Honoring Service, Embracing Healing — Introducing the Wounded Guardians Project on Veteran’s Day

On this Veteran’s Day, as we pause to honor the courage and sacrifice of all who’ve served, our community extends an invitation beyond gratitude: an offering of space for healing, openness, and transformation.

Today we introduce the Wounded Guardians Project, a new initiative dedicated to veterans, grounded in the deep principles of wholeness, connection, and awakening.

The Call & The Wounds

Many veterans return home carrying unseen burdens: trauma, loss of identity, isolation, unresolved grief. The battlefield may be thousands of miles away, but the inner war can continue. The recently-released documentary “In Waves and War” on Netflix brings this into stark view. It follows former Navy SEALs grappling with severe PTSD, traumatic brain injuries, depression, and suicidal ideation — and their journey into new forms of healing.  

One of its core messages: the call for a healing container in which veterans can rediscover themselves, reconnect with values beyond “mission,” and step into a renewed sense of community, purpose, and presence.

Why This Matters to Our Spiritual-Awakening Community

In our shared spiritual journey we know that awakening isn’t only an individual inward shift. It is also a call to hold the wounded, the broken, the “seen but not heard.” Veterans honorably carry a sacred service, often accompanied by deep and heavy sacred wounds. When we invite them into spaces that are safe, non-judgmental, authentic, grounded in truth and presence…. we create a relational field of healing.

The Wounded Guardians Project is rooted in that belief: that service and healing are two sides of the same coin. That men and women who have served deserve a place not only to “recover,” but to transform, to find new meaning, to integrate their experience into a larger spiritual context of wholeness.

“Service and healing are two sides of the same coin.”

About the Wounded Guardians Project (WGP)

The Wounded Guardians Project (WGP) was created for those who’ve returned from service carrying wounds that are often overlooked by medical professionals and don’t show up on scans or in service records. These are the invisible scars — PTSD, traumatic brain injury (TBI), moral injury, and spiritual disconnection — that linger long after the uniform is taken off.

For many veterans, the war doesn’t end when deployment does. The body remains on high alert, sleep becomes elusive, and the mind replays moments that defy explanation. The soul, once anchored in purpose, can feel adrift. Isolation, grief, and a loss of identity often follow, leaving warriors feeling disconnected from others, from themselves, and from life itself.

Some carry the weight of what they saw, while others carry the weight of what they did or couldn’t do. This is moral injury: the quiet torment of having acted against one’s deepest values, or of having witnessed betrayal, loss, or injustice that shattered the moral compass. It’s not weakness but the cost of caring deeply in a world that may have demanded too much.

WGP offers a way home.

Through guided retreats, weekly integration and support calls, time in nature, breathwork, and embodied healing practices, veterans are invited to lay down the armor and reconnect with the parts of themselves that were never lost, only buried.

In this sacred space, veterans begin to see that what they’ve been searching for is already within them. As they reconnect with who they truly are underneath it all, they reclaim their story, their strength, and their self-worth — awakening to a deeper wholeness that was never truly lost, merely forgotten.

How “In Waves and War” Resonates with WGP

The documentary “In Waves and War” underscores several truths that align with our project’s vision:

• Traditional modes of care often fall short for veterans carrying deep wounds of combat and life.  

• Healing isn’t about “fixing” but about opening — opening into self-compassion, into new narratives, into community.

• The path to integration often requires a container: not just treatment, but a relational ecosystem that holds the stories, the shame, the fear, the hope.

• Transformation invites a reconnection to values, to meaning beyond what was lost.

• Importantly: whether or not one chooses extreme therapies (as the doc explores), the spiritual and communal dimensions of healing — presence, witness, belonging, connection — are profound.

We therefore envision our program not as a replacement for clinical care, but as a complementary spiritual-community container: a home for inner awakening that welcomes veterans and honors their unique journey.

What You Can Do to Support

If you are a veteran: You are invited. Whether you feel wounded, dormant, seeking, or curious… there is a place for you here.

If you are part of our community: You can offer presence. Listen. Be a guardian for the guardians. Your compassion, your presence, your witnessing matter.

On this Veteran’s Day: Consider watching “In Waves and War” as a community reflection point. Use it as a dialogue springboard, not only about trauma but about transformation, sacred service, and what it means to heal and awaken.

Spread the word: Let veterans know there exists community space beyond clinical labels, beyond “just therapy” — a spiritually wise, heart-centered offering.

Support a Veteran’s Journey Home: If your heart feels moved to give, you can help a veteran find their way home to healing. The Wounded Guardians Scholarship Fund provides financial support for veterans to attend our spiritual awakening retreats, spaces where they can lay down the weight of war and remember who they truly are.

Your contribution, no matter the size, becomes part of that healing journey.

Donate to the Veteran’s Scholarship Fund ➜

To all who have served: your sacrifice is honored.

Yet beyond honoring, you are invited into presence, into remembrance, into belonging, into rediscovery of your heart’s calling.

Let this Veteran’s Day mark not just remembrance of war, but an opening to healing.

Let the Wounded Guardians Project be a bridge: from service to sacred journey, from isolation to community, from survival to awakening.

With Gratitude, Service, and Love