This episode of Veteran Et Cetera Mike engages the issue of myth creations of veterans and veterans engaging society. The generalizations and particulars make a difference. Vague representations of veteran life might be short of the veteran reality and more myth.

The Man Who Killed Osama bin Laden... Is Screwed - Esquire https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a26351/man-who-shot-osama-bin-laden-0313/

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On this episode of Veteran Et Cetera, Mike Kim, your host, a seasoned war trauma therapist/psychoanalyst, engages issues of Veteran wellness tied to healthy self-love. Additionally, Mike explores a more complete meaning of Narcissism going back to childhood from Dr. Heinz Kohut's perspective. 

There is a way to have love for the self without being toxic towards others. 

* This is not medical advice or guidance. 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2860525/

https://depthcounseling.org/blog/ngiam-narcissism-kohut

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This episode of Veteran Et Cetera, your host, Mike Kim, a former Dominican Friar, discusses how his journey was tied to pursuing his spiritual calling for over ten years. Mike was in spiritual vows and spent time cultivating his meditative practice to an optimal level for his own military veteran readjustment. This essay provides insights into the meditative and contemplative path. This is just an introduction to meditation for those interested in adding meditation into living veteran daily life. 

Thanks to the Cleveland Clinic, a great wellness and health/medical educational resource, for reminding me of the different efficacious practices of meditation I have encountered along the journey...

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/17906-meditation

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This episode of Veteran Et Cetera we chat with Anela Arcari, a military warrior with many experiences, talents and skills. We discuss the different transitions from military to civilian life. We can all learn from her insights. Anela served in uniform for 28 years and still serves in the US Army Corps of Engineers. This Hardcharger graduated from Norwich University - Military College of Vermont and has deployed to numerous hostile and war zones including Somalia, Haiti, and Afghanistan. She is a combat engineer veteran with twenty-eight years of service turned into an intuitive, mystical counselor. She is an Amazon best selling contributing author and executive producer of a transformational documentary, Anela’s innate gifts elicit the best transformation for her clients. She is a highly recommended and sought-after leadership and personal growth coach, speaker, and mentor. Anela holds a MS in Education (Leadership Development and Counseling) and is a National Certified Counselor (NCC).

Connect with Anela at linkedin.com/in/anelaarcari 

She is wrote about transitions in the book Turning Point Moments 

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This episode of Veteran Et Cetera presents an audio essay titled Vet Parents: Being Good Enough . Have you wondered about how your military is tied to your parenting approach? In this essay, I look at how you might see yourself as a Veteran while also trying to be a parent. To engage this theme, I use the "Good Enough Mother" concept established by British psychoanalyst Dr. DW Winnicott, MD. 

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This episode features the warrior life of a high profile US Marine Corps Intelligence Officer tied to the Persian Gulf War battlefield and instrumental in implementing weapons agreements with the Soviet Union during the Cold War. His veteran life included being a lead United Nations Weapons Inspector in Iraq and proved Iraq did not have Weapons of Mass Destruction. He wrote "Waging Peace" and "Disarmament in the Time of Perestroika" and other highly informative books. Scott gives us a look at geopolitics and his life as a war veteran with a deep knowledge of history and culture.

Check out his books and articles via ScottRitterextra.com

Here is Scott's views on Iraq and WMDs

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/unscom/interviews/ritter.html

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This episode of Veteran Et Cetera is an audio essay that explores Jay Shetty's new book 8 Rules of Love : How to Find it, Keep it, and Let it Go . Are you a veteran in search of love? This episode might help you understand different spiritual approaches to love.

Mike Kim, the host of Veteran Et Cetera, was in the military and became a Catholic Dominican Friar monk. Jay Shetty, was in the corporate world and became a Hare Krishna Vedic monk. Mike contemplates Shetty's new book 8 Rules of Love.

8 Rules of Love https://8rulesoflove.com/

Dominican Monastic Rule of Augustine

http://www.domcentral.org/trad/rule.htm

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On this episode of Veteran Et Cetera we look at war trauma from an alternative perspective. War trauma is often seen as a malady of the mind or soul. Many clinicians and other experts discuss the next big cure or the diagnosis of PTSD as the be all and end all.

In this episode I discuss the power of story in the context of war trauma. I also provide a special story about the miracle of healing of a veteran captured in a story.

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This episode, an audio essay, with host Mike Kim delves into the issues of military entertainment. Whose voice is presented by mass media military/war movies, books, podcasts, news, etc. Is the warrior's voice heard or more the spectacle of military mass media. 

Roger Stahl's book Militainment Inc.

https://www.routledge.com/Militainment-Inc-War-Media-and-Popular-Culture/Stahl/p/book/9780415999786

Guy Debord's book The Society of the Spectacle

https://youtu.be/YI_HwXaOtsg

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This episode of Veteran Et Cetera is an audio essay introducing Mike Kim's concept of " Code of Veteran Readjustment " . Mike Kim applies Francis Lieber's Code of War towards veteran readjustment for post-military life. For, we are moral beings in and out of uniform.

Links

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Lincolns-Code/John-Fabian-Witt/9781416576174

https://lieber.westpoint.edu/afterwar-veterans-care-law-war-imperative-part-ii/

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