Andrew Marr: Special Forces Green Beret, Warrior Angels Foundation Co-Founder, Author of Tales from the Blast Factory

<div>While the deep-rooted effects of traumatic brain injury are not yet fully understood, Andrew Marr, retired Special Forces, Green Beret, Warrior Angels Foundation Chairman and Co-Founder, as well as co-author of <em>Tales from the Blast Factory</em>, brings to life his actual experiences and transparency as it relates to bringing resolve to his brain injury issues, and coming back to a fulfilled life serving others with similar conditions. Listen in as Andrew gets real with our listening audience. He has an epic testimony to tell.</div><div> </div><div> <strong>In this episode you will hear:</strong> </div><div> </div><ul> <li>Andrew’s story is that of the principles of resiliency after traumatic brain injuries.</li> <li>You don’t have an emotional problem. You have a brain health problem.</li> <li>There are real solutions available.</li> <li>I lost complete control of all emotions.</li> <li>Depression, anxiety, alcoholism, and the inability to make good decisions were daily occurrences.</li> <li>Define what it is you want to be and start being that.</li> <li>I realized at that moment that I was of no value to him [my son] or my family in the condition that I was in.</li> <li>My mental state was going to ruin the things I said I loved in my life.</li> <li>3 promises I made to myself:<br>1. I was going to return to be the man of my pre-injury status.<br>2. I was going to find a way to come off all the medication I was told I would have to be on for the rest of my life.<br>3. After accomplishing #1 &amp; #2, I was going to spend the rest of my life helping other people just like myself to get thru it and get to the other side.</li> <li>Even though none of my problems were fixed yet, I now had a compass, direction, and destination.</li> <li>There are not words to describe what I experienced in that state of consciousness [with psychedelics).</li> <li>Any identification of self completely evaporated.</li> <li>I understood the interconnectedness of all things.</li> <li>I was engulfed in intelligent love.</li> <li>