0103 PTSD to Peace: How Meditation Changed My Life

About this episode

Mark shares his personal journey from experiencing PTSD as a veteran to finding peace through meditation.

PTSD doesn’t always look like movie flashbacks. Sometimes it looks like a body that can’t downshift, a mind stuck on alert, and a craving for intensity that turns “normal life” into something flat and unbearable. Mark knows that terrain firsthand. He walks us through the path from working class Philly to the Marines, then back into civilian life carrying hypervigilance, depression, heavy drinking, and the quiet isolation many veterans feel when the structure disappears and the adrenaline is g...

People in this episode

Host: Jennica Sadhwani

Guest: Mark

Topics covered

• PTSD
• meditation
• veterans
• mental health
• personal journey

Keywords

• PTSD
• meditation
• veterans
• mental health
• hypervigilance
• depression
• civilian life

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Marines

Places: Philly

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