Military Trauma - The Sacred Wound and the Warrior’s Journey Home

Edward Tick, Ph.D., LMHC, has been working to heal the wounds of violent trauma and warfare in our veterans, military families, society, and the world for over forty years. On Friday, May 14, 2021, Dr. Tick presented his training “Military Trauma - The Sacred Wound and the Warrior’s Journey Home,” hosted by the Returning Veterans Project.

Thanks to our generous sponsors - The Boeing Company and RALI-Oreon - we were able to provide this training free of charge to RVP Volunteers and other community health providers. Over 135 attendees participated in the training, with some “Zooming in” as far away as Europe!

Dr. Tick’s presented that post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and moral injury have proven to be of epidemic proportions in our military and veteran populations but very difficult to treat. Healing efforts must not merely strive for symptom reduction and control but match the transformed inner worlds, life experiences and values of the survivors, provide corrective experiences that counteract the traumas, and offer a life and growth path consistent with military service. Our training day presented a proven holistic and psycho-spiritual-communal model for the understanding and practices that bring true healing, homecoming and transformation to our military and veterans.

Dr. Tick is the author of six books including the groundbreaking War and the Soul and most recently Warrior’s Return, as well as over 200 articles in the trauma field and others documenting radical holistic healing. Dr. Tick has been leading annual healing and reconciliation journeys to Viet Nam since 2000 and Greece since 1995, and works toward international healing and reconciliation between nations.

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