Veterans Week: Healing Out Loud with Combat Medic & Advocate Marie Slider Henriksen
A Combat Medic’s Journey Through Trauma, Art, Spirituality & Reclaimed Purpose
This Veterans Week, The MisFitNation welcomes US Army Veteran, poet, speaker, and healing advocate Marie Slider Henriksen. Marie served nearly 6 years as a combat medic before a medical discharge—and her journey since has been one of courage, pain, resilience, and radical healing.
From growing up in foster care, surviving abuse, rape, military trauma, alcoholism, addiction, and chronic pain—to now celebrating 8 years of sobriety, Marie is a living testament to what happens when we choose to heal out loud.
Marie has recently been diagnosed with Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, a degenerative genetic disorder that affects every system of the body. In her mid-30s, she underwent bilateral hip replacements—yet she continues to create, advocate, speak, and uplift.
She is the author of a published poetry collection featuring her photography, writes to inspire healing and transformation, and co-hosts the Everyday’s a Saturday; USMC Veteran podcast, giving veterans a voice in their journey with PTSD, recovery, identity, and resilience.
Visit her work & poetry: https://sliderbabe.weebly.com
This conversation will change people.
This is why we do Veterans Week.
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