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Mindset Bootcamp: How To Become The Hero Of Your PTSD Recovery Story

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

In this episode, Brad wraps up the Recovery Hero Bootcamp by showing you how to bring your recovery hero into your real, everyday life. Instead of letting your goals fade like old school lessons you barely remember, you’ll learn how to keep your future self front and center in your mind so healing becomes your default direction.

Using simple analogies like the old Garmin GPS and the brain’s “recalculating” system, Brad explains why you naturally forget even powerful insights if you don’t revisit them—and how to work with your brain instead of against it. You’ll see why doing the exercise once is helpful, but refreshing it consistently is what creates real change.

You’ll also learn practical visualization tools, daily prompts, and simple questions you can ask yourself in real-time moments of stress, conflict, or temptation. This is about turning your recovery hero from “nice idea on paper” into a living guide you can lean on when it matters most.

By the end, you’ll walk away with one clear action to weave your recovery hero into your routines so you stop settling for 10% of your potential and start moving steadily toward full recovery.

💡 What You’ll Learn

Why your brain forgets most things you hear once—and how to use that knowledge to support PTSD recovery

How to keep your “recovery hero” (future healed self) clear, vivid, and emotionally real

Simple daily visualization practices to embody how your recovered self thinks, feels, and acts

How to use the “What would my recovery hero do?” question in tough emotional moments

Ways to bring your recovery hero into conflicts, triggers, and everyday decisions

How emotion supercharges memory and how to attach positive emotion to your healing goals

The difference between learning, studying, and mastering trauma recovery tools

How to use your brain’s RAS (Reticular Activating System) to notice more opportunities for healing

A step-by-step suggestion for choosing one daily practice to keep your recovery hero alive in your life

🧠 Key Takeaway

Your recovery hero isn’t a fantasy version of you—it’s your true self uncovered, and every time you ask “What would my recovery hero do?” you take one real step closer to becoming that person.

🔗 Next Steps

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PTSD recovery • trauma healing • PTSD mindset tools • future self visualization • nervous system regulation • trauma coping tools • daily healing habits • emotional regulation skills • Recovery Hero Bootcamp • overcoming PTSD naturally • trauma recovery coaching • brain rewiring for PTSD • reticular activating system and trauma • trauma-informed goal setting • practical PTSD recovery strategies