My Awakening

Lastly, I’m going to share a little bit about my awakening and in the end like I said trauma is something that is very scary when we’re going through it but it’s one of the most beautiful things in the end when we get through it why. There’s this quote that I love. Tell me what it is you want to do with your one wild and precious life well as a child. I wanted to be a firefighter and there’s me at 23 years old in a wheelchair, 23 years old I didn’t know if I would run again, I didn’t even think I’d be back in the fire department again and most of the people never thought I’d be back in the fire department at that time with that injury not only did I make it back, I was hired by one of the largest fire departments in the United States, a metropolitan agency where I actually got to go to fires and really do the job of a firefighter something I had always wanted to do and unfortunately my career ended as a firefighter, from there I took off to explore I took off to travel I’ve been to 15 different countries. I’ve had numerous experiences beyond my imagination and I’ve also had a couple of near-death experiences on my trips one where I was nearly struck by lightning another where I had a bacterial staph infection and nearly died after scuba diving so that when I say your awakening in life these things are real and when I was in the small town in Costa Rica. The village healer came up to me, she was a 911 survivor and she said Drew I heard about everything that’s happened to you and this lightning you know coming in. It’s the worst storm. We’ve had in 20 years isolated just this property.

God’s trying to get you to wake up when are you going to wake up that’s my awakening, I share this because it’s not about religion. It’s not about that I don’t want you to leave that I’m not pushing anything on anybody but what I am sharing is that there are forces in life that cause us to awaken that cause us to use this pain for good and then from there now. It’s my purpose to give these tools to so many people that are out there everything ranging from talk therapy to somatic experiencing to yoga, to nutrition the holistic view on mental health that’s needed today to help people thrive to help people thrive because everything can work out for the better. It takes time. This journey by being an amazing manager, by being an amazing leader, you’re in a position to help people and when you help somebody, remember, you might be helping them restore who they are right and then when they’re restored, they have a better relationship with their mother, they have a better relationship with their father, they have a better relationship with their children, they keep their marriage intact.

The next generation doesn’t have the adverse childhood experiences. They have a wonderful life growing up. They feel loved and supported our health care system starts changing because we don’t have so many people that are going through addiction and trauma and all this drama in our society, we think about what we’re doing as business leaders with the technology, we’re creating with the different outputs that we’re creating now in our society and how it impacts the human one person at a time that my friends are the gift of being trauma informed once you have this information. It’s up to you now to go out in this world and to make this world a better place and I’m extremely proud of you and thank you for listening to my story and my journey at the end of this training program.