I’m always interested in how we find, define and present ourselves after trauma. I met today’s guest post author, Marina, in a PTSD online forum. I was writing about my love of…
In my own PTSD healing I was very, very afraid. Afraid to give up my survivor identity. Afraid I would be obliterated by the emotions healing released. Afraid I’d get lost…
A frightening thought, isn’t it, that most of what you do every day, all day is by habit? You wake up, get dressed and go about your day driven by several unconscious choices…
All right, let’s get down to the nitty-gritty. An important question every survivor needs to answer:
Do I want to spend my life thinking about the bad stuff, or would I…
Elizabeth Stanfill has been teaching stress management to Emergency Personnel for 16 years, and to the general population for a decade. I like her approach because it’s direct, to the…