How do you find your way back to doing what you love after trauma? A Vietnam Veteran tells us about his worst day in combat. We learn how he found his way back to farming and what’s happening now as he is older. The hosts discuss their plans for the second season and the core parts of posttraumatic stress disorder.

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Rachel Weiskittle is an assistant professor in the department of psychology at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. She is interested in grief, trauma, and the role of creative therapies in helping people heal.

Jenny Moye is a geropsychologist at VA Boston where she is the Associate Director for Education and Evaluation in the New England Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center (GRECC) and is also a Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine

Resources and Further Reading for this episode:

• VHA Office of Rural Health
• Understanding PTSD and Aging: English Version ; Spanish Version
• The My Life My Story Podcast
• National Center for PTSD
• VA Mental Health
• NPR article on the 'My Life, My Story’ Program
• Academic article on the LATR framework for PTSD
• National Center for PTSD About Face episode

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