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The Triumph Book: HEROES is a collection of 24 epic first-person stories from veteran spanning the decades of war, who share how they are winning the worst battles veterans face at home. After reading HEROES, program participants are prepared to work through the narrative therapy/peer-to-peer mentoring process of recording and sharing their own Triumph Stories using a workbook called The Triumph Program. The workbook helps veterans evolve as they process the tragedies and losses they have suffered and gradually look forward, finding purpose in life, setting goals, and exploring who they can serve with the abilities they have gained.
The Triumph Program is a trauma-informed narrative therapy process assisting veterans to put past horrors on paper, work through the anger, survivor’s guilt, and fear that PTSD brings, and find purpose and meaning in the experience of war. The stories they write can serve as bridges of understanding for their families, creating stronger bonds as loved ones better understand their veteran family member.
After completing 12 weeks of a small Triumph Program Peer Support Group, veterans have their innate desire to serve others (which led them to join the military) reignited as the final sections are focused on setting goals and seeking ways to serve others as a means of healing.
The Triumph Program has found particular success in the healing of our Forgotten Heroes (incarcerated veterans… 10% of all the incarcerated in the U.S are veterans!) and has the potential not only to heal the veterans who participate, but to uplift all inmates within the units where the program is implemented.
Testimonials
We bury things deep down that we don’t want to deal with, but when you write it down and read it out loud, you have to dig it up, face it and process it. I hadn’t cried in 30 years. I didn’t cry when my mom died and I was in prison, not there for her; but I finally grieved her death in The Triumph Program and shed some tears. It was surprisingly healing.
Telling my story is more therapeutic than someone else saying what’s wrong with me.
I had the great pleasure of participating in your writing therapy at the Montgomery County Jail in 2017. You, your story, and the experience of following the program has made a deep impact on my life. I have told many people about how impressed I was being taught to take the monstrous issues haunting my psyche and reducing them to a few sentences on paper. I have renamed my PTSD to Pen Time Stops Demons. I am far from cured, but I have the tools to make the issues smaller. For that you will always have my eternal gratitude.
Ground-breaking, life-changing, seed-planting, revolutionary… if you give the program a chance, be brave enough to open up, the healing begins immediately! We are broken in prison and put on this tough exterior, but inside we have feelings and emotions that let us know we aren’t savages; we are humans. The Triumph Program gives us a safe space to allow ourselves to feel again. The Triumph Program is therapy for your heart, your mind, and your soul.
I want you to know your class meant so much more than the certificate. I unpacked so many feelings I have suppressed since the war that I can see clearly now why I took so many wrong turns in my life. The military needs to give this class to everyone discharging the service. I would have never thought I would open up so much to guys from totally different backgrounds. Your class has changed my life and I have a really good foundation to start my new life when I get out.
I want you to know your class meant so much more than the certificate. I unpacked so many feelings I have suppressed since the war that I can see clearly now why I took so many wrong turns in my life. The military needs to give this class to everyone discharging the service. I would have never thought I would open up so much to guys from totally different backgrounds. Your class has changed my life and I have a really good foundation to start my new life when I get out.
To date, more than 300 have graduated from The Triumph Program in ten maximum security prison units in Texas and it is expanding to many other states.
