Tag Archives: Intensive Trauma Therapy
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In the Freeze? 3 Ways to Get Back on the Road to Trauma Recovery
Posted on June 11, 2015 by admin in PTSD Blog.I am 4.5 years post-PTSD treatment. Within days of my arrival at intensive Trauma Therapy my life changed. A lot. For the first time in 40 years I slept. This was an almost immediate change once I began to chip away at the lies that accompany trauma. As I went through treatment, things rapidly […]
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Getting to Know Me–The Value of Written Dialogue
Posted on March 10, 2014 by admin in PTSD Blog.Photo Credit: trbell.tripod.com This past November I visited Intensive Trauma Therapy (ITT) in Morgantown, West Virginia, for a week of trauma-specific therapy. One of the most valuable things I learned at ITT was the power of written and verbal dialogue to recode and “move” the stuck experiences produced by trauma from one side of our […]
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Five Misconceptions that Held Me Back from Trauma Treatment
Posted on December 16, 2013 by admin in PTSD Blog.For the past three years, I’ve been speaking and consulting on post-traumatic stress disorder. After I accompanied my best friend for treatment that radically changed her life, I began to suspect that my life was unraveling because of untreated trauma. But I was different from other people who suffered PTSD. Or so I thought. […]
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The Real Truth about People with PTSD
Posted on December 13, 2013 by admin in PTSD Blog.A few years back I didn’t know much about post-traumatic stress disorder. I know a lot more about PTSD today–from the inside out. I just returned from a week of outpatient therapy at Intensive Trauma Therapy (ITT) in Morgantown, West Virginia, that changed my life. So here’s the REAL truth about people who live […]
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Broken Places: A View from the Other Side, Part 5 of 5
Posted on August 21, 2013 by admin in PTSD Blog.Another email came today. The 6th this week from someone who suffered from a lifetime of PTSD symptoms. Then they found life-changing treatment in the five- to ten-day outpatient program at Intensive Trauma Therapy. Someone who heard Wanda Sanchez’s story on a radio show, online, at a seminar, or at a professional training session. You […]
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YOUR TRAUMA STORIES
Posted on July 29, 2013 by admin in PTSD Blog.Have you had a traumatic experience that’s left you struggling to cope in certain areas of life? Have you been robbed? Physically or sexually abused? Been the victim of domestic violence? Have you watched your house burn, witnessed a tragic accident, or experienced medical trauma or near-death experience? Have you endured the pain of abandonment or neglect? Have […]
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Broken Places. A View From the Other Side. (Part 4 of 5)
Posted on July 26, 2013 by admin in PTSD Blog.By Shelly Beach I was living in Michigan. Wanda was living somewhere in California–I had no idea where. And in that first phone conversation, she wasn’t ready to tell me. The only thing I knew for sure was that she wanted to die. And she had a plan to carry it out. Several […]
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Broken Places: My PTSD Story (Part 1 of 4)
Posted on July 23, 2013 by admin in PTSD Blog.I’m a survivor of complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD). For over four decades, I struggled to find a way to live my life looking like I was doing great. And most of the time I did that successfully. I was the executive producer of the longest-running conservative talk show in one of the top five […]
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A Spider Story and Why People with PTSD Make Sense
Posted on June 5, 2013 by admin in PTSD Blog.Today my friend Wanda killed a spider. A big, fat ugly one. Wanda splattered some Lysol on it, and the spider drowned a gasping chemical death. But here’s the cool thing. Wanda killed that nasty creature alone, without hollering for help or making a peep. Pretty amazing for somebody who just three short years ago […]
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Broken Places: A View from the Other Side, Part 2
Posted on May 7, 2013 by admin in PTSD Blog.By Shelly Beach I was living in Michigan. Wanda was living somewhere in California–I had no idea where. And in that first phone conversation, she wasn’t ready to tell me. The only thing I knew for sure was that she wanted to die. And she had a plan to carry it out. Several plans, in […]
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