1. Triggers Initiate Action

Triggers. I walked into a restaurant to meet friends for dinner. As I walked into the foyer between the outside doors and the doors to the lobby I heard music. Triggers! My heart began to race, I pulled my coat tight, turned and left. I hurried to my car. Repeatedly...
2. Significant Memories Associated with Shock

2. Significant Memories Associated with Shock

What was the weather like the day you graduated? Who was there? What did you wear? Hummm Can you remember your sibling’s graduation with the same details? No, because it was not about you but significant enough to remember a few details. Significant memories get...

3. PTSD – Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

What is PTSD? PTSD or Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is the name for responses to traumatic experiences. It represents the very human response to inhumane events. Understanding the history and treatment options for PTSD is helpful to understand how common but unique...

8. Sharing Traumatic Memories Becomes Easier With Time

Sharing traumatic memories starts when you hear yourself say what happened. It starts in spurts and fits often against your will. It seems logical to forget, block the memory forever, and pretend life is always good. But life includes struggle. Struggles sometimes...

4. Positive Listening to Traumatic Stories

Positive listening to traumatic stories requires active listen skills as well as a non-judgmental body language and attitude. Hearing traumatic stories, reactions to triggers, or disturbing experiences is different from listening to an eventful mishap. Individuals...

7. Sharing Traumatic Memories for the First Time

Sharing traumatic memories for the first time is scary as hell but as liberating as the Fourth of July. Traumatic events become memories. Sometimes the mind seals these memories so tightly you don’t remember at all. Often bits and pieces of the memory torments your...