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Post-Traumatic-Stress-Opportunity?
Reframing Stress.
I’ve been thinking a lot about disorders, PTSD in particular, post traumatic stress disorder is basically the body’s response to trauma. Trauma is an overwhelming event that is unable to be processed fully in the moment; trauma is an intelligent system that keeps us connected to the flow of life, it might freeze our capacities to do certain things, or to remember certain things, or to feel certain emotions, but it does allow us to survive, and continue to thrive in life in certain ways, and although trauma will always return to us to be healed in cyclical ways, throughout life, it does allow us to continue to live amongst incredibly challenging aspects of experience.
If we think of the flow of life as a river, then trauma is like an iced over part of it. We can live with trauma, yet, when the waters of life keep flowing past the frozen parts, friction is caused. If there is another stressful event, we can think of it as snow falling on the river, if it falls in the parts of the river that are water, it dissolves, if it falls on the parts of the river that is frozen then it builds up, piles up, creates tension. I heard this imagery from Thomas Hübl recently, and it speaks to the diminished stress response that I have experienced through PTSD, the stresses and strains of life and relationship became very challenging, the ability — the margin…
