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Resilience & veteran well being

Below are the best resources we could find on Resilience and veteran well being.

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Home Base’s Resilient Warrior Class

A discussion of the Resilient Warrior course offered to veterans, which uses mind-body techniques in order to increase resilience to stress and find positive ways to cope with difficult emotions and situations.

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Resilience: How Your Inner Strength Can Set You Free from the Past

Renowned French neuropsychiatrist and psychoanalyst Boris Cyrulnik’s parents were deported to a concentration camp during the Second World War. They never returned.

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Wounded Veteran Shares Stories of Resilience

When Dave Roever was in the Navy during the Vietnam War, “resiliency” and “comprehensive soldier fitness” took a backseat to combat operations.

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The End of Trauma: How the New Science of Resilience Is Changing How We Think About PTSD

A top expert on human trauma argues that we vastly overestimate how common PTSD is and fail to recognize how resilient people really are. After 9/11, mental health professionals flocked to New York to handle what everyone assumed would be a flood of trauma cases. Oddly, the flood never came.

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Copley Marine Corps Veteran, Amputee Makes History at Boston Marathon

When Peter Keating took off from the starting line at the Boston Marathon, it was the realization of a dream come true, but he never imagined just how unique his 26.2-mile trek would be.

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This Vietnam Veteran Found Strength in Sobriety

After transitioning from the Air Force back to civilian life, Jeff started experiencing relationship problems. Eventually he was divorced, homeless, and drinking excessively. With the help of VA, Jeff became sober and reconnected with his family.

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Tough as They Come

Thousands have been wounded in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Five have survived quadruple amputee injuries. This is one soldier’s story. Thousands of soldiers die every year to defend their country.

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Post-COVID Reintegration: Learn from the Military

We can learn a lot from military families about going back to “normal” life.

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How to Return Home: The Buddha on the Battlefield: Judah Pollack at TEDxRockCreekPark

Working with US Army combat veterans for over three years Judah Pollack discusses his insight that resiliency is a product of communities, of human networks. The culture of the Army is less accepting of traditional therapy. But the culture is built on the power of soldiers supporting each other.

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Afterwar: Healing the Moral Wounds of Our Soldiers

Movies like American Sniper and The Hurt Locker hint at the inner scars our soldiers incur during service in a war zone. The moral dimensions of their psychological injuries—guilt, shame, feeling responsible for doing wrong or being wronged—elude conventional treatment.

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