My counselor asked me why didn’t I tell? At first I didn’t know, because I didn’t remember. To help me get in touch with my feelings he gave me a children’s coloring book about feelings to use. Color this page happy and what color is sad and so on then came the page “What would…
I saw myself as small, helpless, dominated, squashed….a worm with no back bone. If anyone called me a victor I would look at them very strangely. I did not see myself in a positive light. Yet, I believed I could change. I chose change, lots of change. As I changed, I started looking at different…
Nobody wants to be a victim….or so I thought. I love defining commonly used words to make sure we all mean the same thing. Victim http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/victim Full Definition of VICTIM 1: a living being sacrificed to a deity or in the performance of a religious rite 2: one that is acted on and usually adversely…
This was supposed to happen yesterday. It didn’t. I am paying for ignoring my body’s quiet plea to slow down a little. I’m doing all sorts of good cool stuff but just a little too much (a lot too much.) I keep trying to not allow PTSD to run my life but ignore it too…
PTSD - Accepting, Coping, Thriving 