Category Archives: PTSD
Therapy and “IT”
PTSD is an injury, not an illness
My Call to Arms
The Revenant (the novel and the movie) and PTSD

First things first, I won’t spoil either the novel version or the movie version of The Revenant. Second, The Revenant is not exactly my type of book or movie, but this was for one of my book clubs. We read the book, then saw the movie, then had dinner to discuss the differences. We had done this with Gone …
Is this real life?
Now what are you working on?

People have already started asking me this question. Maybe this is a normal question in the writing world. I know a few writers that have several projects going on at once, so maybe it’s not unheard of to already have a new project developing before your book is even published. With Finding Peace With PTSD …
Purple Up- Military Children
Chris Kyle

I saw American Sniper two weeks ago. I’ve been too sick to blog, but I’ve been thinking a lot about the movie and I have been able to read all of the controversy on social media surrounding Chris Kyle. What’s real? What’s been embellished, exaggerated or just down right faked? Was Chris really a hero? Did he …
PTSD and IKEA
Halloween and PTSD

This was originally posted on my professional blog, but since it relates to PTSD and it’s almost a Public Service Announcement, I thought I would post it here too. (if you follow both blogs I apologize for the repetition) That’s a broad topic (Halloween and PTSD). When I mentioned blogging on this topic to a …