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Creating art has served as a substitute for violence, self-destruction and insanity -. Habits learned by growing up within an extremely dysfunctional family. In a period of twelve years I created over 125 paintings that. Serve as a witness to my journey of healing. I offer them to you as a seed of understanding and hope. The following pages may contain explicit subject matter,. Graphic accounts and or images of various types of abuse. Photo prints of paintings! .

STUCK IN THE SAND - PTSD and College. Anyway, in the regular waiting room for a few minutes until person-who-can-write-scripts comes out to find .

I focus particularly on methods of healing that are free of narcotics or other pain masking drug treatments. The methods I have learned may take longer and require more dedication and energy than popping a pill, but I can promise you that they are the only true way through and out to the other side. Wednesday, December 9, 2009. Sunday, November 15, 2009.

Ensuring that no Veteran is left behind. If you are going to wait might as well do it with a big stick. Just beneath your calm surface it lurks. You have it handled, wrestled and restrained it, but it waits patiently for your grip to loosen. It has no mercy and will beat you to your knees and keep coming until it kills you. Its allies are stress, booze, and life in general. The things that distract you from keeping it contained. So when did I become the expert.

This blog is written by a survivor with C-PTSD. Although my PTSD is the result of childhood abuse, all are welcome here regardless of the source of your PTSD - or whether or not you have PTSD. Im a 40-something survivor of severe childhood abuse. I write to bring myself clarity about my PTSD and in the hopes that something I say may help someone else. The Child I Always Was.