My daughter had a large brain tumor removed. This experience led her to studying different ways this injury effects her life. This is an article she shared with me. I recommend reading it and every where it says “brain injury” read instead PTSD/CPTSD. More and more doctors and psychologist are agreeing that PTSD/CPTSD is a…
Yup I did. I ripped up my Christmas To-Do list this week. I was stressing because my DH (Darling Husband) is looking at some serious medical issues and I was overwhelmed at all I had to do so I ripped up the To-Do list. Now it is a Maybe do one or two things for…
Our lives had a new twist added that is extremely unpleasant. I decided to pare down and cut out many things on my to do list. I decided that some things will just be missed this year. I am focusing on gifts for grandkids. Already shipped the ones out of state. I learned years ago…
I took off school today for probably one of the strangest reasons so I didn’t explain too much. I thought I was doing fairly well with the news of my mother dying. Then yesterday, I received a sympathy card. To say I didn’t handle it well would be a gross understatement. I knew the sender…
Interesting how sitting with your emotions for 24 hours can help them each have a turn center stage. It sucked getting news about my mother’s death on facebook….the reality is my phone isn’t working well. I put it on the charger and left to go shopping. I was literally out of contact from any family. …
I just found out on Facebook that my mother died tonight. Not sure what to think about this.
I am in holiday season mode. Maintaining and not moving too much. Hence, the breaks and gaps between posts. https://ptsd-acceptingcopingthriving.com/2018/11/15/phases/ A couple of weeks back I posted about the “Gold Standard” of counseling being taught in phases. My experience was I wanted to get strait to the processing and hurry up and get it over…
Before judging me and my choices, walk a mile in my shoes…..then you are a mile away and I can’t hear you. Too often it is comments and words and ‘well meaning’ advice that can really hurt. Instead of expecting other people to watch what they say, I am working on a list of…
Not sure how to start this post. I looked up my original wording and the connotation is totally different from what I meant. I’ll try starting at the beginning. Caution – deep difficult subject. My mother raised me in a fear based living system. Everything I did was geared to avoid being hit or berated. …
An integral part of healing. Gratitude helps me see the good things in a day. Gratitude helps me see the good in me. I started counting blessings. Lots of them. I did the blessing a day for a month and barely scratched the surface. Then someone pointed out that counting blessings was putting a limit…
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