Ep.64 | Love Your Enemy: From War to Healing (with Russell Holloway)

About this episode

In this episode, Wilson and therapist Russell Holloway discuss the journey from combat to counseling and the importance of forgiveness and healing.

⚡️ Today I sit down with my friend, therapist and Gulf War veteran Russell Holloway. ❤️ In this episode I open up about my own past anger and the idea of “moral injury,” and Russell shares how he went from combat to counseling—and why he’s launching Love Rewrites History to push a National Day to “love your enemy.” We get into the survival brain (and why rehearsal changes behavior), simple ways to drop from fight-or-flight to calm, and what forgiveness can look like without abandoning your b...

People in this episode

Host: Wilson

Guest: Russell Holloway

Topics covered

• forgiveness
• mental health
• trauma
• counseling
• anger management
• healing

Keywords

• moral injury
• survival brain
• fight-or-flight
• calm
• forgiveness
• Gulf War

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Love Rewrites History

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