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Scott DeLuzio: Hey everyone, welcome back to Drive On. I’m your host, Scott DeLuzio, and today my guest is Stephanie Weaver, uh, the Warrior PATHH Program Manager at Camp Southern Ground. And we’re going to dive into a much needed topic today, uh, discussing the Warrior PATHH Program. program and how it supports the active duty service members, veterans, first responders, uh, and all those who are experiencing traumas, uh, that they, they’ve, uh, they’ve gone through.

And we’re also going to, uh, share a little bit about, uh, what Camp Southern Ground has to offer. So, uh, before we get into all that, uh, Stephanie, I want to welcome you to the show. I’m really glad to have you here.

Stephanie Weaver: Thank you for having me. I’m very honored to be here and excited to tell you more about Warrior PATHH and Camp Southern Ground.

Scott DeLuzio: Yeah, absolutely. So, um, let’s start off with Warrior PATHH. Uh, tell us a little bit about what Warrior PATHH is, uh, what the program is, how it differs maybe from other support programs that are out there. And, uh, yeah, kind of all about Warrior [00:01:00] PATHH.

Stephanie Weaver: Great, thank you. Yeah, so Warrior PATHH, um, differs from the other programs that are out there because we are non clinical, um, Warrior PATHH is not therapy, it’s not treatment, uh, it’s not even a retreat, uh, it is a training program based off of the concept of post traumatic growth. So, we hear about post traumatic stress, we get the label of having PTSD or anxiety or depression, and then we tend to feel like this is the best that life is going to be because of the service we gave or continue to give, whereas when we come to Warrior PATHH, you learn a variety of different practices and concepts all based off of post traumatic growth.

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Scott DeLuzio: of post traumatic growth. I’ve heard it before from, from some other folks and, um, you know, hearing it now from you, it just kind of reminds me, um, of that because sometimes when we’re talking about things like PTSD, post traumatic stress, uh, you know, disorder, we, uh, [00:02:00] we kind of get stuck in that past, in whatever it was that happened to us back then, and that becomes almost like a defining moment.

Like, I am a, you know, a victim of whatever this trauma was that I experienced, and that’s who I am. And it’s hard to pull yourself and kind of separate yourself from any sort of trauma. Um, and you get stuck, and you don’t know how to move forward and move on from that. And that’s what that term post traumatic growth, uh, you know, gives me.

The, the hope that there’s, there’s something new, there’s something better. Uh, I don’t, I don’t have to be stuck as a, uh, you know, a victim of whatever this trauma happened to be. Um, could you tell us a little bit about the, kind of the background of Warrior PATHH and kind of how it got started and, um, what, maybe what more important, why it got started and, and [00:03:00] how.

That can now has led to the creation of this program and how it can help folks who are going through it and maybe describing a little bit about what that, that, that, uh, background was.

Stephanie Weaver: Yeah, um, so Warrior PATHH, uh, was created by a, a guy named Ken Falk and Josh Goldberg, and Ken Falk was a Navy EOD tech, and he, when he retired from the service, him and his wife would go visit service members at Walter Reed that had lost...