Unlock the power of dreams. I really believe that we can be so caught up in the stress of day to day living that we lose touch with the part of our souls that exists to wonder and dream. You can see it in someone’s eyes as life becomes a…
Wanted to share a motivating video on overcoming adversity. Been on the road, including the incredible Santa Fe, New Mexico, so I’m doing a little catch up. Overcoming Adversity [vsw id=”rCUl8Vc9IqE” source=”youtube” width=”640″ height=”360″ autoplay=”no”] Last year I was asked by Dr. Debbora Whitson, a professor at the University of…
We spend years and millions of dollars training our troops to fight. We take young men and women, most of whom have never been trained to shoot, and teach them how to aim at a stranger and successfully kill them. Now that sounds harsh, but it is the truth. In…
How do we understand and do something about veteran suicide? First we need to understand suicide itself. Typically, when someone kills themself three things have happened. In reality it’s obviously more complicated than this, but it is a good place to start: 1) They are in long-term physical and/or emotional…
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…
Here are three simple life changes to lose weight and stay fit. As a former fitness freak who over the years let a little too much comfort food collect around my middle, when I decided to do something about it I discovered that losing weight as a middle-aged father of…
