PTSD - Emotional Support is Essential!

B'SD

21 Shvat, 5774

I want to alert you about how to help anyone suffering emotional trauma. PTSD is short hand for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder:

Depression Symptoms, Emotional Support Impact PTSD Treatment Progress, Study Finds

Researchers found that during PTSD treatments, rapid improvements in depression symptoms are associated with better ...   full story

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B'SD


3 Av 5772


Readers, it seems that my blog account has been hacked after I received a threat on Twitter. I'm working to repair the damage. Please bear with me as I try to make this blog safe for you and me to use.




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B'SD

14 Shvat 5772

An ill, recovering or disabled person tends to have goals. Too often, other people fail to realize that. They over-focus on visible problems, not on the person’s inner self, their soul and spirit. The result: the infantilization of ill, recovering or disabled YOU (i.e., people treat you like a foolish baby or child, or worse – as an incompetent adult).

Here’s a thought that you can share with your unintentionally clueless loved ones and caregivers: We want to gain while helping the other person – YOU - to gain, too. Work WITH me, not AGAINST me, so I can achieve increased emotional, physical and/or spiritual health. That will make me happy - probably healthier - and it'll make you a better care provider!

It’s a safe, loving message, guaranteed to give other people a graceful way to improve their behavior (it’s their choice to make, not yours). 


Print the words out on attractive paper. Decorate it somehow. Display the finished product. Invite the world at large to honor your productive goals.

Let me know how the above suggestion works out for you. I’m off to prepare for Tu B’Shvat festival of trees, now. The 15^th day of the Jewish month of Shvat is quite an important, and fun, occasion. 

 טו בשבט שמח

  Happy Tu Beshvat

(it begins this evening)

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Face Your Future with Optimism.

Did Your Local Newspaper Give You HARMFUL, WRONG MEDICAL INFORMATION?

B'SD

11 Tamuz 5770



Readers, this one's a stunner.

You're already afraid of doctors and painful tests. Thoughts of deadly and disfiguring diseases leave you almost speechless. And all too often predators play on those fears, trying to hurt you. For what? Fun and profit? To sell more newspapers?

The journalism world deserves a major shakedown so that only credible, hardworking fact-checkers get the real story to you. Fantasies belong on relevant shelves in libraries.

From those conscientious doctors at MedPage:

BLOG: N.Y. Daily News Begins

Second Decade of Evading Evidence

on PSA Screening

Headlines every day in the

New York Daily News

are luring men in as part of

a mass prostate cancer screening campaign

that the American Cancer Society not only

does not endorse --

its chief medical officer recommends against.

Yet the paper brags that...

full story http://www.medpagetoday.com/Blogs/20805

As a journalist, I pride myself on the fact that never once did an editor have to publish errata about my reporting. I am proud to pursue and to share the fact-based truth with my readership, and to make complicated topics understandable the first time you read my writing.

The benefits of my reporting,
writing services and books
are hard to measure.

They're intangible:

Success,
Survival,
Transformation.

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Survive that medical crisis with dignity, Face your future with Optimism. Transform yourself. with autonomy, mastery of the many details you're learning and tasks you need to perform.

Build and be proud of your sense of purpose

Medical experts call me a "Medical Miracle" for a reason. And I can teach you how to have some of your own.

EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge.

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Protection and Healing from Sexual Abuse, Negligence, Psychological Manipulation, Abuse of Any Sort

B'SD


24 Tamuz 5769

Readers, as a friend to others and as a coach, I'm privy to heartbreaking confidences and information from a large cross-section of society. Some of it is about sexual abuse. I ache to do what I can to help abuse victims to heal, and to prevent new victims.

I do what I can to coax victims

and anyone aware of abuse in any form

to tell legal authories immediately!

I'm not a therapist of any sort, not a famous personality. But I am tenacious. I do what I can when faced with any problem.

One of my friends is a grief counselor. He shared an eye-opening book with me, hoping I'd review it for my editors (remember, I'm a journalist too) and help the public at the same time. Entitled "Miss America by Day, Lessons Learned from Ultimate Betrayals and Unconditional Love" by Marilyn Van Derbur, it was published in 2004.

I read it from cover to cover and experienced a powerful desire to remind the world of this book's existence and the author's deep, healing wisdom.

I have spent literally months preparing the book review below. The manuscript addresses sexual abuse. It also addresses many other forms of insidious abuse (hard to identify or to stop and therefore more devastating).

"Miss America by Day" holds
excellent ideas about

how to heal from
the trauma of sexual abuse

and how to prevent sex abuse.

Those lessons pertain to sexual abuse AND to any form of negligence, psychological manipulation, abuse of the law, abuse of trust, on and on.

All of it harms

defenseless children and adults,

trapped by cunning predators.

The abusers are criminals. They might be babysitters, clergy, camp counselors or fellow campers, dormitory counselors or fellow residents, parents, relatives or neighbors.

Anyone at all.

All too often these victimizers enjoy a social status that places them above suspicion. They manipulate that status into predatory power. After all, why would anyone believe the victim's accusations about him or her/them?

Especially if the accuser is a child?

Here is my book review:

Title: Miss America by Day: Lessons Learned from Ultimate Betrayals and Unconditional Love
Author: Marilyn Van Derbur
Publisher: Oak Hill Ridge Press
Reviewer: Yocheved Golani

Sexual abuse of children and adults must be addressed. By you. Failing to help the defenseless victims is another betrayal. It empowers the abuser. As page 268 reveals, "Silence is the voice of complicity."

The Jewish world has been rocked by this travesty. The Catholic church makes global headlines as abusive clergy are identified by victims in the choir, schools, and other parts of Catholic society. Boy Scout groups, Buddhists, you name it. Camps. Dormitories. Relatives. No religion, school or relationship seems immune to sex abuse.

Religious and mental health organizations around the world have yet to succeed with their efforts to end the horror of potential, current and former sex abuse victims in every area of society. They need to stop the perpetrators.

Miss America by Day: Lessons Learned from Ultimate Betrayals and Unconditional Love offers insight into the scope of sexual abuse, showing how to stop it. The author is a former Miss America, one among several siblings molested for decades by their high-profile father. Marilyn Van Derbur's book gives a voice to victims too terrified or otherwise unable to cry for help.

The author brings you into her explosive life before and after she revealed to anyone how she'd suffered forced night-time sex with her father. Mom sat outside her toddler daughter's bedroom, dressed in a negligee and feathery slippers, as dad raped their child and her siblings over the years. Insisting to personal acquaintances and to world media that she had a "Perfect Marriage," Mom knew that all of her daughters were years-long victims of her negligence and Dad's rapes.

That charade ended when the author reached adulthood. She left home and providentially met a mentor who helped her to face her past. He enabled Marilyn to share the details with Larry, the man who demonstrably loved and wished to marry her. Larry's unconditional love, and that of his mother, helped Marilyn to heal her psyche. So did therapy and the admissions of Van Derbur's abused siblings. The lessons learned along the author's way to mental health are valuable for anyone who has suffered sex abuse.

Marilyn Van Derbur eventually became a motivational speaker helping sex abuse victims to cope with their memories of and reactions to sex abuse. The genius of her book is its clear presentation of facts about sexual abuse at every level of society and how to stop it. Chapter 30 asks "Do Children Lie?" The heartbreaking answer is: usually not about sex abuse. If that's what the child claims happened, it probably did. Documented statistics in Chapter 31, "Do They Ever Stop?" show that the overwhelming reality is NO, sexual abusers don't stop until they're physically prevented from harming people. Chapter 32 teaches that "The Good New is: Trauma Doesn’t Have to Last a Lifetime."

The author's prose jumps off the pages, the strong voice of an intelligent, articulate adult showing society at large how to end a millennia-old horror. Citing effective methods, she teaches us how to help the victims and how to prevent new ones.

Read it today. Miss America by Day: Lessons Learned from Ultimate Betrayals and Unconditional Love belongs in schools, homes and mental health libraries. Save lives. Share it with someone who might desperately need it.


Yocheved Golani is the author of highly acclaimed "It’s MY Crisis! And I’ll Cry if I Need To: A Life Book for Helping You to Dry Your Tears and Cope with a Medical Challenge" (Booklocker Publishing)

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B'SD

21 Tamuz 5769


Readers, you know that medical and mental health professionals use and sell my book in their offices.




You can benefit from my "Cope with Medical Crises" expertise in other ways, too.

I do

"Giveret Golani Self-Help Coaching"

and

"Giveret Golani Recovery Coaching."

With Self-Help Coaching, I help people in some sort of rut to brainstorm their way out of it.

When I'm assisting someone with an illness, we focus on Recovering from the illness or simply Coping with it as best as possible under medically limiting circumstances.

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To your ever-better health,

Yocheved Golani
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