I am blessed with awesome Facebook pages that encourage me and inspire me to be better. They also assure me that I am of worth just as I am. These are a couple of pictures that came through my timeline that I saved to use here. Often when I am trying to select ways to…
This came in my letter from Michele Rosenthal, http://yourlifeaftertraumabook.com/. She shares her recovery methods from PTSD. I’m sharing her words to let you know that you are not alone in finding this time of year is tough. But it might not be the toughest time for you. Each person has their own times of…
PTSD is a monster to live with. My attempts to remove it from my life is less than what I would like it to be. I learned the hard way trying to eradicate it from my life in all one go is not going to happen right now. I set myself up to fail setting…
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…
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…
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…
Every once in awhile I run across an article that hits a tender and mending spot. For many years my emotions were unavailable to me and in extension to my children. I didn’t do this on purpose. It has to do with how I was raised. I am working at changing it. I change slowly.…
PTSD - Accepting, Coping, Thriving 