Tag: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
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Halloween, Horror, and PTSD
With Halloween here, I thought it would be fitting to share an experience I had several years back. Back in 2017, I started watching the popular zombie apocalypse show, The Walking Dead. In it’s first episode there’s a scene where a zombie that had been chopped in half is crawling towards the main character, Rick…
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How to Break the Trauma Cycle and Detach from the Pain of the Past
Emotions are energy in motion, and wherever attention goes, energy flows. This is true at the conscious level, but what about at the subconscious level; especially, in situations where the trauma of our past keeps sabotaging the present moment? In this post, we’re going to lay out the transformative process that will allow us to…
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From Post Traumatic Stress Disorder to INorder in 5 Simple Steps
In a previous post, I shared many resources to help cope with and manage bipolar disorder. At the level of “superpower” in living with and managing any mental illness is self-awareness. Next to acceptance, being self-aware is the most important facet in treating Post Traumatic Stess Disorder (PTSD). This post will be peppered with quotes…
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10 Mental Health Resources to Prevent Emotional Free-fall and Preserve Your Sanity
As a middle-aged man and Army combat veteran, some of the resources I share on this list have been hard for me to accept/implement. In saying that, the resources that were hardest for me to integrate into my mental health tool-kit have been the most helpful to prevent emotional free-fall and preserve my sanity. Over…
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MOTW #3: A Beautiful Mind Starring Russell Crowe
For this week’s Watch This! Movie of the Week, I recommend you watch/rewatch A Beautiful Mind starring Russell Crowe. This movie does a marvelous job showing the link between genius and insanity. A theme that I frequently visit to help me personally cope with and dignify my struggles with combat related PTSD and Bipolar Disorder.…
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5150: Being Hospitalized For Homicidal Ideations
In today’s post, I will be sharing one of the scariest experiences I’ve ever had. In the past, I’ve be severely depressed multiple times. So depressed that I struggled with intense suicidal ideations. In relation to what I will be sharing today, being severely depressed was more tolerable than my experience being hospitalized for homicidal…
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My Black Box Experience: I Wanted to Die and Only God Could Stop Me
In this post I will be sharing a personal experience that’s challenging for me to talk about. As I promised in my first post, I will do my best to bring something authentic, transparent, and vulnerable to you. This requires me to share the great, good, bad, and ugly of my experience. In an effort…
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Emotional Alchemy: 3 Simple Techniques to Convert Toxic Emotions, Pain, and Trauma into Creative Offerings
In 2 previous posts (HERE and HERE), I shared quotes that testify to what has been true for me, personally. Our mess can be our message, and the pain we can’t get rid of can become our creative offerings to others. In this post, I want to talk about 3 techniques that have helped me…
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Inversion Thinking (Part 3): Why Goal Setting is Incomplete and How to Fix It
Here in part 3 of our series on inversion thinking, I will be sharing a cool goal setting technique that fixes many of the limitations with traditional goal setting and helps us face our fears in the process. I first heard about this technique from a TedTalk presented by Tim Ferriss from 2017.
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QOTD #4: When Genius and Madness Touch
For today’s quote of the day, we draw some stoic inspiration from Aristotle. Outside the purview of the wide body of stoic philosophy Aristotle helped inspire, is this more “artistic” and abstract gem attributed to him. “There is no great genius without a touch of madness.” -Aristotle In one of his most impressionable quotes, Aristotle…
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QOTD #1: When Things Get Messy… Try This!
When I sit down at the blank page, some times it’s intimidating. Then, there are other times, it’s nothing short of triage because I need a safe place to bleed, and these blank pages become my “paper” towels and wound dressings. On those days, and there have been MANY of them, my mess truly is…
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Creativity on Demand (Part 1): Not What, Not How, But When!
Nothing stiffles creative flow more than getting tangled up in the weeds of magical notions about HOW we think creativity is supposed to happen. When we do, we’re operating more like Key & Peele in their hilarious “Lightning in a bottle” skit than the consistent creatives we long to be. For years, I’ve stuggled to…
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