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Michele Rosenthal NLP, CHT, Certified Life Coach
Michele Rosenthal Quick Facts
Main Areas: Trauma, Stress, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)Best Sellers: Your Life After Trauma: Powerful Practices to Reclaim Control
Career Focus: Author, Speaker, Post-Trauma Caoch
MICHELE ROSENTHAL inspires and guides audiences to overcome depression, anxiety and fear as they rebuild their lives after trauma and adversity. A popular keynote speaker, award-winning PTSD blogger, award-nominated author, workshop/seminar leader and certified professional coach, Michele hosts the radio program, Changing Direction, and is the founder of HealMyPTSD.com.
Michele is the author of Before The World Intruded: Conquering the Past and Creating the Future, selected as a finalist for the Books For A Better Life Award, Next Generation Indie Book Award, and the International Book Award.
Michele’s new book, Your Life After Trauma: Powerful Practices for Reclaiming Your Identity, is available from W. W. Norton. Her next book Heal Your PTSD: Dynamic Strategies That Work will be available form Conari Press (September, 2015).
Michele is also a trauma survivor who struggled with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) for over twenty-five years. After successfully completing her “healing rampage” several years ago (she remains 100% free of PTSD symptoms,) Michele now dedicates her professional career to helping survivors, caregivers and healing professionals learn about the effects of trauma and more efficiently navigate the recovery process. In her role as a mental health advocate Michele appears frequently in the media including, CBS, NBC, The Dennis Miller Show, Ladies’ Home Journal, St. Petersburg Times, Orlando Sentinel and The Palm Beach Post.
Michele is a Contributing Editor for RewireMe.com, a website that explores the intersection of how, when and why people experience progress in their quest for personal transformation. She is also a top health blogger for the Stress Management Community on Wellsphere.com, writes a weekly column about PTSD for HealthyPlace.com, and is a frequent contributor to Anxiety.org. In 2015 Michele was named a finalist for the WEGO Health Activist Hero award. She is a former faculty member of the Clinical Development Institute for Timberline Knolls Residential Treatment Center. A former university business and writing instructor, Michele holds an MFA in Poetry.
A dynamic and compelling speaker Michele appears across the country at conferences and events for survivors and professionals representing a wide range of traumas, including life-threatening illness, traumatic brain injury, sexual assault, child abuse and combat. Her trainings and presentations have been sought by many organizations, including Brain Injury Association of Tennessee, Department of Children and Family Services, Lynn Cancer Institute, JFK Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Bethesda Women’s Health Center, Susan G. Komen, Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Mental Health Association of Palm Beach County, National Alliance on Mental Illness, Jupiter Medical Center, Florida Atlantic University, Pasco-Hernandez Community College, Palm Beach County, Wellington Regional Hospital, Sexual Trauma Awareness and Response Center, Preemie Parent Alliance and Florida Writers Association.
Other Programs & Highlights
Join us on HealMyPTSD.com for information about posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) signs, symptoms, causes, treatment and healing options.
Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Michele Rosenthal
A key feature of PTSD is powerlessness. That is, after all, how we end up with PTSD in the first place. Powerlessness is a primary ingredient in the PTSD recipe, and it also happens to be the number one accompaniment to the PTSD dish. Consider these PTSD conditions:
- We feel powerless in the midst of our trauma.
- We feel powerlessness in the midst of our mind after trauma.
- We feel powerlesss over psychological symptoms.
- We feel powerless over physical symptoms.
- We feel powerless in the healing process.
- We feel powerless about finding help in the healing process.
- We feel powerless about who we’ve become despite who we used to be.
The list goes on and on. How can anyone heal with all this powerlessness swirling around? It’s tough enough to get a grip when we don’t feel we have the power to do so in any area of our lives. What’s the answer? We have to take back the power trauma stole from us. How do we do this? Constructing post-trauma identity. Simple answer, not so simple process. But it can be done!
Getting Started With Michele Rosenthal
Taking back your power - redefining yourself outside of trauma - is easy, and not so easy. Easy because the process is all about becoming who it is you really want to be beyond trauma; not so easy because it requires work to overcome coping strategies and habits that trauma and PTSD have ingrained in who you are. Luckily, the path is pretty straight, so all we have to do is stay on it.
Constructing a post-trauma identity is all about choosing who you are. It means looking at whom you’ve become, deciding whom you want to be, and planning a path to get you there. This is about a larger thing than trauma. The goal is for the past to become a very tiny part of your very large self. The evolution of that self must progress through the following stages:
- recognizing who you are in this moment
- deciding what needs to be changed (this includes attitudes, perceptions, behaviors)
- defining who you want to become (professionally, personally, spiritually)
- planning a series of actions
- setting goals
- developing a timeline
- putting the plan into effect
Contacting Michele Rosenthal
Have questions, thoughts and ideas about PTSD? Email me: Michele@HealMyPTSD.com.
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