PTSD SPIRITUALITY
Dr. John Zemler acquired his PTSD some 25 years ago while serving in the US Army. He subsequently earned a doctorate in Theology after he left the Army. He now combines his experience in Theology, surviving 25 years of his own PTSD, and his work as a University Professor and Spiritual Director, to encourage trauma survivors to not give up hope.
Additionally, he helps trauma survivors and their loved ones to understand how PTSD affects the soul and can induce alienating behaviors. He writes on the intersection of PTSD and spirituality at the www.PTSDSpirituality.com website.
Dr. Zemler helps trauma survivors appreciate prayer, writing, music, and artwork as avenues of healing. His primary research interests are in the spiritual …show more content…
Daddy, Daddy I hope you know
This POS loves you so.
This was the bottom and the moment of desperation that I needed to come to. Time to surrender and get out of denial, even though it took about a month later to get clean.
On February 27, 2010, I took my last hit, all the while hating myself and my life.
I asked God to free me, to heal me. Either lift the desire to ‘use’ from me, or to take me, because I was too much of a coward to kill myself. What I did not want to do is continue to live enslaved to drugs and remain emotionally and spiritually bankrupt any longer!
By the grace of God, He freed me by lifting the desire to ‘use.’ FINALLY, I was free. February 28, 2010, is my clean date, and I have not found a good reason to pick up dope and ‘use.’
No matter what trials and pain I have created by other bad decisions and hang-ups, I did not ‘use’, no matter what!
Some people say we should not have any regrets, but I do. I regret that my mother and father did not see me get clean.
However, my mother knew in her spirit that I would get clean. Maybe it was a confirmation from God to her so she could leave in peace. Before she passed away, she told my sister, "Do not worry about Max; he is going to be
Dr. John Zemler acquired his PTSD some 25 years ago while serving in the US Army. He subsequently earned a doctorate in Theology after he left the Army. He now combines his experience in Theology, surviving 25 years of his own PTSD, and his work as a University Professor and Spiritual Director, to encourage trauma survivors to not give up hope.
Additionally, he helps trauma survivors and their loved ones to understand how PTSD affects the soul and can induce alienating behaviors. He writes on the intersection of PTSD and spirituality at the www.PTSDSpirituality.com website.
Dr. Zemler helps trauma survivors appreciate prayer, writing, music, and artwork as avenues of healing. His primary research interests are in the spiritual …show more content…
Daddy, Daddy I hope you know
This POS loves you so.
This was the bottom and the moment of desperation that I needed to come to. Time to surrender and get out of denial, even though it took about a month later to get clean.
On February 27, 2010, I took my last hit, all the while hating myself and my life.
I asked God to free me, to heal me. Either lift the desire to ‘use’ from me, or to take me, because I was too much of a coward to kill myself. What I did not want to do is continue to live enslaved to drugs and remain emotionally and spiritually bankrupt any longer!
By the grace of God, He freed me by lifting the desire to ‘use.’ FINALLY, I was free. February 28, 2010, is my clean date, and I have not found a good reason to pick up dope and ‘use.’
No matter what trials and pain I have created by other bad decisions and hang-ups, I did not ‘use’, no matter what!
Some people say we should not have any regrets, but I do. I regret that my mother and father did not see me get clean.
However, my mother knew in her spirit that I would get clean. Maybe it was a confirmation from God to her so she could leave in peace. Before she passed away, she told my sister, "Do not worry about Max; he is going to be