Marine Trauma

David W. Powell enlisted for a tour of duty in April 1966 with the US Marines after receiving an imminent draft notice. Believing he would be able to leverage his existing skills as a computer programmer, he never thought all they would see on his resume was his Karate expertise. Even less that he would wind up serving as a Rocket man in the jungles of Da Nang and Chu Lai for a 13 month tour in hell. David's journey from naive civilian to battle-hardened combat veteran shows us all how fragile our humanity really is.

You Just Survive is a combat veteran memoir that pulls no punches. These modern war stories from Iraq and Afghanistan sit beside plain spoken accounts of PTSD and trauma recovery, raw combat moments and the quiet battles that follow when the uniform comes off. This is not a sanitized war book. It is a combat veteran memoir told hour by hour, from turret scans in Ramadi and Marjah to patrols that ended with IEDs, mortars, and decisions you carry forever. If you search for modern war stories from Iraq and Afghanistan, you will find the real, unfiltered scenes that define this book. The book ...

What if your identity is not really you? What if your self-esteem issues, anxiety, and inner conflicts are not proof of being broken — but signs of a hidden program running in your head? This book won’t teach you how to “fix” yourself. Because there’s nothing wrong with you. What you truly need is to see the system you’ve been trapped in your whole life. And once you see it — it starts falling apart. “Cordyceps offers not just a new theory or therapeutic method, but a fundamental liberation — a way to regain power over your own mind and life. This is not about healing. ...

Do you sense the world is a cage disguised as freedom? Therapy, culture, algorithms, even your own beliefs—they’re not salvation but a program suppressing your essence. Psychotherapy Won’t Help You isn’t a guide to fitting in—it’s a rebellion against the system that turns you into its pawn. From ancient codes of control to today’s digital scripts, this book exposes how a false “self” hijacks your perception, trapping you in someone else’s game. You’re not broken—you’re infected. This isn’t self-help; it’s a mirror revealing the absurdity of the system and ...

What if the reason you struggle to manifest the life you desire isn’t because you're doing it wrong— but because a deep, hidden wound is silently running the show? The Rejection Wound is a transformative guide to healing one of the most painful and overlooked emotional imprints: the wound of feeling unwanted, unworthy, or not enough. Rooted in both trauma wisdom and manifestation principles, this book will help you uncover how unhealed rejection sabotages your desires, dims your self-worth, and blocks the flow of abundance, love, and alignment. With compassion and clarity, you'll be ...

Family Constellations begins with the premise: it did not start with me. Many of us become "entangled" with the unhappiness of those who came before us, unconsciously adopting destructive familial patterns of anxiety, depression, failure, and even illness and addiction in an attempt to "redo"...

Live As If: Mastering the Law of Assumption for Effortless Manifestation Heal Your Inner Blocks, Rewrite Your Identity, and Become a Magnetic Force for Everything You Desire You don’t manifest what you want — you manifest who you are. Based on the powerful teachings of Neville Goddard, Live As If reveals how to consciously reprogram your identity, embody the state of the wish fulfilled, and shift your outer world by changing your inner assumptions. This is not another surface-level manifestation guide. You’ll go beyond vision boards and “positive vibes” to uncover the subconscious...

Do you feel anxious, overwhelmed, or disconnected from your own body — even when life is "fine"? Modern stress and past trauma can leave your nervous system dysregulated — stuck in a loop of tension, fatigue, anxiety, and burnout. The Nervous System Reset is a gentle, science-backed guide to help you reconnect with your body’s natural calm, restore inner safety, and build lasting emotional resilience. In this practical and inspiring 4-part guide, you'll learn: 🌿 How your nervous system really works — in simple terms 🌿 The role of the vagus nerve in healing anxiety, digestion, ...

The Rejection Wound Workbook: 52 Exercises, Prompts, and Meditations to Heal the Fear of Rejection and Rewrite Your Self-Concept Do you struggle with feeling unseen, unwanted, or not enough—no matter how much you achieve or how hard you try? The rejection wound is a deep emotional pattern formed in early life that silently shapes how you think, love, and live. It can lead to people-pleasing, self-abandonment, anxiety, and constant fear of being left out or replaced. This transformational workbook offers a powerful, compassionate path to healing. With 52 guided practices—including ...

Reviewed by Doreen Chombu for Readers' Favorite U.S. Marine Vietnam Sacrifice is a memoir by Raymond Isaac Lindsey, a Vietnam veteran, of his experiences after the war, written by his wife, Crystal Mary Lindsey. At nineteen, Raymond (Ray) fought in the Vietnam War against children recruited by the Viet Cong. The experience left him with physical and mental injuries. His therapy and treatment in Japan caused more harm, and when he returned home, he experienced symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Despite having a loving family and friends, Ray felt like he was in another world ...

What if the greatest gift you could give yourself is the freedom to let go? In How to Forgive Someone, Marina Rășnoveanu takes you on a powerful, multi-dimensional journey through the psychology, spirituality, and science of forgiveness. This is not just a book. It’s a guided experience. A healing tool. A soul-deep invitation to release the pain you never deserved to carry. 📘 Inside this book, you will discover: ✔️ The psychology of emotional wounds – why we hurt, how trauma stores in the body, and what really happens when we hold a grudge ✔️ The most common myths about ...

Move your body. Calm your pain. Rewire your healing. Living with chronic pain doesn’t mean giving up movement—it means redefining it. This practical, compassionate guide shows you how to use gentle mobility, fascia release, breath, and nervous system regulation to relieve pain, restore confidence, and reconnect with your body. Designed for sensitive bodies and real-life energy levels, this book offers daily movement tools that are safe, adaptable, and science-informed—no pushing, no performance, no pain. Inside you’ll learn: How chronic pain rewires movement patterns—and how to ...

The audiobook 52 Pieces: A Manual of Light to Survive the Abyss of Trauma is based on Dr. Marina Kostina's near-death sky-diving accident and her miraculous journey back to life. Dr. Kostina's body and face were broken into 52 pieces, and it took 10 surgeries to put her back together. The book details the author's struggle with PTSD, depression, and anxiety through the abyss of her tragedy.

In the crucible of war, where death and survival walk hand in hand, one man grapples with faith, duty, and the meaning of sacrifice. John Peck, a young Navy corpsman deployed to Vietnam in 1967, found himself on the front lines—not just of combat, but of an inner war between doubt and belief. Charged with the immense responsibility of saving lives amidst the relentless violence of war, Peck bore witness to the rawest forms of courage, loyalty, and loss. His days were filled with the agony of the wounded, the chaos of battle, and the unspoken fear that each mission might be his last. Yet, ...

Dancing With Her Shadow Marin Belle After a career-ending injury shatters her life on the London stage, ballet dancer Camilla Hayworth retreats to the quiet village of Hazelmoor, her heart guarded and her future uncertain. Taking over her grandmother’s struggling dance studio, Cam tries to rebuild a life out of fractured dreams. Then she meets Evelyn Carlisle—a gifted painter with a quiet strength and a young daughter, Alice, who is just beginning to discover the magic of dance. As Cam finds herself drawn into Evie’s world of color, canvas, and second chances, their connection deepens...

He’s all scars, silence, and black coffee. I’m all sunshine, sass, and caramel foam hearts. Jake “Bulldog” Martin shows up in my life like a storm cloud, rescuing me from a hornet attack, then acting like I ruined his day by surviving. The man can glare harder than the sun burns at Moonlight Beach. But when he ends up working at my café, walls start crumbling. He saves a dolphin, fixes espresso machines, and somehow fixes me. Three smiles later, I’m falling for him. Then my secret shatters everything. I’m a billionaire heiress hiding from the spotlight. He walks away before I ...

Longlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize “An extraordinary novel about the quiet and not so quiet horrors of war.” —Roxane Gay Stephen King meets Tim O’Brien in John Milas’s The Militia House, a spine-tingling and boldly original gothic horror novel. It’s 2010, and...

What if your breakthrough wasn’t blocked in your mind or heart , but in your belly? In BELLY WARS™ — Where Deliverance Begins, master prophetic author Tieasha Stephens unlocks the most overlooked and silenced battlefield of deliverance: the stomach gate. With stunning prophetic insight, astral-level teaching, and Holy Spirit-led revelation, this revolutionary manual exposes the belly as a spiritual vault, ancestral archive, and emotional sewage system where trauma, unspoken grief, and generational residue hide. From marine spirit feeding altars to gut-based rejection, from toxic ...

War does not always end when the shooting stops. Sometimes it follows you home and waits for the lights to go out. The Convoy is a raw story told through the eyes of a Marine leader who walks his men through a valley in Afghanistan and watches it change their lives forever. It is a story of pressure, responsibility, guilt, endurance, and the quiet battles fought long after the ambush ends. A routine supply run becomes a nightmare. A roadside threat becomes a choice. A single shift in the dirt becomes a moment that lives inside a man for years. When the tow truck hits the hidden device, the ...

After surviving a brutal attack that claims the lives of those she loves, a young woman seeks revenge on a corrupt town. Going back home is never easy, but for Casey, it means returning to her corrupt hometown where she barely survived a brutal attack. Accompanied by two family friends, she seeks justice for the night that destroyed her life. Her physical scars are nothing compared to her emotional ones, forcing the local sheriff to believe that the town darling is back for revenge. As the conspiracy for her revenge appears to be leading up to the coveted town fair, the sheriff is ...