Tag: treatment
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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 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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Trauma Therapy Session 2: Day 1
As is often the case with these sessions before hand I consider all the possible conversations we might have, all the variations of paths we could take and the only thing that is always true, none of my predictions are ever right. It makes me wonder if there is much value in worrying about it…
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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 Session 1: Day 2. Running on empty
I always want to be totally open about my mental health journey and often think about others out there, struggling along a similar path. As long as there is something worth saying I will share it, good or bad. Shaking, crying, working… I have had a couple of weeks bad sleep already so running a…
Rowan Aderyn 