Working with Horses in Treatment
Why Horses In recent years there has been an explosion of interest in horses. We can see this in television and magazine ads selling everything from clothing to perfume, to […]
Horses and Moral Injury
At TRR we work with horses on the ground only. We know that going to war often results in an injury to the moral core of our warriors – their […]
Suicide Monologue
One steamy night, the summer of 1969, at Marble Mt. Air Base near Da Nang in Viet Nam, a rocket exploded near me and I died. There was screaming, explosions, […]
Discussing our Article on Moral Injury and Horses
In our published article, “Why We Don’t Ride: Equine Assisted Psychotherapy, Military Veterans and Moral Injury,” we very carefully do not say that horse riding is “contraindicated for the psychological […]
Moral Injury and “Cognition”
In America, those of us who understand Moral Injury as an existential and spiritual concern find ourselves in conflict with a popular misconception that makes of Moral Injury a cognitive […]
Resilience
Resilience can mean many different things. Here is what I do not think it means: “the ability to endure waves of trauma without succumbing to the weight of complex tragedy; […]
The Warrior Archetype
What is an “archetype?” The term comes from combining two Greek words: arche which connotes “original,” and typos which connotes a “pattern.” When we ask “what type of person is she?” we mean “what […]
Memorial Day
“No day shall erase you from the memory of time.” —Virgil This inscription adorns the 9/11 Memorial in New York City, and many have taken great pains to point out […]
TRR’s Warrior Camp®
To complement our post in honor of our fallen warriors from all branches of the Armed Forces and from all eras, we offer this video description of our premier combat […]
Moral Injury
I’ve decided to occasionally use this blog space to reflect on various aspects of Moral Injury as I read through some key texts that have helped shape my vision of […]