According to Bessel van der Kolk,
Treatment [for PTSD] needs to address… helping [survivors] 1) regain a sense of safety in their bodies, and 2) complete the unfinished past.…
What
We all get so used to the PTSD struggle: We accept it. We embrace it. We fight against it even while we hold it close.
We recede into the past…
This morning I wrote about Ian and his family managing the aftermath of a traumatic illness. This afternoon I want to share with you a little more about the incredible…
The American poet Jorie Graham “thinks of the poet not as a recorder but as a constructor of experience.”
As survivors, doesn’t that describe us, too? Aren’t we trying to…
In her book, The Body in Pain, Professor Elaine Scarry writes,
… physical pain – unlike any other state of consciousness – has no referential content. It is not of or…
