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REEL 12: The Truth Is Big Deal After a Trauma Experience

by Michael McNamara | Nov 2, 2025 | REEL

Each of us experiences trauma as a beginner… as a clueless novice. It is in that space that we try to figure it out. Learning the truth about the world we’ve entered and our future is important; it is ultimately what puts us on a path to live great lives....

REEL 11: Wade Cates Walks This Path After the Suicide of is Son

by Michael McNamara | Nov 2, 2025 | REEL

Wade’s twenty-year-old son took his life in their home in 2022. I wanted you to meet him because he is his own miracle and an example of walking this path from trauma to joy. I want you to know that if Wade can do it… so can you.      ...

REEL 10: If All These People I Will Introduce You to Can Do It… SO CAN YOU!

by Michael McNamara | Nov 2, 2025 | REEL

I want to introduce you to some people I know who have fought their way out of the Valley of the Shadow of Death to live great lives. In my book, there are twenty-four stories about people who did exactly that… and those stories are there for one simple purpose...

REEL 9: A Culture That Promotes Fragility Makes Growing Up MORE DIFFICULT

by Michael McNamara | Nov 2, 2025 | REEL

Why do young people struggle? Why is suicide rising? In the United States, we have never spent more money on mental health and mental health programs, and we have the highest suicide numbers we’ve ever had in our nation’s history. CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO...

REEL 8: After a Traumatic Tvent, We Control Only One Thing

by Michael McNamara | Nov 2, 2025 | REEL

After trauma impacts our lives, as we begin to learn to live our lives in this strange post-traumatic world we’ve been launched into, it is important that we understand that we control only one thing… and that is HOW WE RESPOND to a traumatic event. CLICK...
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