Michele Rosenthal is an author, inspirational speaker, trauma recovery coach, and founder of HealMyPTSD.com. Michele is also a trauma survivor who struggled with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) for over twenty-five years.

Michele was 13 years-old when she survived a horrific trauma. The aftermath left her full of terror, anxiety, insomnia, hyper vigilance, flashbacks, dissociation and depression. She wasn’t able to tolerate reminders of the trauma, but she also couldn’t think of anything else. This was normal for someone suffering from PTSD, and Michele was doing everything she could to survive.

Almost 30 years later, she began the journey towards healing. Michele’s words and reflections on how joy saved her life, will encourage you to find joy in your life too. Her reflections on finding joy in true connections, reconnecting to the world, the present moment, and her body through connection with others and movement - will remind you of the power in choosing to live life on your terms.

Michele is an inspiration, and the joy quest she embarked on in 2007 changed her life. What started as a commitment to move her body and express her joy through dance, has evolved into so much more. Through this journey she found the courage to go back into a trauma recovery process that worked for her. Joy altered her life from pain and trauma to lightness, expansion, creativity, and happiness. Joy allowed her to realize we can choose how we feel, and day after day she continued to choose joy. Today she has made it her mission to creatively inspire and assist emotional and spiritual healing after trauma.

“Joy is our life force. It is what allows us to tap into our ability to have courage, to create, to hope, to believe in ourselves, to take the leap into something unknown even if we don’t know the how of what we’re trying to accomplish. It’s joy that sustains all of that, and in that space of joy anything is possible.”

— Michele Rosenthal

Tune in on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7bZHrtjAzbksbLWNaak1NM

Tune in on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/stories-of-inspiring-joy/id1510488632

To learn more about Michele visit her website HealMyPTSD.com and MyTraumaCoach.com and you can connect with Michele on Instagram @michele.rosenthal or on Twitter @mytraumacoach and her book Before the World Intruded: Conquering the Past and Creating the Future

Stories of Inspiring Joy is a production of Seek The Joy Media and created by Sydney Weiss. To learn more and submit your story, click here.