War Zone Trauma

Survivors of war trauma suffer from anxiety, insomnia, depression, nightmares, and flashbacks. Often desperate for help, sufferers look to ministers, counselors, psychiatrists, and families for help. Medications, drugs, alternative therapies, along with traditional therapy are all interventions those with war induced Post Traumatic Stress Disorders (PTSD) use to try to get help.

Often the military diagnoses veterans with pre-existing conditions and claim that the vet had emotional problems prior to being in the service. They attempt to brush off symptoms of anxiety, angry outbursts, relationship instability, insomnia and flashbacks as symptoms of psychosis, borderline personality disorder, depression or bipolar disorder unrelated to your service. One complicating factor is that often there is more than one condition at a time - yet all are connected to your service.

Understanding the link between your symptoms and the trauma can help you discover a way out of the misery without having to blame anyone or see yourself as a “Victim”. Without that, your self esteem gets destroyed in the process because you start to believe you are “crazy” or dysfunctional in way that cannot be addressed with the cognitive “evidenced based” treatments alone. Only through recognizing the source of the symptoms as being trauma based, can you come to a way of understanding what happened to you with compassion, and acceptance while still giving yourself everything you need to heal.

Fortunately there are brilliant minds that have come up with tools, techniques, and therapies that can truly transform our past and give us our lives back. I know, I’ve been one of the fortunate people that has been able to reclaim my lost self esteem and build a life with love and joy. YOU can, too.

Join us for the Life Beyond Trauma Conference in Dallas, Texas October 2-4th. It can start you on the path, or accelerate your path, of recovery!