When I thought about the braced-for-disaster feeling that we carry with us, I thought, “It’s just like waiting for the joker to pop out of the Jack-in-the-Box can,” a continuous state of preparedness. I had to record this video. It’s my first video for GWNI. Watch: Pop! Goes the Drama GWNI Video: Pop! Goes the [...]
Readers, you are in for a real treat. This winter I was fortunate enough to have two conversations about post traumatic stress disorder PTSD with trauma specialist Dr. Marylene Cloitre. The following article is based on our conversations. Do You Have PTSD from Childhood? Panic. Anxiety. Fear. Nightmares. Insomnia. Fuzzy-brain feeling. Indecision. Confusion. Out-of-body numbness. [...]
You don’t have to be a soldier of war to experience post-trauma stress disorder. If you’re reading this, you already suspect that statement to be true. I referenced post-trauma stress disorder in this post about the urge to flee, running (not running scared, but running anxious) away from our relationships, jobs, friends, homes, children, pets, and [...]
Our fear of being found out couldn’t exist if we didn’t have a need to control our environments. Control issues. Our fear also couldn’t exist if we had ample self-confidence. It couldn’t exist if we fully accepted ourselves, as we are, and without apology.
What does it look like when you’re at peace, and not behaving like someone obsessed with control? You don’t plan out conversations; you go with the flow when plans change because you are your own center-home, you say what you really think no matter what impression it may give others of you, you ask others for help because you don’t need to give off the impression of complete self-sufficiency, you can enjoy a movie even if you’re not sitting in the ‘perfect’ front-and-center seat; you apologize easily, you tell the truth, and you let others express their opinions freely, and you let them have the last word.
