Postvention and Posttraumatic Growth
TAPS helps survivors find a stable, healthy path to healing, allowing them to establish a new life after loss—a concept referred to as posttraumatic growth.
Find Inspiration Within the TAPS Magazine
TAPS Magazine is dedicated to America's fallen heroes and their surviving families and friends.
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The articles in each edition are written by military survivors, grief professionals, and TAPS staff. We hope you find inspiration, comfort, support, resources, and a sense of belonging within these pages.
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Your stories can bring hope and healing to our TAPS families. If you would like to share a story about your loved one or your grief journey, we would love to hear from you. All submissions will be considered for TAPS Magazine, our stories, and other TAPS publications. We invite you to read our submission policy and submit your story.
Latest Magazine Articles
Grief and Sleep
Your sleep is important to your healing, not only physically but emotionally too. Learn 7 tips to cope with insomnia after loss.
Toxic Exposure: Raising Awareness – Providing Hope
TAPS is leading the way in curating a library of legislation, medical studies, media and research relevant to the issue of toxic exposure in the military.
Peer Mentor Program
Being heard, understood, and having a sense of community is at the heart of TAPS and is the mission focus of the TAPS Peer Mentor program.
Success in Every Aspect of Life
TAPS curriculum for young adults helps develop practical life skills and strives to help each survivor create a well-rounded life full of hope, healing and growth.
Found My NICHe
Participating in the Marine Corps Marathon with Team TAPS is one way this widow helps keep her husband's memory alive.
Anniversary Blues
The date is engraved on my heart. It seems so wrong; anniversaries should be for celebrating a joyous occasion, not for acknowledging a death.
Putting the Closure on the Use of the Word "Closure" in Grief
To heal in grief is to become whole again, to integrate your grief into yourself and to learn to continue your changed life with fullness and meaning.