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More on nutrition and mental health – we chat about avoiding foods that cause anxiety, and replacing them with foods that help manage anxiety.

One of the best tools that we’ve found to help with managing Post Traumatic Stress and improving mental health is our nutrition in Vancouver. So let’s talk about the foods that cause or increase inflammation, and what foods can help keep inflammation at bay.

Vancouver: Failure and a Growth Mindset – the Role of Failure in Successful PTSD Recovery. An essential aspect of recovery is moving forward. Quitting means you’re giving up, failure means you’re still trying.

Vancouver: How to Manage Negative Thoughts – The single most productive thing to learn in your recovery journey is how to take a thought captive–how not allow it to rule or ruin a moment, a day, an opportunity. In this quick video Dr. John A. King discusses something that is at the very heart of his book #dealwithit – living well with PTSD.

I wrote this piece ‘Do You See Him?’ after touring with a documentary on human trafficking that featured my story called Stopping Traffic. It discusses the impact of sexual abuse on men in Vancouver.

Overcoming a victim mentality in Vancouver is a matter of perception. If you allow someone to make your world for you, they will always make it too small.

The Importance of Resilience in Overcoming Trauma in Vancouver. In an interview with Chris Lengyel of Help Me PTSD, Melissa and I discuss the importance of resilience in sustainable trauma or PTSD recovery.

Everyone has bad days–sometimes even a string of them put together. When you are dealing with PTSD and learning to manage yourself in Vancouver, there are some things that can really help on those shitty days.

PTSD Is Not A Pissing Competition in Vancouver. I was contacted by a female veteran who made it very clear to me that she believes that REAL PTSD was only something that people in the military could experience. I very firmly and politely disagreed.

It’s difficult to know if someone cares for you in Vancouver when you are dealing with PTSD in relationships.
If you have experienced trauma, some people just want to sit and hear your horror stories. Others want fodder for the gossip machine.