The Importance of Joy In Healing Trauma & PTSD
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008There 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…
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…
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…
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…
“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…