#wecamebackforyou

Keiynan Lonsdale at Nickelodeon’s 2017 Kids’ Choice Awards

"...The hardest part is living in the silence. The silence when the gun fire ends. How do you live in that? I guess that is what you are trying to figure out. That's what you guys are doing. You're working on it. I respect that. It's just...uh..that when you look at yourself in the mirror, you gotta admit who you are, but not just to yourself, you gotta...to everyone else. For the first time as long as I could remember, I don't have war to fight. And I guess, if I am going to be honest, I'm scared." -F. Castle. Healing starts within. It begins with you admitting there is a problem. You are not alone in this. Saveawarrior.org is where I found my healing. You can too. #justsaveone #wecamebackforyou #Saveawarrior #ptsd #pts #ptsdawareness #heal #silence #admit #becomeyou #scared #lookatyourself #mirror #behonest #punisher #frankcastle *I do not own the rights to this image nor to I claim it to be mine. https://www.instagram.com/dwp4ptsd/p/CYzKldsLqy0/?utm_medium=tumblr

As of today, it's been 3 years since I attended @save_a_warrior_saw. 3 years ago, I walked away from the program with a new view on life. I processed , I meditated and I felt emotions again. In the years since, I have become the best version of me yet. This best version of me is one that is continually changing and learning. Healing doesn't happen overnight and the trauma doesn't go away magically. You have to do the bucketwork to heal. It's a tough process. It requires you to do things you don't want to do. It's easy to stay in the role of the victim because we have built our rackets around daily survival. Those rackets took days, months and years to create. It takes days, months and years to find a new way of daily practice. Is it worth everything I have done in the past 3 years? The answer is yes. I would do it again if I have to. #Saveawarrior #wecamebackforyou #justsaveone #ptsd #ptsdawareness #ptshealing #trauma #healing #help #endsuicide #dailypractice #new #old #survival #bucketwork #ittakestime #military #veteran #firstresponder #emt #police #firefighter https://www.instagram.com/p/CUK1n_VASxo/?utm_medium=tumblr