PTSD and the bigger picture
PTSD was first brought to our attention in relation to war veterans and things they witnessed while on the front-lines. It also can be a result from so many other things, rape, mugging, being tortured, being kidnapped or held captive, train wrecks, plane crashes, bombings, child abuse, natural disasters. Basically, any situation a person has witnessed in their lives when they have had to go into a survival mode. It can manifest immediately after the incident or can come back years later. The psyche is a wild place. It wants to protect us from pain so we will block the...
Read MorePTSD and the bigger picture
PTSD was first brought to our attention in relation to war veterans and things they witnessed while on the front-lines. It also can be a result from so many other things, rape, mugging, being tortured, being kidnapped or held captive, train wrecks, plane crashes, bombings, child abuse, natural disasters. Basically, any situation a person has witnessed in their lives when they have had to go into a survival mode. It can manifest immediately after the incident or can come back years later. The psyche is a wild place. It wants to protect us from pain so we will block the...
Read MoreGoing A.P.E. – The Art of Actively Participating and Experiencing
Through the years of life to this point, I have come into many times when things seems as though they were falling apart, as if my world was caving in. Times when it felt like I had no control or that someone was “wronging” me. When I get into those times, when those thoughts start trickling in, I have had to come up with a way to recognize and get myself out of the lower vibration. I tend to slide into a depression or like the world did not want me around. It is strange, as that is not my true...
Read MoreGoing A.P.E. – The Art of Actively Participating and Experiencing
Through the years of life to this point, I have come into many times when things seems as though they were falling apart, as if my world was caving in. Times when it felt like I had no control or that someone was “wronging” me. When I get into those times, when those thoughts start trickling in, I have had to come up with a way to recognize and get myself out of the lower vibration. I tend to slide into a depression or like the world did not want me around. It is strange, as that is not my true...
Read MoreOktoberfest in Munich and the dream that changed my life.
Oktoberfest 2004 in Munich was anything but boring. It was 9 years ago......to the day I had the most life changing dream one could have. A dream where I could never look back and only step forward with whom I am and what I believe.I was halfway around the world with a friend traveling for the first time to Europe. The goal was to do Oktoberfest and then head where ever we felt like. We had arrived in Munich the last weekend in September which is the LAST weekend where a million people are in town for the festivities. There is barely a place to walk through the...
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