Jen Housholder is an Air Force civilian engineer, Army Reserve pilot, musician, and the founder and CEO of the Science of Active Resilience, LLC.  She graduated from Louisiana State University with a B.S. in Mathematics and later received her Master’s in Military Operational Art and Science from the Air University.  Jen began her career in the Air Force, and later transitioned to the Army National Guard/Reserve in order to fly the UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter, fulfilling a childhood dream.  As a survivor of childhood sexual trauma with two combat deployments, Jen has a passion to share the lifesaving knowledge and skills to others she has obtained through physiologically based trauma treatment along with resilience training certifications obtained through the Army, Air Force, and Trauma Resource Institute. She is especially close in heart to those struggling with suicidal idealization and is living proof that the darkness does not have to win.