Ambassador, A title that comes along with “his excellency”, it seems grandiose, a title that comes with weight and cache. When one says Ambassador, the first thing that comes to most people’s minds are fancy parties. But really, it is like being CEO without the high paycheck, and you are running an embassy abroad and …
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PTSD – Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, otherwise known as Shell Shock, or Battle Fatigue, is not new, for much of the last century, only Soldiers who had seen battle were seen as having PTSD, and no one else was recognized to getting or suffering from it. PTSD can come and go in ebbs and flows. …
When I have told people that I have been housebound before, they are a little shocked. They think my life must have been idyllic, with grand parties, champagne, and hobnobbing. In reality, the countries my parents were posted to were far from that. We were never posted to a country where we could freely take …
PTSD is more common than people think. Our brains can’t process trauma very well and we have to find ways of working through the trauma we experience, there are ways, but conventional psychology and medication aren’t necessarily the best roots, but I will cover that later. I didn’t really recognize that I lived a different …
It is always difficult for me to write about my Father, he was a force to recon with, a true diplomat to the core. A man, who’s cancer took from this earth way too early. He was 51 when he took his last breath. I was left to ring in my 20th birthday with a …
Every year it seemed, we landed in this beautiful small robust city. We would fly in from Hong Kong, and stay in the down town core, before heading into the mountains to spend the summer with my Grandparents. Without fail, the city dazzled me with its laid back, friendly feel. The architecture was nothing to …
When it comes to a bubble, and you attempt to scramble to get your headspace going, clearing your mind, calming the emotions. You breathe deeply, in and out, in and out. You count each breath, concentrating on relaxing each muscle… It is too late, the tears flow, the sobs start, and you can’t stop. You …
I just never knew that those lessons my Father had been teaching me would end abruptly before my 20th birthday. This is when my world, my only world, was ripped from under me. I was in University for all of 3 weeks, my parents had just been posted back to Ottawa after 3 years of …
I was home alone, which was always the case since we moved back to our home base. Mum worked, and of course so did Dad. It was always me and my dog after school. My Father routinely called at exactly 3:30pm to check in. We would chat quickly about my day, and what I have …
Say what??? I somehow made my way to the gate on time, after sleeping in and the hotel alarm not going off. I was heading back to South America from boarding school. It was always a dreadful few flights. As the 2nd airplane finally levelled off, the pain hit me, it was extreme, it felt …
