Reclamation Sisters/Helping the Helpers Online Course: Resilience & Renewal
Helping the Helpers course

  • $37

Helping the Helpers: Resilience & Renewal

  • 42 Lessons

A TRANSFORMATIONAL COURSE FOR HELPING PROFESSIONALS

You've filled everyone else's cup. Make 2025 the year you fill your own. Resolve the toxic stress so you can continue serving others without losing yourself, or discover a new path forward in a balanced and fulfilling role. It's time to build resilience, rediscover your purpose, and design a life you love.

You're a helper, but you're not sure if you can do it anymore.

You chose your career because you wanted to help people. But now you're suffering from toxic stress and workplace trauma. It's time to make a change!

In this course, we'll walk you through activities designed to target your specific cost of caring condition. Then you'll complete your own 5-step Action Plan to design a way forward. If you want to remain in your current helper role, you'll develop coping strategies and resilience. If you decide to leave your current role, you'll have the self-analysis tools and guidance you need to move forward in a way that honors your purpose.

Toxic stress has changed you.

Chronic and toxic stress alters the brain, making it more likely to develop Cost of Caring conditions such as secondary traumatic stress, vicarious trauma, or compassion fatigue.

Overwhelmed, drained, emotionally exhausted

You give so much to others -- supporting, encouraging, and guiding those with their own toxic stress and trauma. But the cost of caring takes a toll on your own wellness.

Unsupported, disrespected, or unappreciated

Your required work violates your values and beliefs. System constraints and obstacles prevent you from doing the right thing, and your ideas are unwelcomed and dismissed.

Angry, irritable, frustrated, anxious, or depressed

Your work life seems out of control and your stress response surfaces as anger. You feel pessimistic and cynical, untrusting of people and systems. A sense of hopelessness corrodes your life purpose.

YOU ARE NOT ALONE.

This online course is designed specifically for helping professionals just like you. Whether you're a counselor, teacher, healthcare provider, or one of the many other types of helping professionals, you'll design a new and healthy path forward that fulfills your purpose.

Ready for help?

It's time to take care of yourself.

Stop sacrificing your own wellness to serve the needs of others.

HELPING THE HELPERS: RESILIENCE & RENEWEL is specially designed to guide you through exploring the Cost of Caring, developing coping strategies and resilience, and connecting with your purpose.

Make sense of your feelings & symptoms

Recognize the toll that stress and trauma take on your mental, emotional, and physical health. Connect your experiences with six Cost of Caring conditions to identify your symptoms and risk factors.

Develop coping strategies & resilience

Discover immediate and preventative tools and techniques to bounce back stronger from challenges and sustain your well-being through the toxic stress and trauma effects of your helping role.

Reconnect with your purpose

Identify the four elements of your purpose to clarify your path and analyze your current roles. Design a balanced and meaningful life in which you thrive both personally and professionally.

What's inside the course?

Engaging video lessons with actionable insights.

Exercises to help you reflect and apply what you learn.

Guided tools for building your custom action plan.

This course is for you if ...

You're a helper.

A helper is a professional, volunteer, or loved one who provides empathic care for trauma survivors. Some common helper roles include therapists and counselors, teachers and child care workers, health care workers, first responders, animal care workers, clergy, criminal justice workers, and military personnel.

You feel physically, emotionally, or spiritually exhausted.

Over time, repeated activation of the stress response takes a toll on you. You're fatigued, overwhelmed, or angry. Your frustration with the realities of your job has grown into resentment, and you're overcome by a sense of professional hopelessness.

You're ready to prioritize your well-being.

You're tired of being a martyr for your job. You recognize that you deserve the same care that you provide for others, and you need help making a plan to address your multi-dimensional wellness.

You're considering a career change.

You realize something has to change, but you're not sure what else you can do. You need help figuring out your next steps.

Why should you trust us?

Hi, I'm Laura. My sister Jean and I have been helpers, collectively, for over 30 years and we understand the Cost of Caring quite intimately.

Jean is a Licensed Professional Counselor with her master's in mental health counseling. And for over a decade now, she's been involved with mental health and addiction counseling. She is a Master CASAC, which is a Credentialed Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Counselor. She also holds additional certifications in trauma, grief, and DBT. Currently, Jean is the clinical director of outpatient services for addiction treatment and behavioral health.

I was a public school teacher for almost 20 years, serving my last 8 years in a large Title I elementary school with a very high percentage of students living in poverty.

We have both served high-needs populations in roles that require significant empathy. The Cost of Caring recently became so great for me that I left teaching, but it was only after I quit teaching that I really learned about the Cost of Caring. As I researched compassion fatigue, moral suffering, and vicarious trauma, my feelings immediately made sense. I knew then that I wanted to share this information and help other helpers escape the toxic stress.

We're excited to help you manage the heavy costs of serving as a helper. And, if you decide you need to leave a toxic job, we'll help you design a new path forward.

It's time to make a change!

Course Contents

Module 1: Getting Started

Welcome!
    Course Objectives
      Meet Your Presenters and Fellow Helpers
      • 2 mins
      • 15.7 MB
      Who are the Helpers?
      • 3 mins
      • 15.9 MB
      Self-Reflection: Empathy

        Module 2: Stress, Trauma & the Brain

        Types of Trauma
          Types of Stress
            Self-Reflection: Trauma Experience
              Trauma and Stress Response
                Chronic Stress and the Brain
                • 4 mins
                • 18.9 MB
                What is the Cost of Caring?
                  Protective and Risk Factors

                    Module 3: Cost of Caring Conditions

                    Introduction
                      Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
                      • 11 mins
                      • 28.9 MB
                      Secondary Traumatic Stress
                      • 7 mins
                      • 19.6 MB
                      Vicarious Trauma
                      • 6 mins
                      • 15.1 MB
                      Moral Suffering
                      • 13 mins
                      • 37.9 MB
                      Burnout
                      • 6 mins
                      • 29.8 MB
                      Compassion Fatigue
                      • 9 mins
                      • 37.2 MB
                      Cost of Caring Conditions Review
                        Self-Reflection: Self-Diagnosis
                          Professional and Institutional Effects

                            Module 4: Coping & Prevention Strategies

                            Introduction
                              CBT: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
                                Coping and Resilience
                                • 4 mins
                                • 19.7 MB
                                Character Strengths
                                • 4 mins
                                • 14.9 MB
                                Self-Care: Dimensional Wellness
                                • 12 mins
                                • 69.3 MB
                                Intentions
                                • 8 mins
                                • 33.5 MB
                                Immediate Coping Strategies
                                • 4 mins
                                • 15.4 MB
                                Professional Protections

                                  Module 5: Beliefs, Values & Boundaries

                                  Introduction
                                    Beliefs
                                    • 10 mins
                                    • 44.9 MB
                                    Values
                                    • 5 mins
                                    • 28.3 MB
                                    Boundaries
                                    • 13 mins
                                    • 50.1 MB

                                    Module 6: Purpose & Meaning

                                    Introduction
                                      Elements and Components of Purpose
                                      • 9 mins
                                      • 27 MB
                                      Rolling in Roles
                                        Evolving Purpose
                                        • 5 mins
                                        • 20 MB
                                        Self-Reflection: Purpose

                                          Module 7: Action Plan

                                          The ABCs of Healing
                                          • 7 mins
                                          • 35 MB
                                          Custom Five-Step Action Plan
                                            Career Transition Guide

                                              Frequently asked questions

                                              How will I access the course?

                                              After your payment is confirmed, you will be prompted to create a user name and password so that you can access the online course. You do not have to download the course for access, but the online course does include downloadable pdf files for worksheets and activities.

                                              Do you guarantee my success?

                                              We provide many tools and clear guidance to help you, and we're confident in the value of the course lessons and activities. If you follow all the steps and put in the required work, we feel confident that you will design a healthier and more meaningful life to support your purpose. However, we do not offer a "money back guarantee," as it is not possible for us to control a user's efforts throughout the course.

                                              Can I get a refund?

                                              Due to the immediate availability of the course and your ability to download all activities and worksheets, refunds will not be provided. If you need assistance accessing your course, please reach out to us at contact@reclamationsisters.com.