When You’re Angry You’re the One to Fix Everything: An Interview with Jill. (Season 2, Episode 1)
Season 2, Episode 1. When You’re Angry You’re the One to Fix Everything: An Interview with Jill
We are interviewing all of our regular contributors for you to get to know them better. Today’s guest is Jill, a GP and cross-cultural worker in the Middle East, who shares beautifully about the cross-section of burnout, compassion fatigue, and secondary traumatic stress, but basically: what happens when you feel like you’re being dumped by a wave, angry that you’re the one to fix it all? We also cover how Jill found a richer and deeper faith on the other side of it.
Thanks for listening to Episode 1, Season 2 of The After Dinner Mint, a podcast of Stories I’d Tell You at Dinner. Thanks for sharing your day with us!
We are interviewing all of our regular contributors for you to get to know them better. Today’s guest is Jill who is a GP and cross-cultural worker in the Middle East. She is also one of our writers here at Stories. We explore the cross-section of burnout, compassion fatigue, and secondary traumatic stress, but basically: what happens when you feel like you’re being dumped by a wave, angry that you’re the one to fix it all, as well as how Jill found a richer and deeper faith on the other side of it.
In today’s episode, we explore:
The joys of living cross-culturally and learning to crack jokes in a new culture and language.
Growing up in a Christian family, becoming a Christian as a child, and always being the “good” one.
Moving to the Middle East as a cross-cultural worker, GP and community health worker.
Walking through a season of burnout and compassion fatigue and how she found a deeper and richer faith on the other side of it.
You can listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, or anywhere you get podcasts.
Mentioned in this episode
The Ragamuffin Gospel by Brennan Manning
The Other Half of Church: Christian Community, Brain Science, and Overcoming Spiritual Stagnation by Jim Wilder and Michel Hendricks
Curt Thompson, Christian psychiatrist - imaginative prayer resources, podcast and books.
“True friends don’t spend time gazing into each other’s eyes. They may show great tenderness towards each other but they face in the same direction - toward common projects, goals - above all, towards a common Lord.” C.S. Lewis
The Lord your God is with you,
the Mighty Warrior who saves.
He will take great delight in you;
in his love he will no longer rebuke you,
but will rejoice over you with singing.”
(Zephaniah 3:17 NIV)
The women who encourage Jill: Rowena, Blodwyn
About Jill
Jill grew up in Albany, studied in Perth & Sydney but now lives with three beautiful girl friends in a big ugly city in the Middle East. She helps lead a team doing community health programs and works as a GP with Syrian refugees. Learning Arabic was the hardest thing she’s undertaken. In her work she’s passionate about seeing the unseen people and helping Arab woman and teenagers learn emotional literacy and their God given identity. She enjoys textures, colours, photography and laughing at ridiculous ideas. This is a big year of transitions as she’s getting married in May, to an American!