Understanding the “Veteran Experience” Throughout the training we provide a framework for understanding the veterans' experience of service and deployment. We also reveal the broader scope of the trauma spectrum showing how events in addition to combat such as enduring deployment as a family member, accidents, illness, childhood trauma, natural disaster, financial and many more affect individual resiliency. This helps establish trauma as a universal experience and further de-stigmatizes post-traumatic stress while also bridging the diverse populations present at the training. The Neurophysiology of Stress 101 (How the Brain and Body Adapt) This amazing distillation of information is a 101 look at how the human brain and body respond to intense or traumatic life experience. This knowledge points the way toward re-setting the nervous system and improving behavioral changes. It consistently provides “ah-ha” moments for participants and sheds new light on what the stress response is and how they can begin to master it. Skills for Self-Regulation of Stress This section covers the 5 basic areas of self-regulation that ONE Freedom’s Stress to Strength™ teaches. The 5 steps include easy exercises for daily use and encourage individuals to explore every aspect of the self-regulation process.