![Finding Peace through Art Making](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2024/07/July-23-Feature-Pic-470x140.jpg?x81652)
In leading a life of service and violence to defend their countries, many army veterans are plagued by mental health disorders that have lasting effects…
![Melissa Walker, art, masks, recovery, trauma, psychology, PTSD, TBI, mental illness, veterans, military, war, soldiers, creativity, artwork, video](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2018/08/Old-Me-August2-crop-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Melissa Walker is a creative art therapist who uses mask-making to help active service members recover from the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic…
![A Soldier's Memoir](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2018/01/Roselyn-PTSD-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Country musician Joe Bachman’s poignant song “A Soldier’s Memoir (PTSD Song)” is a tribute to soldiers in the Armed Forces. Written by Bachman and Mitch…
![Suicide in the Trenches](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2017/04/Ascension-web-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Once a patriotic and willing recruit of the British army and decorated twice for his incredible acts of bravery during the first world war, Military…
![Returning home to a different kind of battlefield](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2016/07/Early-morning-goodbye-to-lost-love-_-Richard-George-Davis-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Journalist Sebastien Junger shares his thoughts on the toll that a broken society takes on soldiers returning home from war. In this passionate TED Talk,…
!["Carry the Fallen"](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2015/10/Screen-Shot-2015-09-19-at-12.41.48-PM-470x140.jpg?x81652)
On September 10th, 2015, Stephanie Lembo posted a heartbreaking video on her Facebook page that has received nearly twenty-three million views and the attention of…
![Srebrenica Massacre Continues to Haunt Victims](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2015/03/Feature2-470x140.jpg?x81652)
The defendant entered the courtroom, giving a thumbs-up to the judges and clapping mockingly at the spectators watching from a glass-walled gallery. His name: Ratko…
![US Government Fails to Support Families of Overseas Hostage Victims](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2014/11/Alessandro-Feature-Image-1-470x140.jpg?x81652)
On August 19, 2014, a YouTube video of American journalist James Foley’s beheading was released by the terrorist organization ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and…