When Trauma Comes Home (w/ Eugene Cuevas)

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Eugene finished shooting the film for the upcoming Crosswinds documentary, loosely titled “When Trauma Comes Home,” this past fall. Right now, the team is in post-production / full edit mode.

Over the past few years, Eugene has gotten to be an expert in the area of post-deployment issues…

… released two feature length documentaries AND shooting the third (which is almost ready to release) tends to provide you with a unique skillset and wisdom-base.

In our talk, he mentioned this…

💙 Veterans have many resources available— but what of the family? 

This is one of my top takeaways from our chat, and it makes all the sense in the world. Families are units. Teams. At the most intimate level.

And that leads us to our second observations.

💙 If one family member is affected, everyone is affected…

This is essential to recognize. 

Think about it. You wouldn’t doubt for a second that a kid going to college, a mother or father enduring surgery, or someone in the family moving out doesn’t change everyone in some way…

… yet we rarely apply the same logic to military matters.

If one person is changed— in any way— everyone is.

Furthermore…

💙 You might be more affected than you think— and that’s OK.

Really. Give yourself space to heal.

What you’ve been through— in any form of deployment and being separated from family (particular if there are injuries, deaths, and other changes) is a life-changing event. 

Don’t presume that you can just “flip the page” and move to the next chapter of life.

Pause.

Connect with others.

Do the deeper work.

And give it time….

Stay ’til the end— you can watch some of the footage from the upcoming feature-length film.

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