You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.
–Thomas Merton
I’ve begun trauma therapy after living with PTSD for thirty years, and I’m finding it, well, traumatic. Please God, may all of this pain lead me to the peace Merton describes.


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Author: Barbara Marincel
My spiritual journey is all about finding the grace in the everyday—and the not so everyday—while living a full and creative life that includes chronic illness, PTSD, and depression. I'm a writer, blogger and photographer, live in lovely Minneapolis, Minnesota and am happily married to George and doggie-mama to Piper. I’m a Benedictine Oblate candidate of St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville, MN. My creative inspirations include nature, good books, Lake Superior, my flower garden, and my faith. More than anything, I cherish spending time with friends and, especially, family.
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Don’t give up hope. Without tense therapy and walking through the storm I would not have unlocked most of the suffering I had gone through.
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Thanks Cheryl. I will stick with it, I’m just scared. It helps to hear you’ve been there, in your own way, and are glad you did the therapy, etc. thanks so much xoxoxo
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