Ep 127. Post Traumatic Growth

Not Another Anxiety Show

Kelli Walker

Therapy, Health & Fitness, Mindfulness, Health, Alternative Health, Mental Health, Anxiety, Claireweekes, Counseling, Brenebrown, Research, Meditation, Panicattacks, Science, Selfhelp, Stress

4.8 • 655 Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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In this episode Kelli is joined by guest Ken Falke to talk about Ken's experience as a US Navy bomb disposal specialist that has since gone on to create a wellness center dedicated exclusively to combat veterans and their families. Ken also describes the concept of Post Traumatic Growth and how it differs from the traditional approach to PTSD.

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0:00.0	Hey, guys, welcome to not another anxiety show. I'm your host, Kelly Walker, and joining me today is guest Ken Falk. Hi, Ken.
0:19.3	Hey, how are you, Kelly? Good, good. Thanks for taking the time to hop on the show today.
0:23.6	Thanks for doing it. It's an honor to be here.
0:25.6	Yeah. Now, do you mind if I share a little bit more about you with our listeners before we get started?
0:30.6	No, go.
0:31.6	Great. So here we go.
0:33.6	Ken Falk spent 21 years in the U.S. Navy as a bomb disposal specialist. After
0:39.4	retiring from the Navy in 2002, Ken started and later sold AT Solutions, a counterterrorism
0:45.1	company. In 2004, Ken founded the EOD Warrior Foundation to support the families of severely
0:50.8	wounded military bomb disposal personnel. This work inspired Ken and his family to donate 37 acres of their estate in Blumont, Virginia,
0:59.3	and millions of dollars to build Boulder Crest Retreat, Virginia in 2013.
1:03.4	The nation's first privately funded Wellness Center dedicated exclusively to combat veterans
1:07.8	and their families.
1:09.6	And go on to establish Boulder Crest Retreat, Arizona,
1:12.4	and the Boulder Crest Institute in 2017. His book, Struggle Well, releases May 1st, 2018.
1:20.9	So, Ken, do you mind starting by telling me a little bit about PTSD? It's not something we've, funny enough,
1:30.2	something we've not covered or explored very much on the show. Who can PTSD happen to? And
1:37.3	what can it look like? How can it manifest for those experiencing it? Yeah, I'd be happy to.
1:43.6	When you started to wrap that question up,
1:46.2	I thought you were going to ask me,
1:47.3	what the hell is a bomb disposal guy doing in the world of PTSD?
1:53.4	I'll read something to you that really just kind of comes out of the PTSD,
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