Six years after finishing EMDR therapy for diagnosed PTSD, I’m still not entirely sure how…
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The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt: Beauty of Music, Art & Life
The Goldfinch: a novel of great art and beauty For some reason, over the last…
TED Talks for PTSD and Trauma
This post was previously integrated with my TED Talks for Social Anxiety & Shyness post,…
What Bibliotherapy Means to Me
Another amazing vintage library ad fromBrain Pickings! Bibliotherapy is a word I use a lot…
Regeneration by Pat Barker: Shell Shock, War Poets, and Great Friendships
Postcards of Siegfried Sassoon. Image fromPinterest. I always enjoy reading about novelists, poets and characters…
How Books Help Charlie’s Mental Health in The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Stephen Chbosky)
I posted about The Perks of Being a Wallflower and mental health last October, shortly after…
Toby’s Room by Pat Barker: Great Art, PTSD and War
An image of a solider with facial wounds by surgeon and painter Henry Tonks. Image…
My Experience of EMDR Therapy for PTSD and trauma
I hope that those interested in EMDR therapy will find this post useful. However, this…
My First EMDR Session for PTSD and Trauma
Image of EMDR from http://drkathleenyoung.files.wordpress.com On Tuesday I began “Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing” therapy, or…
Five TED Talks for Social Anxiety and Shyness
I could spend hours watching TED talks: there are so many videos of educational and inspirational…
The Perks of Being a Wallflower: Mental Health, PTSD, and Literature
Sam, played by Emma Watson, and Charlie, who appears to have PTSD, by Logan Lerman. From guardian.co.uk…
The Faerie Queene, Healing PTSD, and Wilfred Owen
This may be a generalisation, but I’m sure that most people who read The Faerie Queene never…