A Collision of Values, Identity, and Existential Threat Moral Injury: A Wound to Meaning, Not Just Memory Moral injury is not fear-based trauma. It is value-based trauma. It occurs when an individual: Perpetrates, witnesses, or is unable to prevent actions that violate deeply held moral beliefs Or is betrayed by authority, leadership, or institutions they trusted to uphold those values For service members, moral injury often emerges from: Orders that conflict with conscience

Trigger warning — this message discusses suicide and its aftermath. If anything I say brings up immediate danger for you or someone else, please call your local emergency number now or a crisis line (in the U.S. or Canada, dial 988). When a loved one completes suicide, grief does not arrive as a single emotion. It arrives as a rupture—an event that fractures time, meaning, memory, and identity for those left behind. This form of grief is often called complicated  or traumatic

Trigger warning — this message discusses suicide and its aftermath. If anything I say brings up immediate danger for you or someone else, please call your local emergency number now or a crisis line (in the U.S. or Canada, dial 988). When a service member dies by suicide, the shock is physical — a unit that shared food, watch, jokes, and missions now has an absence that feels like a hole in the formation. The loss lands differently than other deaths. It carries operational, p