The Bristlecone Project: Transforming Survivors’ Trauma and Despair, and My Own

I was giving what the U.S. Military calls a sexual assault “briefing” to about 200 soldiers on a base in Europe. The focus was on adult-on-adult sexual assault. I noticed a sergeant in his mid-40s sitting in a middle row because his face was turning beet red. I could see and feel his tension from 50 feet away.