Warrior Hope

I pray that in all respects you may prosper and be in good health, just as your soul prospers… Those are the words of the apostle John, in the short letter he wrote to his church (see 3 John 2). He wanted them to prosper… … to gain… … in every area… … and in their health. And he assumed that the measure of health they experienced in the soul would be the gauge of how well those other areas went (I...

Growing up as the son of a United States Navy pilot who was killed in action during Vietnam, Eric Fort always felt a need to serve. Prior to Operation Desert Storm he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps Reserves. While serving stateside in California Eric was motivated to provide additional support for our troops and founded Lone Warriors. Eric talks about being “called up” and having...

Major Scott Strickland served in numerous capacities in the United States Army, including flying Apache helicopters— a tandem machine in which two warriors must truly work as one (in fact, the sis probably one of the most advanced vehicles the U.S. military has in its arsenal). Since returning from the front lines, Scott continues to assist his fellow veterans who may be struggling with post-milit...

In this talk we build on the previous two, so you may want to roll back to the discussion on PTSD if you haven’t been there yet… Here, I discuss Moral Injury- a close counterpart to PTSD that often looks like it and manifests symptoms in similar ways. However, despite that cliche that if it “looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck… then it’s a duck,” when it comes to PTSD and...

General Mukoyanma tells the story of leading his troops to win a decisive battle... He then realized, as he shouted orders to them, that he stood at the bodies of enemies he had just let his soldiers to kill. Moments before, these were living and breathing creatures. Now, they were gone. Something inside of him shifted. Something that caused him to see the two-fold reality of war— that it’s often...

In episode 2 of the Warrior Hope podcast we talk about PTSD. The reality is that most of us are not diagnosable with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. So, our goal isn’t to get a diagnosis. Rather, our goal is to talk honestly about the emotional hurts of the past— not matters how big or small they are— so that we can walk forward in greater degrees of health. Many of us stuff our feelings— especial...

Bob Waldrep is the Executive Director of Crosswinds, founded the organization in 2008. He’s the co-writer and Executive Producer for the films, Invisible Scars, which addresses the trauma associated with PTSD, and Honoring the Code, which deals with Moral Injury. In addition to these documentaries, he’s authored or co-authored a stack of books… most recently, the Warrior Hope curriculum we use at...