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My moral injury today is kind of quiet, and that's a testament to the work I've done.

Dr. Irene Zoesch (US Army, 2014-2018) talks about what it's like to live with moral injury after treatment.

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My moral injury today,

I think is kind of quiescent
and quiet.

And that's an a testament
to the work that I've done.

And being able
to identify it, label it,

shine the light on it,
so to speak.

It doesn't
mean, though, that there's not

areas
where it might come back up

because it's entwined.

It's a wound that's healed.

But when wounds heal, the scar
tissue is never going to have

the same strength as before
when something was whole.

Being cognizant, though,
that it's not necessarily going

to be as strong in that scar
tissue

helps me remember that it's okay

to step back or to give
some protection to that area.

And that's not a failure, that
that is an opportunity for me

to build up the resiliency,
make sure that I don't

end up in another event
where I have big, deep scars

that need to be healed.

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