Healing Fractures - Articles
Those of you who have been follo ...
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Michele Rosenthal
Those of you who have been following this blog for a while know that after my trauma I refused to speak about it — for 16 years. And then another trauma occurred and I had to start talking because I just didn’t know what else to do with myself.I needed help, so I talked in order for people to know why I was struggling. I hoped telling t ...
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We all say we want to ‘hea ...
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Michele Rosenthal
We all say we want to ‘heal’ — it sounds easy, right? We’ve healed things before, think of all those scraped knees and broken bones. We’ve healed illnesses, broken hearts and broken families. Healing PTSD symptoms should be as methodical as all the othe things we’ve healed, shouldn’t it?Sure, it should! But ...
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A big debate going on afteryeste ...
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Michele Rosenthal
A big debate going on after yesterday’s post about whether or not people believe PTSD can be healed. The lines have clearly been drawn between those who do, those who don’t, and those who aren’t sure.I know from my own experience it’s difficult to be in full-blown PTSD and feel such overwhelming certainty about healing and ...
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I’ll be blunt. I get very ...
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Michele Rosenthal
I’ll be blunt. I get very discouraged and a tad frustrated with the attitude I frequently see about healing PTSD.It’s a big question in the PTSD world: Can this condition be healed?Who has the answer?All too often I meet or hear from survivors who definitively say, “PTSD can’t be healed.” Too many times I’ve hear ...
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Sometimes my PTSD healing would ...
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Michele Rosenthal
Sometimes my PTSD healing would sail along: I’d go to therapy, do the talking thing, a little EMDR or EFT, or TFT, or TAT (do you have the feeling I’d try anything?!!), feel real proud of myself for being able to keep up with appointments and dig through the past according to what, how, when, and why my therapist thought I should.There ...
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Healing Testimonial
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Michele Rosenthal
Shh! Can you hear it? If you listen closely you will hear the sound of another survivor healing….Today’s survivor guest post is very special to me. It comes from a woman I met a few months ago, a woman struggling with PTSD and with an event so traumatic in her history she would not even tell me what it was. I told her she could feel be ...
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Everyone with and without PTSD h ...
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Michele Rosenthal
Everyone with and without PTSD has his or her own idea of how it should be managed, coped with, contained or healed — and we’re all really happy to jump in and tell each other what we think should be done.It’s wonderful to have voices supporting your journey and offering advice. It’s great to be given lots of ideas and decid ...
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Topics For Everyone Topics for Combat Stress
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Michele Rosenthal
Such an interesting and diverse week of news! Make sure you check out the fabulous radio show hosted by Heal My PTSD, LLC, with addictions counselor, Laurie Carty, and PTSD Navy vet, Jason Ream of OperationPTSD.org. This show pertains to civilians and military alike by talking about what mental programming and beliefs make addictions, plus how you ...
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BRIDGE THE GAP Exercise
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Michele Rosenthal
So let’s just say you’re doing what it takes to engage in your healing process. You show up for the sessions, you talk the talk, you walk the walk. You research, educate yourself and try new things. Good for you. What I’m wondering now is how close to the truth you allow yourself to get.I have a confession to make. As I’ve w ...
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Last week I was wondering abouth ...
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Michele Rosenthal
Last week I was wondering about how often we speak about our PTSD experience. This week I’m musing about how often we speak about our trauma itself. I meet many survivors who don’t want to reveal the details of their trauma at all. In my clients, all of whom are survivors, most won’t speak about their traumatic experience in detai ...
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