We know that the COVID-19 crisis will create greater instances of moral injury and secondary trauma in healthcare workers, a population already burdened with compassion fatigue and burnout. We’d like to support healthcare workers to harness the power of narrative and...
We created a bank of found lines we love, collaborated to create an image bank and then wrote these poems that were like a giant venn diagram–overlapping here and there and here again. There were tears. There was a super-affirming chat in the sidebar. There were...
It’s been more than 2 weeks since the COVID19 virus began affecting all of us in ways we will not forget. I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about where we will go from here. What’s important to rebuild and what can we let go of once we get...
Mission Belonging is dedicated to providing continued support and programming to service members, families and our communities. According to the CDC guidelines, “the best way to prevent illness is to avoid exposure.” To comply with these guidelines, and...
Gary Mason joined the Army in August 2000. In 2013, he was transferred from Fort Lee, VA where he was attending the Army Logistics University, Captain Career Course to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center where he entered the Individual Outpatient Program. At...
FMF Corpsman Rene Vincit’s service in the US Navy took him all over the world—from Afghanistan to Camp Pendleton. In 2016 while receiving outpatient therapy, he knew he was reaching a breaking point, and that the course of treatment he was receiving was not enough: if...
