Recently I had the opportunity to work with high school students talking about temperament. We are all born with one. It make get modified but there are some traits that are simply there. The complication for the students was the reading used the same word two different ways which kept them from grasping the concept. …
One of the hardest things to cope with PTSD/CPTSD/PTS, whatever acronym you use, the darn thing is relentless. Working with counselors, journal writing, groups, reading books, psychology methods, medication, whatever you throw at it……it tears at the edges of your life. Ignore it for a time but it is always there. Day and night. No…
Two version of: The Little Boy by Helen Buckley Once a little boy went to school. He was quite a little boy And it was quite a big school. But when the little boy Found that he could go to his room By walking right in from the door outside He was happy; And the…
Links to explore: http://www.ptsd.org.uk/poems/ https://www.myptsd.com/c/threads/a-poem-for-ptsd.219/ Please share a link to gohose the From my book We Are One. I’m bleeding I go to my parents – I’m bleeding. Oh honey I’m sorry to hear that, here’s a little band aid. But I’m bleeding a lot. You are just like everybody else. Everyone bleeds? Yes,…
Poets speak from their heart painting a mental image that touches their readers heart. Shakespeare……a bunch of cliches strung together…..is it cliche if he said if first…or is he just the most famous one to say it? http://www.shakespeares-sonnets.com/ Famous Poets http://www.famouspoetsandpoems.com/ Poetry Foundation http://www.poetryfoundation.org/ Why have links to poetry on a PTSD web page? PTSD…
Facebook has several PTSD groups that are worth joining. This one is military background. Where ever they write soldier, I read survivor, war is abuse or abuse is war, in general I adapt what they wrote for returning military to my circumstances of being raised in america’s war zone called an abusive neighborhood. Click on…
Continuing with poems “As you ramble through Life, Brother, Whatever be your goal. Keep your eye upon the doughnut, And not upon the hole.” I learned the poem above from Dr. Banks over 30 years ago…..the one below I just found when I was looking for the other one. Their Points of View. ‘Twixt optimist…
This months is celebrating pocket poems. Put a poem in your pocket and share it with someone else. http://www.poets.org/national-poetry-month/poem-your-pocket-day PDF of poems suggested by the web site. http://www.poets.org/sites/default/files/PoemInYrPocketDay_2015_FINAL.pdf Poetry was always very important to me. Poems spoke to my heart when my head wasn’t listening. I think it is a lovely idea to have a…
PTSD does not allow for much resting. Hyper-vigilance, insomnia, mind in overdrive are just a few of the emotional/physical states that make it hard to rest. Making myself wake up early do more, work harder, trying to ‘prove’ I’m good enough is not the mindset of a person that gets rest. I am learning that…
PTSD - Accepting, Coping, Thriving 