The weekly sessions have given me an outlet to let some stuff out in a safe environment; typically, I am not comfortable telling close friends and family the issues I have from serving in the military.
Read More
I look forward to it every week, and no matter how bad of a day or week I had, the MVP session energizes me in such a positive way to be surrounded by such incredible people.
Read More
MVP has given me a group of peers that I feel connected to and feel safe to confide in when I am at my worst. I look forward to seeing the other veterans in MVP each week.
Read More
Looking back at it all, I would have never been able to get the help I needed if it had not been for MVP.
Read More
MVP has helped me by having a group of peers that understand the team mentality and post-deployment/post-service life struggles. It has helped my confidence and has helped me realize my individuality and identity as a person.
Read More
“I’m allowing myself to find and experience the joy that came in the form of faith, reading, and connecting with others. I worked myself to death and didn’t allow myself to feel. I can see that I have come a long way, and I’m now finding pieces of myself that I didn’t know were misplaced. Love and understanding are the main ingredients to a healthy recovery or transition—this is what we have in MVP.”
Read More
“With the help of MVP my marriage has grown stronger.”
Read More
“MVP has been monumental and instrumental to my transition. The morals, values, ethics, and optics that we have from our service and in MVP are of a different caliber than most people would not relate to or understand, but in a positive and powerful way.”
Read More
“I suffer from PTSD. At MVP meetings we’re sharing and I know I’m not the only person dealing with these things. I’m lucky to have a safe place to talk, and I’m grateful for that.”
Read More
“A lot of people don’t like to talk about their military service for a variety of reasons—possibly because of survivor guilt, showing signs of weakness or feeling guilty for never firing their gun. Emotional trauma doesn’t go away until you process it and you can’t process it until you talk about it, and if you don’t talk about it, it’ll just fester.”
Read More