Warriors Ascent

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Nearing the end of PTS awareness month! What are you going to do to help and honor veterans suffering from PTSD? #warriorsascent #PTSDAwareness

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Register for the 3rd Annual Friends of Special Operations Golf Scramble on July 12 at Trail West Golf Course - Leavenworth, KS.
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Depression, anxiety and PTS are very real - reach out to us or someone for help. June is PTS awareness month

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@WarriorsAscent Team Leadville

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Always one of the best finishes of the weekend. Team Leadville of @WarriorsAscent has run the #leadvilletrailmarathon every year since 2015. They run to raise money and awareness for our nation’s heroes suffering from PTSD. Thank you for another incredible year!

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“All 16 runners made it. I did not know we would have 16 until last night!
5 years...50 runners exactly. All 50 have completed it. Tough race.
Enough said.” Tony Hofmann, Founder and Coach

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@LTRaceSeries Warriors’ Ascent appreciates Lifetime Fitness and the Herculean efforts of Team Leadville in raising awareness and funds to help veterans and first responders with PTS. As Team Leadville coach Army COL (R) Tony Hofmann says, Relentless Forward Progress.

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“I have Brothers in Arms who have suffered from this and it’s for me to give back” Cam Worsham

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“Just because you are struggling doesn't mean you're failing.”
Mental Health Awareness Month 2019

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7,500 boots are on display at Fort Bragg to honor US service members killed since 9/11

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Only 10% of police departments have funding for PTS help. #FirstResponders #PTSD

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Team Leadville will conquer The Leadville Marathon on June 16 to
STOP VETERAN SUICIDE!
https://t.co/SPhmjTjzSm

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Thank you. We are here for you 24/7. We appreciate you!

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Testimonial from Warriors' Ascent program:

“It has helped me tremendously. It taught me how to identify what is eating at me, and how to deal with it. I can’t thank you all enough.”

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"To close your eyes will not ease another's pain."
Chinese Proverb

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"Change the way we talk to each other about mental health."
-Kate Middleton

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Approximately 30% of Vietnam War Veterans experience PTSD over the course of their lifetimes, and approximately one in five Service Members who return from deployment operations in Afghanistan and Iraq have symptoms of PTSD

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You don't have to be positive all the time. It's perfectly okay to feel sad, angry, annoyed, frustrated, scared or anxious. MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS MONTH

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“PTSD: It's not the person refusing to let go of the past, but the past refusing to let go of the person. When we feel weak, we drop our heads on the shoulders of others.” Happy Place

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Traumatic events; such as an accident, assault, military combat or natural disaster can have lasting effects on a person’s mental heal many people will have different responses, some develop longer term symptoms that can lead to a diagnosis of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

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“Trauma is personal. It does not disappear if it is not validated. When it is ignored or invalidated the silent screams continue internally heard only by the one held captive. When someone enters the pain and hears the screams healing can begin.”
― Danielle Bernock