Description:
Doug White's memoir explores his military and law enforcement service, confronting PTSD and trauma, offering insights into healing and growth for veterans and first responders. His wife's preface sets the tone for this powerful book.
Review Quotes:
Five Stars.
"Hiding in Plain Sight is that rare book written for high-risk professionals: unflinching, grounded in medical science, and urgently needed. Doug White's raw first-person account makes visible the complex injuries and impairments my colleagues and I describe in the military and first-responder communities. He shows how years of high-tempo service and accumulated allostatic load reset the human nervous system, injuring brain, body, behavior, and soul. The results are familiar: persistent hypervigilance, sleep disruption, anger and irritability, cognitive deficits, chronic pain, hormonal dysregulation, strain on marriages and families, and daunting transitions back to civilian life.
Equally important, this book changes the way we talk about these issues and highlights emerging treatments and lifestyle adaptations to enhance performance and quality of life. If you lead, treat, or love someone who serves, I highly recommend this book. It names the problem and points toward the way forward."
-Chris Frueh, PhD, author of "Operator Syndrome"
Love your book so much.
"It is a model for storytellers who have been scuffed up and have so much lived experience to offer the world."
- Scott Mann, Lt.Col (Ret.), Author, No One is Coming to Save You.
The human side of leadership
"This book is honest, grounded, and wise, especially coming from someone who's held rank. Doug shares what it's actually like behind the scenes in law enforcement: the pressure, the silence, the internal weight that comes with leadership. Hiding in Plain Sight doesn't try to impress you...it just tells the truth, and that's what makes it powerful. It reads like a conversation with someone who's lived it, owned it, and finally said what needed to be said. This book gives others permission to tell their story, too."
-AK Dozanti, Author, Beat the Burnout.