Pastoral Counselor Recommends Rule Number Two By Heidi Kraft

This book is thoughtful and well written. I highly recommend this book. There are so many good reasons to read it. I found it at the library and it is well worth looking for and purchasing. Here is an excerpt from the publishers description at the Rule Number Two website.

"When Lieutenant Commander Heidi Kraft's twin son and daughter were fifteen months old, she was deployed to Iraq . A clinical psychologist in the US Navy, Kraft's job was to uncover the wounds of war that a surgeon would never see. . . . .

One of the toughest lessons of her deployment was perfectly articulated by the TV show M*A*S*H: "There are two rules of war. Rule number one is that young men die. Rule number two is that doctors can't change rule number one." Some Marines, Kraft realized, and even some of their doctors, would be damaged by war in ways she could not repair. And sometimes, people were repaired in ways she never expected.

RULE NUMBER TWO is a powerful firsthand account of providing comfort amidst the chaos of war, and of what it takes to endure."