Category: Lifestyle

Library Lifestyle PTSD Recovery

Dallas: 2 x ‘Double Vodka, Soda and Lime’s… a break from living with PTSD

Laura Devlin
Not all women succumb to the calling of Mother Nature to find our mate for life and make babies. My friend and I did though, with bells and whistles. Maternal instinct and a need to make sure that our children never have to grow up with the same trauma we had to turns our lives inside out and upside down. Dallas
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Dallas: Youngest child off to school… utterly terrifying, by a Complex PTSD survivor

Laura Devlin
Sh*t… it’s f’ing hard. Not usually my beautiful public school education lingo, but it’s far from ‘jolly hockeysticks darlings’. For the 8th morning in a row, my little 4 year old boy was afraid, scared, terrified about going to school. Dallas
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Dallas: I’m (a PTSD survivor work in progress) going places!

Laura Devlin
What do you other mums or dads feel like when you’ve been at home caring full time for your little ones and then SUDDENLY they’re both at school and you’re LOST? How can I find my drive and proactive energy to get through the hours I’m apart from them? I have always had all-consuming and demanding careers until I became a stay at home mummy 4 years ago. Dallas
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Dallas: My heart belongs to Daddy, a Veteran with Complex PTSD

Laura Devlin
The first time I was out of my parents’ physical reach I was truly on my own. Aged 6. I was to become the survivor, the soldier, the toughie (his words). I was Daddy’s number 1 ‘son’. I was groomed to follow in his footsteps from that moment forward. Dallas
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Dallas: Dear Santa, Please may I have a new brain? Love Laura, a Compex PTSD survivor

Laura Devlin
Christmas is coming. It’s bloody well almost round the mountain, about to ‘sleigh’ my brain all over again. The annual dread of the ‘big day’. Memories, triggers, confusing feelings, remorse and more. Sound familiar? Heavens above, you are not alone! Dallas
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Dallas: A glimpse of hope? CBD and PTSD.

Laura Devlin
It is one week and 2 days since I started taking full spectrum CBD oil. What a shock though to be hit between the eyes with the reality of the ying and yang of ‘me’ and what is is like to live with ‘me’, what it is to love and depend on ‘me’…with and without CBD. Dallas