Forgiveness and Post-Trauma Recovery: Survivors Disagree On the Role of Forgiveness

This Thursday 'Your Life After Trauma' answers difficult questions about trauma survivors & forgiveness. Special guests Pastor Leo Abdella & survivor Heather Nicole Freely join Michele Rosenthal to talk about the ways forgiveness can affect recovery. End Quote

West Palm Beach-Boca Raton, FL (1888PressRelease) June 09, 2011 - In the survivor community, forgiveness is a hot topic. Ask ten survivors and you'll get an enormous debate about the pros and cons of what it means to forgive. Facing such questions as, "What does it mean if I forgive the offense? Should I forgive? Am I a bad person if I don't?" trauma survivors struggle to make peace with the past while not betraying themselves. Trauma survivor and Heal My PTSD founder, Michele Rosenthal, seeks to answer these questions this week on Your Life After Trauma. The show brings support and information to trauma survivors, plus their caregivers and healing professionals on Thursday nights from 7-8pm EST, on Seaview Radio in southeast Florida (and streaming live online). Your Life After Trauma provides resources, inspiration, hope and specific actions to help anyone learn to formulate a recovery plan, access healing potential and apply personal strengths to post-trauma recovery.

According to Rosenthal, "It can seem completely unfathomable to forgive the abuser/perpetrator after a trauma. However, studies have shown that forgiveness can produce real effects in helping make peace with the past. Each survivor must make the choice that feels appropriate for him/her. On this show we hope to provide information that assists survivors in make the decision they face."

Michele Rosenthal is a trauma survivor who struggled with undiagnosed PTSD for twenty-four years. Then she was diagnosed and went on a healing rampage. Today, she is 100% free of PTSD symptoms. A PTSD Coach and passionate advocate, she founded www.healmyptsd.com to provide information about Posttraumatic Stress Disorder symptoms, treatment and support. The site contains several complimentary resources including downloads, teleseminars, a healing workshop, and daily support programs.

Your Life After Trauma is a weekly program on Seaview Radio (95.9AM/106.9FM/960AM) that features expert and survivor guests focusing on topics related to the experience of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and post-trauma life, including:

· June 9th - 'Forgiveness and Post-Trauma Recovery'
· June 16th - 'The Value of Trauma Research and Why We Need It'
· June 23rd - 'Trauma Recovery and the Spoken Word: Do We Really Need To Talk About It?'
· June 30th - 'Terrorism and Tragedy: One Man's Personal Story'
· July 7th - 'The Role of the Caregiver: Triumphs and Pitfalls Of Managing Life After Trauma'

Each show features a professional and personal perspective, plus spontaneous call-ins so that listeners can ask their questions, talk to an expert, and receive personal recommendations around specific issues.

For more information about the Heal My PTSD Your Life After Trauma Radio Show, visit:
http://healmyptsd.com/education/your-life-after-trauma

This week's guests will be:

Social entrepreneur Leo Abdella is the executive producer and host of The Circle of Trust, a weekly reality talk radio show on SeaView Radio. The Circle of Trust is based on the concept, that we all have an inner-circle whom we desire to associate with and do business with, but our Circle of Trust can and should be expanded to increase our circle of influence.

Leo is passionate about the lifelong journey of personal development and joins a worldwide movement of leaders who are committed to making a difference in society. Leo ascribes to the theory that positive social, economic and governmental change cannot be simply legislated; but instead, it grows from dozens, hundreds, thousands and someday millions of individuals saying no to greed and injustice and embracing ethical personal and business standards. Once those practices are in place, positive, life-affirming societal change cannot help but follow.

Leo has served as Director of Outreach Ministries at Christ Fellowship Church since May 2001. Recently he was named Director of Community Relations, building on his life skills of 25 years as an entrepreneur and 10 years a social entrepreneur in the nonprofit sector. He also serves as Past Chairman at the Stand Down House Homeless Veterans Facility plus several additional causes and organizations listed on his personal website: www.LeoAbdella.com

Leo has been involved in national and international disaster relief beginning in 1999 with the Kosovo Crisis, the World Trade Center attack in New York City and the Tsunami in India and Sri Lanka along with hurricanes in Florida and the Gulf States. He strives is to engage community volunteers to serve as "Ambassadors of Compassion" on the front lines of need.

Heather Nicole Freely, founder of the Facebook group: Rape and Incest Survivors - A survivor herself, Heather has created a place to realize you aren't alone and to provide support. Only survivors know what it's like to live with the memories and PTSD that has lifelong effects on us. Heather's facebook group is a place to vent and offer support. Heather believes that helping others helps us deal with our memories, even though they don't go away, we can lessen how much they effect our lives.

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder is a wholly treatable condition that results from a life-threatening experience in which the trauma survivor felt helpless. PTSD symptoms include insomnia, nightmares, flashbacks, emotional numbing, hyperarousal and hypervigilance.

For more information: www.healmyptsd.com Contact: Michele ( @ ) healmyptsd dot com, 561.531.1405.

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