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🧠 PTSD ISN’T JUST A MEMORY PROBLEM 🧠

June is PTSD Awareness Month, and there are still a lot of misconceptions about what PTSD actually is.

Many people think PTSD is simply remembering bad things or having nightmares. The reality is that PTSD can physically affect how the brain functions.

The amygdala acts as the brain’s alarm system and controls our fight, flight, or freeze response. The prefrontal cortex helps us evaluate threats and tells the brain when danger has passed.

For many people with PTSD, the alarm system becomes overactive while the brakes don’t work as effectively. The result can be hypervigilance, anxiety, sleep problems, irritability, and a nervous system that feels stuck in survival mode.

Now add another factor that often gets overlooked:

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI).

Many combat veterans have spent years around explosions, breaching charges, artillery, rockets, heavy weapons, and blast overpressure. For some, it’s not just PTSD they’re dealing with.

It’s PTSD combined with brain injury.

The symptoms often overlap, making recovery even more complicated.

Another thing many people don’t realize is that only a small percentage of deployed service members experience sustained direct combat. Those who have often carry experiences that most people will never fully understand.

The good news?

PTSD is not weakness.
PTSD is not a character flaw.
PTSD is not a life sentence.

People can heal.

I’ve seen it firsthand.

If you’re struggling, keep fighting. There are people who care, resources that can help, and a path forward even when you can’t see it yet.

One Love.

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“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.”
— **First Epistle to the Corinthians 13:4

One love…All the love…His love💙

🚨 WIN THE ULTIMATE MOAB OFF-ROAD ADVENTURE! 🚨

What if your next adventure took you to the red rock canyons of Moab, Utah… and helped veterans heal at the same time?

We’re now selling raffle tickets for an incredible 3-Day / 2-Night Moab Off-Road Adventure!

🏜️ Explore the legendary trails of Moab
🚙 Jeep provided
🏠 Lodging included
🍔 Food included
✈️ $1,000 toward airfare included
🗺️ Guided adventure with a local expert

🎟️ Tickets are only $20 each

And the best part…

🔥 YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE PRESENT TO WIN! 🔥

Whether you want to take the trip yourself or donate it to a veteran, every ticket purchased helps Knot Lucky continue our mission of providing healing, camaraderie, and purpose to veterans through outdoor adventures.

The winner will be drawn at our fundraiser, but you can win from anywhere in the country.

👇🏾 RAFFLE TICKET LINK IN THE COMMENTS 👇🏾

Thank you for supporting our mission and helping us continue to serve those who served us.

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🚨 WIN THE ULTIMATE MOAB OFF-ROAD ADVENTURE! 🚨

What if your next adventure took you to the red rock canyons of Moab, Utah... and helped veterans heal at the same time?

We're now selling raffle tickets for an incredible 3-Day / 2-Night Moab Off-Road Adventure!

🏜️ Explore the legendary trails of Moab🚙 Jeep provided🏠 Lodging included🍔 Food included✈️ $1,000 toward airfare included🗺️ Guided adventure with a local expert

🎟️ Tickets are only $20 each

And the best part...

🔥 YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE PRESENT TO WIN! 🔥

Whether you want to take the trip yourself or donate it to a veteran, every ticket purchased helps Knot Lucky continue our mission of providing healing, camaraderie, and purpose to veterans through outdoor adventures.

The winner will be drawn at our fundraiser, but you can win from anywhere in the country.

👇🏾 RAFFLE TICKET LINK IN THE COMMENTS 👇🏾

Thank you for supporting our mission and helping us continue to serve those who served us.

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⚔️ FROM WAR TO PURPOSE ⚔️

The first picture is me in Afghanistan in 2012. The second is me this year, offshore of Savannah.

Back then, I was young and at the physical peak of my life. I thought I could do anything. I thought I had most of the answers.

I couldn’t have been more wrong.

This was my third of six deployments. My drinking was increasing, my PTSD was growing, and I wasn’t addressing any of it. Like many veterans, I kept pushing forward and convincing myself I was fine.

Then the deployments ended.

Along with them went much of the purpose, structure, and mission that had driven me for years. The drinking got worse. The PTSD symptoms spiraled. I found myself fighting battles that no one else could see.

Fast forward to today.

I wake up grateful. I live a life filled with purpose. I spend my days sharing fishing, fellowship, and healing with fellow veterans through Knot Lucky. I get to watch men and women reconnect with themselves, with each other, and with God while offshore on the water.

If you’re going through a hard season, keep pushing.

Focus less on the things you can’t control and more on the things you can. Go within before you point outward. Many of the biggest problems in my life began to improve when I took an honest look at myself first.

Even when a problem is caused by outside forces, you still have control over your actions, your attitude, and your response.

Accept your failures.Learn from them.Grow through them.

God never promised us an easy path, but He did give us the ability to become stronger through adversity.

Keep moving forward. Your purpose may be closer than you think.

One Love.

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🇺🇸🪢🍀 GRATEFUL BEYOND WORDS 🍀🪢🇺🇸

One thing I’ve learned through this journey with Knot Lucky is that there are still amazing people out there who genuinely care about others.

Huge shoutout to WTOC-TV for their continued support and for always giving us a platform to speak about veteran mental health, healing, and our mission.

And another huge thank you to the Barely Famous Podcast crew for taking the time to care, listen, and help share our story with a completely new audience. Opportunities like that mean more than y’all know.

Every share…Every comment…Every donation…Every message…

It all helps us continue getting veterans offshore, building camaraderie, creating purpose, and helping people heal.

Our fundraiser on June 6th at 6:30 PM at the Savannah Boat House is one of the biggest ways we raise funds to continue this mission. Live music, great food, auction items, and an incredible community coming together for a purpose bigger than ourselves.

Thank y’all for believing in us.Thank y’all for believing in veterans.And thank y’all for helping us continue changing lives.

One Love.

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⚔️ GOOD MEN SHOULD BE PEACEFUL… BUT CAPABLE OF VIOLENCE WHEN EVIL PRESENTS ITSELF ⚔️

When David was passing the throne to Solomon, he told him:

“Be strong, be a man, and observe what the Lord your God requires.”

That hits hard in today’s world.

Women and children are preyed upon daily while masculinity, courage, and protectiveness are constantly attacked. Evil thrives when good men become passive.

During my time in the Amazon jungle, I struggled deeply with my duality.

One side of me wants to heal people, spread love, talk about God, help veterans, feed people, and lift others up.

Then there’s the other side.The savage side.The warrior side shaped by pain, combat, life experience, and ultimately by God.

One night after ceremony, I finally understood why both sides existed.

I told the group:

“Love is the most precious gift God has given us. But wherever love exists, evil tries to destroy it. You need savage men willing to stand between evil and the innocent at all costs. Because without men willing to protect love… love is eventually lost.”

For the first time in my life, I was fully at peace with how God made me.

In the Bible, God repeatedly chose warriors to confront evil. David. Joshua. Gideon.

Being capable of violence is not evil.Using it selfishly is.

One Love 🇺🇸🪢🍀🙏🏾