Captain George Burk, United States Air Force (retired), was in the ICU and the burn unit for over 18 months recovering from multiple injuries and from being burned over 65% of his body. George’s family was told on 10 separate occasions that he was within hours of death. On today’s episode of Coffee with The…

In this second episode with Captain George Burk we learn about how his will to survive and his purpose in life have kept him going for 5 decades after being the only survivor of a military plane crash in 1970, where he was burned over 65% of his body. George describes the crash and then…

On this episode of Coffee with The Courage Wolf I discuss some of the topics that came up in my conversation on Monday with Stephanie Miller, including what we thought was the greatest good that could come from the podcast.

Stephanie and Paul Miller had just celebrated their 26th wedding anniversary and were preparing for life as empty nesters. Life was good.  They both had good jobs, they had two beautiful children, they loved each other and spent time hiking and being outdoors with each other and as a family. What could possibly go wrong? On…

On this episode of Coffee with The Courage Wolf I discuss some of the therapies and strategies that Rob Leathen used to go from post traumatic stress to Post Traumatic Growth, one of which was, managing the ego!

The Courage Wolf podcast welcomes our first firefighter to the podcast. Rob Leathen is a career firefighter of 28 years and was referred to the podcast by The Trauma Centre because they thought that Rob could help a lot of people by the telling of his story. Rob and I had a great conversation.  I…

Join me for this weeks episode of Coffee with The Courage Wolf as I discuss the creation of the Monday podcast about The Paramedic Memorial Bell, and some of the thoughts and concepts that I discussed with Norm Robillard and Ian Sudlow. The Paramedic Memorial Bell is a tradition that honours paramedics who have passed…

The Paramedic Memorial Bell is a tradition that honours paramedics who have passed away on the job as well as those who have died by suicide. The Memorial Bell is currently on its journey across Ontario visiting each and every paramedic organization in the Province. Join me on this episode of The Courage Wolf podcast…

On this episode of Coffee with The Courage Wolf I discuss some of the issues that Morgan Jones Phillips and I discussed on Monday. I talk about how we can best share our experiences as a first responder with our life partner in such a way that we don’t traumatize them.  And in a way…

Our guest this week on The Courage Wolf podcast is Morgan Jones Phillips.  Morgan is a veteran paramedic of 17 years and has a story of courage like most first responders due to the trauma he’s had to deal with. He’s also the creator of the highly successful one person play called The Emergency Monologues, which…