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Creating a Supportive Space for PTSD Awareness 1  Did you know that there is a thing called PTSD radio? I did not. So, I looked it up....

Mary Cools
Mar 62 min read
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Review of Finding Me by Viola Davis
This memoir is raw and truthful. It delves into the world of the very, very poor and unfortunate. Viola Davis brings hardship to life for...

Mary Cools
Mar 52 min read
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For those of you who read Adytum by Mary Cools: SOME LEAVEN!
Fluffy White Frosting - a trigger buster for sure! Combine in the top of a double boiler: 3/4 cup sugar 1/4 cup corn syrup 2...

Mary Cools
Mar 11 min read
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Learning About PTSD 3
​​​ ​The Warning Signs of PTSD: ​ These signs are what the Delta Airlines survivors should be looking for in themselves . . . ​...

Mary Cools
Feb 262 min read
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Learning About PTSD 2
Support for Survivors Those of us who know people who are survivors, and have PTSD because of what they have survived, will always want...

Mary Cools
Feb 222 min read
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He Touched My Adytum
He Touched My Adytum  “My father’s silences were bits of him that I could absorb, feel. Even as a child, I sensed where he went, why he...

Mary Cools
Feb 171 min read
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Learning About PTSD 1
1. PTSD and nightmares go hand in hand. The nightmares are not even always about the trauma suffered by the person who ended up with...

Mary Cools
Feb 133 min read
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Creating a Supportive Space for PTSD Sufferers - Types of Trauma
As I try harder and harder to create this supportive space for those with the condition labelled PTSD, I think it is important to...

Mary Cools
Feb 122 min read
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Tuesdays with Morrie -- author Mitch Albom
Truly a book about life’s greatest lesson. A dying professor teaches his student about life. An astounding story unravels the joys of a...

Mary Cools
Feb 71 min read
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OCD -- A Way to Cope with Trauma
With PTSD, of course our nightmares/dreams can trigger some very intrusive thoughts during our waking/worrying hours. It is recommended...

Mary Cools
Feb 61 min read
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Generational PTSD -- It is confusing!
PTSD has a bothersome symptom, nightmares! Often, I do not even remember what the nightmare was but I awake in the night with some...

Mary Cools
Feb 51 min read
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Cooking is an Elixir
Some of you may wonder why I include recipes in my posts. Well, my mother taught that cooking was a cure all. Not the act of eating but...

Mary Cools
Feb 22 min read
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Sharing Adytum:
Adytum  (ad-it-um): the most sacred place within a sacred place; the inner shrine of the heart, the place inside you where you feel a...

Mary Cools
Jan 291 min read
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It’s NOT Just Me? Is it?
Identifying PTSD: Â I am feeling quite vulnerable today. I feel this way sometimes when I cannot control my self-doubt or insecurities....

Mary Cools
Jan 252 min read
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"Well Aged -- Making the Most of Your Platinum Years" by Ralph Milton
In this case, direct quotes from Milton's book say it all:  “It takes me ten or fifteen minutes just to put on my support socks in the...

Mary Cools
Jan 182 min read
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Marshmallow Treats
Now here is a recipe that would comfort anyone on their worst day. 1/4 cup butter or margarine 40 regular sized marshmallows 1/2 teaspoon...

Mary Cools
Jan 101 min read
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OK, the banana pudding recipe! (Posted in December)
I did not make the banana pudding to derive comfort from eating it. I shared it with others which makes me feel good. I made it to hear...

Mary Cools
Jan 101 min read
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Snippets from Adytum
Definition: Adytum (ad-it-um): the most sacred place within a sacred place; the inner shrine of the heart, the place inside you where...

Mary Cools
Jan 91 min read
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What the Past Means to Me
In his Shannara series, in Book One, The Sword of Shannara —Terry Brooks once wrote “the future was inextricably tied to the past, an...

Mary Cools
Jan 93 min read
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It's NOT just me? Is it?
For one more day – by Mitch Albom  Once again, Mitch Albom has delivered a book that everyone can relate to!  He tells us: “This is a...

Mary Cools
Dec 30, 20242 min read
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