http://johnzemler.com/Blog Discovering the Spirituality Relevant to Surviving Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:00:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I am happy to inaugurate PTSD and Prayer as a new category at the PTSD Spirituality Blog.  Learning more about how prayer heals PTSD is a voyage I wish to embark on. PTSD seeks to kill those who are afflicted with it.  It severs our relationships.  Among them it severs our relationship ... http://johnzemler.com/Blog/ptsd-and-prayer-a-new-category-and-voyage-at-ptsd-spirituality   Hello, If you have time, please read this article from today's on-line New York Times, called "New Veterans Hit Hard By Economic Crisis," by Lizette Alvarez   http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/us/18vets.html Veteran umemployment is already devastating.  PTSD, as you know is also devastating.  PTSD becomes even worse when lenders refuse to understand.  Men and women with ... http://johnzemler.com/Blog/financial-and-economic-challenges-make-ptsd-worse Hello All, Since my last post I have been through the health industry again.  I am still in the game.  Just makes things tough and painful.  My hands are still hard to use and my voice processing software remains a challenge.  I can still teach and from time to time write, ... http://johnzemler.com/Blog/two-great-veterans-groups-that-help-with-ptsd-guitars-for-vets-and-dry-hootch Two posts in one day, I am like Lazarus coming out, I am.  I am speaking in Madison, Wisconsin, later on today at an ecumenical Jewish-Christian PTSD healing service.  There will be a presentation about PTSD and its spiritual elements, followed by questions, hospitality and then a healing service.  Since my hands ... http://johnzemler.com/Blog/ecumenical-healing-service-in-madison-wi-today-25-may-2008 Please accept my apologies for being away from the writing.  Combination of ill health and a lot of grading diverted me from what is really important, healing souls afflicted with PTSD.  I want to inform you of a wonderful program that is designed for healing souls wounded by Combat PTSD.  It ... http://johnzemler.com/Blog/vets-journey-home As a follow up to my previous post on how unemployment can magnify some of the effects of PTSD: We have the most recent report on unemployment indicating an additional 80,000 Americans who have lost their jobs. This moves the current unemployment rate from 4.8% to 5.1%.  Thankfully this is not a ... http://johnzemler.com/Blog/80000-more-lose-their-jobs-as-unemployment-continues-to-rise-not-a-rosey-environment-for-ptsd-healing The Washington Post reports that 18% of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans are unemployed.  While the Veterans Administration has stepped up programs to help vets find work, 18% remains a staggering number.  I can always look at this as a glass half full (fooled?) possibility and imagine that without the VA ... http://johnzemler.com/Blog/iraqafghanistan-veterans-experience-18-unemployment-forced-to-feel-worthless-encourages-ptsd By now it is no secret that at least 4000 Americans have been killed in Iraq.  It should also be no secret, but is usually left off the table, that we also have at least 40,000 more people who are swamped by intense grief.  If one figures in families and friends and ... http://johnzemler.com/Blog/4000-dead-in-iraq-40000-mourn-for-our-kindred-dead The Interfaith Conference of Greater Milwaukee is holding a series on "Moving Toward a Just and Peaceful World" from noon to 1:30 p.m. on three Tuesdays at the First Unitarian Society of Milwaukee, 1342 N. Astor St. The speakers are: Tuesday, Father G. Simon Harak, director of Marquette University's Center for ... http://johnzemler.com/Blog/zemler-from-soldier-to-healer-transforming-the-ptsd-dragon-from-death-to-life The New York Times on-line reported today that Adm. William J. Fallon, the commander of American forces in the Middle East is to retire.  Fallon will have completed at or near one year in that command position. Recall that a previous Chair of the Joints Chief of Staffs predicted, in congressional testimony, ... http://johnzemler.com/Blog/bush-dumps-adm-fallonwar-with-iran