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Walking Toward Peace

Veterans Healing on America's Trails

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Walking Toward Peace shares the intimate stories of veterans who, post-deployment, have wrestled with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Through a process called "ecotherapy", spending time in nature to promote healing and mental health, they have found new tools to deal with issues that have resulted from combat experiences: survivor's guilt, nightmares, lack of trust, depression, hypervigilance, thoughts of suicide, and lack of purpose. Some veterans profiled here have gone to extremes, spending months on long-distance expeditions, like hiking the 3,100-mile Continental Divide Trail or canoeing the 2,320-mile Mississippi River. For many others, however, brief excursions in the outdoors offer an opportunity for healing. Author Cindy Ross examines current research and perspectives of professional therapists and provides information on organizations devoted to healing veterans in the outdoors.

Veterans share their stories, frequently as they sit by a campfire, describing wartime traumas and their present lives. Through their collective voices what becomes clear is that anyone suffering from any form of PTSD may discover the powerful comfort and healing that can be found in the outdoors 

©2021 Cindy Ross (P)2021 Tantor Biographies & Memoirs Nature & Ecology Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders Science Psychology & Mental Health Outdoors & Nature Veteran Mental Health Hiking Psychology Health Personal Development
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I enjoyed this book thoroughly. I have always loved nature but allowed corporate life to overrun me after the military. It allowed me to hide my emotions. This booked has given me a direction to hopefully find peace in the near future.

Eye opening and gave me hope

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