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. …
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…
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/pierre_teilhard_de_chardi_160888 I believe there is a 4th aspect that is often ignored, our spiritual welfare. Sadly, abusers do terrible things proclaiming that God is backing them. Religious abuse is…
Psychologist have their own language that they use to communicate with each other and without a great deal of study leave their client kind of in the dark as to what is going on. https://www.blueknot.org.au/Workers-Practitioners/For-Health-Professionals/Resources-for-Health-Professionals/Best-Practice-Guidelines 11. Ensure the therapeutic model/approach promotes integration of functioning, and contains the `core elements’ consistent with research findings in the neurobiology…
I took a break from my blogs…how do I feel about it? This is a research/information/encouragement blog. I keep studying and finding more things to help myself and hopefully others. It grew well past my original plans. I discovered in taking a break I did less research. I didn’t keep up with other people’s blogs…
Shame came up fairly early in my counseling. I was given a book about shame and tried to explain that there was shame and toxic shame only there isn’t a different name for toxic shame so there is shame that is good for you and shame that is bad for you but no wait maybe…
Every once in a while I come across a statement that is so cloaked in psycho babble that it hardly makes sense. This is one of those time. Continuing with the best practices: https://www.blueknot.org.au/Workers-Practitioners/For-Health-Professionals/Resources-for-Health-Professionals/Best-Practice-Guidelines Understand and attune to the prevalence and varied forms of dissociative responses, the differences between hyper and hypoarousal, and the need to…
I noticed that any time I write about the big bad ugly symptoms of PTSD or CPTSD very few people like my post. I kind of agree that I don’t like it either but it is part of what I live with every day. I do not get days off for good behavior. I also…
I am going through a list of best practices for therapist with CPTSD/PTSD clients. I am stuck on number 5. https://www.blueknot.org.au/Workers-Practitioners/For-Health-Professionals/Resources-for-Health-Professionals/Best-Practice-Guidelines It is cloaked in Psycho-babble terms but boils down to the therapist needs to kindly tell the client they are brain damaged….awesome. There is no easy way to put this. Really. I thought for days. …
One of the powerful things taught to me by my first counselor that my ‘symptoms’ of PTSD were actually life adaptions that worked for me at the time of trauma. Of course, the issue was that they were maladaptive for living a more settled life. In the list of best practices, one of the concepts…
PTSD - Accepting, Coping, Thriving 