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Tuesday, January 1st, 2019
How Stoicism helped me cope with PTSD
Lt. Col. Abbillyn Johnson is veteran of the US Armed Services with PTSD. Last year she joined an organization called the Warrior Surf Foundation and through it she discovered Stoicism. In this article, she describes how Stoicism helped her.
“If you transfer your opinions to what is within your choice, I guarantee you peace of mind, no matter what is happening around you’, says Epictetus in this discourse.
Epictetus
Marcus Aurelius learned to turn his everyday experiences into metaphors for the art of living. In this article, Donald Robertson explains how Marcus drew upon his experience of sports such as the pankration, a bare-handed combat sport that combined wrestling and boxing, and the spectacle of gladiatorial bouts, as he recounts in Meditations. - Editor