The Journey Home

Parabola Magazine

Fall, 2018

Abridged version of the “Coming Home to Peace” chapter from, Walking the Medicine Wheel: Healing Trauma & PTSD.

Excerpt

“We can assist returning veterans through creating an initiation and rehabilitation framework. In essence, we as a society, need to have some framework for accepting, understanding, and transforming veterans’ pain. Transformation means that we take something that exists in one state and transform it into another state. For instance, wee take something that is manifesting its energy in a ‘negative’ way and transform it so that it manifests in a positive way,” (Parabola, 88).