When Natasha Adair drove to the basket for a layup one October night in 1990, her future was right in front of her. She was a high school senior being recruited by more than 200 college coaches. But as she landed on the court and heard the pop in her knee, everything changed. Adair couldn’t have known then, but that injury headed her down a path that would eventually lead her to become the women’s basketball coach at ASU. “People often ask me if I would change what happened,” she said. “No. It made me who I am.”
Healing from post-traumatic stress disorder can take many forms. In workshops run by Rosemarie Dombrowski, a teaching professor and a self-described "military brat," that means poetry. She runs a program at ASU called Verses for Vets, an online workshop that encourages veterans to read and discuss poems about service, as well as engage in expressive writing. Participants say the program really helps.
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