Healing Combat Trauma

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2012-11-26T15:44:49-06:00

We appreciate your support as we continue to provide therapeutic resources to veterans with combat-based PTSD and MST, their supporters and loved ones, and decision-makers. Thank you!

David Halberstam on "the Most Relentless of Forces, the Power of Memory"

2012-11-16T00:01:00-06:00

In honor of the panel discussion on war correspondents and PTSD taking place at the National Press Club in Washington, DC today, some brief remarks by noted war correspondent David Halberstam, in the introduction to the coffee table book, Requiem,...

Ernie Pyle on Transformation in Soldiers about Killing

2012-08-30T11:27:52-05:00

I've been reading a great book about Ernie Pyle's war correspondence in World War II lately, and have been struck by many of his observations. In this passage below, the book's author quotes Pyle describing the transformation he sees in...

War reporters, combat stress and Ernie Pyle

2012-08-28T11:08:48-05:00

It's no surprise war correspondents also experience the two so-called 'signature wounds' of this era's conflicts -- PTSD and TBIs as well -- they're exposed like service members are, admittedly for shorter times, to the same stressors in the war...

Quotable Quotes -- Sarah Ban Breathnach on Overcoming Adversity

2012-05-04T08:19:58-05:00

Every once in a while we need to be reminded that there is some benefit to struggle. Here's a great quote about keeping perspective on that: "Real life isn't always going to be perfect or go our way, but the...

It's Anniversary Time! Please Support Our Work...

2012-02-21T11:08:06-06:00

Healing Combat Trauma turns six (6) years old this month! That's 2,190 days, 52,560 hours, and over 3 million minutes of sustained focus on helping veterans with combat-based PTSD with therapeutic resources and information, focused on integrative medicine and that...

Quotable Quotes -- Tori Amos on the Hidden Courage that Healing Takes

2011-12-23T10:31:48-06:00

"Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it." -- Tori Amos, American singer and songwriter. For more great, thought-provoking quotes about the healing process, read our "Tao of Healing"...

Quotable Quotes -- American Poet Walt Whitman on the True Nature of War

2011-12-13T11:00:00-06:00

Famous American poet Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), author of "Leaves of Grass," volunteered as a nurse in the Civil War. He is reported to have been profoundly affected by what he saw, and wrote about it in an essay...

Quotable Quotes -- Eleanor Roosevelt on the Human Cost of War

2011-12-08T10:24:45-06:00

As a nation, we've been blessed to have had some wonderfully enlightened presidents -- and in this case, first ladies as well. (See previous quotes by Eisenhower on war, etc.) But in this case, we've got the prayer that Eleanor...