A Final Conversation with Chris

A gift my brain gave me in a recent ART session. I hope to share it with you.

As some of you know, I began a journey into ART- Accelerated Resolution Therapy for PTSD / Trauma. I’m tackling some traumatic events in my life -to help alleviate panic and anxiety attacks when the memory of those events are triggered.

The first one was about events in 2013 that I don’t discuss publicly. I carried that trauma for over 10 years and in less than hour it was completely resolved.

The second session - yesterday - was processing through the sudden tragic death of my brother in 2017 in a horrific accident involving two semi’s on a two lane stretch of highway in the dark of a pre-Easter weekend Colorado night. It was planned - but it just happened to work out that this session fell the day before his birthday & it didn’t even dawn on me until later after the session.

Here is where I would normally have a tendency to describe the traumatic event that unfolded - but I’m not here to do that today. I realize that when I do that, it’s an attempt to further process my own trauma by …