Stories

I think my story illustrates the difference between PTSD & Moral Injury…

During Vietnam, I was stationed at De Nang. I was in the Air Force and was a...

I’m the Fire Chief at the local station. One day, the Fire Inspector— a friend of mine— came to eat lunch.

I had my first floor office window open, b...

I was first on the scene to a fatal accident at a busy intersection downtown. A young mother and her 19-month old son were the victims.

A classic “hi...

Pretty quick into the George Floyd thing I learned that a first responder— a paramedic like me— stood there and filmed the entire interaction. Her iPh...

I was a nurse back in 2020– during the pandemic.

At first, I was scared and overwhelmed about an unknown virus coming from China. Nobody knew anythin...

It was Christmas Day, a few years into being a firefighter.

I had some seniority at the station, so I wasn’t scheduled to work that day. But, I had a...

This talk is divided into three parts—

1️⃣ PTSD & Moral Injury are different (2:04)

2️⃣ What Moral Injury looks like (30:34)

3️⃣ Healing Moral Inju...

I got called on a “domestic.” We jumped into the ambulance and headed that way.

It was rural— about 30 minutes outside town. That meant two things…

We received a call about a single car motor vehicle accident. Car ran off the road and towards a small pond.

Somebody phoned it in— no telling how lo...