IW Modalities Committee

When most people think about veteran suicide, they think about PTSD, depression, or lack of resources. Those things matter. But there is another layer we do not talk about enough. How veterans relate to each other when things get hard. At Irreverent Warriors, we train our leaders to recognize a simple but powerful pattern called the Drama Triangle, and more importantly, how to break out of it. Because sometimes, the difference between connection and isolation is not what is happening... It's...

The data is irrefutable… Breathwork is the fastest, most portable "lever" we have for quickly managing emotional pain. It quickly regulates the sympathetic nervous system and moves you out of a threat-saturated state. Clinical evidence suggests that breathwork produces improvements in stress, anxiety, and depressive symptoms. It shifts the autonomic physiology and increases parasympathetic “braking”. Additionally, it is the foundation for successfully implementing many other alternative...

For many veterans, some of the deepest friendships in life were forged in places like Iraq or Afghanistan. Or just in-the-middle-of-nowhere Alaska. Long patrols, sleepless nights, shared danger, and the dark humor that got everyone through it created bonds that are hard to explain to anyone who was not there. But something strange happens after service. Years pass. People move. Life fills up with work, families, responsibilities, and civilian routines. Before you know it, a decade has gone by...