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.

In the late 80s, I was a police officer assigned to uniformed patrol. Early (0100 hrs) one morning I saw a motorcycle with two people on it - a rider ...

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...

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...

Moral Injury occurs when the experiences or choices a person makes, is exposed to, or is ordered to do ruptures from their personal code of conduct, m...

Many people believe PTSD is the primary driver behind veteran and first-responder suicide. But, maybe— just maybe— it’s not.

Let’s look at the actual...

Moral Injury deals with the issues of right and wrong, and it’s complex.

Here’s the issue…

Right and wrong often seem very clear when you’re young.

I was in Beirut in 1983…

We were there in Lebanon on a peace-keeping mission, staying at a four-story bunker near the airport.

Because I had experie...