HYBRID EVENT: You can participate in person at Orlando, Florida, USA or Virtually from your home or work.

6th Edition of Global Conference on

Addiction Medicine, Behavioral Health and Psychiatry

October 20-22, 2025 | Orlando, Florida, USA

GAB 2024

Numbing our moral injuries

Speaker at Addiction Medicine, Behavioral Health and Psychiatry 2024 - Omar Reda
University of Colorado, United States
Title : Numbing our moral injuries

Abstract:

Many caregivers struggle with deep moral injuries like compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, survivor guilt, and burnout. Unfortunately, some cope with these challenges through self-destructive habits including shutting down, lashing out, using substance, or even suicide. This session is designed to introduce the topic with the intention of shattering stigma, breaking silence, and offering hope. Caregivers are wounded healers. We will introduce a toolkit to help them heal their invisible wounds.

Audience Take Away Notes:

  • Audience will be educated on otherwise taboo topics like addiction and suicide
  • Audience will realize the impacts of their invisible wounds on their families and beyond
  • Audience will walk away with a toolkit of tangible items to help them heal

Biography:

Dr. Omar Reda is a board-certified psychiatrist, Harvard-trained trauma expert, a family advocate, and the author of eight books including Untangled and The Wounded Healer. He is the founder of Healing Trauma Institute. His expertise includes, but not limited to, refugee trauma, family bonding, caring for the caregiver, and faith-based healing. Omar Lives with his wife and three children in Colorado, USA.

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