Trauma & Healing
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Developing Resiliency
It’s hard to believe it’s been a week since I last wrote here. Time flies when you’re feeling good, and I’m feeling great! I didn’t think I could ever feel “young” again. I not…
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Along the Path of Healing
I’m settling into life with my new food choices. As time goes on, what I eat has become less and less a part of my waking thoughts, and more just something I do…
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What to Think When Bad Things Happen
I have to admit that I love the irreverent phrase “sh*! happens” because too often in life there is just no explanation for the obstacles we face. The first time I heard the…
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Though I May Never Know Your Name
My psyche, or perhaps more accurately my spirit is bereft and cluttered with the shattered glass and twisted metal that now lies far behind us in a desolate junk yard… small bits embedded…
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Remembering My City of Ruins
It’s hard to fathom that it has been nine years since that fateful September morning in 2001. My experience of those moments had a profound and lasting impact on me as it has…
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Remembering those who Sacrificed their Lives for Us
Operation Iraqi Freedom 4,384 Casualties and counting Operation Enduring Freedom 1,097 Casualties and counting The Gulf War 1,963 Casualties Vietnam War 58,261 Casualties Revolutionary War 25,700 Casualties Korean War 36,574 Casualties World War…
