“I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.” Thomas Merton There are a million infomercials, motivational speakers, and advertisements that will tell you differently, but this is truth “I cannot…
Posttraumatic stress disorder or PTSD is the “…development of characteristic symptoms….”. The key word there from the DSM-V is development. PTSD develops. I like to think of it as being broken. Life can break us in a million different ways and when that brokenness happens to meet the criteria in…
Music is a powerful force that can awaken the child in anyone. Writing an article on music therapy and PTSD recently, I thought back many a Christmas ago to when Isaac got his first guitar. Even though as his father I’m much older, the excitement he shows in these pictures…
I want to thank Dr. Rodney Deaton for the gracious article he wrote about my keynote address at Purdue University’s Military Family Research Institute Battlemind Symposium IV. Here is an excerpt and please follow the link for the full article. It will motivate you on this Veterans day. We can…
I just returned from an amazing weekend with TV production students and their professor from the Savannah College of Art and Design in Atlanta. They were gracious enough to make me their project for the semester! We shot at a friend’s home in Buckhead, in the college’s television studio, in…
I just had the honor to speak at the closing session of the annual Indiana State Judicial Conference in French Lick, IN at the historic French Lick Resort. There were almost 500 judges in the room from across the state of Indiana including the Indiana Supreme Court. For a man…
