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Bad luck seemed to dog Beau from the very beginning. He was an accident, and his parents never pretended to want him. With very little support from them, Beau and his brothers were forced to take care of themselves. His childhood left him with a fervent need to belong and he found this need when he joined the military, but two tours of duty to Iraq left him traumatized and unable unable to process what he had seen. In the following years, Beau's PTSD and several other self-destruction issues began to take its toll on his career and even his home life.

When former Green Beret Beau Dooley went from elite soldier to civilian following several tours of duty, the sharp transition had a marked impact on his mental health and sense of self. On his journey to reconcile his warrior mentality with the relatively mundane nature of everyday life, he experienced significant struggles with PTSD and even endured a near-fatal breakdown. But this wasn’t the end of his story. Finding a different kind of fortitude from the one he drew from every day as a seasoned veteran of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, Dooley entered an era of recovery—and of advocacy.