by Cathy Terranova | Dec 29, 2014 | Rethink Trauma, Uncategorized
The holidays are my husband’s favorite time of year. He loves decorating, shopping for gifts, wrapping presents, and seeing people’s faces when they open what he’s gotten them. He loves Christmas trees, Advent calendars, Christmas stories, claymation...
by Cathy Terranova | Dec 22, 2014 | Rethink Trauma, Uncategorized
I used to believe that grief could be measured. That the amount of sorrow you should feel about something was some how dispensed to you and that you got less the further away you were from the epicenter of tragedy. The flaw in that system is that grief...
by Cathy Terranova | Dec 15, 2014 | Uncategorized
A couple years ago I read this great article in Christianity Today about how after quite a few surveys they discovered something about Christians. Despite popularly held belief, people outside the faith typically liked Christians. They thought that they were usually...
by Cathy Terranova | Nov 24, 2014 | Rethink Trauma
My relationship with GOD is always the first thing to suffer when things get difficult for me in the mental health department. I forget how to pray. I forget how important it is to pray. I fight the feelings of shame and failure when things aren’t...
by Cathy Terranova | Nov 17, 2014 | Boundaries, Caregiving, Rethink Trauma
PTSD is a triggered disorder. Meaning that; seeing, hearing, or over all experiencing things even loosely related to the trauma can cause anything from a panic attack to a full-blown flashback to sometimes, nothing. Being triggered can look a variety of ways. It can...