The Moral Injury Field Guide | For Disaster Communities | PDF

Some questions after a disaster concern what happened. Others concern what should have happened, what you could not do, and what you can still trust. The Moral Injury Field Guide offers room to examine those questions without requiring a complete retelling of the hardest day.

Eight chapters and eight writing practices explore survivor weight, the helper’s shame, system betrayal, spiritual rupture, community role conflict, and the long work of recovery. Inside are a Permission Letter, an Inventory of Trust, an Honest Prayer, a Reflection Map, guidance for sitting with someone, and a page for choosing one doable next step.

You receive one 55-page PDF in 6 x 9 inch format, including the cover. This is a digital download; no physical book is shipped. The guide combines literary, spiritual, and educational reflection. Its themes and writing prompts are not a diagnostic test or a clinical treatment.

This standalone workbook focuses on moral injury questions. Related themes also appear in a shorter section of The Helpers’ Hymnal.

Personal-use PDF: read on personal devices and print one personal copy. Short passages may be read aloud in a small, free gathering without recording or redistributing the file. Commercial training, group reproduction, resale, and public redistribution require the author’s permission. This PDF is not an interactive fillable form. By Randi Webber, M.Ed., for Hill Country Wonder.