The MN National Guard has the highest suicide rate in the country. After a decade plus of continuous war, thousands of our neighbors suffer from hidden wounds of war: PTSD, Military Sexual Trauma, and Moral Injury. This audio series is documenting the effort of the Veteran Resilience Project to raise the funds necessary to deliver a powerful trauma therapy that has already saved the lives of over 2,000,000 people worldwide and needs to be made available to our vets...NOW. This is truly an urgent mission. Every day 22 veterans commit suicide because the community has failed to take responsibility for sending these brave young citizens to war. Join host Paul Riedner, formerly an Army deep sea diver, interview resilient, thriving Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam veterans. These are stories from the heart of the veteran experience: stories from boot camp, war, deployment, leaders they admired, struggles of reintegration. Some will bust your gut laughing and others will leave you in tears, but every one tells the larger story of how thousands of men and women found themselves in war and what they found when they returned.
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2016-10-22 |
Paul Chappell on mass shootings, conflict resolution, and the art of living Human nature is not a mystery. Violence and disrespect in our society is a symptom of our lack of knowledge about the art of living: conflict resolution, emotional intelligence, understanding trauma, human psychological needs, and awareness of disrespe... |
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2016-08-08 | "It shocked me because I thought ptsd was a military thing. I didn't think a firefighter could get it. I didn't think anyone else could get it. In fact I didn't even believe in ptsd. I thought it was a cop-out. " Scott Geiselhart Frazee Fire Departme... |
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2016-06-24 | If you want to understand what it's like to be a woman in the military and some of the challenges of being a woman veteran, this episode will help. It was an eye opener for me. This episode is with Jill Troutner. Jill grew up on White Earth Indian Res... |
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2016-06-01 | Javier Matos is a fantastic blues musician who served in the army first as a helicopter repairman and then as a public affairs specialist. The episode concludes with the song Wartime by Javier& the Innocent Sons album Born to Ramble, which was awar... |
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2016-05-19 | This week I sit down with former marine Tom McKenna. Tom has been working with homeless vets with his own organization Help-A-Vet and with Disabled American Veterans (DAV). Things You'll Learn: - How EMDR worked for him - How Tom thinks about PTSD vs... |
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2016-05-11 | "Don't give up! Make your story something intelligible. And I swear to you that you will have a life that you never dreamed possible. I went from trying to kill myself twice, thinking that I was all alone to literally living a dream. Sometimes I think... |
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2016-02-14 |
Hector Matascastillo on The Crucible, Courage, and Community Have your pencil and paper at the ready for this episode. I sit down with an inspiring, thriving, resilient retired first sergeant air borne ranger with plenty to share and teach. Hector shares his transformation from air borne ranger to veteran, veter... |
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2016-02-11 | The business community is responding to our call for action. I talk with VRP's first partner Sean Barnard, of the Alive& Social Network, a startup in Minneapolis. I also meet the founder of Rumble, Jess Ford, who has contributed use of their music ... |
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2016-02-03 | "Your first 6 months in the service you're basically learning to forget who you are. Which makes it that much harder when you come back, when you've seen some bad stuff and you don't know what to do about it and the you don't even have yourself anymore... |
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2016-01-27 | Moral injury - evidence of VA restricting veteran access to PTSD treatments - interview with Mark Brunswick of the Star Tribune newspaper - conversation with VRP Founder Elaine Wynne |
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