So I found quite a few books that I appreciated. One helped me tremendously, I think. One actually got me unstuck was by Dr. Ingrid Clayton. It's believing me. Absolutely awesome. It is based on trauma and complex PTSD. And then also the book from Dr. Gabor mate, the Myth of Normal. That and the body keeps the score book. I forgot who wrote that. But I am one that likes like, facts, science based
Crystal Dozier
@CrystalDozier · 3:47
But try working in some cognitive behavior therapy workbooks. Those work excellent. I love doing those. PTSD is a serious thing and people don't understand that. A lot of that calls on anxiety. It can be the most tedious things. I was listening to your breathing as you was talking, and when you're going through things, it feels so frustrated and it causes us to stop thinking. We're thinking about what we're doing. We're not really focusing on our breathing
It really resonated with a photo that you attached to this swell. Sorry, my chair is creaking. Trying to do this work while you're a parent. I think a lot of people I've been in therapy for over a year, and I actually I did a lot of healing work, and I hit, like, a plateau, and so was trying to get additional help because I felt like I kind of stagnated and finding, like, everybody says, like, oh, just do this
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Andrea Potvin
@GoodEnough · 4:29
I feel like I literally must have been given a bag of eggshells as a parting gift. When my mom and dad took me out of the hospital, I just picture them saying, oh, here, don't forget her bed of egg shells. That will turn into a bag that she can carry through life. And yes, that's my dark sense of humor coming out a little bit. But, yes, there's so much to healing
Laura Monk
@ThriveLauraMonk · 0:45
So if you have that and you can paste the link in this swell or send it to me in private message, that would be awesome. And thank you. I'm planning on replying to this, too. Bye
Laura Monk
@ThriveLauraMonk · 5:00
Very helpful. Nature Walks is really cathartic, definitely humor. Anything that makes you laugh is very healing. Music like you mentioned, definitely works art and anything creative is also very helpful. Exercise, obviously. I personally like to dance, but any type of exercise gets the feel good chemicals going through your body. Crying crying is very therapeutic because crying releases a chemical in your body that's a self soothing chemical. So crying is very, very good. Watching my feeders
Laura Monk
@ThriveLauraMonk · 4:40
And I would say I've probably listened to over 2000 stories of people that have died and come back and just listening to them on YouTube and reading books just completely shifted my perspective of life and reality and this 3D reality in our existence. Like I can't even begin to tell you in just this short reply. So that was major for me and I think I learned more from them than 20 years of being raised in religion