Grief doesn’t wait for business hours, and it rarely shows up when your therapist is free. That’s why we sat down with Guardian [Ai]ngels founder and CEO John Cammer to unpack a bold idea: a guided journal that “talks back,” offering compassionate, structured prompts and immediate responses designed to help you accept the loss, process […]
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Truth telling shouldn’t cost you your career, your health, or your future. Yet too many people who report fraud, harassment, or ethical violations face a second wave of harm: quiet retaliation that isolates, undermines, and erodes trust. We sit down with Dr. Jackie Garrick—Army social worker, Pentagon policy leader, and founder of Whistleblowers of America—to
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Moral injury remains one of the most misunderstood challenges facing women veterans today. When actions during military service violate one’s deeply held moral beliefs, the resulting invisible wounds can devastate lives long after uniforms are hung up. Unlike PTSD, moral injury hides beneath the surface—characterized by shame, guilt, and internal conflict rather than outward distress.
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Dr. Daniel Roberts pulls back the curtain on an overlooked trauma affecting thousands of military women—one that doesn’t yet have a household name. As president of the Moral Injury Support Network for Service Women, he reveals how violating one’s deeply held moral code creates wounds different from PTSD but equally devastating. The conversation begins with
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Emie Clevenger shares a powerful journey from Navy veteran to nonprofit founder, revealing how her personal struggles with period poverty as a young girl fueled her mission to create Period Kits North Carolina. The conversation opens a window into the often-hidden world of menstrual inequality, where one in six women in North Carolina can’t afford
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During the whole sweep of United States history, only one woman, Mary Edwards Walker, has received the Medal of Honor. Sometimes called the Congressional Medal of Honor, it is the United States Armed Forces’ highest military decoration, awarded to recognize the 3,500 American soldiers of all service branches who have distinguished themselves by their acts
Filmmaker Tyler Perry has brought us the inspiring true story of the “Six Triple Eight.” Kerry Washington stars as commanding officer Charity Adams. Now streaming on Netflix, in this 2024 movie we see how Major Charity Adams and the Black all-women’s regiment, the 688th Central Postal Directory Battalion, raised the spirits of World War II fighting
In Kristin Hannah’s New York Times bestseller, The Women, we meet Army nurses who were shamed and made to feel unworthy of recognition or thanks for their service in Vietnam. The story opens in 1966 when the world is in turmoil. A friend tells Frances (Frankie) McGrath that “women can be heroes” as she contemplates her father’s family
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From 2020 to 2023 homelessness among women veterans increased by 24%, from 3,126 to 3,980, according to data from the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Unique factors drive this concerning statistic. MST (military sexual trauma), IPV (intimate partner violence), MI (moral injury), poverty, and single parenthood contribute to housing instability for these
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Aerospace giant Boeing pleaded guilty this week to criminal charges that it conspired to defraud federal regulators in the years before two fatal crashes of the MAX 737 that killed 346 people in 2018 and 2019. The company had hidden from government regulators at the Federal Aviation Administration their knowledge of autopilot control features that