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    Excerpt from   Heart to Heart Resuscitation: My Journal  by Victor Montgomery III --   Third Pathway We made a conscious effort, a decision, to connect with others and reconnect with the person each of us was before the trauma. The time has come to be coached, seeking the positive power of choice versus being victimized by past experiences of war and seeking the meaning to having survived. We must honestly and openly begin to find relief by seeking help from a power greater than ourselves, and from other people we can learn from and begin to trust. To find relief, we seek a source of help from veteran buddies whom we can learn to trust to help us renew our understandings of human emotions and spiritual qualities we fear we have lost. And we must come to a place when we are ready to make a genuine decision to turn our will and our life over to the care of God as we understand God. We must trust in this decision. Consider carefully the following questi...

  Excerpt from   Heart to Heart Resuscitation: My Journal  by Victor Montgomery III --   Introduction My memoirs give straightforward, down-to-earth advice about encouragement and hope. While revitalizing the therapeutic approach used to overcome the combat veterans’ immediate life-threatening darkness of depression and suicidal thoughts, I define my unique tried-and-true method of crisis intervention as a matter of “heart-to-heart resuscitation”, as I call it. The window of opportunity to make a difference for you or someone close to you can literally be a matter of seconds, whether over a telephone or face-to-face your, your loved ones or your friend’s life may hang in the balance. The process of heart-to-heart communicating is one I suggest and utilize. I believe through encouraging, motivating and mentoring, suffering veterans can be helped to find the strength, self-determination, and support to get help and out of danger. My number one priority is to get vete...

    Excerpt from   Heart to Heart Resuscitation: My Journal  by Victor Montgomery III --   Second Pathway Another warrior came to a group meeting and said: "I always prided myself on my hardheadedness: survival of the fittest. The fact is I wasn’t superstitious or religious. I thought God as a higher power and spiritual things meant religion and that meant weird mystical thinking. I was too smart to believe in a power greater than me. What I started to realize was that if I was the greatest power in my life, I was in deep, deep trouble” − Mark, Iraqi war veteran. We came to believe that a power greater than ourselves can restore us to sanity. And those other veterans in the local community, who are struggling with the consequences of combat-related experiences, can come together with us and influence each other in a magnificent, life changing way. To survive this new battle, we seek meaning in having survived. We want to believe we have survived for a...