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Receiving help from family and appropriate sources is very important in the healing process. Listen in as Phil Downer (USMC) and Dan Nigolian (USAF) personally share how the love of God through their spouses was especially healing for them as they worked
through their struggles with PTSD.

Many combat veterans feel burdened by guilt. They question if they can ever be forgiven for things they did or didn’t do, or for just making it home when so many others didn’t. Listen in as Phil Downer (USMC) and Dan Nigolian (USAF) share how they’ve experienced
forgiveness from the guilt they carried home.

PTSD is a wound in the soul caused by the trauma of war. Many describe it as an invisible wound that won’t heal. Listen in as Phil Downer (USMC) and Dan Nigolian (USAF) each describe their battle with PTSD and how God is helping them heal.

Reliving traumatic events of the war when you come home—whether awake are asleep—is extremely unnerving. Listen in as Dan Nigolian (USAF) describes his bouts with flashbacks and nightmares and how he’s still learning to handle them.

In a war, the battlefield reeks of pain and fear. Listen in as Phil Downer (USMC) and Dan Nigolian (USAF) describe how that pain and fear follows you home and how you can learn to handle it so as not to threaten those you love.

There are things that men and women experience in war that they never forget: the sights, the smells, and the sounds. As a chaplain on the front lines, Dan Nigolian (USAF) knows the battlefield “over there” and back home. Listen to him share how he’s handled
the memories of war that he can’t forget.

Everyone expects to leave the war “over there.” But many warriors coming home soon discover the war comes home with them—inside. Learn from Phil Downer (USMC) and Dan Nigolian (USAF) how you can begin to break free from the war that haunts you from within.

Before a deployment, all military personnel are trained in “self-aid and buddy care.” Listen in as Phil Downer (USMC) and Dan Nigolian (USAF) discuss how you are just as responsible to take care of your buddy in the PTSD war as you were during the shooting
war.

Men and women returning from deployments need someone to talk to about what they experienced “over there.” But people who haven’t served often don’t understand their experience. Listen in as Phil Downer (USMC) and Dan Nigolian (USAF) explain how to determine
who is safe to talk to.

In combat, military men and women are trained to stuff pain, grief, guilt, and loss inside so that they can accomplish the mission. But after the shooting war is over, all of the feelings packed away must be “unpacked.” Listen in as two combat veterans,
Phil Downer (USMC) and Dan Nigolian (USAF), share how to begin unpacking the war within.

Everyone who faces the trauma of war (or any trauma for that matter) must deal with it in some way. Each one copes with it in a way that’s unique to them and their story. Listen in as Phil Downer (USMC) and Dan Nigolian (USAF) talk about why some struggle
more than others, and how they can begin to get help.

Experiencing the horrible trauma of war impacts the heart and soul of the warrior. Listen in as Phil Downer (USMC) and Dan Nigolian (USAF) each describe some of the causes that contributed to their battle with PTSD when they returned home from war.

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is the invisible, internal wound that many of our military men and women bring home from war. Listen in as Phil Downer (USMC) and Dan Nigolian (USAF) share their experience with PTSD and the effects it had and continues to
have on them as combat veterans

Walking through a season of job loss can cause a lot of hurt and confusion. Join Chuck Fridsma as he shares practical ways you can encourage and support the people in your life who are currently unemployed.

Many unemployed people find the need to be open to a career change for a variety of reasons. Join Chuck Fridsma as he describes the need for a self-assessment and the need to identify your transferable skills.

Your friends can be a crucial support system for you during a season of unemployment. Join Chuck Fridsma as he describes how to appropriately share your news with your friends and how to ask for their help.

The way you go about communicating a job-loss situation to your family can either increase their anxiety or calm their fears. Join Chuck Fridsma as he shares how to delicately and appropriately share the news with your spouse and children.

Join Bill Crowder and Chuck Fridsma as they share practical steps that churches and church leaders can take to provide care for people who are currently unemployed. Churches can’t do everything, but there are many specific ways that churches can provide
care and support to people during a time of job loss.

Join Bill Crowder and Chuck Fridsma as they share words of encouragement to those going through a job-loss experience. You are not your job, and this is not the end of your journey. God can use this experience as a time of spiritual and personal growth
for you!

We all go through unexpected seasons in life. Change can be both wonderful and fearful. Join Bill Crowder and Chuck Fridsma as they share their own experiences with job changes and the life lessons they learned as a result.