Emotional abuse is part of all other abuses. http://liveboldandbloom.com/11/relationships/signs-of-emotional-abuse?c=JWells This article is longer than most but worth the read this is one excerpt from the beginning. So what is emotional abuse? It involves a regular pattern of verbal offense, threatening, bullying, and constant criticism, as well as more subtle tactics like intimidation, shaming and manipulation.…
I’m not sure I am ready….yet, this was what I did in my 10 years of counseling. Embraced one trigger, fear, incident, memory at a time, even if they tried to crowd forward all at once my counselor would help me focus on a bit a time. I read this article that set me thinking…
Why do I feel so extremely irritated by this article? http://psychcentral.com/lib/what-causes-ptsd/ It is an interesting thought out explanation how trauma affects the brain. So why do I feel so pissed off, angry, upset, almost didn’t share the link. I left it hanging out on my browser annoying me everyday because I wanted to figure why…
Hey I found a new term for thriving. Posttraumatic Growth is a term coined by “psychologists Richard G. Tedeschi and Lawrence G. Calhoun at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in the mid-nineties.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posttraumatic_growth I came across it in this article “How to Suffer Successfully: Post-Traumatic Growth and Nietzschean Resilience” http://wakeup-world.com/2015/12/07/how-to-suffer-successfully-post-traumatic-growth-and-nietzschean-resilience/ Most people do…
PTSD - Accepting, Coping, Thriving 