Category: PTSD Treatment
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Trauma Therapy Session 14: Post day 5. Happy highs and crash and burn
Sharing a journey through treatment to demystify the process for anyone nervous about starting therapy and also to help me reflect and find the lessons to move forward. I am committed to sharing a honest view of this therapy journey. The good, the bad, the in between. This week is defiantly one of the stranger…
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Trauma Therapy Session 14: Post day 3. It’s not my fault!
Sharing a journey through treatment to demystify the process for anyone nervous about starting therapy and also to help me reflect and find the lessons to move forward. I know many people would find it hard to believe but I blamed myself for so many of the horrid things in my past. Not fully, but…
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Trauma Therapy Session 13: Post day 3. This one’s just for me…
Sharing a journey through treatment to demystify the process for anyone nervous about starting therapy and also to help me reflect and find the lessons to move forward. To anyone out there following my therapy journey, apologises I can’t give you a download on the last session it was one that I think I will…
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Trauma Therapy Session 12: Post day 5. Balanced view on responsibility.
Sharing a journey through treatment to demystify the process for anyone nervous about starting therapy and also help me reflect and find the lessons to move me forward. As so often the case not entirely the session I was expecting but so helpful. I had a few things I wanted to sign post before we…
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Trauma Therapy Session 11: Post day 8. Beliefs we don’t want.
Sharing a journey through treatment to demystify the process for anyone nervous about starting therapy and also help me reflect and find the lessons to move me forward. The last session held some more conversation about one of the flash backs I suffer with. In all honesty it is still a subject I may have…
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Trauma Therapy Session 10: Post day 7. Yoga is Amazing!!!
In my usual attempt to go at solving something from multiple angles I have been to my first ever yoga class. I got some great advice from a colleague and learnt that were at least two types of yoga…Yin and Yang. It was recommend I try Yin yoga. A type of yoga that is slow…
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Trauma Therapy Session 9: Post day 7. Finding a way to make physical contact good again.
As with a lot of my posts some of the below could be triggering. The challenges I discuss of struggling with physical contact are not mine alone and sometimes when we read about the struggles which are similar to our own it can be upsetting. Hopefully though there is also hope in these words. Hope…
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Trauma Therapy Session 8: Post Session day 1. Not much to say.
I want to keep sharing this journey because I know how scary it was before I started therapy. So many times I ignored the signs that a little help could be needed. I lived with decades of nightmares and flash backs. Convincing myself it was ok, it was expected, I just had to find a…
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Trauma Therapy Session 7: Post Session day 2. Not the conversation I was expecting.
Sooner or later I am going to realise there is no value in getting myself wound up about expectations of a conversation because sometimes we end up on a totally different tangent. Today was one of those days. We sign posted last week that we would use the time today to discuss a little about…
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Trauma Therapy Session 6: Post Session day 2. Pragmatic and productive.
We appear to be falling into a bit of a rhythm with these sessions. We have one tricky session then one easier we. We get into conversations about the past in one, then we reflect, process and plan in the next. I must admit I like the fact I get a rest in-between and I…
Rowan Aderyn 