For the transition out of service
A library for veterans navigating identity, purpose, and ordinariness after the uniform.
The transition out of military service is, in transition terms, one of the largest your clients will ever make. Identity, structure, purpose, community, sometimes language, all reorganize at once. Most reading material for veterans is either narrowly clinical or politically inflected. The middle ground has been thin.
The recently separated service member trying to find what they are now. The veteran twenty years out who has noticed that their friends don’t understand them and never will. The service member dealing with the slow grief of a brother lost to addiction or suicide.
Transitional.life covers these transitions in non-political, non-clinical literary register.
Featured Companions for this work
- Realizing You’re Ordinary — When special becomes average
For the post-uniform self.
- Leaving Your First Real Job — When the learning is over
For end-of-service transition.
- American Grief — Mourning a way of life that’s been commodified
For values-system erosion.
- Becoming Sober — When everyone else is still drinking
For veterans in recovery.
- The Risk of Being Known — Vulnerability without the hangover
For trust and disclosure work.
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The clinical concept lookup
The clinical lookup is well-developed in the territory veterans counselors work in: identity disturbance, role transition, internalized shame, masking, and meaning reconstruction.
Questions
- Are these trauma-safe for veterans with PTSD?
- The booklets are not trauma-narrative material. They are calm and undemanding. Whether any individual client is suited is your judgment.
- Bulk procurement?
- For VA systems and large veterans‘ service organizations, contact for a quote on the Institutional tier.
For the long transition out of service.