A SAFE PLACE TO LEARN, CONNECT, AND HEAL
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I created the Soul Console Community to help people like you (or your loved one) better understand what moral trauma is, how it lives inside us, and how that shapes the stories we tell about ourselves and how it affects our relationships with others and the world. I also created it to give support that specifically speaks to your experience of moral injury, moral distress, or lost innocence.
Honoring pain, reconciling difficult truths, transforming ways of thinking and being, and restoring moral integrity starts here.
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Not sure where to begin?
We can help with that.
RESOURCES FOR MORAL TRAUMA
From self-assessments, to healing guides, journaling prompts, creative arts exercises, inspirations, movies and TV series recommendations, and organizations doing wonderful work to help those struggling with moral trauma.
PERSONAL STORIES OF MORAL INJURY
Voices of courage share their experience of moral injury and moral distress through Michele's project In the Black Hours, a bold collection of photographic vignettes and a compendium of life stories.
MICHELE’S JOURNEY & RESEARCH
Like you, I’ve experienced moral injury, which grounded my research, including developing a writing therapy that has proven very helpful for moral trauma. You can read more about my story here.
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Looking for community? Here you'll find information on upcoming courses and collective conversation.
And, of course, you can always contact me here.
AN EMPATHETIC VOICE
About Michele
I’m a professionally trained therapist, clinical ethicist, writer, and researcher specializing in trauma generally, moral injury and moral distress specifically, and resilience. For more than a decade, I’ve been working with people — often invisible, hidden, or unacknowledged — who have experienced this unique type of trauma and the desire for healing and relief. I’ve also personally experienced moral injury, which grounded my research, including developing a writing therapy that has proven helpful in clinical studies for moral trauma. You can read more about my story here.
HEALING FROM MORAL TRAUMA
Dispelling the Myth
So often we think that right and wrong is simply black and white, but for those of us who have experienced a transgression of conscience, nothing about moral trauma is simple; lines once thought to be easily defined can, in a moment, become obscured, and regaining them can be an arduous psychospiritual endeavor.
Healing from moral injury, moral distress, or lost innocence requires a person to reconcile many difficult truths and to transform in difficult yet often unexpected ways. But it also requires communities and systems of shared values to support them. If we can feel what others are suffering—if we don’t simply judge people based on our own opinions or beliefs—then we, as a society, might be better positioned to provide support in the ways people very much need.
COMMUNITY & CONNECTION
Looking to Unburden Yourself or to Find Kinship and Connection?
Of what one cannot speak, one must be silent. The sentiment is that of 20th century philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein when he considered the limits of language, but in another way, it sums up what many people with moral injury, moral distress, or lost innocence feel. Whether it’s because of crushing emotion, the fear of stigma, the numbing from scars, the sense that others “wouldn’t understand,” “couldn’t understand,” “don’t really care,” or would “judge them,” often those who experience moral trauma never share their stories. As a result, they suffer in solitary, self-severing silence.
Healing from moral trauma and building moral resilience requires finding safe ways and trusted others to engage your painful experience. My new Writing the Wrongs course is one such way. While it is self-guided, you have the opportunity to share your insights and experience with the community— but only if you want to.
COMMUNITY & CONNECTION
Looking to Unburden Yourself or to Find Kinship and Connection?
Of what one cannot speak, one must be silent. The sentiment is that of 20th century philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein when he considered the limits of language, but in another way, it sums up what many people with moral injury, moral distress, or lost innocence feel. Whether it’s because of crushing emotion, the fear of stigma, the numbing from scars, the sense that others “wouldn’t understand,” “couldn’t understand,” “don’t really care,” or would “judge them,” often those who experience moral trauma never share their stories. As a result, they suffer in solitary, self-severing silence.
Healing from moral trauma and building moral resilience requires finding safe ways and trusted others to engage your painful experience. My new Writing the Wrongs course is one such way. While it is self-guided, you have the opportunity to share your insights and experience with the community— but only if you want to.