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Helper's Guidepost
A collection of articles & stories designed to share insights, strategies, and real-world reflections for those who show up to help.
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Helper Gratitude Project
This project makes it possible to send an anonymous postcard of thanks to a Helper, letting them know their efforts are appreciated.
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Helping Academy
Interactive sessions designed to equip helpers with practical skills, resilience strategies, and sustainable approaches to making a lasting impact.
Explore mindfulness podcasts that fit real life, guided practices, practical teaching, and research-backed insights to support focus, resilience, and wellbeing.
Explore how moral injury affects Helpers across all professions. Learn to recognize value conflicts, rebuild integrity, and turn moral pain into meaningful repair and resilience.
The Helper Gratitude Project is a simple way to send anonymous postcards of thanks to the people who care for our communities. A small act of gratitude can spark resilience, connection, and kindness that lasts.
Word searches for stress, burnout, and self-care. Free activity pages to support helpers, students, and community partners with rest, focus, and resilience.
Helping work is meaningful but hazardous, and self-care is an ethical obligation for every helper. This guide explores the risks of burnout, the role of vitality, and practical ways to sustain yourself so you can keep showing up well.
Practical, research based guide for displaced helpers. Calm your mind, name transferable skills, find community, and refresh your resume with simple activities.
Explore how Positive Childhood Experiences (PCEs) buffer the impact of trauma, support lifelong resilience, and empower helpers to build safer, more connected communities.
Discover how building community connections strengthens protective factors for mental health and resilience. Simple, practical steps to foster belonging and well-being
A practical guide to understanding and overcoming revenge bedtime procrastination, especially for helpers and caregivers. Learn why we trade sleep for late-night scrolling and how to reclaim rest without sacrificing personal time.
This guide helps helping professionals rediscover their sense of purpose by reconnecting with their professional "why."
A compassionate guide exploring the health benefits of helping others, with practical ways for professionals to engage in pro-social activities that support both personal well-being and community connection.
This practical, research-informed guide outlines five core dimensions of self-care for helping professionals: physical, social, spiritual, professional, and psychological.
This research-backed guide explores 10 compassionate, practical strategies to help helping professionals create a more sustainable work-life balance.
Feeling drained from caring for others? Learn the Empathy Trap, brain-smart habits, and quick resets that let helping professionals stay resilient and fulfilled.
Discover practical self-care strategies for helping professionals. Learn how active rest can recharge your nervous system, reduce burnout, and fit into real-life schedules—no retreat required.
A practical guide for helping professionals on practicing cultural humility and ethical multiculturalism in rural communities—featuring real-world scenarios, reflection prompts, and tools for showing up with integrity at every level of service.
A compassionate, research-informed guide to understanding and overcoming imposter syndrome—created for helpers who want to reframe self-doubt, build confidence, and remember they belong.
Helps helpers design, implement, and evaluate community programs with impact—this guide breaks down the PRECEDE-PROCEED model in a clear, practical, and human-centered way.
Discover how Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) affect helping professionals, influencing empathy, boundaries, and burnout risk. Learn strategies for resilience and thriving beyond past adversities.
Discover practical, research-backed strategies to reduce burnout in helping professions like healthcare, education, and social services.
Burnout and Compassion Fatigue aren’t proof that you care, it’s proof that you’ve been carrying too much for too long.
Discover practical, compassionate ways to support vulnerable individuals and communities during times of crisis and political unrest.
Resentment can creep into the work of helpers, whether in healthcare, social work, education, or nonprofit spaces, slowly draining purpose and joy.
Helping others shouldn’t mean burning yourself out. This guide explores the realities of helper fatigue, why burnout happens, and how to prevent it - without sacrificing your passion or purpose.
The world is loud, politics are exhausting, and helpers—well, they’re running on fumes. This guide is for the people who keep showing up, even when the system makes it impossible.
Discover how we can shift from managing poverty to truly ending it. This article explores Jane Addams' belief that poverty is treatable, not a personal failing, and challenges outdated systems that create barriers instead of solutions.
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