Category: PTSD Treatment
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Trauma Therapy Session 5: Post Session Day 6: I Didn’t Fail, I Survived.
One of the interesting discoveries I have made through this exploration of trauma therapy is the overarching story I have been telling myself years. I never voiced this opinion, I rarely thought about it, but in every conversation it is there. That subtle narrative the occasional words… my fault, I failed, I should have done……
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Trauma Therapy Session 5: post session day 6 . Facing into the “bad” feelings.
I have learnt over the last couple of months my emotional processing power has been subdued. It has never really reached a normal level of functioning, forced aside by the desire to avoid at all costs the trauma of the past. In this latest session we talked about an event and I thought it would…
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Trauma Session 4. Day 5 Debrief.
In the spirit of continuing to share for anyone else out there either navigating therapy or considering it, here is the low down on session Four of trauma work. We didn’t talk about the traumatic events in the last session, we mostly spent the time reflecting on the previous session and some broader considerations. It…
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Trauma Therapy. Session 4: Day 1. A Single Thought
Have you ever watched how a tree moves in the wind. Bending and swaying, dancing too and fro. Every tiny branch moves. Each giving way to the force which compels it. I understand they move in this way because if they held fast, if the tree stood still it would snap and fall. I wonder…
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Trauma Therapy Session 3, Day 6. Hungry for Happiness.
This blog feels like a messy one to write, on this journey of therapy I am learning so much, but I am also exposing new fears. Lesson 100! I haven’t freely felt emotion for decades… I never knew before starting this journey that I have been constantly holding back. Resisting the drive to feel for…
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Trauma Therapy Session 3: Hard Work Started
So this week was the third session of trauma therapy. Having found last weeks session fairly easy going, and having enjoyed a relatively good week, I was prepared to have to knuckle down this week and start the real work. A did a lot of preparation and perhaps recent events gave me a good shove…
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Trauma Therapy Session 2: Day 5. Faith without a church.
So that was strange. I went to church for the first time since pre covid and I lasted less than five minutes before I left. Now I know religion is a tricky subject, it means lots of different things to different people. Some people think religion is wonderful, others think it is frankly evil. Religion…
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Trauma Therapy Session 2: Day 4, Five ways to navigate the trauma in the day to day.
Following the last session I am defiantly doing a lot better. I am hoping that it is not because the last session was fairly easy going. I am hoping it is because that initial storm has passed. That all the emotions spilling out of me have finished their job. I am still aware there might…
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Post Trauma Session 1: Day 5. Focus on the good things but don’t avoid the bad.
So the last few days I have been lost in a sea of emotion. Wave after wave overcoming me only to struggle up for air and find another fast behind it. I have toyed with the desire to put it all back in the box and slam the lid shut again. But when I consider…
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Post Trauma Therapy Session 1: Things are often not as bad as you imagine.
So having spent a week doing an amazing job of frankly winding myself up and worrying about this therapy session it was definitely not as bad as I expected. I didn’t slam the laptop shut and walk out of the room. I didn’t throw up (although avoiding breakfast might have helped with that), I didn’t…
Rowan Aderyn 