What not to say to someone who has experienced trauma and loss

As you read last week readers, I had a rough few days.  The “aftershocks” lasted until Thursday, where I felt somewhat normal, not constantly worried of being hi-jacked by a debilitating flashback.  Normal is such a funny word after what I experienced. I guess that is why I named my blog Life’s New Normal. Continue reading

Trauma and the Inability to Focus

I have touched on this before, but wanted to again after this past weekend.  Being a licensed acupuncturist, I am required to do a certain amount of continuing education to renew my license.  All docs do.  It is important to continue to learn and stay up to date with what is going on in the field. Plus, you can always learn something new. Continue reading

Pain. And grief/trauma/depression/PTSD.

There is a pain so utter that it swallows substance up
Then covers the abyss with trance—
So memory can step around—across—upon it
As one within a swoon goes safely where an open-eye would drop him—
—Bone by bone

~Emily Dickinson

To experience pain, one knows they are alive…I either came up with that or read it somewhere.  Continue reading