We designed Warrior PATHH for members of the military and veteran communities who were struggling. We have lost more soldiers to suicide than we did on the battlefield in 20 years of war.
Fifty percent of people who go see a therapist will drop out after one visit. You go to a therapist and you just talk about your problems, and you don’t change anything—nothing’s going to get better. It’s not therapy, though. It’s training. It’s training on how to deal with struggle in life.
Warrior PATHH is a training program that shows all of the men and women that attend it that the struggle they’ve experienced over the course of not just their professional careers but their personal lives—no matter how painful or difficult—that that experience is valuable.
You have to do the work here. Here we’re going to teach you the practices and show you ways that you can work through trauma.
Going to a place like Warrior PATHH can be really scary because you have to get vulnerable on a level with people that you’re not going to be comfortable with. But what you should know is that that’s what’s healing about it.
Something about being there just opened up some stuff that I didn’t know was there. We learn to live with our limps and our bruises and our cuts, and that doesn’t make them go away—we just learn to live with them.
I felt something shift. I was sharing things I haven’t shared in a long time, and I needed to get those things off my chest.
Every emotion I hadn’t felt in the last ten-something years just hit me all at one time. Everyone was so welcoming. It was such a good environment—with my peers, with other combat veterans. It was super inspiring. It was super powerful for me.
The ability to go through a program where you have other people who are set up to literally support you in all those areas of Posttraumatic Growth development—it’s such a gift. And it can literally change the course of your life.
The traumatic experience—although none of us want it—if you can learn from it, can be the defining moment of your life. Come home from war and be the productive member of society here that you were on the battlefield.
This gives you the opportunity to become a better version of yourself.