Summary: Larry R. Decker, Ph.D.has specialized in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder for 34 years, as a clinical supervisor at a Vet Center, a tenured professor at a California State university, a contract/provider with the Department of Veterans Affairs, and as the author of many technical articles ranging from information processing to Read more…
Veterans face many challenges in post-military life. It’s not that these challenges can’t be overcome, or that veterans are somehow deficient because they experience these challenges. It’s what happens when we move from one culture to another. One of the challenges that frustrate many of the veterans I see is Read more…
Summary: Stephanie Lincoln is a former Army Captain. She is an AFAA Certified Personal Trainer and holds several group fitness certifications. Her personal style to fitness is mainly the use of high intensity intervals, for short, but efficient workouts. She loves burpees and detests leg day, but does it anyways. Read more…
What you talk about you can control, influence and change – David Osborn As I was listening to an episode of the Follow Your Different podcast hosted by Christopher Lochhead, I was struck by this statement by his guest. In that context, entrepreneur David Osborn was talking about money. He Read more…
Summary: Eric R. Pedersen is a senior behavioral scientist at the RAND Corporation. His research interests are primarily in areas of young adult/adolescent alcohol use and comorbid mental health disorders. Pedersen has received funding to develop brief, online interventions to reduce alcohol misuse among young adult populations such as college Read more…
I was getting ready for the day recently, and I felt on edge. Ready. Anticipating. I had a lot of stuff to do that day, and I was ready to get cracking. It was exactly the same feeling I had before the platoon went outside the wire as a security Read more…
Summary: Sarah and Mike Verardo have become a national face for severely wounded combat Veterans andtheir Caregivers. They’ve appeared on numeroustelevision programs and news outlets over the past several years to push for Veterans Affairs healthcare reform. Sarah has dedicated her life to both the care and recovery of her Read more…
You don’t climb a mountain by saying you wish you could. One of the challenges that I see with the veterans I work with as a mental health counselor is an experience of being stuck. Regardless of how things were when they were in the military, they seem to feel Read more…
Summary: The background of The Veterans Hub, Weymouth and Andy can be found on their Facebook page here The Veterans Hub was founded in 2017 by a local man called Andy Price, who served in the Armed forces as well as working in the private military industry for several years Read more…
A friend of mine, Special Operations Soldier, once told me: “It’s one thing to think that fear is weak, that suicide is the coward’s way out. I thought the same way, once. It’s totally different when it happens to you, and you know that you’re not a coward.” When a service Read more…