Terrance Kosikar

Lately, I find myself wondering more often than not, just how our world would look if we all just put our electronic devices down for 30 days, and began just "thinking" and "reconnecting for and with ourselves again. Jillian A. Brown Photography

For former first responder Terrance Kosikar, his journey back to health and recovery from addiction and PTSD started in the remote wilderness of British Columbia. Now, he strives to provide those same recovery opportunities to his fellow first responders through his organization, Camp My Way. I want to introduce you to my friend Terrance Kosikar and tell you why he has been flipping 400-pound tires up mountainsides in British Columbia these last few years, including the week...Continue reading

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In order to understand what we do up here at Camp My Way, it's not something we can write about or express in human language - this is only done through your own personal "lived experience" - YOUR WAY. This is not a business , this is a way of life and a valuable gift to all people humans today to learn and have a better understanding of how we were designed. The first nations people have been doing this for 1000's and 1000's of years , without any of the troubles, challenge...s, diseases we have in all our of communities today .. the answer is simple, free and natural. We must go back to the basics, and learn how to use our "animal instincts" through experience. Trauma symptoms form in a spiralling process that begins with primitive biological mechanisms. at the core of this process is the immobility or freezing response, a defence mechanism summoned by reptilian brain. In response to threat, the organism can fight, flee, or freeze. These responses exist as parts of a unified defence system. When fight and flight responses are thwarted, the organism instinctively constricts as it moves toward its last option, the freezing response. as it constricts, the energy that would have been discharged by executing the fight or flight strategies is amplified and bound up in the nervous system. in this emotional and anxious state, the now-frustrated fight response erupts into rage; the frustrated flight response gives way to helplessness. the individual who has moved into the stage characterized by rage or helplessness still has the potential to move abruptly back into frantic flight response or a raging counter-attack. if the organism is able to discharge the energy by fleeing or defending itself and thus resolve the threat, trauma will not occur. Photo: Jillian A. Brown Photography

They speak for themselves - great shots @jillianabrownphotography #nodarkumaritashvili #terrancejosephkosikar #georgia @ Whistler, Canada