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Thank you for joining us on our mission to not only create a future free of veteran suicide but a better world in which our heroes and their families find purpose, healing, and growth through community.
The Mission Within is the premier clinical psychedelic retreat provider for the military veteran community. Over the last five years, we’ve been able to transform the lives of more than 600 veterans, veterans’ spouses & adult children through the financial support received from our donors and our trusted nonprofit partners.
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DURAN UNDERWRITING PROGRAM
The Duran Veteran Underwriting Program was developed by The Mission Within in collaboration with supporter, and first official program Underwriter, Stacy Duran to promote meaningful and sustained connection between the amazing Veterans who seek treatment from The Mission Within and those who financially support their treatment.
“I wanted to know how we could give back at a more personalized level! This gets to the root!” – Stacy Duran
Each Veteran below is seeking underwriting for their retreat. Please consider supporting one or more in their journey in any amount.
If you are a US Veteran seeking funding through the Duran Underwriting Program, please click here.
Please be sure to indicate the name(s) of the Veteran(s) you are underwriting in the comment of your gift.
Veterans Currently Seeking Underwriting
Benjamin
Since I’ve separated, there has been a a few substantial mental health issues that have surfaced for me, all during what has been the most difficult period in my life, harder than any training I experienced while on active duty. I found myself without my community, a purpose, and going through an emotionally fraught divorce, all at the same time. I’ve tried almost any form of treatment, from the ‘hopefully helpful’ to destructive, turned to the VA, sought and worked through therapy. None have helped me find a feeling of peace. I still am struggling to break an invisible barrier, like a phantom pain, except it’s harder to find than the enemy shooting at you. I’ve had many other fellow vets express to me the healing they’ve found with psychedelic therapy and finally found TMW through a mentor and friend who is has close ties with the organization. I am seeking the same peace my brothers have found by facing the things that pills can’t fix and doing the work that comes along with it.
What would going through the TMW program mean to you?
A real chance at an ACTUAL fresh start. If you don’t know what ‘drown-proofing’ is: it’s where your hands and feet are tied behind your back and pushed into the deep end of the pool, expected to perform and excel. I wish this transition was as easy as that. I’ve felt like I’m drowning more often than not for 18 months, nose just above the water. I’d like to find the confidence I had in the teams again and actually bring to bear the talents I know I have to offer on this side of the fence. I just want a chance to face the things I can’t see on my own. If I can find a way to full my cup, I can pour into others like me. Right now, I’m empty.
Benjamin is willing to communicate directly with his underwriter or through TMW.Mhanu
Just not being able to live a normal life, constantly being depressed and suffering from my PTSD, self medicating doesn't work and the VA prescriptions are killing me.
What would going through the TMW program mean to you?
It would mean new opportunity to heal and be more loving to myself and my family and friend including my kids.
Mhanu is willing to communicate directly with his underwriter or through TMW.
Robert
I have been working in therapy and as a therapist for years and it works to a point. I have researched psychedelic journeys for years growing from deep skepticism to an excitement that I might be able to access this deeper healing I can see and hear in my clients. I struggle to overcome my childhood and combat trauma and heal. My childhood seems to have repressed my emotions and my military experience has hardened my barriers. I can see emotions in others but feel mostly feel anger, shame and fear. My shame brings out suicidal ideation which cycles me right back into the fear and anger. I don’t express or act out in anger because the thought of it cycles me right back to the shame and fear. Finding treatment is difficult, my naturopath tried to connect me with a practitioner locally which hasn’t worked out. I talked to my friend Jason who described his experience in your program and I am excited. Supervised, competent, culturally competent professionals with a track record of safety. Jason is a medical professional I served in combat with I trust him.
What would going through the TMW program mean to you?
My mindset would be that of integration, of overcoming the barrier between my emotional and logical self to emerge in the space of the wise brain. Right now it often feels like my emotional and logical brains speak through glass like I am in prison. Jason talked about seeing himself hiding in a closet as child and your coach guiding him to an experience of comforting his 7year old self. I know where those closets are for me, I can walk you there emotionally, physically, and professionally… I just can’t get close enough to hug that child. My hope is you can help me tear down this invisible wall, then I am really good at the rest. The struggle helps me as a therapist because I can truly empathize. I want to be more than a voyeur of authentic emotional expression of anything other than pain.
Benjamin is willing to communicate directly with his underwriter or through TMW.
Make a Donation
Sponsor a veteran at the Mission Within directly by donating below. Your donation will be submitted to our trusted 501(c)(3) partner Heroic Hearts Project. Please include “The Mission Within” in the comment of your donation.
Suggested Donation Packages
BATTLE BUDDY: $6,500
Support one vet to participate in the program in its entirety.
COVENANT: $10,000
Sponsors a veteran and their spouse.
HONOR GUARD: $25,000
Sponsors up to 4 participants, whether it be four vets or two vets and their spouses.
PLATOON: $65,000
Sponsors up to 10 participants.
Donate to a Trusted Partner
Click on the nonprofit(s) you’d like to donate to and follow the donation instructions on their website. Please include “The Mission Within” in the comment on your donation.
Heroic Hearts Project (HHP) is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit that connects military veterans struggling with trauma to psychedelic therapy options including ayahuasca, psilocybin, ibogaine, and ketamine treatments in combination with professional coaching and integration (location of retreat will depend on treatment plan). We provide these veterans, who have often exhausted all of the resources offered by the Department of Veteran Affairs and don’t know where to turn, with education about and access to these alternative healing modalities. Our mission is to restore hope and empower each veteran in his or her own healing process.
Secondarily, HHP aims to contribute to the growing base of psychedelic research, to educate the public on the potential of psychedelics based on the outcomes of this research, and to advocate for policy changes enabling increased and more equitable access to psychedelic therapies.
SFF provides the support necessary for SEALs to realize their full potential and to continue to serve their new communities, families, and employers with the same passion and commitment they had in the teams.
We created SOC-F in 2013 for one purpose: to make a positive and meaningful difference in the lives of SOF families who have given so much for our country and our freedom. We do this by raising money for one incredibly worthwhile purpose: to provide medical, financial, and other support to SOF members and their families in ways that are often not met through other sources–what we call the “gaps.”
The Hope Project was birthed from one woman’s healing journey. Allison Wilson, founder of The Hope Project started her journey with psychedelic healing two years ago and since then has made it her purpose to support spouses, Veteran Women and Gold Star wives with connections to these modalities, coaching and scholarships. The Hope Project has supported 34 women to date and continues the work daily. We have partnered with numerous non-profits in the space and welcome new partnerships so we can support as many women as possible!
At The Hope Project we also feel very strongly that spouses should be involved in their husband’s journey, and we educate them on integration and feelings of being enough. We support spouses with a one-month program of one-to-one coaching and community calls.
For the spouse, Veteran Woman or Gold Star Wife, we have a four-month program with connections to retreats, one-to-one coaching and community support.
Lastly, The Hope Project also offers yearly scholarships that support women in mission aligned certificates and will hopefully continue to employ women to share their passions of coaching and more.
Everyone at The Mission Within is incredible. The entire process is so welcoming and safe that most of the staff and coaches are fellow veterans who have been through the process and have gone through many of the things I have gone through, making the entire experience feel safe. In my opinion, this is the essential tool that we have to help men and women struggling with PTSD.
– 17-year Navy SEAL medic
Everyone at The Mission Within is incredible. The entire process is so welcoming and safe that most of the staff and coaches are fellow veterans who have been through the process and have gone through many of the things I have gone through, making the entire experience feel safe. In my opinion, this is the essential tool that we have to help men and women struggling with PTSD.
– 17-year Navy SEAL medic