Still Alive, and Jane's Still Improving....

[avus]

My Dear Friends,

You've a right to be put-off. It's been too long. Today, I just got a back-channel message from brightfeather wondering whether I was all right, and how Jane was, and I realized that I must post something short -- at least short for me.

Comments

[avus]

Curious, your recent thoughts of us -- several have mentioned this. Perhaps I was picking up on "vibes" -- good one, no doubt.

PTSD is, indeed, tricky, and much of that, I fear, is our poor understanding of it, because how we understand guides how we help heal. But I could go on & on, and I would certainly become tiresome. Better understanding: that's one of my keys to working in more healing & healthy ways.

Briefly,

since PTSD is so extremely tied to specifically "what happened", and since its effects can penetrate so deeply into our sense of self, and into our trust in the world & our faith in God or whatever Higher Power,

and since PTSD involves such incredible paradoxes as the intermixing & inter-relating, the many schmushing togethers of past, present & future, the paradoxes of what it means to try to "avoid" what is already & inevitably within us (How can we do this?), and the paradoxes and conflicts of a basic & universal human responses combined with other responses so fundamentally invidual & uniqueL personal & cultural,

any understanding of PTSD falls far short,
and the shorter it falls,
the further away we are to being able to understand & heal.

(That's short? Yeah, right. But actually, it is about as short as I can make it -- at least for now -- and I did warn you about tiresome.)

So *hug* in return, and best wishes for your continued healing.