Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Today is what I would call a special day. It is my one year anniversary of being deemed sub-clinical for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. It's been a full year! Even though it is a gray January day outside I feel quite sunny on the inside. I still have some additional work I wish to do in support of my own mental health. But I feel very excited and happy to have achieved this milestone!
Here is a look back at a portion of what I wrote a year ago:
As I made my way home today the world around me looked much as it would shortly after those first sessions I underwent using EMDR therapy: vivid, engaging, exciting. Though today is one of the coldest days of a winter that has felt plenty long already my excitement about my recovery suffused my body and mind. Were it not so brisk outside I could imagine going out and shouting "I'm sub-clinical, I'm sub-clinical!" But then some people might think I am clinical in another way...such as being manic! The coming of spring and a new cycle of life is still many weeks away but this encouraging news today gives me such a needed boost at a time when I have been feeling a bit weary. The bitter cold of this winter has been a lot to manage. I cannot imagine how I would have put up with such enduring cold if it had happened last winter when I had first moved to Minnesota. Thankfully the remaining days of this winter will be even easier for me to manage now that I have confirmation that all the work I have been doing on myself is paying off...and paying off well!
As a simple means of celebrating the life I have today I am going to enumerate what I am grateful for:
Today is what I would call a special day. It is my one year anniversary of being deemed sub-clinical for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. It's been a full year! Even though it is a gray January day outside I feel quite sunny on the inside. I still have some additional work I wish to do in support of my own mental health. But I feel very excited and happy to have achieved this milestone!
Here is a look back at a portion of what I wrote a year ago:
As I made my way home today the world around me looked much as it would shortly after those first sessions I underwent using EMDR therapy: vivid, engaging, exciting. Though today is one of the coldest days of a winter that has felt plenty long already my excitement about my recovery suffused my body and mind. Were it not so brisk outside I could imagine going out and shouting "I'm sub-clinical, I'm sub-clinical!" But then some people might think I am clinical in another way...such as being manic! The coming of spring and a new cycle of life is still many weeks away but this encouraging news today gives me such a needed boost at a time when I have been feeling a bit weary. The bitter cold of this winter has been a lot to manage. I cannot imagine how I would have put up with such enduring cold if it had happened last winter when I had first moved to Minnesota. Thankfully the remaining days of this winter will be even easier for me to manage now that I have confirmation that all the work I have been doing on myself is paying off...and paying off well!
As a simple means of celebrating the life I have today I am going to enumerate what I am grateful for:
- My health insurance
- My loyal friends I have all over the world
- My health
- My desire to work
- My professional interests
- My love of doing fun and zany things
- My motivation that inspires me to keep trying
- My willingness to open my heart and be open to love
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