Kim R Jackson

Retriggered! A Survivor's Guide to Living with PTSD Kim R Jackson

This is the story of how you too, can turn your life around. It is a self-help, motivational guide using real life experience from the author with hopes to create awareness and to save a life. After surviving 12 years of physical and mental abuse at the hands of her husband, Ms. Jackson was finally able to break free and start a new life. A year after her new life began and 9 years after her divorce; having graduated at the top of her class with her Master's in Criminal Justice, she was chosen by the university's board to be the first person and female to represent Kaplan University's School of Criminal Justice as the student commencement speaker, along with keynote speaker John Legend which was broadcast internationally. She had thought she had learned to cope with her symptoms and "triggers," but Kim's past fears were "retriggered" by new events following her commencement speech and she was forced to deal with PTSD again, in the aftermath which was fueled by the very criminal justice system within - along with those she worked with; whom she thought she could trust; as they purposefully tried to sabotage her life, career, and put out her Light by double-victimizing her. She takes you with her on an intimate journey and personal account of what she went through and how she dealt with her extreme PTSD she has been diagnosed with, to how she healed herself along the way and continues to EMBRACE and live with the condition without prescribed medications, by courageously facing her fears. She explains what PTSD is in layman's terms to quash the international negative social stigma that it has received. PTSD is one of the most affordable and treatable diagnoses out there in the world of mental health, and she continues to be a VOICE for all those who suffer from it; especially those working in law enforcement, the military and public service positions; and survivors of domestic violence, trafficking, and rape.