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Post Traumatic Hope: A Journey From Trauma to Transcendence
Is there hope after post-traumatic stress? A story of trauma that reveals a pathway to resilience.
Is there hope after post-traumatic stress? A story of trauma that reveals a pathway to resilience.
Although tension is rarely comfortable to experience, the strain of holding onto conflicting ideals can make us strong.
Messages of light emerging from darkness are so common as to be almost cliché. Until you experience it yourself. Like I did in an unusually cold, isolated Texas in February.
Much sorrow is being felt in the wake of this pandemic, by so many. How can we better “mourn with those that mourn,” while also working through our own grief in healing ways?
COVID-19 precautions are all important. Yet chronic stress is well known to decrease immunity. Here are five ways to reassure and encourage a fearful public.