Michele rosenthal biography

Michele Rosenthal has turned her personal experience with post-traumatic stress disorder into an extensive body of work, one that provides her insights into healing on almost every platform imaginable.

The award-winning blogger — she founded HealMyPTSD.com — bestselling author, former faculty member of the Timberline Knolls Clinical Development Institute, and host of the radio program “Changing Direction” most recently wrote the book, Your Life After Trauma: Powerful Practices to Reclaim Your Identity.

Michele rosenthal biography

Rosenthal also writes and speaks poignantly and profoundly about the impact of trauma on Holocaust survivors. I recently spoke with her about her history of trauma as well as what she’s learned through her work helping other survivors come to terms with and build upon their pasts.

Q: What drew you to the work of trauma?

A: When I was 13 I survived a rare allergic reaction to a medication. Almost overnight I turned into the equivalent of a full-body burn victim. Over the next