I’m Mac, and I host the The FROM TRAUMA TO JOY podcast. I have a few things I’d like you to understand: The FROM TRAUMA TO JOY podcast is about learning to live a great life after a traumatic experiences darken your doorstep… and you can do that… I promise you. The wisdom you’ll develop creates strength in the Valley of the Shadow of Death, the place that trauma shoves you when it enters your life. That wisdom will show you a path to transform your life; where joy is a regular emotion, even after multiple traumatic experience...
Latest episodes
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EPISODE 5: TRANSFORMATION — A Path Anyone Can Walk After a Traumatic Event
Neither Mac, Wade, nor Tim was familiar with the ideas involved in transforming your life after a traumatic event. Each of them experienced it firsthand, and that experience did no…
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EPISODE 4: After a Traumatic Event, Isolating Oneself is Overwhelmingly Common — Isolation Can Kill You
“Nobody can understand what I’ve been through…” is a sentence often spoken by people who have gone through a traumatic event. Most seek help and find that help “…didn’t do much for…
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EPISODE 3: Doing Death Better
Memorial Day made me think of how, over the years, I have gotten better at “Doing Death.” That skill is not one I am proud of or enjoy discussing, but that discussion is an importa…
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EPISODE 2: The Post-Traumatic Wisdom That Transformed My Life — “You Don’t Get Over It”
Of all the things I’ve ever learned, this is the single thing that had the greatest impact on my life. As I rounded out the thought, it has four elements: You don’t “get over” the…
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EPISODE 1: Yes, There Actually Is a Path From Trauma to Joy… and You Can Walk It
In Episode 1 of The FROM TRAUMA TO JOY Podcast, Mac, Tim Lynch, and Wade Cates will take you on a discussion of their experiences on the path From Trauma to Joy. Here are some of t…
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What If the Truth Is…
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POST-TRAUMATIC WINNER: Wade Cates… former Marine NCO, the “Socrates of the Semi” & father of Juan… who took hi…
At 10:09 PM on June 6th of 2022, I received a long email from a guy named Wade Cates. At 11:15 PM, I woke up, read the email, and told him to call me if he was still awake. We spok…
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Wife of a Vietnam Veteran and documentary film maker (x2)… Betty Rodgers talks about her latest effort: ‘I MAR…
Ken & Betty Rodgers have become great friends of mine… our paths relative to post-traumatic mental health are parallel. Their first documentary chronicles Ken’s Company in Vietnam…
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Khe Sanh veteran, documentary film maker (x2)… Ken Rodgers talks about his latest effort: ‘I MARRIED THE WAR’…
Ken & Betty Rodgers have become great friends of mine… our paths relative to post-traumatic mental health are parallel. Their first documentary chronicles Ken’s Company in Vietnam…
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Notes to myself after watching “I Married the War” + Grant Newsham talks the Biden Administration’s first step…
Grant Newsham is a senior research fellow at the Japan Forum for Strategic Studies, a senior research fellow at the Center for Security Policy and a retired United States Marine Of…