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		<title>PTSD Spirituality: Engaging Music, Art, Poetry Helps to Heal PTSD</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Z</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Music, poetry, and art of just about any kind can help us diminish the life-destroying affects that PTSD can have on us.  Art, like prayer, is a voyage of discovery.  Art is like an antibiotic against the PTSD soul infection.  We discover the value of our own souls, we are better enabled to seek forgiveness [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PTSD Spirituality: Jason Moon, Trying to Find My Way Home</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Z</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Artwork and creativeness can help us heal from our spiritual wounds, especially when those wounds are inflicted by PTSD.  For some of us, we find healing in music and writing.  After all, in art is life.  For many of us, regardless of how we were traumatized, we spend the rest of our lives “Trying to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PTSD Spirituality: The Bitterness Trap of Alienation and Isolation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:53:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Z</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PTSD strives to dislodge us from our healthy relationships and to wedge us into extreme isolation.  Alienation and isolation are not only outcomes of the PTSD-Identity; each also forms part of the process that hijacks our lives and loves.  Each feeds into the other and forms a cycle of lost relationships and reinforced self-isolation.  Whether [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PTSD Spirituality: Prayerful Healing is a Sanctification Opportunity.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 01:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Z</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Human beings afflicted with PTSD’s soul wound often find themselves in denial.  They often self-medicate in ways that further damage their health, spirituality, and relationships.  Even after we stop denying we have PTSD we are still often trapped in a cycle of coping that just digs a deeper hole for us to be buried within.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PTSD Spirituality: Finding Redemption in Our Stories and Our Art</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 15:14:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Z</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read a powerful essay by a Marine Corps Captain who reflected on his service in Afghanistan. CPT Timothy Kudo notes the apparent disconnect most Americans have between what happens in the States and what our military must contend with in Afghanistan.  While his observations are certainly true concerning how “normal Americans” (whoever they are) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PTSD Spirituality: PTSD, Trust, and Worst Case Scenarios</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 23:33:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Z</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our PTSD Triggers can not only initiate our PTSD symptoms, they can also create new stresses and anxieties that are not directly tied to the initial PTSD-producing traumas.  We may begin to unduly focus on “worst-case scenarios” due to the harm we have received to our PTSD-damaged sense of trust and safety.  While we must [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PTSD Spirituality: Creating Artwork, Poetry, and Music… Despite PTSD</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 01:55:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Z</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Artwork and craft possess important healing aspects when it comes to PTSD.   From a theological perspective, anytime we create, we bring our souls into contact with the divine, the numinous, what I as a traditional Roman Catholic think of as the Holy Spirit, and what many of my non-Catholic friends think of as The Creative [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PTSD Spirituality: Isolation and Grace (Preliminary Thoughts)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 22:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Z</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PTSD is insidious in its effort to make us think we are alone in our suffering.  It is true that we are often neglected in this suffering by others, but we are never the only ones who are suffering.  Even in a locked room, or some sort of solitary confinement, we are never alone as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PTSD Spirituality: Judas, Peter, and Choosing the Right Path</title>
		<link>http://www.ptsdspirituality.com/2011/08/24/ptsd-spirituality-judas-peter-and-choosing-the-right-path/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 00:40:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Z</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guilt corrodes our soul like acid on pink bunny slippers.  PTSD survivors often grapple with guilt. Guilt can lead us to despair and self-destruction.  It often causes us to give up hope, lash out at others, and even kill ourselves.  How do we live with guilt?  How do we get rid of it?  The New [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PTSD Spirituality: PTSD, Elite and Joe Normal</title>
		<link>http://www.ptsdspirituality.com/2011/08/09/ptsd-spirituality-ptsd-elite-and-joe-normal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:44:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Z</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The stalking horse of PTSD made several guest appearances over the last several days.  In the grey land that encourages one to despair of ever seeing hope on the horizon, this last weekend has been a blessing and a curse.  The curse was provided from several angles that ranged from the benign, to the aggravating, [...]]]></description>
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