mental health resources

About Today's Guest:

Annette M. Whittenberger, currently living in Fairfax, Virginia understands the challenge of veteran transition and development as she is a Retired Combat Veteran, an Army Spouse and mother to a college freshman and high school sophomore. She focuses on coaching others through PTSD, anxiety and depression and trauma.

She is a mentor with Veterati, eMentor and for the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS).

She is also a blogger on Medium.com.

Annette has a B.A. in Psychology and an M.S. in Environmental Management.

In this Episode, you will learn:

• Annette's background and experience
• Being open and honest about mental health challenges
• Talking openly because others are listening 
• Setting the example for everyone
• Life as a dual military spouse

Links Mentioned in this Episode:

Annette's Blog

Article on Military Families.com

Annette on Social Media:

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About Today's Guest:

Aaron Hale was an EOD expert in the military for 6 years. Then, an unseen IED exploded in his face and changed his life forever. The accident stole his sight and just a short while later, his hearing. Yet with all this adversity, Aaron managed to pursue his passions and embrace a happy life. This is his story and the birth of EOD Fudge.

In this Episode, you will learn:

• Aaron's background and experience from Navy Cook to Army EOD
• The IED Blast that changed Aaron's life
• Growing after adversity
• Increasing wellness instead of managing illness
• Spinal meningitis leading to hearing loss
• Turning familiar hobbies into therapeutic tools
• Optimism in the face of adversity
• Setting the example for others

Links Mentioned in this Episode:

Extra Ordinary Delights Web site

EOD Fudge on Social Media:

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Instagram

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About Today's Guest:

Shauna Springer, Ph.D., is the TAPS Suicide Prevention & PostventionSenior Director. Known to many veterans as “doc Springer,” she has helped hundreds of warriors reconnect with their tribe, strengthen their most important relationships, and build lives that are driven by their deepest values. She has particular expertise in attachment processes, trauma recovery, innovative suicide prevention approaches, relationship counseling, peer support program development, and Veteran’s issues, including post-discharge adjustment and strategies for engaging Veterans in behavioral health care. Dr. Springer is a licensed Psychologist with an undergraduate degree from Harvard University and a Doctoral degree from the University of Florida.

TAPS Suicide Prevention & Postevention draws from a unique combination of professional expertise and survivors’ “lived experience” to shine new light on the critical questions that have challenged military leaders and veteran organizations for decades. TAPS Red Team provides training and consultation to clinicians, military leadership, policy makers, veteran employers, and groups of veterans and their families.

In this Episode, you will learn:

• Shauna's background and experience
• The largest number of referrals to TAPS are survivors of suicide loss
• Difference between postvention and prevention
• The appropriate timing of prevention training and postvention support
• Loss survivors becoming advocates for suicide prevention
• Postvention webinars
• TAPS suicide postvention model
  • Stabilization
  • Grief work
  • Posttraumatic Growth
• Using a flexible approach to responding to suicide loss
• Response to suicide is inherently psychological
• TAPS Postvention training support

Links Mentioned in this Episode:

Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors Website

TAPS Suicide Postvention Program

PsychArmor Suicide Intervention, Prevention, and Postvention courses 

TAPS on Social Media:

Facebook

Twitter

Instagram

YouTube

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About Today's Guest:

Shauna Springer, Ph.D., is the TAPS Suicide Prevention & PostventionSenior Director. Known to many veterans as “doc Springer,” she has helped hundreds of warriors reconnect with their tribe, strengthen their most important relationships, and build lives that are driven by their deepest values. She has particular expertise in attachment processes, trauma recovery, innovative suicide prevention approaches, relationship counseling, peer support program development, and Veteran’s issues, including post-discharge adjustment and strategies for engaging Veterans in behavioral health care. Dr. Springer is a licensed Psychologist with an undergraduate degree from Harvard University and a Doctoral degree from the University of Florida.

TAPS Suicide Prevention & Postevention draws from a unique combination of professional expertise and survivors’ “lived experience” to shine new light on the critical questions that have challenged military leaders and veteran organizations for decades. TAPS Red Team provides training and consultation to clinicians, military leadership, policy makers, veteran employers, and groups of veterans and their families.

In this Episode, you will learn:

• Shauna's background and experience
• The largest number of referrals to TAPS are survivors of suicide loss
• Difference between postvention and prevention
• The appropriate timing of prevention training and postvention support
• Loss survivors becoming advocates for suicide prevention
• Postvention webinars
• TAPS suicide postvention model
  • Stabilization
  • Grief work
  • Posttraumatic Growth
• Using a flexible approach to responding to suicide loss
• Response to suicide is inherently psychological
• TAPS Postvention training support

Links Mentioned in this Episode:

Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors Website

TAPS Suicide Postvention Program

PsychArmor Suicide Intervention, Prevention, and Postvention courses 

TAPS on Social Media:

Facebook

Twitter

Instagram

YouTube

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On episode 143 of the Head Space and Timing Podcast, Duane has a conversation with a fellow veteran, Dr. Nick C. Cicchino. Dr. Nick is a two-time veteran having served in both the US Air Force and the US Navy. Nick is the Chief Knowledge Facilitator (CKF) at Master Achievers Training and Consulting. He has an amazing story of adversity, hardship, and catastrophe; he is an example of how to emerge from hardship stronger and more resilient than ever.

A bonus episode of the Head Space and Timing podcast commemorating the events of 9/11/01. In this show, we share an episode of the Changing Hearts and Minds podcast where Duane and the CHM Host, Green Beret Jeff Adamec, talk about one of the many heroes of that day

On episode 143 of the Head Space and Timing Podcast, Duane has a conversation with a fellow veteran, Dr. Nick C. Cicchino. Dr. Nick is a two-time veteran having served in both the US Air Force and the US Navy. Nick is the Chief Knowledge Facilitator (CKF) at Master Achievers Training and Consulting. He has an amazing story of adversity, hardship, and catastrophe; he is an example of how to emerge from hardship stronger and more resilient than ever.

About Today's Guest:

Dr. Julie Kinn is a licensed clinical psychologist with over 15 years of experience researching and implementing health technology for suicide prevention and other behavioral health promotion. At the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Defense Health Agency (DHA), Dr. Kinn oversees the development and implementation of health technology for the military and veteran communities. She also initiated the Military Health Podcast program and produces/hosts three DOD podcasts: “A Better Night’s Sleep”, “The Military Meditation Coach”, and “Next Generation Behavioral Health”

In this Episode, you will learn:

• Dr. Kinn's background and experience
• DHA Connected Health
• Adapting technology use to benefit wellness
• Adapting to using technology for mental health treatment support
• Using technology to familiarize users with treatment
• Clinicians using technology to support therapy the same way they recommend books and other resources
• DHA Connected Health Podcasts
• Podcasts as resources to spread information and increase awareness
• The DHA Technology Education Program

Links Mentioned in this Episode:

DHA Connected Health Website

Apps and Resources for Clinical Integration

DHA Military Mental Health Podcasts

Connected Health on Social Media

Facebook

Twitter

YouTube

LinkedIn

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About Today's Guest:

Dr. Julie Kinn is a licensed clinical psychologist with over 15 years of experience researching and implementing health technology for suicide prevention and other behavioral health promotion. At the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Defense Health Agency (DHA), Dr. Kinn oversees the development and implementation of health technology for the military and veteran communities. She also initiated the Military Health Podcast program and produces/hosts three DOD podcasts: “A Better Night’s Sleep”, “The Military Meditation Coach”, and “Next Generation Behavioral Health”

In this Episode, you will learn:

• Dr. Kinn's background and experience
• DHA Connected Health
• Adapting technology use to benefit wellness
• Adapting to using technology for mental health treatment support
• Using technology to familiarize users with treatment
• Clinicians using technology to support therapy the same way they recommend books and other resources
• DHA Connected Health Podcasts
• Podcasts as resources to spread information and increase awareness
• The DHA Technology Education Program

Links Mentioned in this Episode:

DHA Connected Health Website

Apps and Resources for Clinical Integration

DHA Military Mental Health Podcasts

Connected Health on Social Media

Facebook

Twitter

YouTube

LinkedIn

Want to learn more about Service Members, Veterans, and Military Family Member Mental Health?

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About Today's Guest:

For more than 38 years, Dr. Kathy Platoni has served our nation as an expert in PTSD and war trauma. She is a practicing clinical psychologist whose passion for the treatment of acute and chronic pain is rooted deeply in her own experience of both.

During WWII, Dr. Platoni’s father was exposed to radiation during the bombing of Nagasaki. As a result, she was born with congenital defects that have required extensive maxillofacial (bone) reconstructive and bone grafting procedures. Since childhood, Dr. Platoni has undergone 58 major and minor procedures to correct these defects – the majority of them with hypnosis as the sole anesthetic.

Dr. Platoni was commissioned as a U.S. Army officer in 1979, and served more than three decades as a clinical psychologist before retiring as a Colonel in October of 2013. Dr. Platoni has deployed on four occasions in times of war, serving in locations ranging from Joint Task Force-Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to Iraq and Afghanistan. Dr. Platoni has developed combat stress control, debriefing, and crisis management programs used throughout the U.S. Army. She held the position of U.S. Army Reserve Clinical Psychologist Consultant to the Chief, Medical Service Corps, and is a graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College.

Dr. Platoni’s private practice reflects her expertise in the sub-specialty areas of behavioral medicine and the treatment of chronic pain and chronic, debilitating, and terminal illnesses. She is the co-author/co-editor of two landmark books with Dr. Raymond Scurfield: Healing War Trauma –A Handbook of Creative Approaches, and War Trauma and Its Wake: Expanding the Circle of Healing.

She has also written more than 25 scholarly articles that have been published in professional and lay journals, and is regularly cited as an expert on issues of military mental health in the wartime theaters of both Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom.

Dr. Platoni currently runs a thriving private practice as a clinical psychologist in Centerville, Ohio, and travels nationally as a sought-after author, lecturer, and therapist. Her expertise as a clinician includes a wide spectrum of cognitive behavioral therapies and hypnotherapy. Public and private agencies engaged in disaster preparedness and combat operations value Dr. Platoni's expert treatment of groups and individuals before and after catastrophic events.

In this Episode, you will learn:

• Dr. Platoni's background and experience
• Treatment of PTSD
• Natural Disasters and PTSD
• The difference between military and non-military PTSD
• Trauma made worse by not being able to meet our needs
• Providing ongoing support for loss and pain
• Belongingness in post-military life
• Dr. Platoni's transition experience and post-military work

Links Mentioned in this Episode:

Dr. Platoni's Website

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About Today's Guest:

For more than 38 years, Dr. Kathy Platoni has served our nation as an expert in PTSD and war trauma. She is a practicing clinical psychologist whose passion for the treatment of acute and chronic pain is rooted deeply in her own experience of both.

During WWII, Dr. Platoni’s father was exposed to radiation during the bombing of Nagasaki. As a result, she was born with congenital defects that have required extensive maxillofacial (bone) reconstructive and bone grafting procedures. Since childhood, Dr. Platoni has undergone 58 major and minor procedures to correct these defects – the majority of them with hypnosis as the sole anesthetic.

Dr. Platoni was commissioned as a U.S. Army officer in 1979, and served more than three decades as a clinical psychologist before retiring as a Colonel in October of 2013. Dr. Platoni has deployed on four occasions in times of war, serving in locations ranging from Joint Task Force-Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to Iraq and Afghanistan. Dr. Platoni has developed combat stress control, debriefing, and crisis management programs used throughout the U.S. Army. She held the position of U.S. Army Reserve Clinical Psychologist Consultant to the Chief, Medical Service Corps, and is a graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College.

Dr. Platoni’s private practice reflects her expertise in the sub-specialty areas of behavioral medicine and the treatment of chronic pain and chronic, debilitating, and terminal illnesses. She is the co-author/co-editor of two landmark books with Dr. Raymond Scurfield: Healing War Trauma –A Handbook of Creative Approaches, and War Trauma and Its Wake: Expanding the Circle of Healing.

She has also written more than 25 scholarly articles that have been published in professional and lay journals, and is regularly cited as an expert on issues of military mental health in the wartime theaters of both Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom.

Dr. Platoni currently runs a thriving private practice as a clinical psychologist in Centerville, Ohio, and travels nationally as a sought-after author, lecturer, and therapist. Her expertise as a clinician includes a wide spectrum of cognitive behavioral therapies and hypnotherapy. Public and private agencies engaged in disaster preparedness and combat operations value Dr. Platoni's expert treatment of groups and individuals before and after catastrophic events.

In this Episode, you will learn:

• Dr. Platoni's background and experience
• Treatment of PTSD
• Natural Disasters and PTSD
• The difference between military and non-military PTSD
• Trauma made worse by not being able to meet our needs
• Providing ongoing support for loss and pain
• Belongingness in post-military life
• Dr. Platoni's transition experience and post-military work

Links Mentioned in this Episode:

Dr. Platoni's Website

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About Today’s Guest:

Dan is a founder and Executive Director of Veterans Yoga Project.  He is a licensed clinical psychologist and yoga teacher specializing in the mindful integration of evidence-based psychotherapies and complementary and alternative medicine practices for the treatment of PTS(D) and other psychological and emotional distress in active-duty military and veterans.

As a Postdoctoral Fellow with Yale University’s Department of Psychiatry and the VA’s Mental Illness Research and Education Clinical Center, Dan conducted research investigating the physiological correlates of mindfulness meditation as well as the first epidemiological investigation of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in VA PTSD treatment programs. He is also former Director of Clinical Services for the Starlight Military Rehabilitation Program and has taught mindfulness and yoga to hundreds of veterans and active-duty service members.

Daniel is currently a psychologist at the Oakland Vet Center in Oakland, California, where he teaches several yoga and meditation classes weekly.  A graduate of the 200-hour Embodyoga® Teacher Training, Dan learned everything he ever needed to know at the Feathered Pipe Ranch, the renowned nonprofit educational foundation and yoga retreat center.

In this Episode, you will learn:

• Daniel’s background and experience
• Mindfulness and Meditation
• Using mindfulness to address psychological concerns
• Phsyical changes to the brain due to mindfulness
• Yoga as “mindful movement”
• Stereotypes around yoga and how they are changing
• Traumatic stress reaction as a disempowering experience and yoga as a re-empowering experience
• Yoga and Vietnam Veterans
• The Veterans Yoga Project
• Trying multiple types of yoga

Links Mentioned in this Episode:

Daniel’s Website

Veterans Yoga Project Website

Veterans Yoga Project on Social Media

Facebook

LinkedIn

Twitter

Instagram

Guided Meditation Practice

Navy Seal Jon Macaskill

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About Today's Guest:

Dan is a founder and Executive Director of Veterans Yoga Project.  He is a licensed clinical psychologist and yoga teacher specializing in the mindful integration of evidence-based psychotherapies and complementary and alternative medicine practices for the treatment of PTS(D) and other psychological and emotional distress in active-duty military and veterans.

As a Postdoctoral Fellow with Yale University’s Department of Psychiatry and the VA’s Mental Illness Research and Education Clinical Center, Dan conducted research investigating the physiological correlates of mindfulness meditation as well as the first epidemiological investigation of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in VA PTSD treatment programs. He is also former Director of Clinical Services for the Starlight Military Rehabilitation Program and has taught mindfulness and yoga to hundreds of veterans and active-duty service members.

Daniel is currently a psychologist at the Oakland Vet Center in Oakland, California, where he teaches several yoga and meditation classes weekly.  A graduate of the 200-hour Embodyoga® Teacher Training, Dan learned everything he ever needed to know at the Feathered Pipe Ranch, the renowned nonprofit educational foundation and yoga retreat center.

In this Episode, you will learn:

• Daniel's background and experience
• Mindfulness and Meditation
• Using mindfulness to address psychological concerns
• Phsyical changes to the brain due to mindfulness
• Yoga as "mindful movement"
• Stereotypes around yoga and how they are changing
• Traumatic stress reaction as a disempowering experience and yoga as a re-empowering experience
• Yoga and Vietnam Veterans
• The Veterans Yoga Project
• Trying multiple types of yoga

Links Mentioned in this Episode:

Daniel's Website

Veterans Yoga Project Website

Daniel's Website

Veterans Yoga Project on Social Media

Facebook

LinkedIn

Twitter

Instagram

Guided Meditation Practice

Navy Seal Jon Macaskill 

Want to learn more about Service Members, Veterans, and Military Family Member Mental Health?

Check out this upcoming webinar series. 

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About Today’s Guest:

In their description of Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, Slate Magazine said, “Grossman cuts such a heroic, omnicompetent figure, he could have stepped out of a video game.”  He has five patents to his name, has published four novels, two childrens’ books, and six non-fiction books to include his “perennial bestseller” On Killing (with over half a million copies sold), and a New York Times best-selling book co-authored with Glenn Beck.

He is a US Army Ranger, a paratrooper, and a former West Point Psychology Professor.  He has a Black Belt in Hojutsu, the martial art of the firearm, and has been inducted into the USA Martial Arts Hall of Fame.

Col. Grossman’s research was cited by the President of the United States in a national address, and he has testified before the U.S. Senate, the U.S. Congress, and numerous state legislatures.  He has served as an expert witness and consultant in state and Federal courts.  He helped train mental health professionals after the Jonesboro school massacre, and he was also involved in counseling or court cases in the aftermath of the Paducah, Springfield, Littleton and Nickel Mines Amish school massacres.

Col. Grossman has been called upon to write the entry on “Aggression and Violence” in the Oxford Companion to American Military History, three entries in the Academic Press Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace and Conflict and has presented papers before the national conventions of the American Medical Association, the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association, and the American Academy of Pediatrics.

 Since his retirement from the US Army in 1998, he has been on the road almost 300 days a year, for over 19 years, as one of our nation’s leading trainers for military, law enforcement, mental health providers, and school safety organizations.

Today Col. Grossman is the director of the Killology Research Group.  In the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks he is has written and spoken extensively on the terrorist threat, with articles published in the Harvard Journal of Law and Civil Policy and many leading law enforcement journals, and he has been inducted as a “Life Diplomate” by the American Board for Certification in Homeland Security, and a “Life Member” of the American College of Forensic Examiners Institute.

In this Episode, you will learn:

• Two persistent myths about veterans: the pity party and the macho man
• Neurological impact of combat
• Shortcoming stress reactions by initiating the parasympathetic nervous system
• The impact of insomnia on suicide, health, and psychological wellbeing

Links Mentioned in this Episode:

A Selection of LTC Grossman's Books

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Travel and Speaking Schedule

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About Today's Guest:

In their description of Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, Slate Magazine said, “Grossman cuts such a heroic, omnicompetent figure, he could have stepped out of a video game.”  He has five patents to his name, has published four novels, two childrens’ books, and six non-fiction books to include his “perennial bestseller” On Killing (with over half a million copies sold), and a New York Times best-selling book co-authored with Glenn Beck.

He is a US Army Ranger, a paratrooper, and a former West Point Psychology Professor.  He has a Black Belt in Hojutsu, the martial art of the firearm, and has been inducted into the USA Martial Arts Hall of Fame.

Col. Grossman’s research was cited by the President of the United States in a national address, and he has testified before the U.S. Senate, the U.S. Congress, and numerous state legislatures.  He has served as an expert witness and consultant in state and Federal courts.  He helped train mental health professionals after the Jonesboro school massacre, and he was also involved in counseling or court cases in the aftermath of the Paducah, Springfield, Littleton and Nickel Mines Amish school massacres.

Col. Grossman has been called upon to write the entry on “Aggression and Violence” in the Oxford Companion to American Military History, three entries in the Academic Press Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace and Conflict and has presented papers before the national conventions of the American Medical Association, the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association, and the American Academy of Pediatrics.

 Since his retirement from the US Army in 1998, he has been on the road almost 300 days a year, for over 19 years, as one of our nation’s leading trainers for military, law enforcement, mental health providers, and school safety organizations.

Today Col. Grossman is the director of theKillology Research Group.  In the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks he is has written and spoken extensively on the terrorist threat, with articles published in the Harvard Journal of Law and Civil Policy and many leading law enforcement journals, and he has been inducted as a "Life Diplomate" by the American Board for Certification in Homeland Security, and a "Life Member" of the American College of Forensic Examiners Institute.

In this Episode, you will learn:

• Two persistent myths about veterans: the pity party and the macho man
• Neurological impact of combat
• Shortcoming stress reactions by initiating the parasympathetic nervous system
• The impact of insomnia on suicide, health, and psychological wellbeing

Links Mentioned in this Episode:

LTC Grossman's Website

Killology Website

Travel and Speaking Schedule

 

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About Today’s Guest:

Donleigh Gaunky is a veteran of the Iraq war, having deployed there twice.  Utilyzing his skills as a former army intelligence analyst and as a political scientist, Donleigh has spent the last decade trying to understand and address the complex issue that has plagued the veterans community for over a generation, the issue of veterans suicide.  Donleigh is also a Gold Star Sibling, and, when not trying to address the veteran suicide crisis, spends significant time trying to help other survivors of military service loss.  He presently lives in western Wisconsin.

In this Episode, you will learn:

• Donleigh’s background and experience
• Researching suicide from a personal perspective
• Common misconceptions about suicide numbers and rates
• Challenging assumptions that suicide is tied to combat
• Policy changes related to suicide
• Cross-generational and multi-conflict impact on suicide
• Putting context to suicide awareness
• Donleigh’s upcoming book

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Donleigh’s book:

The Hardest Journey Home: A True Story of Loss and Duty during the Iraq WarBy Donleigh O. Gaunky (Hardcover - Nov 11, 2017)$12.67$24.00Rated 5 out of 5 by 5 reviewers on Amazon.com

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About Today's Guest:

Donleigh Gaunky is a veteran of the Iraq war, having deployed there twice.  Utilyzing his skills as a former army intelligence analyst and as a political scientist, Donleigh has spent the last decade trying to understand and address the complex issue that has plagued the veterans community for over a generation, the issue of veterans suicide.  Donleigh is also a Gold Star Sibling, and, when not trying to address the veteran suicide crisis, spends significant time trying to help other survivors of military service loss.  He presently lives in western Wisconsin.

In this Episode, you will learn:

• Donleigh's background and experience
• Researching suicide from a personal perspective
• Common misconceptions about suicide numbers and rates
• Challenging assumptions that suicide is tied to combat
• Policy changes related to suicide
• Cross-generational and multi-conflict impact on suicide
• Putting context to suicide awareness
• Donleigh's upcoming book

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Donleigh on Social Media:

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About Today's Guest:

Karl Marlantes graduated from Yale University and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, before serving as a Marine in Vietnam, where he was awarded the Navy Cross, the Bronze Star, two Navy Commendation Medals for valor, two Purple Hearts, and ten air medals. He is the bestselling author of Matterhornand What It Is Like to Go to War. He lives in rural Washington.

In this Episode, you will learn:

• Karl's background and experience
• Homecoming for Vietnam Vets
• How to interact with veterans beyond "thank you for your service"
• The responsibility of a nation for the conduct of it's warriors
• Matterhorn the novel
• Karl's initial experience with counseling
• Impact of combat stress reaction on the family
• Deep River, Karl's new book
• Helping veterans talk about war in therapy

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Karl's author page

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About Today's Guest:

Karl Marlantes graduated from Yale University and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, before serving as a Marine in Vietnam, where he was awarded the Navy Cross, the Bronze Star, two Navy Commendation Medals for valor, two Purple Hearts, and ten air medals. He is the bestselling author of Matterhornand What It Is Like to Go to War. He lives in rural Washington.

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