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Write Your Recovery Hero Story: A New Roadmap For PTSD Healing

Host: Brad Schipke • Overcoming PTSD Podcast • Recovery Secrets Daily Coaching

In this Recovery Secrets Daily Coaching session, Brad and Kayleen walk you through a powerful “Recovery Hero” exercise designed to bridge the gap between who you are today and who you become after fully healing from PTSD. Instead of guessing your way through recovery, you’ll learn how to define your current self, your future healed self, and the specific path that connects the two.

You’ll be guided to step into the shoes of your future, fully recovered self and “look back” at how you got there. From that perspective, you’ll map out the stepping stones—habits, decisions, tools, and mindset shifts—that carried you from triggers, pain, and survival mode into peace, strength, and stability.

Brad and Kayleen also share how visualization, self-image, and your brain’s Reticular Activating System (RAS) help you program your mind for PTSD recovery instead of staying stuck in old patterns. You’ll see how to turn your life into a redemption story and start building real belief that healing is not only possible, but inevitable when you follow a clear roadmap.

By the end of the episode, you’ll have a practical challenge: write your own Recovery Hero story from “now” to your future self, so you can stop feeling broken and start living as the unbreakable version of you that’s already inside.

💡 What You’ll Learn

How to clearly define your current self versus your future “Recovery Hero” self

How to write your Recovery Hero story to bridge the gap between who you are and who you’re becoming

How to transform destructive coping (like drugs and alcohol) into healthy PTSD coping strategies

How to break huge recovery goals into clear, doable stepping stones

How to use visualization to program your brain for trauma healing and success

How the Reticular Activating System (RAS) helps you notice opportunities for recovery

How to include real-life obstacles in your story so you stay resilient instead of getting blindsided

How to rebuild belief in yourself when PTSD has made your future feel impossible

How to turn your life into a powerful underdog and redemption story after trauma

🧠 Key Takeaway

Your Recovery Hero is already you in the future—your job now is to write the story of how you got there and start walking it, one step at a time.

🔗 Next Steps

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Topics Covered:

PTSD recovery roadmap • trauma healing journey • Recovery Hero exercise • overcoming PTSD symptoms • trauma coping tools • sobriety and PTSD • nervous system regulation • visualization for trauma recovery • self-image and PTSD • reprogramming the brain after trauma • emotional regulation skills • trauma recovery mindset • broken to unbreakable • daily PTSD recovery habits • healing triggers and flashbacks