Conquer Your Mountains
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…