Digital Experience
Use the program on the site, work through guided activities, and keep your course progress together in My Rooted & Rising. No printed book is required to participate.
Programs for Veterans & Families
The Road Home
A guided transition and reintegration experience supporting identity, purpose, relationships, employment readiness, wellness, financial stability, resource navigation, and the next mission after service.
Self-paced online • Start anytime • Learn on your schedule
Honor the mission-ready roles and survival responses that supported you during service while building an authentic, purposeful path for what comes next.
The Online Course
This is not just something to read. It is something to work through.
Leaving the military changes more than a job. The schedule changes. The people around you change. The language changes. Sometimes the mission disappears before a new one has formed. The Road Home helps you translate what still serves you, recognize what civilian life is asking of you now, rebuild stability and connection, and define a next mission that belongs to this chapter of your life.
You may recognize yourself here if…
- You miss the structure, clarity, people, or sense of purpose that came with service.
- You know your military strengths matter but are tired of translating yourself to civilian systems.
- Home, work, relationships, money, or ordinary routines feel different now—even when you expected the transition to be easy.
- You want a practical way forward that respects your service without asking you to live in mission mode forever.
Choose How You Learn
Digital by default. Hands-on when you prefer it.
Your program experience is designed to work online through My Rooted & Rising, with guided lessons, activities, and saved progress. Prefer to write, highlight, journal, and work away from the screen? Choose the optional printed Book + Workbook Set for a hands-on experience.
Prefer a Hands-On Approach?
Add the physical Book + Workbook Set if you prefer reading on paper, highlighting, journaling, and writing directly in your workbook. Printed materials are optional and do not replace your online course access.
Optional Books + Workbooks
Explore the hands-on program library
Each printed book and companion workbook gives you a physical way to work through the same ideas, reflection, practice, and next steps.
Book + Workbook Set$32.99
Reclaiming Your Ground
Healing From the Inside Out
The first core course book begins the transition by helping participants recognize what stayed on watch after the mission changed and reclaim stable ground.
Book + Workbook Set$32.99
Rebuilding Your Foundation
Restoring Identity, Trust, and Emotional Strength
The second core course book rebuilds identity, trust, routines, emotional strength, and the foundations needed for civilian life.
Book + Workbook Set$32.99
Reconnecting to Life
Relationships, Purpose, and Belonging Again
The third core course book reconnects the participant with relationships, purpose, belonging, and life beyond the structure of service.
Go Deeper
Prefer a deeper experience? Choose the Full 6-Book Journey.
The three-book transition journey is complete on its own. The full six-book Road Home experience is a separate, more comprehensive pathway with its own beginning and progression. Choose it from the start when you want the deeper journey; you are not dropped into Book 4 after completing the three-book option.
Full 6-Book Journey — Additional Covers
Explore this separate deeper learning path.
Transitioning With Purpose
Employment, Education, and Financial Stability
Part of the separate Full 6-Book Journey, extending transition work into purpose, employment, education, and financial stability.
Book $21.99Workbook $19.99Set $32.99
Building What Lasts
Leadership, Service, and Giving Back
Part of the separate Full 6-Book Journey, focused on building sustainable leadership, service, connection, and contribution.
Book $21.99Workbook $19.99Set $32.99
A Brighter Tomorrow
Your Next Chapter, Your Legacy
The final Full 6-Book Journey cover, focused on the next chapter, legacy, and carrying forward what matters.
Book $21.99Workbook $19.99Set $32.99
Program Overview
Know what to expect before you join
Transition & Identity
Understand reintegration, rebuild identity beyond the uniform, and translate strengths into a meaningful civilian next mission.
Wellness & Relationships
Build practical tools for stress, communication, family reintegration, connection, routines, and whole-person wellness.
Readiness & Resources
Strengthen career translation, education planning, financial readiness, benefits awareness, and connections to veteran-serving resources.
Program details, safety, accessibility & FAQsOpen when you want the full details.
Who It’s For
Eligibility
Veterans, transitioning service members, and adult military family members age 18 and older seeking educational, peer-centered transition and reintegration support.
Who Should Choose Different Support
This may not be the right fit when…
This program does not replace licensed medical or mental-health treatment, emergency or crisis services, legal advice, accredited benefits representation, or other specialized professional services.
Facilitation
Experience, preparation, and boundaries
The Road Home is guided by Rooted & Rising facilitators using a structured transition curriculum. Founder oversight includes veteran lived experience, leadership, mentoring, Certified Life & Trauma Intervention Coach training and practice, substance-abuse counseling certification, and community resource navigation.
Facilitators guide the curriculum, uphold group agreements, protect participant choice, and recommend outside support when a need exceeds the program’s educational and peer-support scope. They do not diagnose, prescribe treatment, provide emergency care, or replace licensed professionals.
Benefits
What you can build
- A practical transition or next-mission plan.
- Clearer understanding of employment, education, financial, benefits, housing, and community-resource pathways.
- Stronger communication, wellness, relationship, and family-support strategies.
- A mapped support network and appropriate referrals when specialized assistance is needed.
Expectations
What participation asks of you
- Participate respectfully while protecting the privacy and dignity of other participants.
- Attend consistently and communicate when an absence is unavoidable.
- Complete practical reflection, planning, or resource-navigation tasks between sessions when assigned.
- Use qualified providers for needs that require clinical care, legal advice, formal benefits representation, or emergency support.
Access
Accessibility and accommodations
Accommodation requests are welcome, including mobility access, hearing or visual communication support, service-animal access, transportation barriers, caregiver participation, and technology support for online sessions.
Care and Boundaries
Safety and support
Rooted & Rising provides education, peer support, planning, and resource navigation. It does not replace licensed medical or mental-health care, legal services, emergency response, or accredited benefits representation.
Support Right Now
If you need immediate help, please reach out now.
You deserve real-time support. In the United States, call or text 988 for the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. If you or someone else is in immediate danger, call 911 or go to the nearest emergency room.
Questions Before You Begin
Frequently asked questions
Do I need a specific discharge status?
No discharge-status requirement is stated for general community programming. Eligibility for outside benefits or referral programs may follow the rules of those providers.
Can I use the book without joining the group?
Yes. The books and workbooks support a self-guided path as well as guided program participation.
Can family members participate?
Adult military family members may join announced family or support activities. Program staff will confirm the appropriate pathway after enrollment.
Does Rooted & Rising file benefit claims?
No. The program can provide education, organization, referrals, and navigation support, but formal claims and legal advice must be handled by appropriately qualified or accredited professionals.
What happens after I register?
The team confirms the next cohort, schedule, format, price, and any preparation or referral needs before participation begins.
Start → Choose → Experience → Continue
One clear path through Rooted & Rising.
Start
Name what you need right now. If you are unsure, use Find My Starting Point.
Choose
Choose the program and participation format that fits your life.
Experience
Read → reflect → exercise → save → apply → resume through My Rooted & Rising.
Continue
Leave with a concrete next step, continue your program, or connect with the next right resource.
Your Next Step
Ready to start your course?
Start when you are ready. Sign in to My Rooted & Rising, complete enrollment when required, and work through the course on your schedule. Your progress is saved as you go.
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