Cancerwifemom,
PTSD is a challenge to work through. We are processing the reality of life and death, the assault on our body, the changes in our body, our mind and our emotions. We face the reality that we are not in control of the trials we are given. We aren't in complete control of our bodies except what we put In it, How we Care for it and how we
Nourish it.
We also have our Mind to look after as well as our Emotions and Spirit.
Victory comes in stages. Look where you are now;
You’re 2 years out. That's a celebration!
And there will be more celebrations.
My diagnoses was 10 years ago, stage 3. It was just before Christmas. Treatment was January thru October.
The most important word I can share with you is CHOOSE Joy.
Cancer was not Our choice. But we DO have Our choice in How we are going to face it and work through it.
It may dominate our time, it will cause us to feel physically crappy, provoke depression, make us weak and overshadow us with fear.
BUT…. But that has a season and we can choose how to purpose it.
PTSD is a Process. It can be grueling and cruel. Anxiety is an enemy. What defeats Anxiety? PEACE.
How? GRATITUDE.
I was encouraged by a very dear friend to start a Blessing Book. I bought an 8x11 hardback spiral journal (Picadilly on Amazon) and was encouraged to write end of day, the Blessings I had received that day. At first it was just a paragraph or two. Then they got longer.
It could be a phone call I received, a smile with kind words from a stranger in a store, I might've been feeling good and got a few tasks done but I began to notice, the more blessings I had penned, the less power the PTSD had control over my life.
In time, those haunting reminders became a vapor.
Why? The Blessings overshadowed them.
And in time, for me, I recognized the Cancer itself BECAME a Blessing.
Each day has it blessings. Seek them to Victory.
PTSD will become an old and distant acquaintance because you will have chosen the Blessings.
A heart filled with gratitude leaves little room for lifes enemies.
March on. You've got a life to Live!