Have you ever had a panic attack? So have I.

| Anxiety, Coaching, PTSD, Trauma

Have you ever had a panic attack?  Can you remember having the first one?  Or your worst one??  Let me tell you about my experiences.   I always thought I was as tough as nails, after being tested many times.  Perhaps I was tested one too many times, however,...

Capsized – Part 2

| Anxiety, PTSD, Stress

Ok…so to recap, early hours of the morning of 31 December                                                                        and the fishing trawler capsizes and sinks and leaves the three of us crew members floating.  All of which I was pretty okay with...

Capsized. The day my life turned upside down.

| Anxiety, PTSD

I remember I was just 17 when the 28 foot trawler I was travelling on capsized and sank. The Wide Bay Bar had been closed for a few days due to bad weather but it was apparently open on that very early morning of December 31.   It was about 5am and there were three of...