Jeremy Stalnecker

Well, I believe fundamentally what you just said, that we're dealing with what are unseen wounds.

But in many, many cases, they're more damaging than even physical wounds.

You know, physical wounds we can see, we can address, we can deal with.

But so many people are carrying traumas and brokenness within them that goes undealt with.

They learn how to cope, perhaps.

They learn how to shove it down, how to avoid it, how to stay away from places that bring up these feelings and emotions and thoughts.

But eventually, you can't push it down anymore.

You can't avoid it anymore.

You can't get around it anymore.

If you don't address these, as you said, unseen wounds, eventually it will have

I say eventually.

And eventually it will have a very damaging effect on you.

But I think throughout your life, it's almost like walking with a limp, right?

Like there's something wrong.

You're getting by.

You're kind of working through the things you have to work through in life, but not fully to the way that you were created or to the ability that you actually have.

And so...

Trauma is not something that is reserved for those who served in the military.

But one of the things that happens in combat is that acute trauma.

You are pushed into environments and situations and circumstances that your entire life you're told to avoid, right?