Conquer Your Mountains
My road to coping with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has been a difficult one. I didn’t even know that I needed any help or that I really had a problem until someone else gently helped me to realize it. I was 23 before I ever stepped foot into a therapist’s office. Bob and I were…
I’m beginning a series of posts about my own understanding of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). I’m not a psychologist, and have no training in understanding the human mind. But I do know about my personal experience with PTSD, as well as the experiences of a small handful of friends and acquaintances who have also…
Several years ago, when I was young and exceptionally dramatic, I had a life-changing experience. It was life-changing, not only because it involved a boy who I thought I was destined to marry, but also because I learned a simple, profound lesson that has stuck with me since. I was twenty years old, and I…
Ever since our human ancestors wandered as nomads, human beings have had attachments to certain places. We could look at essentially every culture and find some place that is different from the rest. For some it was the natural beauty that inspired them (think Grand Canyon). For others it was places that they had built (from Mayan…
When things start to go well, all too often we begin to get frustrated that they aren’t going better. I know I do, anyway. Why is that? Why is it that when things are going well we want to do more? Is it that when we no longer worry about merely surviving, we think about…
An American religious leader once compared life to a wheel around which we move. Said he: “There are times when we are up [at the top of the wheel] and someone else is down. But in due time it [will be] the other way around…Every man [and woman] will fail sometime.” (Truman Madsen, The Highest…
I loved watching and listening to Young-Ha Kim’s advice in this video. I lived in South Korea for a year in 2010 and it was an amazing experience. I think that Young-Ha Kim’s guidance is something we should all take to heart and try to use in our daily lives. When we are able to…
Throughout my life, I have had several opportunities to work closely with children. I remember sitting in a classroom of four-year-olds, all of their eyes fixated on me, eager to learn, to grow, to become. It amazed me to think of all the potential contained in that room. These children could literally become ANYTHING they set…
I absolutely LOVE my job! There really is nothing like it out there. As a wilderness therapist, I work with both parents and their children. I work in an office and in the wilderness. I am bound by ethical and licensed boundaries, but the sky is the limit when I work with adolescents as we…