Life After PTSD Podcast: Healing From Trauma

In this episode we get the privilege of conversing with Megan, who's firefighter husband Ed has been on previous episodes of the show.  When Megan was 3 years old and sitting in a car seat of her parents car, a bad Florida storm raged and the experience of driving through the storm ruined her for decades thereafter.  She recently had a session where a counselor used Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) and the results were instant. - The show is intended to provide encouragement for the listener but is for entertainment purposes only and NOT a substitute for proper treatment or to be used in any legal capacity whatsoever. Please seek help from a qualified mental health provider.

In this episode Dr. Leslie Cary joins us to talk about the physiological effects of uncleared trauma, especially on children, and how, different from the animal kingdom, the unconscious mind of human beings processes learnings from traumatic and significant emotional events differently, resulting in a constant replaying of those events in a harmful way to our physiology.  Be prepared to be amazed at you learn about the long term effects of carrying trauma and why healing is vital. - The show is intended to provide encouragement for the listener but is for entertainment purposes only and NOT a substitute for proper treatment or to be used in any legal capacity whatsoever. Please seek help from a qualified mental health provider.

In this episode Patty joins us to share of the work she is doing in the Charlotte, NC area with the Carolina Center for Recovery.  The Carolina Center for Recovery is paving the way with innovative therapy integrating trauma resolution along with the substance abuse treatment.  They are getting excellent results, recognizing that this wholistic approach affirms that in so many cases of substance abuse it's only a cover for underlying trauma.  CarolinaCenterforRecovery.com -  The show is intended to provide encouragement for the listener but is for entertainment purposes only and NOT a substitute for proper treatment or to be used in any legal capacity whatsoever. Please seek help from a qualified mental health provider.  FirstOrlandoCounseling.com Kari@lifeafterptsd.org

That moment in a doctor's office that everyone fears: "this might be cancer".  In this episode we talk about how people process traumatic news and how the support systems that surround a person, from families to friends and co-workers, can walk with someone effectively during these times.  Many times the physically ill do not get mental health treatment during their battle and are robbed of an emotional wellbeing better suited to aid them in their fight.   - The show is intended to provide encouragement for the listener but is for entertainment purposes only and NOT a substitute for proper treatment or to be used in any legal capacity whatsoever. Please seek help from a qualified mental health provider.

Dr. Diego Hernandez is a licensed Clinical Psychologist, trauma expert, and Clinical Director of Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) Research at the University of South Florida and past Clinical Director of the Military Trial of ART at USF. With 20 years of mental health experience and a combat trauma expert, Dr. Diego works privately and on retreats with active duty military and Veterans. His practice emphasis is with Combat Veterans as well as active duty with emphasis on Special Forces. In this episode he joins us to address and defend the claim that Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is an injury that can heal, contrary to mainstream thinking which often labels it as an illness one can only hope to cope with.  - The show is intended to provide encouragement for the listener but is for entertainment purposes only and NOT a substitute for proper treatment or to be used in any legal capacity whatsoever. Please seek help from a qualified mental health provider.

Ed is a Florida firefighter, former Veteran and degreed counselor who joins us this week to talk about one of the many faces of PTSD: firefighters and first responders, and how their trauma is often bigger and more unexpected than what the public thinks.  In light of a recent death of a friend on the force due to cancer caused by chemicals released in a burning building, Ed gives us a glimpse of how great the sacrifices are of these heroes. FirstOrlandoCounseling.com The show is intended to provide encouragement for the listener but is for entertainment purposes only and NOT a substitute for proper treatment or to be used in any legal capacity whatsoever. Please seek help from a qualified mental health provider.

Eric was a police officer on a smaller Florida city force who was shot in the line of duty.  The initial shock of the experience led him to assume life would go on as normal but upon return to the force he began to experience the symptoms of PTSD that heightened his fight flight response and ultimately led to his reaching out for help.  Unfortunately the average care provided by the most readily available help isn't helping our finest.  Dr. Diego Hernandez, who ultimately worked to clear Eric's trauma, joins us as well as we learn about Eric's journey toward a life after PTSD. - The show is intended to provide encouragement for the listener but is for entertainment purposes only and NOT a substitute for proper treatment or to be used in any legal capacity whatsoever. Please seek help from a qualified mental health provider.

Caroline Barron’s father never found his birth mother. After he dies suddenly on her twentieth birthday, Caroline develops an insidious fear of her own untimely death. When she nearly bleeds out on an operating table during childbirth, it almost seems her greatest fear is justified. Emerging from the experience a changed woman, Caroline spends the next six years poring over her family history in an attempt to make sense of her inexplicable rage. The family secrets she unearths threaten to destabilise her identity and carefully built life, eventually leading her to New Zealand’s rugged Ripiro Beach, where past and present dramatically collide. Her brand new book, Ripiro Beach details her discovery that there are mental health issues, suicide and incarceration in her family and – most significantly – that she is Māori. - The show is intended to provide encouragement for the listener but is for entertainment purposes only and NOT a substitute for proper treatment or to be used in any legal capacity whatsoever. Please seek help from a qualified mental health provider.

In this episode we welcome veteran Mark whose story of multiple traumas while serving in our Armed Forces, included facing constant mortar fire on deployment testicular cancer and nearly dying of a heart attack related to his military vaccines and the subsequent outlook on life cause by constantly facing death.  - The show is intended to provide encouragement for the listener but is for entertainment purposes only and NOT a substitute for proper treatment or to be used in any legal capacity whatsoever. Please seek help from a qualified mental health provider.

In this episode we dialogue about how many therapists expressed feeling overwhelmed by the emotional fallout stemming from the height of the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic. - The show is intended to provide encouragement for the listener but is for entertainment purposes only and NOT a substitute for proper treatment or to be used in any legal capacity whatsoever. Please seek help from a qualified mental health provider.

In this episode we welcome Jess, who enrolled in the Armed Services at 17 years old in order to have a future that paid for the college her family couldn't afford.  By 18 she had experienced two instances of military sexual trauma (MST) and later in life her husband left her after 14 years of marriage.  Hear her story of recover and learn why so many instances of MST go unreported each year. - The show is intended to provide encouragement for the listener but is for entertainment purposes only and NOT a substitute for proper treatment or to be used in any legal capacity whatsoever. Please seek help from a qualified mental health provider.

In this episode we welcome Stacie, who's husband Michael was comatose and on a ventilator as a result of COVID-19.  As their family reeled, Stacie read a chance social post that led her to the solution that may have ultimately saved her husband's life: plasma.  Michael is now home recovering and the family is creating their new normal after become yet another of the many faces of trauma. -  The show is intended to provide encouragement for the listener but is for entertainment purposes only and NOT a substitute for proper treatment or to be used in any legal capacity whatsoever. Please seek help from a qualified mental health provider.

In this episode we welcome Brenton Wright, father of Calvin Desir, the second of two Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students lost to suicide in the aftermath of the Valentine's Day 2018 shooting. Less than a week earlier the Coral Springs, Florida-Parkland, Florida community lost Sydney Aiello, a fellow survivor of the shooting.  While Life After PTSD generally focuses on the story after the story, where a new normal of someone's deciding is realized after clearing their trauma, we also labor to eliminate the stigma of seeking mental wellness and Brenton's passionate plea serves as a wake up call to us all that no one should ever have to feel or experience what he and his wife did in the loss of their son. As we seek to end that stigma, the solution is to love. Calvin Desir 03/23/2019 Sydney Aiello 03/17/2019 - The show is intended to provide encouragement for the listener but is for entertainment purposes only and NOT a substitute for proper treatment or to be used in any legal capacity whatsoever. Please seek help from a qualified mental health provider.

In this episode special guest Ashley shares of how after birthing her son she grew to resent her breasts when they failed to continue to produce milk for her son.  This ultimately created a triggering response for her when her husband would initiate intimacy, specifically that part of her body.  Trauma affects countless numbers of marriages and often for reasons that aren't about bad behaviors in marriage.  Still, the effect remains the same and uncleared, the joy of the marriage and the teamwork and peace spouses should ideally feel together are robbed.  Hear some good news in this episode as Ashley and her husband Tyler are on the other side of trauma now free to enjoy their life together. -  The show is intended to provide encouragement for the listener but is for entertainment purposes only and NOT a substitute for proper treatment or to be used in any legal capacity whatsoever. Please seek help from a qualified mental health provider.

In this episode we welcome Matt & Sharyn Brisson, two nurses in Colorado who share their experiences working in hospitals as medical professionals in the midst of the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic.  Many doctors and nurses are experiencing trauma from the events of these times as they put their own safety on the line for the care of their patients.  Hear the perspective of these brave individuals, all the while some fact is separated from fiction in the overall narrative the American public is seeing in the media.  Life After PTSD is produced by Jeff McLaughlin.  For production inquires: jeff@motormouthcreations.com Support the show at PATREON.COM/LIFEAFTERPTSD/ Please leave us a positive review on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/life-after-ptsd/id1448130626 Any rebroadcast or retransmission of an episode, without the express written consent of Life After PTSD, is prohibited. ©2020 Life After PTSD NLP, neuro linguistic programming, therapy, counseling, coaching, trauma, TF-NLP, trauma focused, veteran, military, armed forces, United States, war, wartime, marriage, family, children, adolescence, Consano Group, training, ART, EDMR, RTM, COVID-19, Coronavirus, Wuhan, China, Flatten The Curve, Ventilator, New York, Nurse, Doctor, Social Distancing, Lockdown --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lifeafterptsd/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lifeafterptsd/support