Wednesdays With Watson: Faith & Trauma Amy Watson- PTSD Patient-Trauma Survivor

Send us Fan Mail This episode features trauma survivor Autumn Victoria. Autumn is a survivor of domestic violence and childhood abuse. She walks us through parts of her story and shares how she has been able to forgive those who harmed her. She beautifully describes how the weight of withholding forgiveness literally affected her entire being.  Listeners will appreciate her practical approach to f...

Send us Fan Mail As we continue the conversation with trauma survivor and special guest, Autumn Victoria, we learn more about her healing and how she had to learn to forgive herself as well as those who harmed her. Oftentimes, we are our own worst enemy and if we are not careful, guilt and shame can rule us. Autumn is candid in this episode and her story demands attention, it demands that we conti...

Send us Fan Mail This solo episode is about forgiveness. This episode continues Amy's journey with PTSD and the important component of forgiveness. This often misunderstood (and necessary) step in healing is imperative to long term restoration.  What does forgiveness mean? What doesn't it mean? How can we get freedom from all the pain of the trauma? This episode is raw and real and it ad...

Send us Fan Mail This episode of Wednesdays With Watson, PTSD, Jesus and Me special guest Dr. Thomas Petit returns to help us understand PTSD and its treatments. Part 2 immediately picks up on a candid discussion about PTSD. This episode helps listeners understand treatments available and Dr. Petit also provides tools for immediate relief of symptoms of PTSD and anxiety. Dr. Petit walks the listen...

Send us Fan Mail This episode of Wednesdays With Watson, PTSD, Jesus and Me features special guest Dr. Thomas Petit. This episode brings expert explanations of trauma, why and how it affects us and how all of us have experienced trauma in 2020. Dr. Petit has worked with Amy for 12 years and has been instrumental in her healing as well as establishing effective CPTSD/PTSD coping mechanisms. This ha...

Send us Fan Mail In this introspective episode, Watson addresses PTSD and her own struggle with an Eating Disorder connected to a lifetime of trauma. After spending most of the podcast season encouraging listeners that they matter, this episode chronicles Watson's own journey to realize that she matters too. There is Hope and this episode journals real time PTSD healing and restoration of yea...

Send us Fan Mail Opioid addiction is more than an epidemic. It is a default mechanism for coping with trauma and emotional pain.  In this episode, Watson is candid about her own struggle with narcotic pain medication, and guest Crissy Loughridge joins the discussion bringing an important perspective from a family member. It should not surprise anyone that substance abuse and PTSD is a phenomenon t...

Send us Fan Mail The first "You Matter" podcast has one goal. To remind you, or perhaps maybe to teach you for the first time, that you, in fact MATTER!  Continuing our conversation about PTSD, Watson begins to discuss unfavorable behaviors often seen in patients with PTSD. These behaviors are often rooted in an inability to understand our value as humans and that, that, is a human condi...

Send us Fan Mail In the final "Memory Keeper" segment special guest Crissy Loughridge returns for a candid conversation that took an unexpected turn; the captured audio tells the story, and Watson is more dedicated than ever to get the word out that there is Hope for PTSD! This is a candid conversation and begins to introduce some negative, and often relationship ruining behaviors often...

Send us Fan Mail In part 2 of this 3 part conversation, Crissy Loughridge continues to share from her perspective some of the events and traumas that she has witnessed. This episode is particularly powerful for those of you who love someone with PTSD as the conversation is candid and a light shone on the need for loved ones to take care of themselves and to get help themselves.  Drop-in on part tw...

Send us Fan Mail In this, our 5th episode, we welcome our first guest to Wednesdays With Watson.  Oftentimes, patients with PTSD struggle with memories, often combining memories or forgetting them completely.  In this episode, Crissy Loughridge, who has been mentioned in almost all the podcasts, and a close friend is our guest and lends her voice to some memories shared in previous podcasts.  Also...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of PTSD, Jesus and Me, Amy continues her journey through Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.  Her story is often one of heartbreak and loss, yet filled with Hope provided through the church, community and trauma informed counseling.  This particular episode contains portions of Amy’s domestic violence journey; but more importantly a fight for the survival of he...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Amy continues to share her journey to and through PTSD.  As a storyteller, Amy is engaging listeners and gaining an audience interested in this miraculous healing story.  This episode is real and Amy fails to hide her emotion in retelling this part of her story.  This is a story of great hope, but as listeners learn in this episode, the road to healing was rocky. ...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Amy discusses some practical implications of PTSD.  Many times, survivors of trauma are unaware of symptoms that can and often does affect lives on a daily basis.  Also in this episode, Amy begins to tell her story as it pertains to her journey to the diagnosis of Complex PTSD.  There is Hope for PTSD and survivors of trauma, but sometimes getting to the road to h...

Send us Fan Mail Trauma survivor Amy Watson, talks candidly about her diagnosis with PTSD after 35 years of trauma that includes childhood abuse, neglect, abandonment and domestic violence.  In this inaugural season of her podcast, Amy brings hope to survivors of trauma.   FB:  https://www.facebook.com/amywatsonauthor Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/amywatsonauthor @amywatsonauthor IG: https://in...