Families often feel helpless, alone, and out of options.
Healing Together
A Veteran’s Trauma Can Also Traumatize Their Spouse
You don’t have to go to war to experience PTSD. If your spouse is a veteran with combat trauma or Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), there is a good chance that you and your children have been indirectly traumatized. The challenges that come with transitioning out of the military and into civilian life can also lead to chronic stress for Veteran families. This so-called “Secondary PTSD” is a hidden national epidemic among military families that perpetuates cycles of trauma in families and can be passed down from generation to generation. But you can end the cycle, and we can help.
Symptoms can include suicide, depression, terror, anxiety, panic attacks, anger, and even addiction. As a veteran spouse, you also deserve the opportunity to heal and reconnect to a place of peace within yourself.
Our family support program, The Hope Project, provides psychedelic programs exclusively for veteran spouses and Gold Star Wives. We also offer coaching for the spouses of our veteran program attendees.
My own husband has been away for 80% of our 23-year long relationship, leaving me to raise our three boys. TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury), PTSD, and multiple life-lasting injuries add up to stress and anxiety and chronic pain for the veteran. And all of that takes a further toll on the caregiver. It almost broke me. It almost broke my marriage.
Plant medicine amplifies your awareness, allowing you to explore the entire spectrum of emotions and dive deeply into past experiences. You confront past traumas and encounter root causes for issues. You can find forgiveness, compassion and acceptance of all that you are. You can find that you, too, are completely deserving of love and joy and fulfillment.
Sofia
Military Spouse Psychedelic Retreat Participant Integration Coach
I know the toll that the military takes on families. For years I medicated my own depression and trauma with alcohol, benzodiazepines and antidepressants until I finally reached a place where I could not go on. My journey with psychedelic therapy and the work I continue to do very literally saved my life, my marriage and my children’s lives.
Allison wilson
Founder of The Hope Project, a partner org of HHP
Spouses of veterans with PTSD often struggle with secondary trauma. Healing together saves lives, families, and future generations.
