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A Friday shift, a crowded Walmart, a woman advancing with a hatchet—then two shots that changed countless lives. Captain Adam Myers walks us through that moment with uncommon clarity, and then opens the door to what most people never see: the months and years of fallout, the moral injury that lingers even when policy is followed, and the stigma that punishes honesty more than failure. It’s a story about survival, but also about systems that make survival harder than it should be.

We talk about cumulative stress in policing and how it mirrors the tempo of military life: long stretches of routine spiking into chaos with no time to reset. Adam shares the raw aftermath—hate mail, social media judgment, and the quiet erosion that led to numbing with alcohol, casual sex, and drugs. He speaks candidly about faith: walking into a church the day after the shooting, drifting for years, and later rebuilding a spiritual life sturdy enough to hold the weight of grief and responsibility.

The conversation turns practical and urgent. We dig into peer support, therapy, EMDR, biofeedback, and medication as tools that keep first responders safe, grounded, and employable. We examine real institutional barriers—fitness-for-duty evaluations, privacy fears, and career consequences—that make many hide their pain. Adam’s own termination while improving in treatment becomes a case study and a call to rethink policy. There’s hope here too: a move to a new department, leaders who champion transparency, Mental Health Mondays that normalize care, and a mission—Stop the Threat, Stop the Stigma—that invites officers and civilians to speak openly and get help.

If you care about law enforcement wellness, moral injury, PTSD, or building systems that actually support recovery, this is a must-listen. Subscribe, share with someone who needs it, and leave a review with your takeaway so we can keep this conversation moving.

Adam is the Founder of Stop The Threat - Stop The Stigma. Adam says his overall goal for establishing Stop The Threat – Stop The Stigma and speaking about his critical incident is to promote Law Enforcement Wellness and inspire other Law Enforcement Professionals, and those who work in the law enforcement profession, to speak about their own mental health.

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What if the pain keeping you up at night isn’t stress or fear, but the belief that you crossed your own line? We unpack moral injury—the wound to your moral identity—through vivid stories from emergency rooms, newsrooms, child protective services, prisons, and the lives of survivors. Instead of fear-based PTSD, we focus on judgment, shame, guilt, and betrayal, and why soothing a nervous system isn’t enough when the verdict in your head is I am a bad person.

We walk through acts of commission and omission, along with betrayal by leaders and institutions, to show how good people get trapped in impossible choices. You’ll hear Emily’s ER crisis during COVID, a reporter’s split-second decision when a friend becomes the story, and CPS workers forced to choose between insufficient evidence and urgent protection. We step inside prison life to see how the “code” demands a survival mask that hardens into identity, and we examine how survivors of sexual assault and trafficking can be coerced into harming others, carrying a double weight of victimhood and perpetration.

From there, we map a path forward. Three pillars help prevent and mitigate moral injury: clear ethical grounding before the crisis, psychological safety and peer support to break silence, and institutional integrity so systems stop forcing dehumanizing trade-offs. For those already hurt, we frame healing as moral repair: meaning-making, atonement, truthful accountability, and self-forgiveness that integrates the scar without denying harm. This is not about excusing; it’s about rebuilding a life aligned with your values.

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Grief doesn’t wait for business hours, and it rarely shows up when your therapist is free. That’s why we sat down with Guardian Angels founder and CEO John Cammer to unpack a bold idea: a guided journal that “talks back,” offering compassionate, structured prompts and immediate responses designed to help you accept the loss, process the pain, and carry the bond forward. Built with licensed grief therapists and grounded in Worden’s Four Tasks of Mourning, Guardian Angels uses AI to reflect the relationship you already hold within you—not to imitate a voice from the past, but to give your story a safe place to land.

John shares the personal losses that led him from avoidance and substance use to sobriety and purpose, and how those experiences shaped an approach that blends emotional intelligence with ethical technology. We dig into the hard questions people ask about AI and mental health: privacy, data control, and safety. John lays out a clear model—user-owned data with deletion on demand, no social scraping, and cautious design choices that avoid avatars or voices to keep boundaries intact. The result is a tool that complements therapy, bridges the long hours between sessions, and helps users practice sharing in a risk-free space so real-world conversations get easier.

We also talk about ambiguous grief—estrangement, addiction, mental illness—and how role-playing tough conversations can surface clarity without causing harm. Beyond healing, Guardian Angels supports memory preservation and rituals: recipes, songs, anniversaries, and places that keep love present in daily life. With accessible pricing, a free trial, and incentives for consistent use, John’s mission is impact over hype: progress in small steps, on your terms, when you need it most.

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