Ep 63: Unpacking the Writing Journey Through PTSD with Amber Nicole

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today we are speaking with one of our authors in the upcoming release of Every Body Holds A Story, Amber Nicole.</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Amber lives in a small town north of Waterloo, Ontario Canada with her 3 boys and amazing partner Kevin. Amber is extremely passionate about advocating for women in abusive situations, mental health advocacy, brain injury advocacy (and recently started a support group for survivors and caregivers of brain injury. ( "the concussion collective"). She has a diploma from Conestoga College studying fitness and health promotion, and is a student of massage therapy. She has been an athlete my entire life playing competitive hockey, soccer and everything in between. Amber is also a musician, having played guitar, piano, ukulele, mandolin for the last 15 years and loves singing.</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span><span style= "font-weight: 400;">In this episode we discuss.</span> <span style= "font-weight: 400;"><br /></span><span style= "font-weight: 400;">1)  The writing journey in this collaborative project and Amber's experience of writing through PTSD, and how challenging this experience was for her.  Also working through the writing process, it was incredibly healing for her.</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span><span style= "font-weight: 400;">2)  Amber shares her story of postpartum depression and how it is another topic that people don’t like to discuss but it is so important especially at this point in time in the world.</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span><span style= "font-weight: 400;">3)  Through the process of writing, Amber unlocked and worked through even deeper healing of her own trauma and expereinces.</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Connec