This past week I was the opening speaker for a PTSD event in my own backyard of Kokomo, Indiana at Indiana University Kokomo. It was called “Responding to PTSD – It takes a Village” and was put on by the North Central Indiana Area Health Education Center or AHEC. They…
Category: Honoring Those Who Serve
Dedicated to those first responders, troops, and veterans who serve and have served.
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 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…
To be overwhelmed by the complete spirit of life can change your soul. This past weekend I had the blessing to speak in such a place, a true holy place. It was a Gold Star retreat for survivors of those who had died while serving our country. It was a…