Thorn in my side….. Stated by Pavelka, “…is absolute. What you think about, you bring about. If you focus on the bad, more bad will come, but if you focus on how you want things to be and you believe and picture it as though it is already here, it will turn up.” This to…
I am continuing with my comments on Pavelka’s Toolbox. https://pavelka.co.uk/ HOG – Honest Open and Genuine I believe this is part of Rule #1 Stop lying, especially to yourself. I was deeply troubled by the lies upon lies I lived with everyday to maintain the facade that my childhood was great. For me to be…
I am going to respond to Pavelka Health Revolution Pavelka Toolkit The only person who is responsible for your life is YOU! That may sound harsh but it can also be enlightening as YOU have control over YOU and nobody else – so if something does not feel right you can change it. This is…
I asked for years what was wrong with me. No answers….I asked my parents and my doctor. Nothing. Medical test showed I was healthy….then why did I pass out? My parents told me I was like every other teenager. I talked to other teenagers and they didn’t react like I did. I learned two things…
I wrote this for my other blog but I believe this applies here too. I get news of conferences for education. One of them pointed out an issue that children and those with PTSD struggle. https://www.socialthinking.com/ The Size of the Problem Problems happen all the time – perhaps you dropped your ice cream cone on…
I followed a link to another link to another one until I landed on this link about What is DBT? http://behavioraltech.org/resources/whatisdbt.cfm Reading about DBT I realized that this is part of what my counselor did with me. My counselor used a variety of methods depending on what I seemed to respond to. He learned that…
There are times in my life when depression has the upper hand and makes my life miserable. I feel like I need a gold star for getting out of bed. I drag around barely able to function. I do nothing that I enjoy. Life sucks. Self punishment is when I am feeling fairly healthy. I…
I am working on The PTSD Workbook, 2nd edition, Mary Beth Williams, PhD, LCSW, CTS and Soili Poijula, PhD. In their book, they refer to another book, A Clinical Handbook/Practical Therapist Manual for Assessing and Treating Adults with Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (Meichenbaum 1994) the authors noticed that there are personality traits that influence how much…
A friend posted a link of what they wanted their daughter to know when things get real. Looks a lot like the list my counselor had me work on to learn to live instead of just survive. Early in my counseling he gave me the challenge “to thrive not just survive.” Game ON!!!! http://www.scarymommy.com/want-my-daughter-know-as-grows-up/ Language…
Growing up with a constant flow of criticism and ways to ‘improve’ myself I have an internal tape that is down right cruel. My sister and I talk often about how to disrupt the negative tapes in our heads. The most interesting experiment is when we played Can-you-top-this with our own negative tapes. Instead of…
PTSD - Accepting, Coping, Thriving 