Posts Tagged ‘ Joy ’

The Importance of Joy In Healing Trauma & PTSD

The Importance of Joy In Healing Trauma & PTSD

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

There I was, about to turn 40 and the thought of living the second half of my life unhinged by what happened before my life had even really begun was…

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But Enough About PTSD; Let’s Get Back to Joy

But Enough About PTSD; Let’s Get Back to Joy

Saturday, October 18th, 2008

The night of New Year’s Eve 2007 remains on my mind as life resumes its post-holiday routine. I decide I need at least a weekly dose of joy to buoy…

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Even with PTSD Some Days You Find a Gift

Friday, October 17th, 2008

It is New Year’s Eve 2007 and my thirty-ninth birthday is only one month away and I am such an emotional PTSD wreck that I am about to burst into…

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THE PROBLEM WITH TRAUMA SURVIVORS

THE PROBLEM WITH TRAUMA SURVIVORS

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

“When Charcot (1887) first described traumatic memories over a century ago, he called them ‘parasites of the mind.’ Because [some] people … have a fundamental impairment in the capacity to…

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