How an Entrepreneur Lives, Works & Tries to Play Post-Trauma
Everyone who has said yoga is a good practice for people who experience PTSD has been correct, in my experience. It was a long, rough road to get started, and I know so much more now than I did when I first started hearing that. Research said do yoga, my therapist suggested I do yoga,…
I had a hard day. Before 8am I had already dealt with driving triggers, betrayal, and heartbreak. I spent 12 hours on the road. There were no easy solutions for the project I’m working on and the best answer might be to give up and go with another option. Sometimes the best answer is to…
Which is pretty much my day-to-day with PTSD. However, there are versions of uncomfortable that are more and less tolerable for me. One of the least tolerable is…wait for it…yoga. Yoga puts me into a lot of uncomfortable positions that my body does not want to do. And it makes me uncomfortable. And often angry.…
I have been hearing and reading for a long time that yoga helps with PTSD symptoms, but I had no idea how – until today. I’m really hopeful about what I figured out today. If you haven’t been following my latest resurgence of PTSD symptoms while driving, I nearly passed out from a trigger while…
I think I’ve eaten about 20 rolls/cookies/biscuits today. Part of it is mindless stress eating, part of it is driving in terror for hours this week and my brain thinking all that threat means I need to EAT CARBS, because I might have to flee. It took me years to learn that’s why I do…
I get overwhelmed somewhat easily. When I do, it’s hard to un-overwhelm myself. I know there are a lot of techniques to do it, but it’s still hard to calm the waves of anxiety. I practiced yoga every day for a month, and so far this month have done it once, and just a quick…
I recently heard Adriene Mischler say that when we start out in yoga, we often notice and say that our wrists are weak or that they aren’t able to hold us up. Many yoga positions require you to hold some, most or even all of your body weight on them. For yoga beginners or those…
