Free Hypnosis for our Veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

As far back as I can trace my gene­ol­ogy, the men have served in the mil­i­tary and gone to war.  My hus­band was a Red Beret in the first Gulf War, which shocks peo­ple who only know him as the teddy bear he is now.  My dad, aka Top Gun Tim, flew Navy jets and was the Com­man­der of his squadron.  Both grand­fa­thers served in WWII.  We have hand-drawn maps of Civil War camps from one of my great-greats.  When we say grace, we ask God to be with all of the men and women that are serv­ing the mil­i­tary of what­ever coun­try they are from.  Though I have mixed feel­ings about the mil­i­tary and all that it entails, I have always been incred­i­bly proud of these men in my fam­ily, and their will­ing­ness to serve an ideal greater than themselves.

When my grand­fa­thers came home from “the war”, there was no aware­ness of PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Dis­or­der).  There were no coun­selors or pro­grams to help them tran­si­tion back into nor­mal life.  There was no cul­tural aware­ness that many of these guys needed help — they were just labeled as “never the same after the war.”

I am so, so grate­ful that times have changed.  Well, okay, not enough to erad­i­cate war, but at least enough that our men and women can come home from bat­tle and not be left to suf­fer their night­mar­ish thoughts and flash­backs alone.  I am so grate­ful that PTSD is rec­og­nized as real, and that the stigma of it as a “sissy dis­ease” is wear­ing off.

Today I learned of a hyp­nother­a­pist, Wendi Friesen, who has posted a free, seven-day hyp­no­sis pro­gram for vet­er­ans with PTSD on her web­site.  She helps vets, and any mil­i­tary personel, to not only relieve the trau­matic symp­toms of PTSD, but also to regain the abil­ity to be emo­tion­ally close and con­nected to their fam­ily and friends.  I love that she’s not just help­ing them to alle­vi­ate pain, but also help­ing them to recon­nect to love.

I encour­age you to go to the site and learn more about the jour­ney that led her to cre­ate this pro­gram, and the heart­felt energy behind her mis­sion.  And if you know any vets, please, please, pass the link on to them. (You don’t nec­es­sar­ily have to tell them that you found her link via a web­site called The Meta­phys­i­cal Mamas though.  That might be a bit fluffy for some of our vets - LOL!)

As all of those bumper-stickers and ribbon-shaped car mag­nets remind us, “God Bless Our Troops”!!

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