Making the Shift: Identity and PTSD
Monday, June 21st, 2010 • PTSD Recovery Tips •
Last week I had the most positive, inspiring and educatonal interview with Andrea Mathews. Our topic was ‘The Healing Identity’ and let me just tell you — Andrea is a powerhouse of ideas when it comes to the recovery process.
Like you and I, Andrea is a survivor, too. This means in addition to her professional training (she’s a transpersonal therapist) she’s got personal experience of her own to back up and inform everything she says.
In our conversation Andrea and I covered:
- how to distingjuish between the mask and costume of trauma vs. your authentic self
- what needs to be worked on FIRST in PTSD recovery
- specific exercises to get in touch with your authentic self
- what it means to have ‘experiential proof’
- the process of identity after trauma
- a definitive answer to the question, “Can PTSD be healed?”
And all of that is just a part of our 45-minute discussion!
I know you’ll love hearing the rest of what Andrea Mathews has to say about posttraumatic stress and identity. Enjoy!
Andrea Mathews, author of “Restoring My Soul: A Workbook for Finding and Living the Authentic Self,” and of the National Board of Certified Counselor’s Approved Home Study called The Soul of Therapy, has over 30 years experience in the mental health/human services field having served as Counselor, Family Therapist, Clinical Director, and Clinical Consultant and currently and for the past 12 years, has run a thriving solo private practice. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, a National Certified Counselor, a Certified Counseling Supervisor, and an NBCC Approved Provider of Continuing Education. For almost two years, Andrea has been the host of the VoiceAmerica internet radio show called Authentic Living, on which she has interviewed some of the world’s most profound and renowned spiritual leaders in order to begin and continue a consciousness-raising conversation that gives her listeners an opportunity to experience authenticity. One of Andrea’s special areas of endeavor is working with survivors of sexual trauma, and her transpersonal approach to this is positive therapy that offers healing and hope for an authentic life free of entanglements with past trauma. Andrea also provides Astrological counseling through WholeChartAstrology.com and serves as a Reiki Master Teacher.
Tags: Andrea Mathews, healing, Identity, ptsd
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I listened to Mondays interview…THANK YOU!
Hi Michele,
I just wanted to let you know that the last two links to the talk show are not working, at least for me. I click on the links and it gives me a 404 error. Would you send me the correct links so I can listen?
Thanks.
Love and healing to all…
@Donna — Well, that’s disappointing! Sorry about that. We did some site upgrades and it must have broken the link. It’s fixed now… Let me know if you still have trouble.