I’m sharing different coping tools I added to my toolbox when fighting PTSD. I hope that they help someone else, too. Every once in awhile I need to be reminded as to why I do this. What motivates me to keep working on sharing these ideas? What is the driving force behind hours of reading…
Not an easy question. I’ve done both. After I had cancer, my DH bought me a gym membership. Thanks to the nifty machine that I would not have access to at home, I have full motion of my arm on the side I had surgery. However, my contracted personal trainer had a minor melt down…
Run, run as fast as you can, You can’t catch me I’m the gingerbread man. I sometimes feel that I am racing from one activity after another with barely a breath in between. This week my body shut down on Thursday…I felt deep gratitude that I made it all the way home before my body…
I learned long ago, before counseling, when I was raising my small children we checked out a library book called, It Could Always be Worse. (http://www.amazon.com/It-Could-Always-Be-Worse/dp/0374436363) I delightful tale of the woes of a young man when his brother’s widow moves in with her lazy son. Seeking answers things became much worse. Survivors experience worse. …
Evan commented yesterday that taking control of my life is not accurate. He phrased it nicer. Life happens. My participation when I have victim thinking is a bit like driftwood tossed into a raging river. Healthier thinking, I am a person on that driftwood with my hands paddling like mad to get to where I…
I’m fairly sure the last one is not a word, but it needs to be. Thriving was not part of my vocabulary. I understood taking orders, I knew how to survive; it is like I knew how to drive a tank but didn’t know how to walk down a city street. I do believe some…
My counselor left me in no doubt early in my counseling what he thought of my emotional understanding; he called me an emotional moron. At the time, I felt a little put off, today I realized he was being kind. I work at a school that teaches high school students what they need to know…
This is becoming a recurring theme in my own struggles and in the articles I read. I’m not sure if more articles are being written or I am paying attention to them more. Or perhaps it is a back lash from some of the comments I read on Facebook that sound like PTSD is the…
I would get terribly jealous when my counselor would take time off. Not because he wouldn’t see me for awhile but because he could take time off. PTSD is relentless. Just when I think I might get a break something else body slams me. But it is actually really helpful to try not to think…
PTSD Break The Silence People with PTSD can create and maintain good relationships by: Building a personal support network to help cope with PTSD while working on family and friend relationships Sharing feelings honestly and openly, with respect and compassion Building skills at problem solving and connecting with others Including ways to play, be creative,…
PTSD - Accepting, Coping, Thriving 