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“Accepting the Ashes”
Demand the Right to Heal!
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While positive literary reviews and news coverage are always appreciated, the most important reviews of “Accepting the Ashes” are by veterans, their family members and those who care for them.
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"I have read the book and I DEEPLY APPRECIATE YOUR APPROACH."
Rev. Herman Keizer, Jr.
Director Chaplaincy Ministries Christian Reformed Church
Reverend Keizer has listed "Accepting the Ashes" as a recommended resource at the CRCNA website. http://www.crcna.org/pages/chapmin_acceptingashes.cfm
“The author has written a CLEAR AND CONCISE BOOK grounded in her experience with her father and her research into this important subject. Veterans with PTSD tell me that it is an effective tool to help them explain their diagnosis to their loved ones. The book keeps increasing in popularity here as the word spreads among our veterans. I heartily recommend this book to VA chaplains and other VA staff who work with veterans who have PTSD. It can be a wonderful aid to your work.”
Chaplain Michael Gillespie
VA Roseburg Healthcare System
“YOUR CD IS MAGNIFICENT! You said so much in so short a time. As an Army priest chaplain retiree after almost 27 years of active duty and five months in Somalia I can relate to your story. Now, I serve as a VA Chaplain and have been using your book and cd to help the Vermont National Guard wives and parents prepare for the return of their loved ones from Iraq.”
Ch. (Col) Joseph O’Keeffe, U.S. Army, Ret.
White River Junction, Vermont
"I read the book in one sitting though the tears made it very difficult to see at times. I am a Chaplain deployed in a residential PTSD Unit. I have ministered to combat vets of the Vietnam, Korean, Bosnia and Somalia and now meeting younger veterans from Operation Desert Storm. I NEEDED THIS BOOK. I need it because you have painted the life of a child, sister or brother, parent, friend or a caregiver to our combat heroes who struggle with this condition. You have given to our veterans a means to explain what they cannot express themselves to the people who they care about more than themselves. I intend to give copies of your book to families as our veterans as the veteran progresses through the six weeks of our program. Hopefully the spouses, significant others, children, parents, employers and friends of each of them will read and ponder your words and images. Thank you. As an eldest son of a WWII combat veteran who survived D-Day and Europe only to bring back the war to our family in his "living out" the horror...thank you."
An anonymous Chaplain in New Jersey
"My husband is in Iraq right now with the Army National Guard. We've been married 17 years and we have 2 boys. We've been apart the last 2 years out of 3. Before, we would share everything, however the last 2 years he has become distant to me. HE SAID HE'S CHANGED. He even told the boys and I we could go on with our lives, that we don't have to wait--Well I'm waiting, but your book helped me relate to how somebody else has some of the same feelings. Thank you for sharing your story,"
A reader who referred to herself as “A Waiting Wife”
“My husband has been diagnosed with severe PTSD, which explains his behavior for such a long time. He is so depressed and he isolates himself from the family as much as he can. He always says when he is drunk, ‘How can you love me? I am just a killer’. I have to keep reminding him who he was before he went to war...” Karen W.
"Your book is a MUST READ for every veteran of every era!"-
Kevin S.- a Viet Nam era Veteran
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Listen to an audio
excerpt of
“Accepting the Ashes”
HERE
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"The author has great insight into the effects of traumatic experiences and a marvelous way of describing it in language which can be understood and appreciated by everyone."
H Burtt Richardson, Jr., M.D., FAAP, Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, emeritus, University of Vermont College of Medicine, Winthrop, Maine and Tucson, Arizona
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Review in the 3rd Quarter 2007 Newsletter of the TRAUMATIC INCIDENT REDUCTION ASSOCIATION
www.tirbook.com
by David W. Powell, veteran and author of My Tour in Hell
The psychological condition known as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is the focus of this emotionally charged tome. Accepting the Ashes: A Daughter’s Look at PTSD by Quynn Elizabeth will touch many readers, if not all of them. It is written by the daughter of a former Naval Officer who served two tours of combat duty in Vietnam and suffered PTSD for three decades. He died before he found any mental health help with his traumas.
Writing from the perspective of a close relative of a PTSD sufferer, she valiantly struggled through her confusion about PTSD and successfully expresses her “ten ideas” to consider when dealing with a casualty of this disorder. As a reader, I could faintly “hear” the soft, labored breathing, and the words crawl slowly out of the throat of this brave, wounded daughter.
I speak to you as a person who has PTSD and fought to articulate what it meant to have it, or be near a person who had it. I am touched by her understanding of PTSD and her resolve to encourage the casualty and their family members to seek, nay demand,
counseling for the emotional problems they are forced to confront. This valuable information should be given to every person at time of enlistment, their loved ones and friends, and all mental health therapists.
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