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Podcast: The Squad Room: Police Health | Development | Leadership
Episode: 118 Creating Calm: War, PTSD, and Healing with Tom Voss
Description: Tom Voss is an Infantry veteran of the Army’s Stryker Brigades having served between 2003-2006 in a scout sniper platoon. He’s also an author, yoga instructor, and meditation teacher. It wasn’t long into his deployments before Tom experienced the darkest parts of war which left him with severe PTSD that he denied for over a decade. Tom turned to drugs and alcohol to cope and spiraled into planning his suicide. The only thing that saved him was a sister who wouldn’t put up with it. Tom is the author of Where War Ends...