This is the time of the year I review my progress. I made it through Christmas time. I love the season but tend to plan more than I could ever accomplish. I lost presents that I bought this summer and had to buy things for my granddaughters. They’ll get the other presents when I find…
Hey I found a new term for thriving. Posttraumatic Growth is a term coined by “psychologists Richard G. Tedeschi and Lawrence G. Calhoun at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in the mid-nineties.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posttraumatic_growth I came across it in this article “How to Suffer Successfully: Post-Traumatic Growth and Nietzschean Resilience” http://wakeup-world.com/2015/12/07/how-to-suffer-successfully-post-traumatic-growth-and-nietzschean-resilience/ Most people do…
May today bring peace and joy to your home. Challenges are all around but this is a beautiful time to make new memories. I can’t control the memories I have from my past but I can create new memories now. Create a new tradition. Eliminate activities that are all stress and no joy. Simplify. Sit…
Early in my counseling I learned that TBI and PTSD have many similarities. They also have plenty of differences. PTSD Break the Silence is a page on Facebook. If you have Facebook, I recommend adding this page to your resources. PTSD Break The Silence Tips for Communicating with People with TBI (Note: Many people who…
I have too much to do. I’m not coping I can’t handle one more thing. NOW you recommend that I give service? So went my counseling session so many years ago. However, I already knew the answer. I developed 7 simple changes to start taking back my life years before I started counseling. Service was…
Reposted from Facebook PTSD Break The Silence 16 Ways To Help A Friend With Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Helping Someone with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder It can be hard to handle having a close friend or family member with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). They may struggle with irritability, have problems sleeping at night, be…
I backed off from all things computer. I am refocusing on family, friends and sanity. My friend let me review the mess I tumble into. It wasn’t actually my mess but choices of others affected me in a negative way. Work went from mildly stressful to job hunting to didn’t want to get out of…
Originally posted on The Project: Me by Judy:
(in)courage shared this last year, and so did I:
I decided when I started this blog to tell it like it is…all of it, warts and all. Some of the encouraging pages I studied glossed over the tough days. They jump forward to the future saying tomorrow will be better without addressing the distress today. I don’t do time warps. On some days, PTSD…
Tonight is one of those nights that I wish I was still in counseling with my first counselor. He let me email him when I felt tremendous internal pressure and I needed to let off steam without harming anyone, myself included. He wouldn’t always answer. Many times it would be a short acknowledgement that we…
PTSD - Accepting, Coping, Thriving 