About
Safety
Connecting in a safe and supportive environment
I want you to know that I am not just another professional with academic credentials. I have personal experience with trauma, post-traumatic stress, loss of faith, and depression. While I do not claim to share your unique indivual experience, I have enough like experience to empathize.
My Story
This space has grown out of my own journey through crisis and trauma. Having found healing through poetry, meditation, and plant medicine, I have a passion for helping others.
When I retired from active duty I wasn't immediately clear on what I should do. I worked for a High School JROTC program for a year but found that frustrating and limiting but it helped me find a vision for my real work. This is an emerging and developing effort to connect veterans with meditation and with each other.
Kuwait, 2017, with my Religious Affairs NCO, SFC Andrew Fuccillo
Christmas 2006, preparing for an operation in the vicinity of Sadr City.
Raider Brigade Religious Support Team, 1st Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, Iraq, 2010
Connecting with local national kids, Iraq 2007
Speaking at a memorial ceremony for the Tomahawk Battalion, 1/23 Infantry, 3/2 Stryker Bridgade Combat Team, Iraq 2006
Teaching meditation and contemplative practice at U.S. Transportation Command, 2019
My Network of Support
Heroic Hearts Project. https://heroicheartsproject.org/
Meditation Teachers Alumni Association. https://mmtcpalumni.org/
Boulder Morning Star Zen Center. https://www.bouldermorningstarzencenter.com/