PTSD Healing Thought of the Week

PTSD Healing Thought of the Week: How To Control Your Thoughts

PTSD Healing Thought of the Week: How To Control Your Thoughts

Sunday, April 25th, 2010

Charles Popplestown said, “You cannot always control your circumstances, but you can control your own thoughts.”…
In PTSD it can often feel as if your thoughts control you. The good

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PTSD Healing Thought of the Week: The Tao of Pooh

PTSD Healing Thought of the Week: The Tao of Pooh

Sunday, April 18th, 2010

In Benjamin Duff’s, THE TAO OF POOH, he writes,
Mistakes are made – or imagined – by man, the creature with the overloaded Brain……
Even when you think you fail

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PTSD Healing Thought of the Week: Your Instinctual Resources

PTSD Healing Thought of the Week: Your Instinctual Resources

Sunday, April 11th, 2010

In his book WAKING THE TIGER, Peter Levine writes,
Body sensations can serve as a guide to reflect where we are experiencing trauma, and to lead us to our instinctual …

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PTSD Healing Thought of the Week: Make Your Own Map

PTSD Healing Thought of the Week: Make Your Own Map

Sunday, April 4th, 2010

In her poem, ‘A Map to the Next World’, Joy Harjo writes,
Crucial to finding the way is this: there is no beginning or end.
You must make your own …

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Healing Thought of the Week: ‘Candles’

Healing Thought of the Week: ‘Candles’

Sunday, March 28th, 2010

The greek poet Cavafy wrote a poem called ‘Candles’ that contains the following stanzas:
The days of our future stand before us
like a row of little lighted candles–
golden, …

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