I started feeling an affinity for veterans more than twenty years ago. In my former career as a journalist, I was working at NPR in Washington, D.C. on 9/11. That day had a profound and immeasurable impact on my heart, soul & psyche. I reported on veteran experiences and needs, movement around and integration into civilian life, and the impact of 9/11. I noticed a dogged & growing curiosity as to how we could ask our warriors to engage in new conflicts when we hadn’t even made good on our covenant to take care of the health and wellbeing of all veterans who’d already fought our wars. When I transitioned into practicing Eastern Medicine, I started a program called the One Arrow Project, offering low to no-cost acupuncture for veterans at my Harvard Square office. I served veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars to the Vietnam war. Since then, I’ve been a mentor at Veterans Writing Project, a member of Team RWB, a performer at the West Roxbury VA Medical Center with Musicians On Call, a registered yoga teacher with Mindful Resilience Training for Trauma Recovery from Veterans Yoga Project. I served as the Massachusetts State Coordinator for Veterans Yoga Project, and taught trauma-informed yoga to veteran cohorts at Home Base. I’m also an ambassador for Heroic Hearts Project and a member of the Veterans Affinity Group of the Boston Psychedelic Research Group. I’ve received special training in treating trauma and PTSD with Chinese and holistic medicine, and I’m steadily working on recreating powerful, natural bonds between those who fight on behalf of the tribe and the tribe who welcomes them home.