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Peace with PTSD
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"Peace with PTSD" was founded by Lady Spirit Moon Cerelli, Author, Speaker and Workshop Presenter, to assist those with PTSD, and other stress-related behavior disorders, find a comfortable place to inquire about the information available on PTSD. Diagnosis of PTSD begins with a medical history and physical exam, based on a person's symptoms. We create funds for "Peace with PTSD" by selling educational materials and providing lectures and workshops.
Lady Spirit Moon Cerelli also presents "Coat of Harms Workshops" which will be held at different locations throughout North Carolina.
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Site Map
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Our Site Map was created to help you move around our site with ease. Enjoy your visit.
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Understanding and Living with PTSD
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PTSD is caused by exposure to excessive stress or trauma. Events that spark the condition are not normally part of most people's life experience. PTSD is a psychological reaction to a catastrophic event outside of the individual. Three types of PTSD reactions include acute, chronic and delayed. Researchers have identified changes in the central and autonomic nervous systems in people with PTSD. Changes in hormone systems have also been identified. PTSD is sometimes confused with Bipolar Disorder and some forms of depression. A PTSD victim may have experienced, witnessed, or was confronted with an event that involved death; the response involved intense fear, or the state of helplessness; have recurrent distressing dreams or physiological reactivity on exposure to internal or external cues known as triggers; and are reliving the experience or having dissociative flashback episodes. Other symptoms can be persistent avoidance of stimuli associated with the trauma; unable to have loving feelings; irritability or outbursts of anger; and exaggerated startle response. The duration of these symptoms are more than one month and causes clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.
Understanding and Living with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is not easy. And not everyone exposed to such events will develop PTSD. However, having strong support systems lessens a person's risk of the disorder.
The information provided herein should not be used for the diagnosis or treatment of any medical condition, or during any medical emergency. A licensed physician should be consulted for diagnosis and treatment of any and all medical conditions. Links to other sites are provided for information only -- they do not constitute endorsements of those other sites.
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My Journey to Peace
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My Journey to Peace came about after my flashback in 2003, as I had asked and searched for a book that would explain why I had become a PTSD victim. I took my 40 years experience of counseling and wrote the book that was not available for me. The journey in my book, "My Journey to Peace with PTSD," spans nearly 50 of my 64 years. The reader sees how my bad choices and behavior disorders began after my incest experience in early childhood, which was also the beginning of when and why I took a lot of bad turns in my life. There was no support system in my childhood to help me overcome the incest trauma. Coping on my own was not enough as I erred in making one negative choice after another. Each choice chipped away at my self-esteem, and eventually set me up to become a PTSD victim. Using the healing modality I use with my clients, I journeyed back to the original hurt and came forward. Connecting each hurt, I understood how and why they all connected back to the original trauma; and how each episode affected my self-esteem and caused me to make wrong choices as I grew into adulthood. I also saw when my behavior disorders started and why, and what I needed to do to change those behaviors.
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Peace in Life Workshops
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Throughout our lives, we wear many faces to show our emotions or, more often, to hide them. For the same reasons, if we have been hurt or abused, we create an invisible coat and wear it like an armor. We even fool ourselves into thinking it will protect us in our daily living and hide our pain and shame from the world. Wearing these coats may create unwanted behaviors that are not always easy to shed or get rid of because they represent facets of our beings, making them hard to let go. We call this coat the "Coat of Harms" because in covering the pain or trauma, the coat is actually weighing us down and keeping us focused in the past.
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A Victim Advocate at Work
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A Victim Advocate at Work offers these 10 Questions which may help you determine whether or not you are a victim of abuse. Emotional and mental abuse cannot be seen as well as the signs of physical abuse. There are times when you question your sanity when things go wrong around you. There may be times when you can't quite put your finger on it, or you are too close to actually understand what is happening to you, or what is being done to you, though you may feel the emotions. Then there are times when our friends, family, or even neighbors will bring things to your attention. Red flags may even pop within you, but you can't quite bring yourself to accept the idea that someone is deliberately hurting you. Do not underestimate what you really do know in your heart. If you think something is wrong, you are likely to be accurate.
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Fact of the Matter
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Our Fact of the Matter on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and abuse cover topics such as: Abusers looking at body launguages that demonstrate whether or not the person they are watching can be victimized. Learn how abuse of any kind, even neglect, will take its toll on the psyche. Understand why helplessness is a state of mind, not an emotion. Learn why, when people have low self-esteem or don't feel good about themselves, will self-medicate by using whatever makes them feel good or gets their mind out of their present reality. You can also learn why the PTSD victim is always searching for that feel-good attitude, either with sex, alcohol, drugs, or performing physical activities for the runner's high. Read why people turn into workaholics.
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Open Window Newsletter
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Open Window Newsletter will be a window through which you will see how your mind works involving emotions, exploring them to different levels of the mind and looking at their different aspects as they pertain to the psyche. You will learn why we have behaviors disorders, how they are created, and how they can be changed. You will read about different modalities and pathways to healing, bits and pieces of knowledge gained through years of counseling, from readers, and other sources and materials.The newsletter is published the first of every month and will include articles, poetry, Press Releases, Upcoming Events, medical information, and new contacts surrounding abuse and PTSD.
Please E-Mail us your questions or suggested topics of discussion, refer another source, or share your story or poetry.
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Peace-Harmony Progress Forum
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The purpose of our What Works and What Doesn’t Work page is for survivors to share their stories and relate what they did to help them on their journey to healing. These courageous people may be your friend, coworker, or neighbor. This page is also for you so can read how others progressed on their healing paths and discern for yourself what may or may not work for you. If the one sharing their story does not have contact information, write us through the contact us or email page. We do not give out any information pertaining to the authors other than what you see on this page. We will send your message along, and it will be their choice whether or not they contact you.
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Lady's Path to Healing
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In Lady's Path to Healing you can choose which path you wish to walk toward healing.
Order her book, "My Journey to Peace with PTSD." Lady Cerelli shares how keeping trauma to yourself leads to behavior disorders. She learned how to be at peace with who she was and change those behaviors in order to grow into the individual she wished to become. A spiritual counselor for over forty years, Lady Cerelli never dreamed she would step on the same path her clients walked.
Signup for "Coat of Harms Workshop" - In a small, intimate group setting, you learn the tools that can be used over and over again that will allow you to release your emotional pains. Experienced facilitators will assist you throughout the workshop as you cut out and sew a real coat of muslin fabric. Then using art and a third-view perspective, you learn a safe and gentle way of looking at the hurtful memories you're holding close to yourself. Looking at those memories of pain, you discover how they have affected you and what you can do about them.
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Contact Us
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Thank you for visiting wour website. We hope you enjoyed your journey. Please feel free to Contact Us with comments or suggestions.
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