In his book, Waking the Tiger , Peter Levine examines trauma from an evolutionary perspective. He argues that trauma is basically the result of a flight-or-flight response that has not been completed.
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Awhile back, a good friend of mine named Brittany started a travel blog, Transformed Thru Travel, as a vehicle for sharing how she uses her experiences traveling to heal and manage her symptoms of PTSD.
Read MoreZindel Segal developed a style of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy to help people manage recovery from major depressive episodes.
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When I speak with people about meditation or Mindfulness, I often run into so many conflicting ideas. People tell me the point of meditation is to be relaxed. Or they tell me they can’t meditate because “I can’t get my thoughts to stop.”
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This week I came across a post on Transformed Thru Travel on Misguided Urgency. If you haven’t checked out her blog, give it a go. She writes about travel and often reflects on how she has used the act of traveling to manage and recover from her PTSD.
Read MoreNadine Burke Harris is a pediatrician trained in public health who began studying the affects of childhood trauma after noticing a dramatic increase in children being referred to her for ADHD. Her investigations uncovered that people exposed to childhood trauma dramatically increased the likelihood that a person would experience heart disease, cancer, suicidal urges, and a reduced life expectancy.
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