I am writing this with the blessing of my 19 year old daughter and it is something I have not talked about, except to people very close to our family. This is being written for two reasons. Obviously, I hope it helps others and the second is purely self-serving; it helps me to vent after letting this build for the past two months.

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is not something new to our family. My husband is a Marine and a Vietnam Veteran and our 19 year old daughter has also suffered from PTSD due to childhood trauma before we adopted her at the age of seven.

In the 12 years I have been blessed to be Jackie’s Mom, I have learned so much about a world I thought I knew, but the reality is; I was clueless. Jackie is mentally handicapped and has special needs. I really don’t like either of those terms, but I will use them now so you can have a better understanding of what I am about to tell you.

A few years ago, Jackie became very violent due to her PTSD and my husband and I had no choice but to send her to a residential facility where she could attend school and get the help she needed emotionally. This was one of the hardest decisions we had to make as parents, but because we had other children and grandchildren, it was a decision that had to be made. We still visited Jackie quite often, took her on trips and talked to her everyday on the phone. After a couple of years, Jackie was doing great, living in a transitional home near our house and was finally going to get to come back home to live on January 31, 2009. She had, much to her delight, graduated from high school and was now attending a young adult program and working a couple of different jobs in the community. A few weeks away from moving home, the whole family was getting very excited and Jackie had already made plans for the next year.

On a cold dark night, right before Christmas (2008), Jackie was at the transition home, in her bedroom and Santa Claus came to visit. He knocked on the door and told the staff, who answered the door, he was Jackie’s uncle and he came to surprise her. The rest of the details I am not going to go into other than to tell you this was not Jackie’s uncle. Santa Claus was the assistant bus driver on the bus which everyday took Jackie to her Young Adult Education Program. He molested my beautiful daughter who had worked so hard to recover from childhood trauma. She has been in the hospital 3 times in the past two months.

With PTSD being such a part of my family, not to mention the daily stress of our lives, and because I refuse to let this horrible man ruin my daughter’s life, I have been doing a lot of research in the area of stress, free radicals, and antioxidants. My research has provided me with some amazing information and I hope it can help you also.

I am a SeaAloe Distributor and the amazing part of this story is what I needed for, not only my daughter, but my husband, myself and my whole family was about to be delivered to my front door. SeaAloe (Nature’s Liquids) had just come out with a new product called Superfruits GT. Everything I had been researching regarding stress, free radicals and antioxidants; and now I was about to be representing a product being described as “The Ultimate Antioxidant.” I am not going to tell you this product has solved all the health issues regarding stress for our family. The stress didn’t happen overnight, and results of the stress are not going to disappear overnight. What I will say is that I am proud to be a part of distributing a product that is going to have a great impact on the lives of many people and for our family; it will be a daily part of our lives. My sincere gratitude goes to Dr. Chris Cormier, D.C., a Liquid Nutritional Expert, Jim Shriner, America’s Leading Health & Fitness Expert and the whole Nature’s Liquids Family.  http://www.juicingcombinations.com