[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Dear Community, The holidays are here and we are so thankful for all of your support and involvement. We are celebrating a very successful year but before we tell you how amazing it was with the warriors, we would like to ask you to consider donating to Project...
This month Rick and I were fortunate to spend a week with wounded warriors during our Warrior Resiliency Retreat. To put it mildly, when you work with warriors in a healing setting, you have the opportunity to witness deep and courageous healing. Our warriors have the unique skills of being able...
Emotions are stored in the body. We all can feel when we are stressed and our neck feels tight or when our stomach feels upset but it often takes more awareness to connect our emotions to what is happening in the body. We can carry emotional baggage in our bodies for years without even being aware...
When we find ourselves in a situation in which our buttons are being pushed, we can choose to repress or act out, or we can choose to practice. If we can start to do the exchange, breathing in with the intention of keeping our hearts open to the embarrassment or fear or anger that we feel, then to...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] 2014 PTSD Awareness Day Message From A Rockstar and A Warrior [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_video link=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N9TqbnxDKA”][/vc_column][/vc_row] Rick Allen, drummer for...
June is PTSD Awareness Month and all of us here at Project Resiliency and Raven Drum are sharing our work and commitment to helping veterans who are suffering after combat. There are so many new effective treatments that are helping soldiers come home. We can’t allow even 1 of our warriors fall to...
Choosing Peace over stress is a practice that can change your life from feeling out of control to centered and present. This article written by teacher and scientist Joan Borysenko gives an informative and entertaining description of how we can choose peace in moments of stress and learn how to be...
In a world where we have moment-to-moment access to breaking news, graphic images and world events, having feelings of empathy may be challenging and overwhelming. Sometimes having feelings of empathy within our own lives and relationships can seem to heavy. The emotions that we feel from other...
“The only real valuable thing is intuition.” Albert Einstein, 1879-1955 In our lives we spend most of our waking days planning for the future and revisiting the memories of the past, it’s easy to get stuck in a mind loop of thinking and become more and more distant from...
During the month of February we are reminded of love and appreciation all around us. But sometimes all of the reminders of love and affection can led us to look at our own feelings of disconnection and lack of love in our lives. Life isn’t always full of sweet hearts, flowers and chocolate, not...
In our everyday life we are surrounded by the power and gifts of nature. Whether walking down a crowed sidewalk in New York or walking barefoot on a California beach we have opportunities to tap into the direct guidance of the natural world aligning us with peace, tranquility and calmness. Where...