Wounded Warrior, Wounded Home

Hope and Healing for Families Living with PTSD and TBI

Marshele Carter, Kelly K. Orr

• Publisher: Revell
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN:
  9781441240996
• Subtopic: Mental Health & Wellbeing

For every wounded warrior, there is a wounded home--an immediate and extended family and community impacted by their loved one's war experiences. Every day service members are returning from combat deployments to their families. And every day war comes home with them.

When a combat veteran struggles with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and/or traumatic brain injury (TBI), every member of the family experiences the effects. Spouses, parents, and children must undergo changes on the home front, a process that resembles the phases of grief. Confusion, hurt, anger, guilt, fatigue, and fear lie behind their brave smiles and squared shoulders.

Wounded Warrior, Wounded Home gives hurting families a look inside the minds and hearts of wounded warriors and guides them in developing their own personal plan for physical, emotional, and spiritual wholeness in the wake of war. The authors, one the wife of a career US Navy SEAL and the other a clinical psychologist and Vietnam veteran, speak from their own experiences of living with PTSD and TBI. They also share insights from dozens of families and careful research, offering readers a hope-filled way forward.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Endorsements
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1 Wounded Warrior, Wounded Home
• 2 Living Grief
• 3 Dealing with Delays, Detours, and Denied Entry
• 4 Smelly Issues and the Fragrance of Forgiveness
• 5 Weary, Worn Out, and Wondering Why
• 6 It’s His What It Is: Our New Normal
• 7 New from the Inside Out
• 8 Faithful Body Parts and the Power of Friendship
• 9 Permission to Engage
• 10 The Savior’s War Wounds: Our Hope
• Epilogue
• Appendix A Traumatic Brain Injury and PTSDWhat’s the Difference?[106]
• Appendix B What Helps and What Hurts
• Appendix C Additional Resources
• Notes
• About the Authors
• Back Ads
• Back Cover