THIRD HAND
SMOKE
How trauma moves from veterans to the people they love and how to stop it
For veterans and military families ready to strengthen connection, reduce estrangement, and bring practical healing tools home.
Maybe you've sat through incredible speakers who meant well but didn't get it. Who talked about trauma without living it. Who opened something in you, then left. You deserve someone who's been in the dark and lights the way out.
Testimonials
-Craig Smith,
-Craig Smith, President, OSV Studios (42+ years experience)
I’ve filmed many speakers. Colin O’Donohoe was the first who genuinely shook me.
His presence on stage is powerful, his delivery is authentic, and his message opened my eyes to new ways of living.
This isn’t a performance. It’s an experience.
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The Pumpkin
Pop-Tart Protocol
A simple intervention designed from lived experience.
Used to interrupt flashbacks before they spread.
The Pumpkin Pop-Tart Protocol is what I wish my family had. It's a simple system: a code word, assigned roles, and three interventions that work. It won't erase the trauma. But it gives everyone in the room something to do besides freeze.
MAP
A Vietnam War memoir from 1966 written by a Purple Heart veteran buried at Arlington.
No spectacle.
A record of how survival skills are formed.
LEGEND
Learning how to read the map without getting lost in it.
Using a behavioural skills lens, the Legend shows that many skills later taught in therapy already exist in combat.
Not as treatment.
As recognition.
The Legend helps people see reactions clearly, without shame or diagnosis.
LIFE
Survival isn’t replaced.
It’s recalibrated.
Combat skills aren’t deleted.
They’re reassigned.