Edward Tick, PhD is a nonfiction writer and poet. He is a transformational healer, holistic psychotherapist, educator, consultant and international journey guide. Dr. Tick has been working to heal the invisible wounds of war and violent trauma for over forty years. He is honored for his groundbreaking work in the spiritual, holistic, and community-based healing of veterans and other survivors of severe violence who suffer Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and moral injury. He has published breakthrough books in this field, including the award-winning War and the Soul. His work introduced the ancient concept of soul wounding and how to heal it to our modern military, veteran and trauma studies worlds. Dr. Tick is an internationally recognized educator, author and expert on the military, veterans, PTSD, Viet Nam, and the psychology, spirituality and history of global trauma, warrior traditions, and military-related issues. For four decades he has conducted trainings, retreats and workshops across the country and overseas. He has trained staff, taught and worked with wounded warriors at major Department of Defense and Veteran Administration facilities and at colleges, universities, hospitals, health care and community centers across the country and overseas. Defense Dept. and VA facilities use his pioneering work and he has served as the US military's subject matter expert trainer on PTSD and Moral Injury for the past decade. Ed cofounded the nonprofit Soldier's Heart, Inc. with his partner Kate Dahlstedt and for 13 years served as its director from their national offices in Troy, New York. He now consilts internationally on these issues. In addition to War and the Soul Ed is the author of the nonfiction books Sacred Mountain, The Practice of Dream Healing, Wild Beasts and Wandering Souls, and Warrior's Return, the poetry collections The Bull Awakening and The Golden Tortoise, the audio set Restoring the Warrior's Soul, much poetry, and over 200 scholarly, professional and popular book chapters, essays and articles in psychology, trauma studies, poetry, literature, philosophy, mythology, humanistic, classical and Vietnamese studies. He was editor of Voices: The Art and Science of Psychotherapy, the Frontiers of Psychotherapy book series, and poetry editor for Outpost and other little magazines. Ed's forthcoming books are a 20-year poetry collection documenting his healing journeys in Viet Nam. Coming Home in Viet Nam will be published in November 2021 by Tia Chucha Press. Soul Medicine: Healing Through Dreams, Visions, Oracles and Pilgrimages was published in 2022 by Inner Traditions. https://www.edwardtick.com ------------------------------- Watch Path 11 TV wherever you want, on the iPhone, AppleTV, Android, Amazon Fire, and Roku Apps. ?Podcast listeners can use coupon code: PODCAST30, for a 30% discount off the annual plan. This code is only available for a limited time.    -------------------- Dr. Eric Pearl and Jillian Fleer https://www.thereconnection.com Be sure to use coupon code PATH2PORTAL on checkout, to take 25% of your purchase of the portal.   -------------------- Check out our new music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/all-good-folks/connections