Some memories do not come back as a complete story. They come back as fragments: a child missing a limb, a child who never comes back, a driveway in t...

We often use guilt and shame as if they mean the same thing. They do not.

Sometimes trauma shows up when life is hard. Other times, something unexpected happens: life gets better—and somehow that feels difficult too.

You wo...

Sometimes the hardest trauma does not come from one catastrophic event. Sometimes it comes from being slowly pushed to the outside of a group you once...

When we walk through trauma, loss, or a difficult season, one of our deepest desires is often simple:

We want life to go back to the way it was.

We ...

For many veterans, returning home does not mean the battle is over.

The uniforms are put away. The mission changes. Life moves forward on the outside...

Trauma is not always the result of one dramatic event.

Sometimes it develops gradually.

One difficult experience is followed by another. Stress rema...

There’s a reason we respond / react the way we do. And a little (over-simplified) brain-science helps us understand it…

That said…

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Three of the k...

Moral Injury is commonly confused with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder for a two main reasons:

1️⃣ Most people haven’t heard of Moral Injury, and

2️⃣...

I was a commander in the Middle East. We were under heavy fire at one time and began to run low on ammo, so I sent three of my men back 20 clicks to g...

I received a call to report to the scene of an accident. The car had rolled over, on the Interstate.

When I arrived, the firefighters— already on the...