Trauma is the effect that Veterans often have to learn that they have, while not knowing that they have it or often deny that they have it. “Trauma is an emotional response to a terrible event like an accident, crime, natural disaster, physical or emotional abuse,...
As I write this I am still coming down from these dreaded panic attacks. I don’t know what brought this one on; furthermore, this attack did not follow any trigger warnings that I’d had in the past. This one was out of the blue and while I was in the shower. I’d had a...
I am sitting outside taking a note on my iPhone, watching my son mow the lawn, supervising, and it’s Memorial Day 2020. I went to a ceremony this morning, by myself, listened to the service, prayed for my fallen comrades, saluted the flag, talked to a few friends,...
Sometimes I wake up and I am war. I wake up and I do not know where I am at. The room is dark and I am staring into a ceiling fan that I wasn’t certain that I had. My breathing becomes hard and laborious and I believe that I have woken up into a place that I was at...
In August of 2013, I started my journey in Hapkido. While, my journey continues, I have accomplished one of my many goals in this sport/art. I have achieved my first degree black belt. With as much as I have trained I am happy for this part of it to be over. It...
