ARTICLE

FindCenter AddIcon

Finally Figuring Out What Helps Troops with Posttraumatic Stress

By Belleruth Naparstek — 2009

The tools that work so well are neither complicated nor expensive. They’re interventions that ping on the primitive structures in the brain, where posttraumatic stress sits and wreaks its havoc. These are tools like guided imagery, relaxation, meditation, hypnosis, and breath work.

Read on www.huffpost.com

FindCenter Post-Image

‘A Way to Talk About It’

A veteran turned to art to try to heal his trauma. There he found solace and meaning. Now he helps others.

Article
Melissa Chan
2018
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

“Which One Is the Real Me?”—A Veteran’s Transition and Identity Crisis

Like most veterans, I found the transition from military to civilian life a struggle—a tougher struggle than I had anticipated. For me, I found that one of my trickier struggles was with my identity.

Article
Joshua Plummer
2022
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

For These Veterans, Poetry and Prose Help Treat the Moral Injury of War

The classical hero’s journey involves a call to adventure, a refusal to go, crossing a threshold while battling internal and external monsters, and above all, sacrifice.

Article
Anne Kniggendorf
2021
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

The Extraordinary Power of the Imagination in Healing

You could argue that there’s three coding languages, one being your native language, the second being mathematics, [or] ways of representing the world internally to yourself, and the third is through imagery.

Article
Tami Simon
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Why Relive the Past?

Humans are the only animals on earth who punish themselves a thousand times or more for the same mistake, and who punish everybody else a thousand times or more for the same mistake.

Article
don Jose Ruiz
2011
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Zen Mind, Writer’s Mind

Natalie Goldberg’s classic Writing Down the Bones introduced writing as a spiritual practice. She discusses Zen and the writer’s practice with author and Buddhist teacher Steve Hagen, moderated by Scott Edelstein.

Article
Natalie Goldberg
2021
FindCenter AddIcon

EXPLORE TOPIC

Post-Traumatic Stress (PTSD)