Plenty of Time When We Get Home - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Plenty of Time When We Get Home write by Kayla Williams. This book was released on 2015-02-03. Plenty of Time When We Get Home available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Intimate and brave . . . a testament to how love soldiers on.”—People Brian, on his way back to base after mid-tour leave, was wounded by a roadside bomb that sent shrapnel through his brain. Kayla waited anxiously for news and, on returning home, sought out Brian. The two began a tentative romance and later married, but neither anticipated the consequences of Brian’s injury on their lives. Lacking essential support for returning veterans from the military and the VA, Kayla and Brian suffered through posttraumatic stress amplified by his violent mood swings, her struggles to reintegrate into a country still oblivious to women veterans, and what seemed the callous, consumerist indifference of civilian society at large. Kayla persevered. So did Brian. They fought for their marriage, drawing on remarkable reservoirs of courage and commitment. They confronted their demons head-on, impatient with phoniness of any sort. Inspired by an unwavering ethos of service, they continued to stand on common ground. Finally, they found their own paths to healing and wholeness, both as individuals and as a family, in dedication to a larger community.
Plenty of Time When We Get Home: Love and Recovery in the Aftermath of War
Plenty of Time When We Get Home: Love and Recovery in the Aftermath of War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Plenty of Time When We Get Home: Love and Recovery in the Aftermath of War write by Kayla Williams. This book was released on 2014-02-10. Plenty of Time When We Get Home: Love and Recovery in the Aftermath of War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Documents the author's marriage to a fellow Iraq War veteran, describing the impact of his brain injury on their relationship, their shared efforts to overcome post-traumatic stress, and the lack of support for veterans.
Love My Rifle More than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army
Love My Rifle More than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Love My Rifle More than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army write by Kayla Williams. This book was released on 2006-09-17. Love My Rifle More than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Brave, honest, and necessary.”—Nancy Pearl, NPR Seattle Kayla Williams is one of the 15 percent of the U.S. Army that is female, and she is a great storyteller. With a voice that is “funny, frank and full of gritty details” (New York Daily News), she tells of enlisting under Clinton; of learning Arabic; of the sense of duty that fractured her relationships; of being surrounded by bravery and bigotry, sexism and fear; of seeing 9/11 on Al-Jazeera; and of knowing she would be going to war. With a passion that makes her memoir “nearly impossible to put down” (Buffalo News) Williams shares the powerful gamut of her experiences in Iraq, from caring for a wounded civilian to aiming a rifle at a child. Angry at the bureaucracy and the conflicting messages of today’s military, Williams offers us “a raw, unadulterated look at war” (San Antonio Express News) and at the U.S. Army. And she gives us a woman’s story of empowerment and self-discovery.
Trauma and Recovery
Trauma and Recovery - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Trauma and Recovery write by Judith Lewis Herman. This book was released on 2015-07-07. Trauma and Recovery available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this groundbreaking book, a leading clinical psychiatrist redefines how we think about and treat victims of trauma. A "stunning achievement" that remains a "classic for our generation." (Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., author of The Body Keeps the Score). Trauma and Recovery is revered as the seminal text on understanding trauma survivors. By placing individual experience in a broader political frame, Harvard psychiatrist Judith Herman argues that psychological trauma is inseparable from its social and political context. Drawing on her own research on incest, as well as a vast literature on combat veterans and victims of political terror, she shows surprising parallels between private horrors like child abuse and public horrors like war. Hailed by the New York Times as "one of the most important psychiatry works to be published since Freud," Trauma and Recovery is essential reading for anyone who seeks to understand how we heal and are healed.
Chasing the Scream
Chasing the Scream - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chasing the Scream write by Johann Hari. This book was released on 2015-01-20. Chasing the Scream available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The New York Times Bestseller What if everything you think you know about addiction is wrong? Johann Hari's journey into the heart of the war on drugs led him to ask this question--and to write the book that gave rise to his viral TED talk, viewed more than 62 million times, and inspired the feature film The United States vs. Billie Holiday and the documentary series The Fix. One of Johann Hari's earliest memories is of trying to wake up one of his relatives and not being able to. As he grew older, he realized he had addiction in his family. Confused, not knowing what to do, he set out and traveled over 30,000 miles over three years to discover what really causes addiction--and what really solves it. He uncovered a range of remarkable human stories--of how the war on drugs began with Billie Holiday, the great jazz singer, being stalked and killed by a racist policeman; of the scientist who discovered the surprising key to addiction; and of the countries that ended their own war on drugs--with extraordinary results. Chasing the Scream is the story of a life-changing journey that transformed the addiction debate internationally--and showed the world that the opposite of addiction is connection.
