A free service for soldiers disappears…

I just received the email below from Chris Hagey. Chris has started www.probonoforsoldiers.com to offer free services to returning servicemembers and their families. It was a project that was created with much idealism, and other practitioners signed up to help. However, after two years, she is now closing the website, as the response from soldiers and their families has been rather minimal. Most of us healing practitioners are struggling with reaching out effectively. Here are some thoughts that came through my experience of introducing hundreds of soldiers to EFT.

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Conversation and Testimonial of a Military Mother

Part of the mission for this blog is to help practitioners understand the world of Veterans and their families. Only if we understand what Veterans and military families are going through can we find ways to reach out effectively.

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Testimonial from Jim, a disabeled Veteran

Testimonial from Jim, a disabeled Veteran. Thank You very much for the session we had this evening. To say it was enlightening would be an understatement. So many traumas in my life were hit on, I am amazed. and I have the ability to see them from a different point of view, a different acceptance level.

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A Vietnam Veteran’s complex healing story

Most Veterans cases that I work with with EFT coaching are very complex, spanning over childhood trauma, often abuse, neglect, abandonment, through trauma with peers, boot camp, war experience, returning home and all the relationship and every day issues that result from this. It never fails to surprise me to see how thoroughly and lastingly we can help with EFT. I hope that the following case also makes a strong argument that working with Veterans requires extensive experience in EFT and knowledge and understanding about war trauma, in addition to having done one’s own “homework”, so that the stories we work with don’t trigger us as practitioners.

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Some more thoughts to ponder…

War has always been part of human life and history. War lives on in those who have lost their soul, their trust, their feeling of safety. War is a constant companion of those who are forced to live a life that is far removed from what they had dreamed of, planned for and deserve. And most certainly, war lives on in every Veteran and his family who doesn’t get the help to heal…

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Releasing hyper vigilance

Releasing hyper vigilance with EFT can be a threatening idea for many Veterans. Many Veterans come home from war with a keen sense of always having to have their guard up, carrying a weapon, sleeping with guns under the pillow and on and in the nightstand and being ready to protect themselves the way they were trained before and during deployment.

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Organizations for Active Duty and Veteran Women

www.Packparachute.org (MST) Academy Women www.academywomen.org Air Force Women’s Officers Association www.afwoa.org All Navy Women’s National Alliance www.anwna.com Alliance for National Defense www.4militarywomen.org American Nurses’ Association (ANA) www.nursingworld.org/ Army Nurse Corps Assn www.e-anca.org Business and Professional Women/USA www.bpwusa.org CoastGuard/SPAR, Inc., www.uscg.mil/d17/cgcspar/ Military Women Veterans History userpages.aug.com/captbarb / National Association of Black Military Women www.nabmw.com National Association of…

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