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Amputee Support Group

Featuredby politz99

Bob is hard at work developing an Amputee Support group focused on amputees partnering up on a ‘buddy’ system, so they can put two heads together to deal and cope […]

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A wintertime rock gym gathering

Featuredby politz99

Aaron has been going above and beyond to organize events to get vets out and active. With Spring just on our horizon, he wanted to try and get people to […]

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Magic along the way

Featuredby politz99

In my earliest research, a book was recommended to me by a group of therapists, “Invisible Heroes: Survivors of Trauma and How They Heal” by Belleruth Naparstek, Within the book, […]

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References I’ve found

January 1, 2013by politz99

I’m just a climber, parent, I teach a little and I have worked with infrastructure for about 15 years. I still do a little mountain guiding, teaching and helping people […]

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Moral Injury

“It’s an epidemic.”

December 26, 2012by Chris

Christmas was yesterday.  Personally, I spent the day traveling around Ohio to spend time with family (both mine and my girlfriend’s).  While it was somewhat exhausting going to four different […]

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Resilience

December 17, 2012by politz99

Resilience is a label for a concept to prepare people for the inevitable trauma that we are likely to experience in our lives.The military is on the front lines here. […]

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Want an insight into the problem?

December 6, 2012by politz99

The VA has a site up that is encouraging Veterans and their families to access help if things are not working. There is help out there. http://maketheconnection.net/ …way back, before […]

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What is it? What to look for?

November 1, 2012by politz99

How do we face the unknown? Educate yourself through research (whether personally, or with the help of friends), experts, models of some contrivance or talking with others in the same […]

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