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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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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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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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Elizabeth Stanfillhas been teach ...
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Michele Rosenthal
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 point, upbeat and self-empowering. Today, she explains that denial is an enormous clue about the presence of stress. As in, post-traumatic stress….Did yo ...
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Topics for Everyone Topics for Combat Stress
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Michele Rosenthal
A busy week in inspiring PTSD news. First, I want to introduce you to a PTSD Desert Storm Navy vet who, with the help of a PTSD Operation Iraqi Freedom Army vet, is launching an incredible new project: Check outOperation PTSDfor some true healing inspiration. The official launch will be November 11th; for now, you can read about how one vet sees P ...
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It’s one thing to say you ...
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Michele Rosenthal
It’s one thing to say you want to heal PTSD and all its symptoms; quite another to go about the business of healing it.Healing is difficult, it takes grit, determination, commitment and resilience. It’s so very easy to become lost in the chaos of emotion (and what feels like healing failure) and then find yourself unable to navigate mov ...
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Topics for Everyone Topics for Combat Stress
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Michele Rosenthal
Today’s the final day to submit to the Heal My PTSD, LLC, contest! Are you ready for a little healing action? Read the guidelineshereand then shoot me an email. The prize? A little something to help progress your PTSD feeling better quest.In the meantime, a slew of interesting topics this week, including the connection between stress and gast ...
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Yesterday was one of those days ...
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Michele Rosenthal
Yesterday was one of those days that continues to inspire, excite and surprise me. The reason: I’m working with some really terrific veterans as well as civilians recovering from PTSD. Over and over again I am astounded at how universal the PTSD experience is.Case in point: Recently one of the vets turned an incredible corner and definitively ...
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Combat PTSD from the Inside
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Michele Rosenthal
There are some vets who are really getting out there in the PTSD world and talking — about the stigma of mental health (check outOperationPTSD’s latest post), about recognizing the need for help, and then about actually going after and getting the help you need to heal combat PTSD.I have tremendous admiration for those vets who come thr ...
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Soul Food: The Healthy Way
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OurHealth
I will not eat bland food. I LOVE food. I really do. One of my biggest challenges has been finding healthy food that doesn't taste like cardboard. Luckily there are more and more options out there - low sugar, low calorie, high nutrition, high fiber, good oils - like Fiber One Bars, the chocolate ones! Yum. I eat them all of the time. Serious ...
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