Dr. John A. KingIndigenous Australian. 100% Human. Neo-Noir Novelist. Poet. Speaker. Performance coach. More than a Survivor. Terrible Golfer, Awkward Dancer🕺

Duct Tape For The Soul - #dealwithit - living well with PTSD

12 Feb 2018 · 1 min

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In this brief monologue, Dr. John A. King explains the central metaphor of his book Deal With It, Duct Tape for the Soul. He argues that recovery from PTSD is not a single, prescriptive solution (an à‑la‑carte menu) but a “smorgasbord” or buffet where individuals sample many approaches and piece together what works for them. He likens this process to using duct‑tape: gathering diverse tools, lessons, and honest experiences from others, then taping them together to create a personalized, functional recovery strategy. The talk emphasizes the importance of flexibility, self‑curation, and learning from truthful shared stories as the foundation of his recovery philosophy.

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Hey, people have asked me why do I call my book Deal With It, Duct Tape for the Soul. In my journey, I tried to gather the information to put things back together for me, and I realized that life is a smorgasbord, not an à la carte menu. You can't order up your own recovery. You can't say, I'll have a little bit of this and a little bit of that, and it all works out fine. It's really like a buffet. You have to go along and taste and try and see what works together and put it all together for you. The challenge I had in, in the recovery is, is no matter what book I read or what system I, I tried, everyone was telling me that this is the perfect answer and it's not. For me, it's more like duct tape. You gotta gather it all together and you gotta tape it together. You gotta make it up and you gotta make it yours. And you can learn from others' experiences if they're honest and truthful experiences, which is what I've tried to do in the book. And you can add them to your own and tape them to your own and make it part of your own. Duct tape for your soul.