Drive On: Helping Veterans Navigate PTSD & Life After Military Service
Are you a veteran struggling with PTSD, combat stress, or adjusting to civilian life? Tired of feeling isolated and unsure where to turn for support? You deserve solutions from mental health experts, veteran nonprofits, and fellow veterans who truly understand what you're facing. Each week, host Scott DeLuzio, an Army veteran and Gold Star Brother, shares interviews and practical steps to help you regain purpose, rebuild confidence, and thrive after military service. Find hope and take the next step forward.
Episodes
Leaving the military can mean losing the responsibility you once carried, struggling to find meaningful work, or feeling disconnected from the people around you. Even with countless organizations dedicated to helping veterans, finding the right support can feel overwhelming. And sometimes, the biggest challenge is getting someone to listen.
Recorded in person at the Mil...
[00:00:00] Scott DeLuzio: Military service can give you a mission and a clear sense of who you are, but when that identity is taken away before you’re ready, the loss can reach into every part of your life. A medical discharge, a health crisis, or a broke...
595 – Lee Stuckey
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[00:00:00] Scott DeLuzio: Coming home can leave a veteran carrying nightmares, feeling isolated, and feeling the pressure to look fine while everything underneath him is falling apart. Our guest to...
[00:00:00] Scott DeLuzio: Combat does not stay neatly contained in the past. It can follow a veteran into work, marriage, parenthood, and the moments when the mind has nowhere left to hide. The hope that many veterans have is to reach a point where those experi...
[00:00:00] Scott DeLuzio: Coming home can leave you with a job, a family, and a life that looks fine from the outside, while the structure, identity, and sense of purpose that you had in the military feel like they disappeared overnight. That isolation can get ...
[00:00:00] Scott DeLuzio: Leaving the military can be a tough transition. You might be carrying physical pain, survivor’s guilt, and wondering where your skills fit now that you’re out. The question becomes: What’s next for me? Where do you be...
[00:00:00] Scott DeLuzio: The switch, you learn to flip while in uniform where you can compartmentalize and focus on the task at hand can be hard to shut off when you get out. It helps you push through pain, stay locked in and get the job done. But life after t...
[00:00:00] Scott DeLuzio: Post-traumatic stress can leave your body reacting as though danger never ended. Sleep disappears, anxiety stays high, relationships feel the strain, and painful memories can influence everyday interactions. The goal is not to erase wh...
[00:00:00] Scott DeLuzio: Leaving the military often means adjusting to a very different pace of life and a shift in identity. That transition can feel more complicated when a long war ends in a way that raises difficult questions about leadership, accountabili...
[00:00:00] Scott DeLuzio: After 25 years in the Air Force, including deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan stint at the Pentagon, uh, retirement did not feel like freedom for our guests today, Benjamin Forrest, it felt like the point where everything he had pushe...
[00:00:00] Scott DeLuzio: Getting out of the military can leave somebody carrying pressure in places that no one else can see. Your job might be steady, your, your family might be counting on you, and life might be looking just fine from the outside. But inside...
[00:00:00] Scott DeLuzio: Sometimes the hardest part after service can be realizing that discipline alone does not fix isolation, stress, or the feeling that your next mission is still out of reach. There is a way forward that includes better people around you,...
[00:00:00] Scott DeLuzio: Taking off the uniform can be harder than most people expect. One day, your rank, your role in the military, your, your mission, and the people around you all seem to make sense. Then you step into civilian life and suddenly you have t...
[00:00:00] Scott DeLuzio: Getting clean, staying sharp and protecting your family can feel like a fight that never lets up. One bad influence. One moment of grief, one old contact or one wrong decision can pull a person back into a place that they fought hard t...
[00:00:00] Scott DeLuzio: Carrying pain can feel isolating. You might find yourself making others laugh, keeping your head down and hiding the tough stuff because sharing it seems risky. But there’s another way to get through it, one that lets you breathe...
[00:00:00] Scott DeLuzio: Trying to keep the fridge full. While life keeps stacking pressure on your family can wear a man down fast. It gets even harder when your pride tells you to handle it alone. Even though the mission was never meant to be carried solo. T...
[00:00:00] Scott DeLuzio: Leaving the military can feel like losing the one place where people could read your face before you even said a word. When you come home, you go to work, you maybe sit with your family and still feel miles away from the people who rea...
[00:00:00] Scott DeLuzio: Leaving the military can seem straightforward on paper, but it often feels very different in real life. Earning a degree, landing a job, making plans for the future and sorting out benefits, all help, but they can’t replace the s...
579 – Eric Gillis
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[00:00:00] Scott DeLuzio: Leaving the military can feel like somebody just kicked the legs out from under. Your whole life. The familiar routine is gone. Your life’s mission is fuzzy, and all...
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