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  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...

Excerpt from   Heart to Heart Resuscitation: My Journal  by Victor Montgomery III --   Preface How does Heart to Heart Resuscitation work?  The journey begins with rigorous peer-based groups that utilize instructional discussions, storytelling, and team building group activities that are designed to challenge our Warriors to overcome their past experiences and move forward into a life of purpose. Our programs allow the veterans to appreciate the peace of a secure and guarded experience while they focus on the challenges, they face in completing the program.  Our two days a week, 90-minute sessions of intensive peer-to-peer group programs serve as the catalyst to help veterans discover the answers to the big questions in life.  Challenges related to the struggles of former daily military life, combat deployments and the symptoms of post-traumatic stress (PTS) surface during these 18 months of groups. The Heart-to-Heart Resuscitation program teaches how ...