Adytum

Adytum: A place within the soul which should be filled with awe and reverence for being alive.<br /><br />His sky was growing dark with his own private shadows. It was like watching children playing on a beach and seeing a storm building on the horizon. Onlookers cringed knowing that the tempest would overtake the happy children in minutes.<br /><br />In this heartfelt memoir I finally admit that my adytum is a painful and fractured place. <br /><br />Adytum is a history of my life lived too near to the realities of post traumatic stress disorder. <br /><br />I grew up in the shadow of PTSD-in my father's shadow. I absorbed his sense of urgency when he tackled the pitfalls of living an ordinary life-while his mind was not whole.<br /><br />If there was ever a human issue which needs to be humanized-that issue is PTSD. The differences my father made in my early development were sometimes far from positive. And for years I lived what I thought was my life when in fact my life was controlled by a desperate puppeteer.<br /><br />It is my hope that the revelations within this book lead sufferers of PTSD toward wholeness. There are answers here.<br /><br />Mary Cools