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In this Part Two Joe describes with great emotions being stationed at Fort Bragg and beginning the Special Forces Qualifications Course and finding out his wife was diagnosed with Cancer. Joe explains how a pain that his wife was experiencing for years grew into a tumor, which later was diagnosed as synovial sarcoma which was a very rare type of cancer at the time.
Joe had to make the tough decision to drop out of the Qualification Course in order to take care of his wife and two girls. Joe talks in great detail and gets very emotional explaining this dark and very tough period of his life. Feeling powerless he had to just watch his wife deteriorate over a period of 18 months and succumb to cancer. Joe describes having to live through that, day after day and how seeing his wife dying was worse than anything he had seen in combat.
Having nobody else to turn to but his mother, he sucked up his pride and asked for help but not without her asking for support in the form of $600.
Joe turned to alcohol and violence to channel his anger, loss, and all that hurt he was bottling in from a young age to the hurt of losing his wife. If it were not for the Special Forces Command he was under and how they took care of him and made sure he had adequate support in order to get through that tough time it would have been near impossible to get through it all. After the loss of his wife, he decided to move back home to West Virginia and become a recruiter. Still feeling the loss of his wife and turning to alcohol and violence Joe started to hang out with Motorcycle Clubs.
Joe gets very emotional talking about how his mental state at the time traumatized his daughters and he realizes now the damage he had done to them with the choices he made, how his mother capitalized on his mental state and was conspiring with a psychologist to take his daughters from him which she would succeed doing so.
Joe is not blind to the choices he made and blames no one for anything that has happened in his life. We talk about how psychedelics changed his life and later micro-dosing mushrooms helped to recenter him mentally and send him to a more positive trajectory. Joe explains how becoming more disciplined and structured while micro-dosing was just the beginning of a new path for a more positive life.
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In this Part Two Joe describes with great emotions being stationed at Fort Bragg and beginning the Special Forces Qualifications Course and finding out his wife was diagnosed with Cancer. Joe explains how a pain that his wife was experiencing for years grew into a tumor, which later was diagnosed as synovial sarcoma which was a very rare type of cancer at the time.
Joe had to make the tough decision to drop out of the Qualification Course in order to take care of his wife and two girls. Joe talks in great detail and gets very emotional explaining this dark and very tough period of his life. Feeling powerless he had to just watch his wife deteriorate over a period of 18 months and succumb to cancer. Joe describes having to live through that, day after day and how seeing his wife dying was worse than anything he had seen in combat.
Having nobody else to turn to but his mother, he sucked up his pride and asked for help but not without her asking for support in the form of $600.
Joe turned to alcohol and violence to channel his anger, loss, and all that hurt he was bottling in from a young age to the hurt of losing his wife. If it were not for the Special Forces Command he was under and how they took care of him and made sure he had adequate support in order to get through that tough time it would have been near impossible to get through it all. After the loss of his wife, he decided to move back home to West Virginia and become a recruiter. Still feeling the loss of his wife and turning to alcohol and violence Joe started to hang out with Motorcycle Clubs.
Joe gets very emotional talking about how his mental state at the time traumatized his daughters and he realizes now the damage he had done to them with the choices he made, how his mother capitalized on his mental state and was conspiring with a psychologist to take his daughters from him which she would succeed doing so.
Joe is not blind to the choices he made and blames no one for anything that has happened in his life. We talk about how psychedelics changed his life and later micro-dosing mushrooms helped to recenter him mentally and send him to a more positive trajectory. Joe explains how becoming more disciplined and structured while micro-dosing was just the beginning of a new path for a more positive life.