Recently, the floor at Group Health Cooperative (where I’m trainer in behavioral medicine), lost a beloved nurse in a horrific arson attack on an entire family in Puerto Rico.

Many of those I work with have been reeling with anguish. A sudden loss is hard enough, but with a traumatic one, it’s all the harder to wrap your brain around it.

I’ve been taken up with intensive on-the-spot crisis counseling. It has left me feeling moved and privileged to be of immediate help to many, while also a bit rocked personally.

Coincidentally, I was interviewed by a TV news crew about somewhat similar local tragedy:

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