This past week I pondered an epiphany that totally altered how I viewed myself and events from my childhood. During my trip in June, I had the opportunity to visit with my first counselor that worked with me for 7 years and taught me so much about living. He moved on to another state but…
PTSD is like having your stress bucket almost full before you start your day. Adding a big event such as a wedding or friends party or a movie or any other event with good stress or bad stress I am making trade offs. How long will it take me to recover from that 3 hour…
On Facebook friends posted an article about how complaining rewires your brain. http://truththeory.com/2016/07/11/how-complaining-rewires-your-brain-for-negativity-and-how-to-break-the-habit/ “Spending today complaining about yesterday won’t make tomorrow any better.” ~Unknown The article makes several good points about complaining being a habit, also explains ways to break gripe talk. So why the title? One of the biggies on the abuser’s must do…
One of the blogs I follow is Emerging from Broken by Darlene Ouimet. She posted her experience on confronting her abuser/mother. http://emergingfrombroken.com/to-confront-or-not-to-confront-that-is-the-question/ Darlene points out several of the issues when confronting. Not wanting to hurt their feelings. Concern that she would be just like them. Lack of self care. I also talked to my counselor…
Today many articles are written about the Fight or flight response to stress. Over the years they added a third reaction to stress, freeze. I call it ‘deer in the head lights’ reaction. Rather than fight or flight, freezing is my reaction trying to assess before moving in any direction. Here is an article that…
Sometimes I write a blog post that belongs on both blogs….today is one of those days. One of the challenges that I have is believing I deserve joy, happiness and fun. I separate them because each one has its own nuance and source. I was introduced to this concept when I read Life’s Uncertain, Eat…
I read an article a while back that said in effect that what happens in our early childhood has no affect on later life. Really….I learned to walk and talk quite young and I am still walking and talking. Saying that early life experiences is neglecting oceans of facts studies and life experience that shows…
One of the frustrations of PTSD is after a wonderful experience, a crash often follows close on or a trigger seems 10 times more annoying when you felt on top of the world to slam down again. On these rough days I like to remember the quote I saw from several sources. (Not sure who…
One of the challenges of looking for help is finding someone that understands PTSD. The second challenge is the mistaken belief that they can fix you. I started counseling with the vague idea that going the therapist would magically fix my problems. Doesn’t work that way. A good counselor in my opinion shares with you…
My sister posts stuff from Navy Seals on a regular basis. Today was a nice reminder to me. Unbreakable: A Navy SEAL’s Way of Life Life is supposed to be hard from the time you abruptly come into the world until the time you slide in sideways to the end of the line! If it…
PTSD - Accepting, Coping, Thriving 