Bill Edmonds is a retired U.S. Special Forces officer, author, speaker, and internationally recognized expert on the emotional, psychological, and spiritual impacts of military service. He writes and speaks on the “invisible wounds of War”; how subjective experiences change our entire body, which includes our brain, often impairing our innate capacity for enjoyment, engagement, self-control, and trust. His focus is on methods, practices, and pursuits that build resilience and promote long-term healing, especially those that engage physiology as a pathway to attentional agency, emotional-intelligence, and self-awareness.
Mr. Edmonds is a retired Army Special Forces Lieutenant Colonel, a veteran of our wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Kosovo, and East, Central and North African, and a Purple Heat and Bronze Star with Valor Device recipient. He is the author and contributor of multiple books and essays, to include the critically acclaimed memoir God Is Not Here, the anthology War and Moral Injury: A Reader, essays The Ugly American in Iraq and After Moral Injury, the published King’s College of London thesis A Compassionate Nudge, and the Apple+ TV docuseries TheLine. Bill is an internationally recognized expert on the emotional, psychological, and spiritual impacts of military service: how overwhelming subjective experiences change the body, which includes the brain, impairing our innate capacity for enjoyment, engagement, self-control, and trust. Bill is an ordained minister, a spiritual teacher in the ancient tradition of Vipassana, and a certified Mindfulness Meditation Teacher, Yoga Nidra/iREST instructor, and psychedelic integration specialist. Bill also began the non- profit The MindfulWriting Project which is dedicated to creating and offering free-of-charge a therapeutic writing process based on key mindfulness teachings and principles. Bill offers Legacy Wellness Center clients Mindfulness Meditation and Yoga Nidra instruction while also pursuing his licensure as a Clinical Social Worker at the University of Southern California. Bill’s energy and focus are on many and varied practices and pursuits that train attentional agency as pathways to emotional balance, mental harmony, and lasting happiness. I live in Cambria with my wife, Cheryl, and our two daughters, Natalie, and Ava.
