Once a warrior, always a warrior : navigating the transition from combat to home--including combat stress, PTSD, and mTBI
(Book)

Combat stress and post-traumatic stress disorder -- Combat mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI/concussion) -- Navigating the home-zone area of operations: introduction to "LANDNAV" -- Life survival skills, warrior reflexes and sleep -- Skill 1: become more aware of your reactions by writing about them -- Skill 2: learn to accept your reactions without judgment or anger -- Skill 3: improve physical conditioning and relax muscle tension -- Skill 4: improve sleep -- Skill 5: learn how alcohol or drugs affect your reactions -- Attend to and modulate your reactions -- Skill 1: learn to pay attention to your physiological reactions and anxiety level -- Skill 2: learn to pay attention to your feelings and emotions -- Skill 3: create space between your reactions to stressful events and behaviors -- Skill 4: learn to monitor and eliminate "should" and related words or phrases -- Skill 5: notice your breathing -- Skill 6: improve your focus and attention through meditation and mindfulness -- Narrate your story -- Deal with stressful situations -- Skill 1: resiliency inoculation training (facing your fears) -- Skill 2: dealing with the "stupid stuff" people do -- Skill 3: dealing with more-serious situations involving people -- Skill 4: dealing with anger, rage, and related emotions --

Navigate the mental health care system

Stigma and other barriers to care

Road map for getting help

Types of treatment offered: the cold, hard facts

Disability and treatment

Acceptance: living and coping with major losses

Skill 1: understanding the emotions of loss

Skill 2: exploring the connections between complex and primary emotions

Skill 3: letting go of unanswerable questions

Skill 4: coping with grief and survivor's guilt

Skill 5: accepting other difficult events that happened in combat

Navigation strategies for spouses, partners, and family members

Deployment affects everyone

Your strength and independence

Tapping into your resources

Strengthening your relationship and considerations for coping with postwar reactions of your warrior

Considerations for coping with infidelity

Helping your children cope with the stresses of deployment and transition

V = The "V"s!

vision, voice, village, joie de vivre, victory.