Meyli Chapin: Terrorist Attack Girl

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🗓️ 4 May 2022

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

Today’s guest spent seventeen hours trapped in a hotel room certain she was going to die as terrorists moved through the hotel executing innocents. She is now using that experience to help others suffering from PTSD.

In 2019, Meyli Chapin survived an attack on a hotel complex in Nairobi, Kenya by Al-Shabaab terrorists that left 22 civilians dead. She credits former SAS operator Christian Craighead with saving her and hundreds of others that January day by running to the sound of the guns. Her harrowing ordeal, subsequent struggles with PTSD, and how she fought to overcome that trauma is detailed in her book, Terrorist Attack Girl: How I Survived Terrorism and Reconstructed My Shattered Mind. Meyli’s efforts to empower those dealing with traumatic events inspired her to develop and found Trauma Brace, the first standalone self-help app for trauma survivors.

You can follow her on Instagram @meylichapin and learn more about her app here @traumabraceapp.

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0:00.0	This is The Danger Close Podcast, beyond the books of me, Jack Carter.
0:16.9	Welcome to The Danger Close Podcast, an ironclad original presented by Navy Federal Credit
0:20.9	Union.
0:21.9	My guest today is Maley Chapin.
0:24.2	She survived a terrorist attack in Kenya in January of 2019 and captured the experience
0:29.5	and her thoughts in the book Terrorist Attack Girl.
0:32.7	Want to read from the back.
0:36.6	This is the true story of how terrorism shattered my mind and what I did to survive.
0:42.8	On January 15, 2019, I was trapped in a hotel room in Nairobi for 17 long hours while
0:48.7	al-Shabab terrorists attacked the property.
0:52.0	I was alone and for most of the time I cowarded on my bathroom floor texting my family goodbye.
0:57.4	I was not afraid I was going to die.
0:59.7	I was certain of it.
1:01.3	However, thanks to the tireless and incomprehensibly brave men who fought to get us out led by now
1:07.4	retired SAS operator Christian Craighead, hundreds of us were extracted to safety.
1:13.3	When I got back to my family, I didn't realize that in many ways my battle was just beginning.
1:18.6	PTSD made me so miserable that I started to wish I had died in the attack after all.
1:24.6	Besides the terrorist attack itself, PTSD was the hardest thing I have ever dealt with
1:29.6	in my life.
1:30.6	But I wanted to publish this book, which is a collection of my innermost thoughts in
1:34.8	journal entries from the attack and the aftermath so that I could show what trauma really does
1:39.5	to a person.
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