I deeply resonated with this blog post by Alexis Rose. Her words carry great wisdom and insight.
I was speaking with a dear friend the other day, who happens to be another trauma survivor. We share a very similar past and both live with sometimes debilitating PTSD. Like me, my friend is always striving to heal, and thrive in spite of her past trauma. Like many other survivors we understand that we are not our past, we are not our trauma, and just like people with a physical illness, we still need to attend to and manage our symptoms.
There is a common expression that explains what it’s like to live with PTSD. “PTSD: It’s not the person refusing to let go of the past, but the past refusing to let go of the person.”
One of the questions that people often ask is, “Are you sure you want to remember your past?” Or a common statement is, “Just let the past go.” Both of these are said and/or…
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I Walk with a Limp 
Wow, thank you for reblogging this. I was just checking my reader and this came up. Good timing! This was one of those posts that I hesitated before I hit publish. Thank you for sharing and your support! ❤️
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