How an Entrepreneur Lives, Works & Tries to Play Post-Trauma
I’ve been a bit ragey, unsettled and unfocused the last few days. I had been doing so well, I thought. My routine has been a bit disrupted but not anything I didn’t choose to do, I worked out Tuesday evening and had a minor freakout but was calm by the time class ended and I…
If I had been given the choice, I would have hit healing like a crash course, and done it in a day. Healing happens as it happens. It happens when we are ready. It happens as we are able. It does not happen in a straight line. It does not happen in a clear, predictable…
One of the best things that has come out of my long journey out of numbing is that I am so much more aware of how I feel and when I need to make rest a priority. I often don’t, and that is still a challenge to work on, but I can at least recognize…
One of the greatest losses I’ve had – in large part due to PTSD – is my loss of tribe. Because my issues are driving related, getting in the car is a challenge, and I don’t drive unless I have a compelling reason to do so – mostly for work and for networking. I have…
I get tired of reading my own stories of struggle. For everyone who thinks it’s just a matter of thinking positive, or having a better attitude, or trying harder, I wish so badly that were true. I wish so badly that I didn’t have to face the incessant hell of my existence every morning, and…
Yeah, I have no idea. Now taking suggestions. Because the world doesn’t stop to give me time to grieve, it keeps calling and emailing and pushing and demanding. The pressure to perform and pay bills and get my life together just as it’s breaking apart doesn’t stop just because I desperately need to. The need…
The grief of not feeling supported in your illness is intolerable. I know. I’ve been there. I am there. Very few people in my life are able to or willing to support me, and no one within my immediate vicinity. For me, it’s the hardest thing about PTSD to live with. And yet I’ve had…
