Shame is something that lives in most of us, sometimes we are aware and sometimes not. In this episode we explore the concept of shame and how it dictates behavior. “If you put shame in a petri dish, it needs three ingredients to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you put the same amount of shame in the petri dish and douse it with empathy, it can't survive". Brene Brown

NEUCOA founders Marty, David and Dr. Matt Hickey. https://sites.google.com/neucoa.com/neucoa/about-us/ about-us Martin Dierks, Retired United States Navy (USN) Chief Hospital Corpsman, NREMT-B, Neurotechnician, Neurotechnician Remote trainer. Martin retired from the USN after 20 years of service in November of 2019. During his service in the military, Chief Dierks completed both operational and clinical assignments, including multiple combat deployments as a Fleet Marine Force (FMF) corpsman and Independent Duty Corpsman (IDC) with the United States Marine Corps and Naval Special Warfare SEAL Team/Joint Special Operations units. David Day, PA-C/MPAS is a Physician Assistant with over 20 years of clinical experience in family practice, urgent care, emergent/trauma care, orthopedics, military operational medicine, military occupational medicine, military plans, operations and medical intelligence. He first started his healthcare career while serving as a Hospital Corpsman in the United States Navy (USN). While in the military he was selected for the Tri-Service Physician Assistant program. During his 26 years of military service, LCDR Day completed both operational and clinical assignments. This included multiple combat deployments to US Central Command with the United States Marine Corps, USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) carrier strike group and Naval Special Warfare SEAL Team/Joint Special Operation units. Mr. Day retired from the U.S. Navy in 2017 and opened NEUCOA clinic October 2019 in Virginia Beach, Virginia (in the middle).

We had an incredibly insightful discussion regarding

PTSD with Sergeant First Class (SFC) V.M. "Butch" Edmonds (Retired 2021); USMC/US Army/Army National Guard. He shared his experience of judgement, resistance, understanding, and most importantly, acceptance that PTSD is real. A major part of Butch's story was his experience at @homebaseprogram It offered a safe space to explore with other warriors!