Can become strengths, but not by themselves. I spent years trying to fix me. My counselor cautioned me to stop working so hard on my weaknesses every day. I was puzzled….how could a weakness become a strength if I didn’t work at correcting them. He was trying to help me see if my only focus…
One of the more common topics of discussion on several PTSD/CPTSD web pages and posts is about the Inner Critic. That little voice in your head that keep pointing out and dwelling on every mistake ever made by that person. Someone on Facebook posted this image about criticism… This is what I do…
This morning I was scanning through Facebook group for CPTSD someone added this link to a talk called: Affirmation techniques for People with CPTSD (how to bypass inner critic.) When I posted the link the video popped in, so here it is. I actually used this idea without knowing what it was. I…
First of the year we are bombarded with meme’s to set goals, make resolutions, embrace the change and get moving. For many years I hung my head in shame and gave up on January 2, because I was going to break those resolutions anyway, may as well get it over with as quickly as possible. …
Today was the second day of the new year and my favorite store celebrated by giving those over 55 a discount….Yea for discounts. I used my gift certificates and chose items that I would not usually buy for myself. I treated me. Yes, I saw many things I could give someone else but part of…
I dropped into holiday survival mode and stopped my course of study with Blueknot….several of the areas cover details of how long and how much therapy is needed for CPTSD/PTSD. Mine was 10 years and 3 counselors. I am still a work in progress. I’m fortunate that my first counselor focused on teaching me the…
This month started out with a bang, DH went to the emergency room…..very rare occurrence..our children kept asking if it was me instead. Turns out he is now on temporary disability and a lot of pain. Thankful to a lady from church that provided some relief and pain management tools. Followed by my mother dying. …
My daughter had a large brain tumor removed. This experience led her to studying different ways this injury effects her life. This is an article she shared with me. I recommend reading it and every where it says “brain injury” read instead PTSD/CPTSD. More and more doctors and psychologist are agreeing that PTSD/CPTSD is a…
Yup I did. I ripped up my Christmas To-Do list this week. I was stressing because my DH (Darling Husband) is looking at some serious medical issues and I was overwhelmed at all I had to do so I ripped up the To-Do list. Now it is a Maybe do one or two things for…
Our lives had a new twist added that is extremely unpleasant. I decided to pare down and cut out many things on my to do list. I decided that some things will just be missed this year. I am focusing on gifts for grandkids. Already shipped the ones out of state. I learned years ago…
PTSD - Accepting, Coping, Thriving 