Whenever I tell someone of the new direction my life is taking–public speaking about PTSD Awareness and Self-Empowerment, teaching Writing as Healing workshops, and teaching reflective writing at a nursing program or medical school–I am often given a story in return. It’s usually after I mention that the field of medicine is undergoing a change [...]
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When Medical Professionals Wound
Posted in adult PTSD, depression, emotional health, healing, suicide, trauma, tagged body image, depression, early trauma, medical humanities, pediatric psychological trauma, self-esteem on May 12, 2012 | 10 Comments »
The Mystery of the Missing Information
Posted in adult PTSD, art therapy, Drawings & Images, infant trauma, neurobiology, pediatric trauma, PTSD, suicide, Writing, tagged early trauma, neurobiology of early trauma, pediatric trauma, PTSD, self-esteem on October 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I feel my heart rate increasing, like a detective getting closer to the whereabouts of the culprit—the current way in which the chemistry of my brain works due to the trauma of infant surgery without anesthesia. I just read a paper entitled, “Working with the Neurobiological Legacy of Early Trauma” by Dr. Janina Fisher, a [...]
Re-enactment: The Soul Telling us Something
Posted in adult PTSD, child development, emotional health, healing, infant anesthesia, infant surgery, infant trauma, pediatric trauma, PTSD, suicide, trauma, tagged art therapy, drawing, healing, infant surgery, infant trauma, pediatric psychological trauma, pediatric trauma on June 23, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Twice in my twenties, I found myself lying on my back, crying out for help: once on a beach the morning after failing to muster the will to slit my wrist and the second, about two years earlier, lying on a cot in the attic of an abandoned house, where I cried out “help!” to [...]
DepressionBrain
Posted in art therapy, child development, depression, Drawings & Images, Eating Issues, healing, infant surgery, infant trauma, pediatric trauma, suicide, tagged art, art therapy, depression, drawing, early trauma, eating disorders, Eating Issues, food, pediatric trauma, starvation on March 27, 2011 | 4 Comments »
I’ve got the study of the brain on the brain. I am reading the book The Brain that Changes Itself, mentioned in my last post “In Our Eyes,” and scrutinizing my old artwork with new eyes. Here are two pictures I drew (ink on paper) in 1976, trying to make sense of my depression. The first, [...]
Steps to Take on the Path to Ease and Joy
Posted in adult PTSD, art therapy, Drawings & Images, Eating Issues, healing, infant surgery, infant trauma, mind/body holistic health movement, pediatric trauma, Poetry, psychological therapy, PTSD, somatic bodywork, suicide, Writing, tagged art therapy, depression, drawing, early trauma, eating disorders, Eating Issues, healing, infant surgery, Middendorf Breath Work, mind/body holistic health movement, PTSD, writing on March 5, 2011 | 4 Comments »
How can survivors of infant surgery and/or invasive medical procedures performed without anesthesia begin to move away from a lifetime of re-enacting symptoms of trauma and move toward a lifetime of experiencing health, fulfillment, and joy? How can we get our pain, anger, and confusion out so that we can feel peace, clarity, and compassion? [...]
Are You Afraid of Your Body?
Posted in adult PTSD, depression, Eating Issues, healing, infant anesthesia, infant surgery, infant trauma, pediatric trauma, psychological therapy, PTSD, suicide, trauma, tagged depression, early trauma, healing, infant surgery, infant trauma, pediatric psychological trauma, pediatric trauma, psychological therapy, PTSD on March 1, 2011 | 6 Comments »
In my last post, I presented Dr. Louis Tinnin’s questionnaire, which helps people determine whether a medical procedure or surgery they experienced in infancy affects them today. As a survivor of infant surgery, here’s my layperson’s questionnaire. The intent is similar to Dr. Tinnin’s. If you’ve had an invasive medical procedure and/or a surgery as [...]
Doctor Starts Blog about Infant Surgery Without Anesthesia
Posted in adult PTSD, anesthesia, child development, child PTSD, depression, infant anesthesia, infant PTSD, infant surgery, infant trauma, pediatric trauma, PTSD, suicide, Uncategorized, tagged anesthesia, anesthesia awareness, depression, early trauma, infant anesthesia, infant PTSD, infant surgery, pediatric trauma, psychological therapy, PTSD, pyloric stenosis, surgery on February 5, 2011 | 19 Comments »
Anyone now 23 years or older who had major surgery as a baby is at risk for chronic posttraumatic illness . . . When I saw Dr. Louis Tinnin’s new blog, I literally wept. He and a team of psychologists who run Intensive Trauma Therapy, Inc. (ITT), a program in Morgantown, West Virginia, are acknowledging [...]
See Me and My Pastels at the Images of Healing Art Show
Posted in art therapy, Drawings & Images, healing, infant surgery, infant trauma, pediatric trauma, suicide, tagged art, art therapy, depression, drawing, early trauma, healing, infant trauma, pediatric trauma, self-esteem, self-image, self-love on September 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
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