Mindful PTSD Archives - Heal Write Now for Trauma Survivors & Adults Abused as Children https://healwritenow.com Writing & Inspiration to Heal Trauma Fri, 29 Apr 2016 23:21:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.5 #FacesOfPTSD / PTSD is Not a He https://healwritenow.com/facesofptsd-ptsd-not/ https://healwritenow.com/facesofptsd-ptsd-not/#comments Fri, 29 Apr 2016 23:20:35 +0000 http://healwritenow.com/?p=3920 What is the #FacesOfPTSD Project?A

A social media campaign where people who identify as having, or have had PTSD, share photos of themselves. Any photo. Feeling sad, show us. Feeling blah, show us. Feeling happy, show us that too. Just because we have suffered more than most doesn’t mean we are never happy. Just make sure you add the hashtag #FacesOfPTSD so we can all follow along, and hopefully change the landscape of PTSD online search.

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]]> https://healwritenow.com/facesofptsd-ptsd-not/feed/ 4 The Aftermath of Developmental Neglect or Heart Thaw https://healwritenow.com/mindfulness-now-little-like-geometry-high-school/ https://healwritenow.com/mindfulness-now-little-like-geometry-high-school/#comments Thu, 17 Jul 2014 20:38:32 +0000 http://healwritenow.com/?p=2021 “There are two points in space,” my tenth-grade math teacher said and basically lost me. I was supposed to imagine a line connecting them.  Huh? That’s how I feel about mindfulness now. It makes my head hurt. I listen to the words of meditation teachers because books on the subject sound like “blah. blah. blah. […]

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]]> https://healwritenow.com/mindful-ptsd/feed/ 11 The Sisterhood of Developmental Trauma Recovery https://healwritenow.com/mindful-ptsd-is-easier-with-community/ https://healwritenow.com/mindful-ptsd-is-easier-with-community/#comments Fri, 27 Jun 2014 21:51:42 +0000 http://healwritenow.com/?p=1830 “If I was dissociating, I wouldn’t feel so anxious,” she said.

“Or you might - but you just wouldn’t know it,” I replied.

We laughed the PTSD laugh.

“I’m not sure I’ve ever said that out loud,” she said.

“But I know exactly what you mean,” I said.

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