My dear and loving daughter sent me this for Mother's Day
I think it's such a good addition for anyone visiting this blog... THIS IS TO MOTHER YOU
POWER OF TWO
Monday, May 13, 2013
Sunday, April 7, 2013
Our Stories Now: Adult Survivors of Childhood Trauma: This Doctor Had A Breakdown, Saw A Therapist, And ...
Our Stories Now: Adult Survivors of Childhood Trauma: This Doctor Had A Breakdown, Saw A Therapist, And ...: This is just too wonderful and helpful not to share: Would love to hear (see) your comments on this one. This Doctor Had A Breakdown,...
This Doctor Had A Breakdown, Saw A Therapist, And Ended Up Changing Lives, Link
This is just too wonderful and helpful not to share: Would love to hear (see) your comments on this one.
This Doctor Had A Breakdown, Saw A Therapist, And Ended Up Changing Lives
Saturday, March 9, 2013
How are you really feeling? Words for your emotions part 1/3
I have a new homework assignment and it's a tough one. I've been asked to say how I feel when I think or experience a particular situation... And this is difficult enough because so often I use thinking words rather than feeling words. I think I'm feeling something but, in truth I'm thinking it.... AAAAARGH! Well, the reason this is an important exercise it that, once I've identified a feeling, I am supposed to identify where that feeling occurs in my body. In other words, "How does that feeling manifest itself?" I understand I get into trouble when I decide I've felt something rather than thought it and then attribute the feeling to the circumstances or individual causing me to feel a particular way... It's faulty thinking. I need to work on this and if you're anything like me perhaps you do too?
How are you really feeling? Words for your emotions part 1/3
How are you really feeling? Words for your emotions part 1/3
Monday, January 28, 2013
ENCOURAGING WORDS REGARDING GRIEF AND AMBIGUOUS LOSS...
THE POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER SOURCEBOOK, Schiraldi:
From Chapter 28, Grieving Losses: "We grieve what we value; we grieve in proportion to our afftection." -- from memorial to Jane Austen, Winchester Cathedral.
"All the many complex issues involved in PTSD must be disentangled for recovery to proceed. Grief is one such issue. All events that are significant enough to cause PTSD involve loss, yet grief often gets buried in the struggle for survival. Perhaps you were too numbed to grieve. Perhaps you were too busy or were discouraged from grieving. Perhaps some aspects of the trauma still feel so overwhelming that you have avoided them. These reactions are all normal. However, continually avoiding the normal, healthy feelings of grief keep unresolved memories of loss in active memory, emotionally charged, and likely to intrude.
"Grief memories are processed much like other aspects of traumatic memories at your own pace and when you are ready. Losses are confronted and processed so that meaningful adjustments and adaptations can be made in our lives. Of course, adjustments can only be made if we clearly acknowledge the nature of our losses. We can't adapt and find new ways to satisfy the void if losses are not confronted. Losses that are buried -- not explored, experienced, and expressed -- can erupt at inopportune times, resulting in a host of physical and emotional symptoms. The more we fear facing the pain of loss, the more we remain in bondage to the past. So it is important to process our losses." page 248.
The above paragraphs begin a several page chapter that offers useful and comforting information to make sense of the complicated mourning that is involved in recovering from and living beyond trauma.
I'm finding this entire book an excellent resource... I hope you will find something here to aid in your living.
From Chapter 28, Grieving Losses: "We grieve what we value; we grieve in proportion to our afftection." -- from memorial to Jane Austen, Winchester Cathedral.
"All the many complex issues involved in PTSD must be disentangled for recovery to proceed. Grief is one such issue. All events that are significant enough to cause PTSD involve loss, yet grief often gets buried in the struggle for survival. Perhaps you were too numbed to grieve. Perhaps you were too busy or were discouraged from grieving. Perhaps some aspects of the trauma still feel so overwhelming that you have avoided them. These reactions are all normal. However, continually avoiding the normal, healthy feelings of grief keep unresolved memories of loss in active memory, emotionally charged, and likely to intrude.
"Grief memories are processed much like other aspects of traumatic memories at your own pace and when you are ready. Losses are confronted and processed so that meaningful adjustments and adaptations can be made in our lives. Of course, adjustments can only be made if we clearly acknowledge the nature of our losses. We can't adapt and find new ways to satisfy the void if losses are not confronted. Losses that are buried -- not explored, experienced, and expressed -- can erupt at inopportune times, resulting in a host of physical and emotional symptoms. The more we fear facing the pain of loss, the more we remain in bondage to the past. So it is important to process our losses." page 248.
The above paragraphs begin a several page chapter that offers useful and comforting information to make sense of the complicated mourning that is involved in recovering from and living beyond trauma.
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
MUSIC'S EFFECT ON PTSD AND ALZHEIMER'S SUFFERERS
http://youtu.be/goIaFST2Epw
This video lecture demonstrates the importance of music for healing and brain function for individuals who suffer from anxiety and fear. Sleep disorders, Alzheimer's, relationship maintenance... Well, take a look and see what you think.
Wanted to mention too a highly user-friendly book I picked up at the library last week:
THE POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER SOURCE BOOK by Glenn R. Schiraldi
This video lecture demonstrates the importance of music for healing and brain function for individuals who suffer from anxiety and fear. Sleep disorders, Alzheimer's, relationship maintenance... Well, take a look and see what you think.
Wanted to mention too a highly user-friendly book I picked up at the library last week:
THE POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER SOURCE BOOK by Glenn R. Schiraldi
http://www.amazon.com/Post-Traumatic-Stress-Disorder-Sourcebook-Recovery/dp/007161494X/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1358283071&sr=1-2#reader_007161494X
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