I have the attention span of a gnat when it comes to meditation. The moment I sit down to meditate or pray I can see the checkered flag waving, the start of the racing thoughts flooding my mind. Meditation fail. I am working on an Art therapy online class. My teacher posted a blog post…
I wrote this for my other blog but I believe this applies here too. I get news of conferences for education. One of them pointed out an issue that children and those with PTSD struggle. https://www.socialthinking.com/ The Size of the Problem Problems happen all the time – perhaps you dropped your ice cream cone on…
I followed a link to another link to another one until I landed on this link about What is DBT? http://behavioraltech.org/resources/whatisdbt.cfm Reading about DBT I realized that this is part of what my counselor did with me. My counselor used a variety of methods depending on what I seemed to respond to. He learned that…
Change your mood….change your behavior…..change your thinking. Mood/emotions, behavior, and thinking are so interconnected that changing one changes the others. I am always searching for more articles and websites explaining ways that might help with coping with PTSD. I am learning more about emotions all the time. I spent a good share of my life…
I was raised with a taboo about emotions. I was not taught to recognize and rejoice in my emotions. My mother couldn’t control her emotions so she controlled mine. Worked to. My teen idol was Mr. Spock. I thought I would be perfect if I could show no emotion. I felt totally betrayed when they…
Suicide is rising as feelings of hope are diminishing. I work at a school and see how often teachers and administrators focus on what is wrong, how kids are failing, and how to test to find more things wrong. Hyper-focusing on all the negative we reach a point of only seeing the negative. Our school…
This isn’t the only article about the number of suicides that are happening. Teenagers, children, soldiers, elderly almost every walk of life are experiencing epidemic increases in suicides. Blaming internet, government, and other entities misses the point. http://www.aol.com/article/2016/07/11/suicide-now-the-leading-cause-of-death-for-children-in-utah/21430058/ My personal study on the subject is the rising wave of hopelessness, feeling they are a…
In today’s fast paced World, people treat you like a criminal if you have an unproductive day. Epitaphs such as lazy, slug, bum, and other cruel name calling come your way. Here’s the deal, I would love to be productive but my get up and go, got up and went without me. I remember as…
I finally had my melt down. I started spiraling down down down last February. Yesterday DH helped me melt down at last. There is something about rock bottom that helps me back up again. It is like I can’t stop the spiral down until I hit a low low enough to stop, catch my breath,…
My sister, Judy, and I walk almost every Saturday morning. I call our time Sister Therapy. We talk about her current work in progress books, events, challenges, past, present, you name it we discuss it. Sometimes we agree and sometimes we don’t, that’s ok. We learned a long time ago we can disagree without being…
PTSD - Accepting, Coping, Thriving 