All Entries Tagged With: "recovery"
PTSD: The cycle of trauma-based addiction
Thomas Goenczi, Lookout contributor — With any pattern of behaviour, there is an identifiable cycle that propels one forward. Sometimes we are acutely aware of this pattern and other times we dwell in dense unconsciousness. Both are equally painful in their own right. What makes addiction out of trauma difficult is that the mind begins to […]
A boot, an axe and an iPad
Maj MacDonald is a PADI Open Water SCUBA Instructor who works through word-of-mouth to recover lost items in the Great Slave Lake and surrounding areas. He accompanied HMCS Yellowknife’s crew through their namesake visit to Yellowknife.