Healing from stress after trauma, or posttraumatic stress, calls for courage, determination, effort, and resolve. Healing from posttraumatic stress involves the whole person, including biology and body, mind, and soul. Dark Water: Healing from Stress after Trauma explores concerns and feelings and how lives might or might not change, and suggests that while there might be like challenges for those experiencing ptsd, each person is an individual.

    Thoughts and feelings about posttraumatic stress highlight compassion and empathy as being important to the healing process, and references and online resources are included in case they might be of help.