As I continue to process by writing, I’m finding the breadcrumbs I left on this blog years ago.  Just about 18 months ago, I was in a terrible place.  My mental health was at an all-time low while people I love dearly when the telling of horrific things came to me.  I don’t like to use the word “triggered”, as it seems to be overused these days, but that is the word my therapist used.  While I was working with my therapist, I was diagnosed with PTSD.  I really had a hard time with that diagnosis, as my father, a Vietnam War Veteran had PTSD. 

I’ve never been to war.

But now I know. 

I grew up with someone who went war, and didn’t get his PTSD diagnosis until the 80s.  I also grew up with long-term abuse and neglect.

So after a little while I pressed for EMDR.  The therapy was good, but not enough.  I was tired of living the way that I was.  I wanted something more.

And EMDR changed my life.  Maybe saved my life, because I just couldn’t go on the way that I was.

Life is wonderfully different.  There are still had unresolved things going on.  And I am healing, growing and learning who I am beyond unresolved trauma.

And something I can see so clearly that I mentioned in this previous blog post, I have been sustained. Adonai has always been with me and has tended me through the years.

And this is true for you. No matter what you have been through, what you have endured, He has been with you. He has good for you. And maybe it is time for you to reach out and receive help that can bring you to someplace wonderfully different.