by Manya Chylinski | Oct 18, 2018 | Crisis Communications, Post-Traumatic Stress
It was an honor to work closely with crisis communications professionals at a Crisis Communications conference in Chicago this week. The theme: Navigating a crisis to protect your brand through storytelling. My task was to help these industry and government...
by Manya Chylinski | Sep 26, 2018 | Mental health, Mindfulness, Post-Traumatic Stress
What I learned as a survivor of a crime Like a lot of us, I was just going about my regular life. Before the trauma, I thought I was doing a pretty good job. I would have told you at the time that I was reasonably aware of what I wanted out of life, how to get there,...
by Manya Chylinski | Sep 12, 2018 | Mindfulness, Post-Traumatic Stress
Before my trauma, if you’d asked I would’ve told you that I was pretty aware of my own sense of self and how I interacted with the world. After my trauma, I look back on my naïve self and smile. I was doing the best I could with the information I had at the time and I...
by Manya Chylinski | Aug 27, 2018 | Post-Traumatic Stress, Resiliency
The first time I heard the term post-traumatic growth, I groaned. Definitely inside my head and probably audibly, too. Having post-traumatic stress is exhausting. There are so many moments (and minutes and whole days and entire weeks, if not more) when it takes over...
