I work at a high school. Over and over again the teachers ask, “Do you have any questions?” Students are absolutely silent. Then they begin their work and becomes painfully obvious that they needed to ask questions. I learned to do this myself. I asked questions about everything. When I first worked in a computer…
There are questions and then there are QUESTIONS. I believe in asking questions. This article went on to identify and clarify several things that I believe about questions. The first type of question James Ryan identifies is the question that is really an insult or a put down. https://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/16/05/good-questions Some questions are used to intimidate…
I became unreasonably dismayed that my online art therapy teacher asked me to make a family tree as one of the projects. I pushed pause and walked away. (Nice advantage of an online class.) I took all day to hash through why I was so unreasonably upset over a simple assignment. Well, with my family…
I wrote about this on my other blog first and decided it will be helpful here too. http://weareone-ruth.blogspot.com/2016/10/doodles.html I believe Zentangles is a fancy name for Doodles. I am adding doodling to my night time routine….last night I was able to go to sleep an hour earlier than I usually do. For me, that is…
A challenge in “Princess Bride” rather than a fight to the death it would be a fight to the pain. The description stayed vivid in my mind. The implication is death is preferred to pain and pain must be avoided at all cost. Through my life experience I learned that isn’t always true. When I…
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…
PTSD - Accepting, Coping, Thriving 