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Reinforce Radio
by J. Sean McKay, Ph.D.
Supporting our elite forces and their families to withstand the fight.
Episodes
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Episode 19: Optimizing Your Personal Workouts
For today's episode, I am joined by Grant Darnell, our resident strength and conditioning coach for the squadron. In today's episode, he spends time helping you understand how you can best optimize your personal workouts (when you are not following one of Grant's personalized programs!). Physical...
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Episode 18: Finding Meaning in Transition, with CMSgt Evan Serpa
We're going through historic change in our country, in our culture, and in our military and its mission. So when the foundation for what we define as meaningful in our lives changes, how do we adjust? How do we find meaning and purpose in our lives when the mission set shifts under our feet? In...
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Episode 17: Insomnia and Sleep Deprivation
Sleep. We all love it, and don’t get enough of it. Whether it is sleep deprivation because you don’t have the TIME to sleep, or insomnia because you CAN’T sleep, the effectrs are awful and the road back can be hard. In today’s episode, we talk about the process of sleep, how that process gets...
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Episode 16: Performance Under Pressure
So you think you perform well under pressure? Well, you probably do. But understanding the nature of stress and how our thoughts and attitudes impact performance under stress can boost your skill utilization even more. In this episode, we explore the nature of stress and ways you can optimize…
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Episode 15: The Role of Cryotherapy in Recovery
In this episode, we go back to the body and Nate spends time talking about cryotherapy and its roles and risks in physical recovery from injury. Hope you guys find this episode helpful and informative! Until next time... -Doc McKay
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Episode 14: Concussion and MildTBI
Since March is Brain Injury Awareness Month, I thought I would spend this episode focusing on concussions and mild TBI, something our operators are all too familiar with (but reluctant to talk about). We explore what a concussion is, how it happens, what signs and symptoms to look for, and...
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Episode 13: How Boring is Exciting, with Dr. Barb Thompson
In today's episode, I interview Dr. Barb Thompson, Operational Psychologist for the 724th Special Tactics Group. She spends the episode talking to all of you about the importance of consistency of effort, and not always chasing the exciting tasks... always Chasing the Dragon, as we often refer to...
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Episode 12: Medical Imaging and Injury
Thought we'd bring a different perspective today, so Nate Borget, 17 STS Certified Athletic Trainer, runs the show exploring medical imaging, the misconceptions, and the things you should consider about imaging as you are assessing and rehabilitating from injury. If you have any topics or…
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Episode 11: Your Moment of Gratitude
Let's face it. 2020 has been kind of a dumpster fire. We all have a tendency to focus on the negatives around us, especially with the news constantly throwing the negative in our faces. But what happens if you focus instead on the positives - things in yourself and your life that you have to be...
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Episode 10: Holiday Stress and Deployment
The holidays are stressful enough as it is. Add the flaming chaos of 2020 to it. Now mix in separation due to deployment. Too. Much. Stress. Today's episode is just a quick shot where we talk about the stress of the holidays, especially during deployment, and some things you can do both downrange...
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Episode 09: Trauma as Residue, Part 2
So in the last episode, we introduced the concept of trauma as residue and explored the life of an operator and how it can present obstacles to processing and cleaning off this residue that trauma leaves behind. Today we spend time exploring a series of questions designed to get you to think…
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Episode 08: Trauma as Residue, Part 1
If you exist in military life - as an active duty member, a spouse, a family member, or a veteran - you have heard about, discussed, considered, and explored trauma. Operators don't like to talk about trauma because of the dreaded 'D' word that is often associated with it - Disorder. In this…
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Episode 07: The Seven Stages of Grief
Grief is universal. We all experience it. Whether is it grief over the loss of a loved one, an injury, the end of a relationship, changing locations/schools/lives through a PCS, or going from an operational to non-operational position, grieving over loss is part of the human condition. Grief is...
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Episode 06: Managing Exercise Through Injury
Operators live a constant balance - improving physical fitness and being physically broken. You know a bunch of you just "Ranger through" the pain which probably just makes the damage to your body worse or more permanent. What can you do to continue to work on physical fitness and preparedness...
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Episode 05: Making the Transition to Civilian Life
So what happens when it's time to stop Chasing the Dragon? Operators are good at going non-stop in training, TDY, and deployment, crushing the job at every level. But I think their biggest risk comes when that time comes to move into civilian life - whether it be via separation or retirement. Too...
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Episode 04: The Psychology of Combat and Resilience
In today's episode, we start off by talking about the psychology of combat and the mental health impacts that can occur from combat and deployment. Following that, we explore the nature of resilience and ways to recognize and strengthen it in ourselves so we can not only survive but thrive in...
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Episode 03: Mindfulness
So why would you spend hours a week in the gym exercising to build muscle, increase speed, and equip yourself better physically to do the job, but not spend time exercising your brain as well? Mindfulness has been increasingly shown to have huge benefits cognitively, emotionally, and physically,...
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Episode 02: Difficult Transitions Home
Welcome to Episode 02 of Reinforce Radio, a podcast dedicated to resiliency and support of the men and women of special tactics warfare and their families. In this episode, Doc McKay spends some time exploring the characteristics in our operators that are adaptive when downrange, but maladaptive…
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Episode 01: Dealing with Uncertainty
Welcome to the first episode of Reinforce Radio, a podcast dedicated to resiliency and support of the men and women of special tactics warfare and their families. In this episode, Doc McKay spends some time exploring the uncertainty of life we are living in and explores 11 ways you can better...
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Supporting our elite forces and their families to withstand the fight.
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