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CF History
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The CF was established to provide transformative training to veterans and active duty service members experiencing post-traumatic stress or with an interest in preventing it. We started a response to the growing number of veterans and active duty service members struggling with or seeking to prevent severe quality of life crises caused by post-traumatic stress.
MD, founder of the CF and retired Navy SEAL, has spent his post-Navy career helping people from all walks of life break through barriers to develop resilience and reach peak levels of performance. His integrated development program has been effective in increasing mental toughness and emotional resiliency in Navy SEAL candidates, professional athletes and entrepreneurs.
Our programs bring our tribe together to train toward common goals – building the trust, comradery, and social support which restore purpose. The training integrates physical, mental, emotional, intuition/awareness and spiritual aspects of one’s being through simple and highly effective self-administered training tools.
The CF program outcomes for veterans and active duty service members include development of self-awareness, situational awareness, emotional control and resiliency, physical health and fitness, positivity and rediscovering their Passion, Principles and Purpose in life. Once these aspects of their personality are strengthened, then veterans and active duty service members can positively integrate back into or functionally interact with their family, relationships and society at large.
What is PTS?
Exposure to traumatic or life-threatening events is a common experience in the line of duty. Triggered by memory or circumstance, many veterans relive these traumatic experiences. The constant and chronic exposure to suffering, injury and death can have a devastating and lasting impact on the individual, their immediate family, friends and community. Because of this, there are an estimated 500,000 Veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress (PTS) and more than 22 suicides each day <this number is not recent>.
Struggles to recover from these stressors result in the complex mix of debilitating symptoms called Post-Traumatic Stress (PTS). There are several reasons why some people are more resistant to stress than others. <One sentence affirming that CF does not negatively judge those who experience PTS.> The good news: with motivation and support, any individual can develop emotional resilience, including resilience to stress – this is called Post Traumatic Growth.
Fewer than half of the military service members who report symptoms of PTS receive the care they need for their Post Traumatic Growth. Many who begin treatment discontinue their treatment before its completion. This is due to a general lack of trust for mental health professionals, a belief that psychological problems tend to work themselves out on their own and a perception that seeking mental health treatment should be a last resort. <this sentence does not sufficiently link to the descriptors in new approach listed next; additionally, this does not seem to be relevant for the target veteran – this is not the need CF seems to be meeting> There was a need for a less invasive <the VIP program seems by design to be invasive>, individual and peer-centered approach.
Why is it Our Turn to Serve with the CF?
We learned that the key to Post-Traumatic Growth is this: Growth. Stepping away from the narrative of trauma, The CF offers an alternative vision for the future. One where service members can leverage their skill sets to their maximum potential as part of a team who wants more for each other and for our service to the world.
Learn more about how we do this with the VIP program <link to VIP page> we developed to meet this need.