This week I wrote the keys for the students to correct their classwork about teaching children emotional intelligence. Unlike intellectual intelligence, the studies show that emotional intelligence is learned. I have permission from the teacher to share links and other information about how to teach children how to recognize, name, and work with their emotions. …
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…
I spent a few weeks browsing PTSD web sites and Facebook pages. I found I was getting frustrated with what appeared to me a feeling of fatalism coming across the pages. The general tone is “PTSD took everything from me and now I have nothing except nightmares.” The overall tone of hopelessness was depressing. I…
Flooding is a really good description of what happens when I am overwhelmed by anxiety. My hearing loss increases, I can’t digest my food, I can become disoriented, and I lose coordination. Being teased as a child about being clumsy I better understand now what I experienced was such a high level of anxiety that…
One of the ongoing challenges I face every day is lumping a whole bunch of stuff together and labeling it PTSD. Sometimes some of the symptoms are something else. Sometimes I need to tackle one problem at a time. A kitten plays with a yarn ball and turns it into a knotted mess. If I…
PTSD - Accepting, Coping, Thriving 