#015 - Dr. Mark Wheeler and Steve "Johno" Johnston, the hidden benefits of going fishing
Korda - The Thinking Tackle Podcast
Korda Developments Ltd
4.8 • 565 Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2020
⏱️ 119 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Mark Wheeler is an award-winning psychologist and accredited therapist who dedicates much of his time towards treating military veterans who suffer with post-traumatic stress disorder. He set up iCARP after discovering that fishing could help alleviate the symptoms of PTSD. Steve "Johno" Johnston is a military veteran who served for 22 years and subsequently, he now suffers from PTSD. Since then, he has made considerable progress and is now an angling coach for the iCARP team.
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| 0:00.0 | We'd just like to say that these podcasts were recorded prior to the COVID-19 UK lockdown. |
| 0:10.8 | Welcome to the Thinking Tackle podcast. If you enjoy this show, then please subscribe to this podcast and leave a review. |
| 0:18.0 | On today's show, we have an award-winning chartered psychologist who's developed |
| 0:21.7 | a support package called ICARP. This incorporates fishing and therapy to help veterans overcome |
| 0:27.5 | post-traumatic stress disorder. And joining him in the studio is an army veteran who was diagnosed |
| 0:33.2 | with a condition in 2014 and who has since benefited from taking part in this program. |
| 0:39.2 | We welcome on the show, Dr Mark Wheeler and Steve Jono Johnston. |
| 0:45.8 | The Thinking Tackle Podcast. |
| 0:53.4 | That's October. |
| 0:55.0 | Right. |
| 0:56.0 | So that's Kevin Dearden. |
| 0:58.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:59.0 | Because he's ex-minute. |
| 1:00.0 | Is that what you've been showing emails with us? |
| 1:02.0 | We've been seeing. |
| 1:03.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:04.0 | There's a lot of planning that goes into that, isn't that? |
| 1:06.0 | All these precautions and... |
| 1:08.0 | Yeah, yeah. It takes, I mean, it's 18 months to get lost. |
| 1:11.6 | Yeah. How many people are working on that? |
| 1:13.6 | Me. Just you. Yeah. And I work as well. |
| 1:17.6 | I know. Yeah. That is. That's a bit of an undertaking, isn't it? |
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