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Season 1, Episode 32

We unpack a song-fueled habit challenge, explore how Emerge N See supports PTSD recovery with real community, and share honest moments from a week of anxiety spikes, parenting teens, and hard-won coping tools. Hope shows up through small steps, skilled support, and a thought that reframes struggle.

• song of the week and a one-habit challenge
• why Emerge N See exists and who it helps
• Connect Hubs as safe, funded peer connection
• donations and plans to interview the founders
• anxiety during everyday life and sport
• parenting teenagers while protecting recovery time
• coping unmedicated with CBD and THC oils
• outpatient skills program and Remembrance Day support
• craft, joy, and a reflection on post-traumatic growth

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Song of the Weeks:

Kasey Musgraves - Deeper Well

https://youtu.be/TGkMYMxi-hw?si=G3UFnMiqxkxS1R31

Thought of the week:

"one day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful"

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Season 1, Episode 31

We trace a month of real life with PTSD: finding hope in a new Taylor Swift track, fighting a stubborn eye stye, stepping back onto the basketball court, buying a bigger bike, and learning from sleep shifts, med changes, and a comical dosing mistake. The theme running through it all is “choose your hard,” backed by kindness, small wins, and steady practice.

• applying song lyrics as coping tools
• storm to opaline reframing
• stye remedies and listener tips
• return to basketball with braces and tape
• new Kawasaki Versys 300 and group ride
• kindness from a fellow rider pacing safely
• sleep updates without prazosin and cannabis tolerance
• antidepressant pause, nightmares, and tracking
• Wegovy, weight changes, and self-respect
• the weed plus injection mishap and lessons
• fitness gains in pickleball and daily energy
• Black Dog Institute walk progress and pride
• the “choose your hard” mantra and examples

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Song of the Week

https://youtu.be/40l9KE36aNk?si=t3DCa9N72VvLyoXt

Thought of the Week:

"marriage is hard. Divorce is hard. Choose your hard. Obesity is hard. Fit is hard. Choose your hard. Being in debt is hard. Beining financially disciplined is hard. Choose your hard. Communication is hard. Not communicating is hard. Choose your hard. Life will never be easy. It will always be hard. Choose wisely"

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Season 1 Episode 30:

What happens when the person who knows your childhood best sits down to tell the truth about your hardest years? We invited my older sister, Emma, to unpack what PTSD looked like from her side of the glass—how she noticed the shift from high-energy extrovert to survival mode, why asking direct questions saved us from guesswork, and the moment she knew the fog was finally lifting.

We trace the arc from a protected upbringing to a too-young entry into policing, the slow burn of masking, and the jolt that came when an ankle injury removed my last coping tool. Emma shares how she learned the language of support—snakes and ladders for daily setbacks, the SUDS scale for simple check-ins—and how boundaries made space for both safety and mutuality. We get into the awkward-but-necessary conversations about suicide risk, the discipline of doing nothing when nothing helps, and the balance between not coddling and not closing the door.

There’s a turning point you can hear: transcranial magnetic stimulation. We talk about TMS not as a miracle but as a measurable shift—humor returning, energy rising, perspective widening. Along the way, we challenge stigma, reflect on the realities of first responder mental health, and offer practical, human tools families can use right now. It’s messy, funny, and deeply hopeful—more weather report than fairy tale: mostly sunny with a chance of thunder.

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🎵 Song of the Week: I Take It Back by Missy Higgins
💭 Thought of the Day:
"Even the darkest clouds carry a silver lining."
And as Proverbs 29:18 reminds us:
“Where there is no vision, the people perish.”
Hope—whether it’s a big dream or a small win—keeps us moving forward.