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Religious trauma. I admit that a year ago the phrase made me angry. As a Christian, I thought it was just an attack from the atheist folks. I rolled my eyes and moved on. Spiritual abuse? Ridiculous. Preposterous. Enter EMDR. In I think March of this year, my psychologist introduced it to our sessions. I…
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What happened: Truth here, I had a real tough time with my 2008 tour to Afghanistan. I was a bad mess. Six months post tour and I was desperate for some mental health interventions. There’s this thing in the Canadian armed forces where at the six month date we all have a mandatory interview with…
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What happened: It was probably early spring of 2006. I had been posted to CFB Petawawa in 2003, and was working for 2RCHA. I had been selected as a spare for task force 3-06 to Kandahar. Me and 5 or 6 others were given the opportunity to learn more about people and religion by taking…
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I know, why are you bringing up teeth? Bear with me here. I live with trauma. Childhood trauma, religious trauma, military trauma. It’s affected almost every aspect of my life, however I’m just learning that 15 years later. So why the teeth? It’s easy to form a mental picture of your mouth. The tongue is…