Monday, August 31, 2020

PTSD Patrol Touch By The Sun

PTSD Patrol
Kathie Costos
August 31, 2020

When you start to heal it feels like when the rain stops coming down, the sun starts to shine and drizzle sparkles. You find so much to be happy about your life will sparkle too!
"If you want to be brave
And reach for the top of the sky
And the farthest point on the horizon
Do you know who you'll meet there
Great soldiers and seafarers,
Artists and dreamers
Who need to be close, close to the light"
That is the beginning of the featured video today by Carly Simon.





To be touched by the sun is to feel the warmth and power wash over you, filling your soul and lifting you up.

Touched By The Sun
If you want to be brave
And reach for the top of the sky
And the farthest point on the horizon
Do you know who you'll meet there
Great soldiers and seafarers,
Artists and dreamers
Who need to be close, close to the light
They need to be in danger of burning by fire
And I, I want to get there
 I, I want to be one
One who is touched by the sun,
One who is touched by the sun
Often I want to walk
The safe side of the street
And lull myself to sleep
And dull my pain
But deep down inside I know
I've got to learn from the greats,
Earn my right to be living,
Let my wings of desire
Soar over the night
I need to let them say
I, I want to be one
One who is touched by the sun,
One who is touched by the sun
I've got to learn from the greats,
Earn my right to be living,
With every breath that I take,
Every heartbeat
And I, I want to get there
I, I want to be one, One who is touched by the sun,
One who is touched by the sun.
Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Carly Simon
Touched by the Sun lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

Sunday, August 30, 2020

PTSD Patrol find a new purpose


PTSD Patrol
Kathie Costos
August 30, 2020

There are two ways people think after surviving trauma. Either God did it to them, or God saved them.

If you believe that God did it to you, it makes it very hard to hope or even pray. It is even harder if someone says, "God only gives us what we can handle" as if telling us that God did it on purpose, would be comforting.

Yet if we believe we were saved, then we not only have hope and find it empowering to pray, we also live believing there is some purpose to our lives, not our suffering.

We just had an example of that with the passing of Chadwick Boseman. He died after a long battle with cancer, yet all the time he was suffering, he was giving hope and inspiration to others.


"Sometimes you need to get knocked down before you can really figure out what your fight is and how you need to fight it," he told the class of 2018.

"Whatever you choose for a career path, remember, the struggles along the way are only meant to shape you for your purpose," he said. "When I dared to challenge the system that would relegate us to victims and stereotypes with no clear historical backgrounds, no hopes or talents, when I questioned that method of portrayal, a different path opened up for me, the path to my destiny."


Everyone of us can take our own pain that we felt, and help others carry their own, if we really understand that what caused the pain was not sent to us, but what came afterwards, we are empowered to use to help heal the world.

When you survive the event that caused PTSD, your life is not the same as before. You can find a new purpose for the future to make life better for others by thinking about what made it better for you. #BreakTheSilence and #TakeBackYourLife from #PTSD



Ecclesiastes 3
English Standard Version
A Time for Everything 3

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:
2 a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
3 a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
4 a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
5 a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
6 a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
7 a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
8 a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

Saturday, August 29, 2020

PTSD Patrol oh happier ride

PTSD Patrol
Kathie Costos
August 29, 2020

Imagine being on a better road than you are on right now. Taking a new road toward a happier life instead of being stuck on a lonely, bumpy road. 

You can have a happier ride if you are ready to get off the familiar road and onto the road you traveled less thus far.



The song Oh Happy Day from Sister Act 2 is one of my favorites because it shows the transformation from being afraid to rejoicing and it feels like that when you heal. That is why it is the featured video on ptsdpatrol.com today. Imagine your life changing like that! It can and you can start to rejoice as a survivor! #BreakTheSilence and #TakeBackYourLife from #PTSD


Oh happy day (oh happy day)
Oh happy day (oh happy day)
When Jesus washed (when Jesus washed)
When Jesus washed (when Jesus washed)
When Jesus washed (when Jesus washed)
He washed my sins away (oh happy day)
Oh happy day (oh happy day)
He taught me how to watch, fight and pray, fight and pray
And live rejoicing every, everyday
Oh happy day
He taught me how
Oh happy day (oh happy day)
Oh happy day (oh happy day)
Oh happy day (oh happy day)
Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Edwin Hawkins
Oh Happy Day lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, BMG Rights Management

Friday, August 28, 2020

PTSD Patrol hopping on The Love Train

PTSD Patrol
Kathie Costos
August 28, 2020

Today the feature video is Love Train and it is time to stop the pity party and rejoice as a survivor instead of wondering why you did. PTSD only has as much power over your life as you allow it to have. #BreakTheSilence and #TakeBackYourLife from #PTSD Happiness is waiting on the Love Train.



Love Train by The O'Jays
People all over the world (everybody)
Join hands (join)
Start a love train, love train
People all over the world (all the world, now)
Join hands (love ride)
Start a love train (love ride), love train
The next stop that we make will be soon
Tell all the folks in Russia, and China, too
Don't you know that it's time to get on board
And let this train keep on riding, riding on through
Well, well
People all over the world (you don't need no money)
Join hands (come on)
Start a love train, love train (don't need no ticket, come on)
People all over the world (Join in, ride this train)
Join in (Ride this train, y'all)
Start a love train (Come on, train), love train
All of you brothers over in Africa
Tell all the folks in Egypt, and Israel, too
Please don't miss this train at the station
'Cause if you miss it, I feel sorry, sorry for you
Well
People all over the world (Sisters and brothers)
Join hands (join, come on)
Start a love train (ride this train, y'all), love train (Come on)
People all over the world (Don't need no tickets)
Join hands (come on, ride)
Start a love train, love train
Ride, let it ride
Let it ride
Let it ride
People, ain't no war
People all over the world (on this train)
Join in (ride the train)
Start a love train, love train (ride the train, y'all)
People all over the world (come on)
Join hands (you can ride or stand, yeah)
Start a love train, love train (makin' love)
People all over the world ('round the world, y'all)
Join hands (come on)
Start a love train, love train
Source: LyricFindv Songwriters: Kenneth Gamble / Leon Huff
Love Train (Re-Recorded / Remastered) lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc, Spirit Music Group, Warner Chappell Music Inc

Thursday, August 27, 2020

PTSD Patrol road to a better life

PTSD Patrol
Kathie Costos
August 27, 2020

It can seem like the only way out of darkness has been blocked but that is only because you feel trapped. There is a way out of that place and a better life is waiting ✨ #BreakTheSilence and #TakeBackYourLife from #PTSD

"better life for me and you"

We Gotta Get Out Of This Place-The Animals-(Live)-1965

In this dirty old part of the city
Where the sun refused to shine
People tell me there ain't no use in tryin'
Now my girl you're so young and pretty
And one thing I know is true
You'll be dead before your time is due, I know
Watch my daddy in bed a-dyin'
Watched his hair been turnin' grey
He's been workin' and slavin' his life away
Oh yes I know it
(Yeah!) He's been workin' so hard
(Yeah!) I've been workin' too, baby
(Yeah!) Every night and day
(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!)
We gotta get out of this place
If it's the last thing we ever do
We gotta get out of this place
'cause girl, there's a better life for me and you
Now my girl you're so young and pretty
And one thing I know is true, yeah
You'll be dead before your time is due, I know it
Watch my daddy in bed a-dyin'
Watched his hair been turnin' grey, yeah
He's been workin' and slavin' his life away
I know he's been workin' so hard
(Yeah!) I've been workin' too, baby
(Yeah!) Every day baby
(Yeah!) Whoa!
(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!)
We gotta get out of this place
If it's the last thing we ever do
We gotta get out of this place
Girl, there's a better life for me and you
Somewhere baby, somehow I know it
We gotta get out of this place
If it's the last thing we ever do
We gotta get out of this place
Girl, there's a better life for me and you
Believe me baby
I know it baby
You know it too
Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Barry Mann / Cynthia Weil
We Gotta Get out of This Place lyrics © EMI Music Publishing

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