Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) An overwhelming trauma such as sexual assault- molest or rape, witnessing a crime or witnessing someone else being hurt over and over, being battered, being part of a severe motor vehicle accident, combat experience et al will produce a SHOCK that has a lasting effect. Symptoms include nightmares, disturbed sleep or eating patterns, flashbacks, chronic tension in your neck, back, jaw, joints, feeling like you are not in your body- disassociation, depression, panic attacks, and hypervigilence (constant scanning). PTSD is healed in 3 stages and in each stage there are different skills to get you smoothly through to the other side. Therapy is generally gentle and slow at first, allowing one to regain a sense of personal power and beginning to restore faith in the "universe" as most feel God or the Universe has betrayed them. PTSD is such a shocking emotional stress that it often includes physical symptoms which manifest as sickness or dis-ease of some sort, thus tools are needed on the mental, emotional, physical and spiritual fronts to restore safety, sanity and peace to the individual. Breathwork is an excellent tool toward the latter stages of recovery as it removes the trauma from the body at a cellular level. Although a challenging recovery, I have seen the majority of people come full circle in this journey and end up stronger, more clear and happier than they have ever been in their life! For further information and appointments, contact Jenny at (650) 595-3343 or email her at jennyengland77@gmail.com.