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I just posted the other day about Christal Presley’s interview on Canada TV CNN… But the bigger news is Christal’s story and the subject of children of warriors will be presented on CBS Sunday Morning…tomorrow…so don’t miss it!
Until now, the children of warriors have not had a big voice on the challenges of coping with a parent’s recovery from combat stress and PTSD. We know so much more today about combat stress and moral injury than during and after WWII, Korean War, and Vietnam War. We now know that children and families, the caregivers of warriors who return home injured, are often afflicted by the same symptoms of PTSD with extended exposure to the suffering parent and combat veteran. In my day as a post WWII child, we had no knowledge of PTSD and life after war. We had to “suck it up” as a family, live and cope the best we could, and often with life long emotional baggage carried forward into adulthood. Military families whose parents served in combat had little or no guidance in treatment strategies for PTSD. Most often we were silent and scared to discuss the toxic circumstances of growing up in a home of a parent suffering with PTSD. Thousand of families over the years have been torn apart by war, including my family…
It is time to break the silence of the families and children of warriors. Please watch the popular CBS Sunday Morning show tomorrow at 9am EDT. Awareness is the first step in the journey of healing. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see and hear directly from Christal Presley, and her family on how they finally came to terms with life after war and their own path of healing…
Steve Sparks
Author
Reconciliation: A Son’s Story
My Journey of Healing in Life After Trauma, Part 1 click to order e-book or paperback of my family’s post WWII story…
