PTSD Professional Perspective: It’s About Time Line To End Your PTSD

I love Time Line Therapy. It’s a great way to help the mind  frame experience, plus strategize, plan and execute change. Today’s guest post comes from a practitioner who’s using Time Line Therapy to help survivors with PTSD. Better yet, Judy McBride is one of those splendid professionals who deeply believes in the possibility of healing.

It’s About Time Line To End Your PTSD

I don’t have to tell anyone coming to this page about the symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).  You already know the fear, the anxiety, the excessive vigilance or the sleep problems.  You may have numbed out all emotions, including healthy, loving emotions toward the people you care about.  Or, you may have angry outbursts for no reason.

One of my clients was afraid to answer her phone…and her income depended on keeping in touch with her clients.

The good news is that there is an effective and relatively simple technique for dissolving the symptoms of PTSD.  It is generally not used by licensed mental health providers and does not involve medication.  The treatment — Time Line Therapy^TM – was developed more than three decades ago primarily by Tad James, PhD.  You can read more at www.timelinetherapy.net.

I find Time Line Therapy^TM very effective in dealing with individual symptoms of PTSD.  Often, when the major symptom dissolves, related symptoms go with it.  I encourage all practitioners who know Time Line Therapy to reach out to the thousands of vets who need help.

HOW IT WORKS

So why do some people who experience terrifying events stay PTSD-free while other are haunted by the memories?  We don’t know for sure, but it’s likely that those who develop PTSD experienced earlier events, often in childhood, that evoked the same emotions that stoke their current mental suffering.  These events or situations serve as the “root causes.” They may not involve terror, death or anything similar to what was experienced in a war zone, for example.  They just had to evoke the same emotions, which serve as an “anchor” for later trauma events to lock on to.

Strange as it may seem, some people with PTSD symptoms “inherited” an emotional blueprint from an ancestor that serves as the root cause.  So, naturally, they wouldn’t have any conscious memory of that event.  But the subconscious mind can find it using a time line … a tool to help the subconscious mind move throughout past, present and future.

WHY IT WORKS

Time Line Therapy^TM is effective because it addresses your subconscious mind … the part of your mind that generates all your emotions.  It is also the part of your mind that always tries to protect you.  That’s why many with PTSD go emotionally numb; their subconscious shuts off all emotion to protect them from the horrible thoughts and feelings.

Standard talk therapy attempts to correct these subconscious issues through the conscious mind…the rational part of the mind that tries to FIGURE OUT the hows and whys of the disorder.  By contrast, the subconscious mind KNOWS where the anchors are and can lead you there because it has no reasoning skills to get in the way.

Using your own, unique time line, you can float back before the root cause of each emotion and release that emotional anchor.  The SECRET is that once your subconscious is BEFORE the root cause, it can now perceive that event or situation from a much wiser perspective.  And the best part is that it comes up with that wiser perspective on its own …rarely with  input from the practitioner.

Once your perception of the event shifts, it’s far easier to clear that emotional reaction all the way up to the present, including the trauma or war zone experiences.  I work with each emotion separately…unless two or more release at one time.  Once released, they are gone.

WORKS BEST WITH HYPNOSIS

Time Line Therapy works best when you are in hypnosis, which helps to keep the reasoning part of the mind quiet.  One does not have to be a licensed psychologist or social worker to use it effectively.  I am neither.  I am a board-certified clinical hypnotist.  I have used the technique effectively with non-military PTSD clients as well as with phobias, anxiety and obsessive thinking. I have also taught the technique in my hypnosis classes at my local community college and senior center.

VETS HEALING VETS … MY VISION

I believe that vetereans who have been freed of PTSD can learn to use the technique along with some background information about the subconscious mind to help fellow PTSD sufferers…if they feel so drawn.  A vet understands the issues of another vet better than anyone else.  In fact, I envision a whole network of vets helping fellow vets tame the PTSD tiger.  And I am willing to train a group of six or more interested vets who have been freed of their own disorder through Time Line Therapy^TM free of charge.

For individual sessions, I offer vets of Iraq and Afghanistan half or more off my normal charge, depending on their circumstances.  And I guarantee that I will keep your sessions completely confidential.

Judy McBride has been a certified hypnotist since 1995  and became board certified in 2008.  Her training includes both clinical hypnosis, NLP and past life regression with numerous experts, including the Inner Guidance Psychotherapy Center in Austin, Texas, and the internationally known Omni Hypnosis Training Center in DeLand, Florida.

Judy’s home office is located in Annapolis, Maryland, making it easily accessible to both the Baltimore and Washington, DC, metropolitan areas, including Northern Virginia and Maryland’s Eastern Shore.

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