Book Review - Healing Katrina, Timothy H Warneka

An Amazing Narrative of Dedication in the Aftermath of Destruction

"Healing Katrina" is Tim Warneka's first-hand account of his experience as a military volunteer mental wellness professional. Tim was deployed by the American Red Cross to Mississippi River in the wake of the calamity and devastation resulting from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in the Southeastern United States.

The book is made up of Tim's observations. He have shared his diary entries, blogs, photographs and penetrations gained during the two hebdomad assignment. Warneka wrote this book in hopes of raising the consciousness degree of authorities representatives and the American populace to the extended harm and desolation caused by these two violent storms and to pay testimonial to the one thousands of military volunteers who responded to supply their expertness and assistance as a consequence of the emergency. The book is written as a aftermath up phone call to the demand of a planned scheme of catastrophe readiness for both governmental and personal consideration. Definite action stairway must be set into topographic point for contiguous and adequate response to these catastrophes of nature.

In a concluding chapter Tim do shares personal observations into the outrageousness of the fiscal effects of the place harm resulting from the hurricanes. As a wellness attention professional, Tim also entrees the psychological, emotional and physical cicatrixes experienced by the one thousands of people impacted.

Tim is a talented author and communicator. I highly urge "Healing Katrina" as it is an oculus opener for our representatives in Washington, for community service organizations, and for concerned citizens. It is a aftermath up phone call to the importance of catastrophe preparedness.

As reviewed for Middle West Book Review