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Let me introduce myself. My name is Neil Bolton. I am the Director of the MIR Group for Veterans. I am a Vietnam veteran who served in combat with the Marine Corps as a Sergeant from 1968 to 1969 in the I Corps area of Vietnam. Since my return to civilian life, I have been dealing with severe PTSD symptoms caused by my experiences of war. I have been under treatment by the VA for the past 20 years. The majority of the treatment consists of talking about how our brain works. I realized that after these many years, I still suffered from most of my PTSD symptoms. I knew there just had to be a better treatment plan that would help me with my everyday living.

I started practicing mindfulness techniques that I briefly learned through a VA social worker (Patty Stamos), which helped me to be in the ‘moment’ instead of thinking about my past nightmares experienced in Vietnam or worrying about what may happen to me in my uncertain future. I then found my ‘true’ purpose for living. That happened to be serving as a Sunday school teacher for 4^th and 5^th grade children. Before this, I had no reason for living at all.

Thankfully, I have been teaching these little ones now for the past 20 years. I also became very connected with my ‘higher power’, God as I call Him, which has made all the difference in how I now finally feel at Peace. My spiritual experiences were so amazing that I even felt compelled to write a book that is now selling on Amazon. It’s called “Skeptic to Frog – Fully Relying on God”. It can be found at https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B09R3GF6GJI. I wanted to bring this same Peace that I discovered to my fellow veteran brothers, who also have been suffering for the past 55 years due to their war experiences. I contacted the VA about my desire to help other veterans like me and they directed me to the Peer Support Certification training that would allow me to present these new avenues for recovery to my fellow veterans.

The more I studied the latest published information on Moral Injuries, the more I was convinced that these three new tools actually work to help lessen our symptoms, unlike what the VA had been offering to us these many years. There is only one school of higher learning in the country that the VA accepts for this particular certification training. The VA Vocational Rehab department sent me to this college-level, 80-hour online program to get my VA and California certification as a Certified Peer Support Specialist. The VA has now approved this new position throughout the country to provide a qualified person to facilitate the VA PTSD groups that do not have enough Social Worker or Psychiatrist resources to lead them. I have tried to create this website that explains what a Moral Injury group can do for its veterans, and also to provide several resources containing the latest information and study results regarding Moral Injury Recovery techniques that can be used by anyone to start a local MIR Group in their area. If you desire to make this treatment available where you live, I can help provide you with information as to how you can get certified by the VA to be a lead facilitator for PTSD and Moral Injury groups and have the VA pay for the training to do so. Right now the VA is hiring full-time CPSS (certified Peer Support Specialist) at almost every VA facility in the country to fill these vacant positions. The only requirements for this certification and a potential full-time job are to be a veteran who has been under VA mental health treatment for at least 6 months and complete the certification training.

Email: neil@mir4vets.com

I am Jessica Lynne Rose Kubas, LCSWCA 80502. I work at private practice all throughout The State of California, facilitating serenity tools. I also have a hypnosis coaching private practice that is worldwide, specializing in trauma healing. It is my honor to support Combat Veterans in attaining states of mindfulness where they can heal. I have an extensive background in personal growth techniques. I enjoy facilitating people to bring themselves into serenity within the period of about 15 or 20 minutes, even after years of suffering.

I enjoy working with our Combat Veterans who are still enduring symptoms of PTSD and Moral Injuries they received from our wars, some fifty-five years ago. It is great to know we are providing free help in ways never offered before to our heroic veterans. It feels good to see relief coming from my memory coaching and trauma (PTSD) treatments using EMDR, hypnosis, and reframing perspectives (based in 12-step philosophy). In sessions, we feel with the heart, releasing the old for a positive, customized, foundation.

The biggest blessing is to be around when they achieve a level of skill in mindfulness, and they realize they could do this on their own at home. The VA is acknowledging the importance of mindfulness, purpose, and getting to know and work with one’s Higher Power.

This can be helpful in addressing the PTSD and Moral Injury symptoms they and their families have endured. We feel confident that these tools will change the way that our Veterans are being treated for their mental health issues, allowing them to find the peace they have longed, for but couldn’t get through education alone.

It is an honor serving Our Men because they are Our Family and we feel blessed to be in this service to them.

Email: jessicarose@mir4vets.com

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