Comments on: Even with PTSD Some Days You Find a Gift http://healmyptsd.com/2008/10/even-with-ptsd-some-days-you-find-a-gift.html Support, education and information about Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:17:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Michele http://healmyptsd.com/2008/10/even-with-ptsd-some-days-you-find-a-gift.html/comment-page-1#comment-9134 Michele Wed, 27 Jul 2011 17:08:47 +0000 http://healmyptsd.com/2008/10/even-with-ptsd-some-days-you-find-a-gift.html#comment-9134 @Sharon -- I'm so glad the post resonated with you. I continue to dance multiple times a week. I've even picked up belly dance now, which has me back at square 1 in terms of skills! I hope you've reconnected and set yourself free to feel the joy. :) @Sharon — I’m so glad the post resonated with you. I continue to dance multiple times a week. I’ve even picked up belly dance now, which has me back at square 1 in terms of skills! I hope you’ve reconnected and set yourself free to feel the joy. :)

]]> By: Sharon Reid http://healmyptsd.com/2008/10/even-with-ptsd-some-days-you-find-a-gift.html/comment-page-1#comment-9098 Sharon Reid Thu, 21 Jul 2011 23:24:24 +0000 http://healmyptsd.com/2008/10/even-with-ptsd-some-days-you-find-a-gift.html#comment-9098 I Love Love Love this posting! I came to this one from the Pain to Pleasure blog. I have loved dancing my entire life too and had made a committment in January to dance every day....I haven't kept that committment. Dancing connects all of my parts with all of my other parts and I've noticed it is impossible for me to be depressed or anxious for long once I've started allowing the music to sink into my bones and my muscles and take hold and move me with seemingly very little effort on my part. It's like music isn't something you just listen to with your ears when you are dancing....you are listening with your entire being. It has the power if I let it, to open the door to Joy and a complete connection to being totally Alive. Thank you so much for reminding me of this! Sharon I Love Love Love this posting! I came to this one from the Pain to Pleasure blog. I have loved dancing my entire life too and had made a committment in January to dance every day….I haven’t kept that committment. Dancing connects all of my parts with all of my other parts and I’ve noticed it is impossible for me to be depressed or anxious for long once I’ve started allowing the music to sink into my bones and my muscles and take hold and move me with seemingly very little effort on my part. It’s like music isn’t something you just listen to with your ears when you are dancing….you are listening with your entire being. It has the power if I let it, to open the door to Joy and a complete connection to being totally Alive. Thank you so much for reminding me of this!
Sharon

]]> By: But Enough About PTSD; Let’s Get Back to Joy | Healing and Overcoming PTSD | Heal My PTSD, LLC - Your source for symptoms, causes, and treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder http://healmyptsd.com/2008/10/even-with-ptsd-some-days-you-find-a-gift.html/comment-page-1#comment-2364 But Enough About PTSD; Let’s Get Back to Joy | Healing and Overcoming PTSD | Heal My PTSD, LLC - Your source for symptoms, causes, and treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:46:04 +0000 http://healmyptsd.com/2008/10/even-with-ptsd-some-days-you-find-a-gift.html#comment-2364 [...] The night of New Year’s Eve 2007 remains on my mind as life resumes its post-holiday routine. I decide I need at least a weekly dose of joy to buoy me through the upcoming year. It’s January 20, 2007, a Saturday night, when I take Bret and my friend, Juliette (an English teacher for gifted students at BAK Middle School of the Arts), to Noche, a new local dinner/nightclub in Palm Beach Gardens. The space is only about six weeks old and I have heard there is a good DJ, which is a rarity in Palm Beach County; I don’t quite believe it. As a New Yorker transplanted to Florida, I’ve learned how easy it is to be punk’d here. Things aren’t always the way they’re presented. A restaurant boasting “Asian fusion” really just means they smother some dishes in soy sauce. A museum’s “Premiere Matisse Exhibit” really just means they’ve hung six of his least known works in a very small back room. A public garden’s “Japanese Inspired Display” really means there are some bonsais planted in a corner. In the case of Sonny’s ‘BBQ Pit’, it really just means that a machine is pumping the smell of ribs into the parking lot. In Florida, you learn not be believe the hype. You hear the description and then scale down your expectations.Noche, however, has gotten some pretty good independent press. The review in the Palm Beach Post (written, as a matter of fact, by an ex-New Yorker) opened with, “Let me start by warning the staff at Noche that I am moving in,” and went on to describe the hi-tech dance floor and sound system and the wonderful crowd. I think maybe this time I can take the credentials at face value. Try not to be so cynical. At the very least, it will be a fun night out with Bret and Juliette. [...] [...] The night of New Year’s Eve 2007 remains on my mind as life resumes its post-holiday routine. I decide I need at least a weekly dose of joy to buoy me through the upcoming year. It’s January 20, 2007, a Saturday night, when I take Bret and my friend, Juliette (an English teacher for gifted students at BAK Middle School of the Arts), to Noche, a new local dinner/nightclub in Palm Beach Gardens. The space is only about six weeks old and I have heard there is a good DJ, which is a rarity in Palm Beach County; I don’t quite believe it. As a New Yorker transplanted to Florida, I’ve learned how easy it is to be punk’d here. Things aren’t always the way they’re presented. A restaurant boasting “Asian fusion” really just means they smother some dishes in soy sauce. A museum’s “Premiere Matisse Exhibit” really just means they’ve hung six of his least known works in a very small back room. A public garden’s “Japanese Inspired Display” really means there are some bonsais planted in a corner. In the case of Sonny’s ‘BBQ Pit’, it really just means that a machine is pumping the smell of ribs into the parking lot. In Florida, you learn not be believe the hype. You hear the description and then scale down your expectations.Noche, however, has gotten some pretty good independent press. The review in the Palm Beach Post (written, as a matter of fact, by an ex-New Yorker) opened with, “Let me start by warning the staff at Noche that I am moving in,” and went on to describe the hi-tech dance floor and sound system and the wonderful crowd. I think maybe this time I can take the credentials at face value. Try not to be so cynical. At the very least, it will be a fun night out with Bret and Juliette. [...]

]]> By: Michele Rosenthal http://healmyptsd.com/2008/10/even-with-ptsd-some-days-you-find-a-gift.html/comment-page-1#comment-1593 Michele Rosenthal Sat, 21 Mar 2009 17:19:00 +0000 http://healmyptsd.com/2008/10/even-with-ptsd-some-days-you-find-a-gift.html#comment-1593 @Anonymous- Hey! Glad you like the post. And isn't dance the most wonderful way of bridging the gap between past and present, body and mind, sadness and joy?<br /><br />If you continue reading you'll see that I continued dancing (sometimes up to 7 nights a week!) throughout my recovery. And that I still do dance 4 nights a week now.<br /><br />Would you be interested in sharing your experience (ANONYMOUSLY) with the blog's readers? <br /><br />I'd love to hear how you find freedom from music. The 'Survivors Speak' series (see the label on the side) is written by survivors. I'd love to include your perspective. If you're interested email me at parasitesof.themind@yahoo.com @Anonymous- Hey! Glad you like the post. And isn’t dance the most wonderful way of bridging the gap between past and present, body and mind, sadness and joy?

If you continue reading you’ll see that I continued dancing (sometimes up to 7 nights a week!) throughout my recovery. And that I still do dance 4 nights a week now.

Would you be interested in sharing your experience (ANONYMOUSLY) with the blog’s readers?

I’d love to hear how you find freedom from music. The ‘Survivors Speak’ series (see the label on the side) is written by survivors. I’d love to include your perspective. If you’re interested email me at parasitesof.themind@yahoo.com

]]> By: Anonymous http://healmyptsd.com/2008/10/even-with-ptsd-some-days-you-find-a-gift.html/comment-page-1#comment-1594 Anonymous Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:23:00 +0000 http://healmyptsd.com/2008/10/even-with-ptsd-some-days-you-find-a-gift.html#comment-1594 It's two years after this post, but I just started reading the blog. I have complex PTSD and love reading your writing. <br />I related so well with freedom through music. That is my major release!<br />Thanks for sharing It’s two years after this post, but I just started reading the blog. I have complex PTSD and love reading your writing.
I related so well with freedom through music. That is my major release!
Thanks for sharing

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