Warrior Hope

You’re not stuck. That is, you ALWAYS have a next best step. Sometimes, the steps are so small you can hardly see any distance between them at all— and you wonder, “Am I actually getting anywhere?” Other times, you...

When one of us experiences a “win” and feels joy, we all do… And when one of us suffers, likewise, we all feel it… Especially when we live under the same roof. In this episode of the #WarriorHope podcast we continue...

I learned this one the hard way… If one person in the family is dealing with a tough emotional hurt, then EVERYONE in the family is affected, everyone— whether they see it or not— needs help and healing. ❤️‍🩹 It’s...

It’s easier to move through the pains of the past when you begin serving a greater purpose, something larger than yourself… … something that moves your sole focus off you and places it on something bigger. For sure,...

Life is both good AND life is hard. The military is the same way. It’s easy to look back at any experience that was tough or— let’s even go further and use this word— traumatic— and presume the entire ordeal was...

Healing Moral Injury— which manifests as guilt and shame— is radically different than the cure for PTSD. Part of the problems with guilt & shame is that they not only LOVE the dark (and hate the light), but they...

Sometimes, well-intended deeds have bad outcomes. We often assume— as it pertains to military service— that only combat veterans can develop PTSD or Moral Injury. Turns out, anyone who serves can. 💔 Many times this...

Many times in the military you’re forced to do things that go against your conscience— and even do things that aren’t natural. 👉 Marching all night… 👉Standing watch for the inevitable… 👉Taking the life of another in...

You can’t diagnose every issue that you need to address… … because some of the stuff you need to take care of isn’t diagnosable.   For instance— ⚙️ you may not be obese, but you might could stand to drop a few...

Diagnosing emotional stuff is (sometimes) hard, because… 👉 we each respond to hurts in different ways 👉 we bring different pasts to the event— baggage that already weighs us down differently 👉 it’s part art and part...

“Get over it!” You might have heard someone say that to you before. In fact, you might have even dispensed that advice yourself. 👀 But do you really “get over” certain losses, or do you grieve them, heal the hurts,...

We’ve got a knack for “underplaying” what we’ve been through and over-playing what others have endured. We don’t need to play the comparison game, though… Trauma is trauma is trauma is… regardless of where it came...