Coping Strategies
When service members leave the military and become veterans, they often times have difficulties. When they don’t know where to turn to identify the coping strategies that work best for them it can be a hopeless feeling. Some of these issues include post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), homelessness, addiction, traumatic brain injuries (TBI), and a variety of others.
These episodes of Drive On Podcast cover coping strategies for veterans. They aren’t your traditional “talk therapy” that many people think of.
If you, or someone you know, needs immediate assistance, please check out the resources for veterans page. There, we have a wide variety of options on an easy-to-navigate page.
TAPS Suicide Prevention And Postvention
Guest: Carla Stumpf Patton
A Marine widow shares how one honest question, real connection, and the right resources can save lives.
Migraine and Headache Care for Veterans
Guest: Diego Colon
Headaches can wreck work and family. Learn how veterans track triggers and get care that actually helps.
Document Everything When Trust Breaks
Guest: Chelsey Woodard
When the system turns on you, documentation and calm become survival tools for the fight and the next chapter.
Plant Medicine And Veteran Healing
Guest: Shannon Curtis
Pain pills, hidden trauma, and radical healing tools like inner child work and plant medicine collide in this raw story.
Rucking for Veteran Suicide Awareness
Guest: Rich Brown
Marine combat leader and entrepreneur Rich Brown shares how TBI ended his time in uniform, pushed him into building Honor Bound FIT, and led to GUIDON22, a 22-mile ruck that pairs hard miles with stories of veterans and first responders lost to suicide. You will hear how those stories, family testimonies, and simple phrases like…
Veteran Mental Health And Operation Overwatch
Guest: Adam Fluegel
Army combat medic veteran Adam Fluegel talks about answering the call for medics after 9/11, running patrols during the first Iraqi elections, losing a brother-in-arms in his first real trauma case, and coming home with no decompression. To hold it together, he leaned on alcohol, hydrocodone, and Adderall, which fueled anxiety, insomnia, paranoia, and eventually…
Choosing Life When Everything Hurts
Guest: Brandon Held
A veteran shares about hitting an emotional breaking point and the work it took to rebuild a life worth living.
Lyrics That Kept Me Here
Guest: Tony Kessel
A lot of vets say music is the only thing that still makes sense, and for Tony Kessel, that idea runs deep. He built a 366-song playlist of his life, wrote the story tied to each track, and found himself looking at a full account of growing up in a foster home, serving in the…