes in corporate responsibility management during COVID-19 crisis and their effects on business resilience: An empirical study of swiss and german companies. Sustainability, 14(7), 4144.
- Ratzon, A., Farhi, M., Ratzon, N., & Adini, B. (2022). Resilience at work, burnout, secondary trauma, and compassion satisfaction of social workers amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(9), 5500.
- Ntatamala, I., & Adams, S. (2022). The correlates of post-traumatic stress disorder in ambulance personnel and barriers faced in accessing care for work-related stress. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(4)
- Lichte, D., Frank, S. T., & Engler, E. (2022). Framework for operational resilience management of critical infrastructures and organizations. Infrastructures, 7(5), 70.
- Fitriastuti, T., & Vanderstraeten, A. (2022). Being Out of the Loop: Workplace Deviance as a Mediator of the Impact of Impression Management on Workplace Exclusion. Sustainability, 14(2), 1004.
- Jang, E., & Chen, X. (2022). How Can We Make a Sustainable Workplace? Workplace Ostracism, Employees’ Well-Being via Need Satisfaction and Moderated Mediation Role of Authentic Leadership. Sustainability, 14(5), 2869.
- Bedford, B. (2022). Where am I?: The absence of the black male from the E-suite
- Kotze, M., Nel, P., & Smit, P. (2022). Psychometric properties of a workplace spirituality measure. SA Journal of Industrial Psychology, 48
- Yin, E., & Mahrous, A. (2022). Covid-19 global pandemic, workplace spirituality and the rise of spirituality-driven organisations in the post-digital era. Journal of Humanities and Applied Social Sciences, 4(2), 79-93.
- Du, S., Ma, Y., & Lee, J. Y. (2022). Workplace Loneliness and the Need to Belong in the Era of COVID-19. Sustainability, 14(8), 4788.
- Suriyankietkaew, S., Krittayaruangroj, K., & Iamsawan, N. (2022). Sustainable leadership practices and competencies of SMEs for sustainability and resilience: A community-based social enterprise study. Sustainability, 14(10), 5762.
- Schmuck, J., Hiebel, N., Kriegsmann-Rabe, M., Schneider, J., Julia-Katharina, M., Erim, Y., . . . Geiser, F. (2022). Individual stress burden and mental health in health care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: Moderating and mediating effects of resilience. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(11), 6545.
- Shinan-Altman, S., & Levkovich, I. (2022). Are personal resources and perceived stress associated with psychological outcomes among israeli teachers during the third COVID-19 lockdown? International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(9), 5634.
- Lacomba-Trejo, L., Mateu-Mollá, J., Bellegarde-Nunes, M., & Delhom, I. (2022). Are coping strategies, emotional abilities, and resilience predictors of well-being? comparison of linear and non-linear methodologies. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(12), 7478.
- Muir, K. J., Webb-Jones, J., Farish, N., Barker, K., Miller-Davis, C., & Galloway, S. (2022). “Room to reflect”: A pilot workplace resiliency intervention for nurses. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(12), 7272.