TABLE 5.
Additional supporting quotes for the theme “embracing the spiritual depth of humanity.”
Theme 3: Embracing the spiritual depth of humanity | |
Fostering resilience and interconnectedness | “And as I mentioned earlier, in my opening remarks, making sure that they’re not just physically well-trained, but they’re mentally well-trained. (…) It’s not an invisible shield, and if I put my Kevlar on, my armor, my body armor, that doesn’t make me impervious to wounds, as General Dallaire was mentioning, impervious to moral injury.” (CC 2). |
Bolstering holistic approaches | “On the one hand, his identity wounds would not have been so painful if he had not internalized certain beliefs about God and morality. On the other hand, these very same convictions also restrained his desire to act on suicidal thoughts and impulses, fueled his courage to pursue forgiveness, and mapped out practices and pathways for transformation that transcended my psychological interventions. Without attending to layers of spirituality and religion, in many people’s cultural identity, we risk oversimplifying the nature of our patients’ suffering, and risk excluding sources of resilience and strength that could be needed for moral repair to truly occur.” (CC 5). |
Leaving no one behind | “The only reason I can now sleep (…) is because my wife is with me. There is a deep deep deep link between human beings that can be enormous saviour, because without that I was not going that way, in fact I was still going toward self destruction and yes my doctors had given me at the time, less than two years to live because I was literally working myself to death because I couldn’t handle the night. I could not handle the silence. That depth of that problem was not being resolved by the therapy or the medication it just lingered on.” (SE 2). |