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Mental Health Resource Guide

Posted by By escapingavalon May 10, 2024Posted inAll Posts, PTSD & Tough Shit2 Comments
Table of Contents About Hello there friends! Here’s a bunch of stuff that I hope helps you on your quest to proactively improve your mental health. This thing is quite…
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Post Talk Update

Posted by By escapingavalon May 10, 2024Posted inAll Posts, FIRE, PTSD & Tough Shit4 Comments
Ok, here’s what’s up because I feel like I’ve barely updated this place while I shifted to other sorta related projects:  As I mentioned in Help Wanted, I was slated…
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Help Wanted

Posted by By escapingavalon March 16, 2024Posted inAll Posts, FIRE, PTSD & Tough Shit5 Comments
Hi everybody! Short post for today in which I ask for your help. I volunteered to give a talk about Mental Health and FI at a small event later this…
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Take the Pain.

Posted by By escapingavalon May 11, 2023Posted inAll Posts, PTSD & Tough Shit2 Comments
Well that sounds happy. Or; the intersection between Buddhist Monks and Cognitive Processing Therapy. We are on the beach of Puget Sound. This is not a nice beach where people…
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That time I got kicked out of Ranger School (Part 2)

Posted by By escapingavalon November 18, 2022Posted inAll Posts, PTSD & Tough Shit2 Comments
-Or- How failing Ranger School made me a better cop, and person(eventually) Welcome to another installment of the tough shit series. Inspired by Kevin Smith’s book of the same name,…
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That time I got kicked out of Ranger School (Part 1)

Posted by By escapingavalon September 19, 2022Posted inAll Posts, PTSD & Tough Shit3 Comments
-Or- How failing Ranger School made me a better cop, and person(eventually) Welcome to another installment of the tough shit series. Inspired by Kevin Smith's book of the same name,…
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Tough Shit – PTSD : Chapter 4

Posted by By escapingavalon April 12, 2022Posted inPTSD & Tough Shit1 Comment
In the last Chapter we covered the aftermath of me downshifting from fun yet crazy SWAT nonsense to the boring admin world, and how that gave me the space to…
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Tough Shit – PTSD : Chapter 3

Posted by By escapingavalon March 15, 2022Posted inPTSD & Tough Shit4 Comments
Here be the third installment of this PTSD focused portion of the Tough Shit Series. To sum up the previous two chapters, I had lived a somewhat crazy life for…
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Tough Shit – PTSD : Chapter 2

Posted by By escapingavalon February 16, 2022Posted inPTSD & Tough Shit4 Comments
Here we continue with this multi chapter series about PTSD and all of the things. To sum up the previous post; I went to Afghanistan with the national guard, had…
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Tough Shit – PTSD : Chapter 1

Posted by By escapingavalon February 11, 2022Posted inPTSD & Tough Shit10 Comments
Welcome to yet another installment in this series, inspired by the awesome Kevin Smith book of the same name, where I attempt to describe some tough shit that led to…
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