How To Understand Your Trauma- Matt Quackenbush

Hi everyone, and welcome to this week's episode of Enduring the Badge Podcast. I'm host Jerry Dean Lund, and I don't want you to miss an upcoming episode, so please hit that subscribe button. And while your phone's out, please do me a favor and give us a review on iTunes, our Apple podcast. It says, Hey, this podcast has a great message and we should send it out to more people.

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The relationship program is very extensive and dives down deeply into your relationship so you can know what is making it great. And know what is not making it great and how to solve those problems. And I know it's very difficult these days, especially if we're just being moms and dads and running around in this crazy world.

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That mindset is gonna make you successful, not just on the job, but off the. Where it's just as important to be successful, and that will create the life that you desire for a lifetime. My very special guest today is Matt Quackenbush. He's worked with first responders for over eight years now. He gets first responders.

He's going to talk to us about finding strength through our traumas, where our traumas come from, and how to deal with it. He's going to. Talk to you about how to get the best home life, work life, and fill the best yourself. And his goal is to get you to retirement in a healthy manner. Plus, enjoy retirement after.

Cuz the average first responders live just a few short years after retirement, sadly. Now, let's jump right into this episode. Doing great. How are you doing, Jerry? I'm doing great as well. Beau, beautiful morning in Utah. That's that. It is, man. It's gorgeous out here today, fall. Can't beat. Fall in Utah, right, right.

Probably when we release this though. It'll probably be in the middle of the snow. Squa. . Yeah. . Yep. Matt, introduce the audience to, so. I've been, uh, in the mental health kind of field for just over 15 years. Um, for the last about eight, I've been a clinician. And, uh, in those eight years I've kind of carved a niche out for myself, working with first responders and working with, um, trauma as a PTSD therapist kind of guy.

And it's, uh, been quite the adventure I've worked with Dear Hollow, um, for the last six, seven years. And I've worked with, um, as of late, most recently working with, uh, first watch. I've worked also with a bunch of other different treatment centers and stuff like that too. I do therapist trainings. I have a private practice.

I also have a podcast, . I'm a busy guy, , busy guy, but I have fun doing it. I really do. Yeah. Why did you carve out the niche into the first responder world? So, It's kind of funny, really. It just kind of like, we kind of, I guess we kind of found each other, I guess, . That's great. Right. You know. Yeah. I worked, um, I worked in substance abuse for quite some time and um, I just, Had this draw towards working with, um, military and first responders.

Actually, uh, you know, my grandfather was in the Navy, served in Korea. I grew up in a, in a home. It was, you know, it wasn't necessarily militaristic, but like the ideas of, you know, honor and, and being proud of who you are and like those values that come with like the military background, I've always ascribed to those and just felt like that was a part of who I.