Browsing Category PTSD
How ‘Brainspotting’ Can Take You From Survivor to Thriver
I’ve increasingly been drawing on a therapeutic modality called Brainspotting – a brain-based therapy discovered by Dr David Grand. Brainspotting is a powerful technique that processes trauma and distress that is stuck in the body. Often talk-based therapies alone can fall short when dealing with trauma and its associated effects. “Brainspotting allows us to harness […]
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Anger – Overcoming and Understanding
“Anger comes fast, often unanticipated and always unwelcome. It operates without logic, with no concern for consequences. It damages things, relationships, and sometimes even people. It leaves me feeling ashamed of myself. Worthless. What’s worse, I’m even too weak and useless to control it.” Does this sound familiar? If it does sound familiar, you may […]
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ANZAC Day and PTSD
I’m struck when watching coverage of various ANZAC day ceremonies each year, how much is made of physical suffering, and how little of the mental scars that accompany war. It’s also not just enlisted personnel who suffer. Civilian support staff, local civilians, and those close to sufferers are also directly affected. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder […]
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