PTSD Association of Canada

I used to greet each day with an almost naive anticipation of what wonderful things it might bring. I experienced a lot of joy and laughter in my life and of course, periods of sadness and suffering, but overall, I always believed that I could handle everything that came my way, good or bad.

When I learned that my dear brother, Richard age 56 and in good health, was shot and killed, I started hyperventilating and could not catch my breath. The message delivered by his twin, my sister, sent me into a panic attack... 

Dave’s experience with trauma was a hard series of multiple emotional hits over a period of six months, beginning with the death of his dear friend Thomas Leonard. Leonard was the founder of Coach U and Coachville and is considered to be the “Father of Coaching” worldwide. Leonard died in 2003 at age forty-seven and left the company to Dave...

From the doctor’s perspective, what was wrong was that I was suffering from depression and anxiety, caused primarily by the fact that I was going through a difficult divorce, facing financial difficulties while trying to rebuild my career and raise my kids alone and fighting an emotionally devastating legal battle for my share of my mother’s small estate after I had discovered my brothers had lied when they’d told me she’d left a will that said only, “Nothing to Alexandra.” For the first time in my life, I was fighting back. But I’d been falling apart for the previous five years...