Treating PTSD: Are You Committed?

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The end of another month of the BTG workshop! For those of you working it, let me just tell you I admire your dedication and tenacity. Recovery will be yours!

Before we wrap up Doing Whatever It Takes To Heal, a quick reminder: The deadline for this month’s contest is midnight Saturday. The focus for the contest: What’s your healing goal? Check out details here. (FYI: To insure everyone’s privacy, contest winners are kept anonymous. No announcement will be made. Which means you should feel competely safe submitting your healing goal and taking the chance to win a FREE 30 minute self-empowered healing coaching session!)

OK, on to the good stuff: We’ve covered a lot of topics this month in terms of doing everything possible to overcome PTSD. The final installment (for now!) is a BTG Big Question that really underlies the entire healing process:

Are you doing whatever it takes to be committed to healing?

The path to healing post-traumatic stress is long, the journey fraught with successes and failures, our minds and bodies — beleagured and exhausted — can frequently suggest we will not achieve the end goal. Despite all of this you must press forward. You must find that extra reserve of strength (which you DO have, I promise) and stay on the road to recovery.

I failed in my own healing quest many times. I went at the goal like a line backer and found myself tackled before I’d barely begun. Treatments I believed in didn’t bring anticipated results. My body broke down and impeded any kind of action. My mind turned to a pool of butter that trickled and seaped beyond my grasp.

Still, even during those times when I thought I would have to accept defeat — even on those days I didn’t know in which direction victory would be found — I forced myself to remain devoted to the task at hand. Repeated failure was an option; giving up was not.

Ask yourself today: Am I doing whatever it takes to be committed to my healing? And answer yourself in a long-winded list of all the ways you’re making the effort.

Then, pat yourself on the back, appreciate the strength and resilience it takes to do what needs to be done, and reward yourself. You’re working hard, don’t forget to give yourself a break every once in a while! And then, double down your bets.

(For those of you who do not answer affirmatively to this question, sit yourself down and figure out why. Do you want to heal? If so, why aren’t you doing whatever it takes to commit to that goal? What more could you do to strengthen that commitment? Make a list of options. Choose one thing and do it in the coming week.)

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Tags: Doing Whatever It Takes To Heal, healing, post-traumatic stress, ptsd