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One [part of treatment] that has helped me tremendously is actually writing down my values.

Will Florez (US Coast Guard, 1988-2010) says writing down his values during TRIGR, a treatment for moral injury, helped him to release feelings of guilt.

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One of the

mechanisms that TRIGR uses

that has helped me tremendously

is actually writing

down my values.

Writing them down

and connecting those values

with the events that occurred,

and then parsing out

the events

that occurred, my values,

and then why guilt?

Why I was feeling guilty,

and then how much really

how much substance,

how much veracity

did my guilt, my feelings,

what I was thinking,

how much was it based on fact?

That's what

TRIGR has done for me.

It has allowed me to parse out

my beliefs or what I want to

hold the line,

which means the guilt

or let go of the line

that you're carrying

because there's a line

that has all that baggage.

I'm towing a line

or was towing a line.

I still am in many ways,

but that's what it is.

Men and women that

have dealt with things like me,

the things

that I've had to deal with

and the guilt that comes

from that were invisibly

have a rope in our hands.

And that rope is

connected to so much baggage.

TRIGR has

allowed me to parse out

that guilt.

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