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We are an irs recognized 501c3 charitable orginization. Our mission is to reduce veteran and first responder suicide rates!

11/01/2026

Our friends at ren arms with the range hookup for veterans! It’s worth the visit.

10/31/2026

I am continually humbled by the ability to help peers out. Even more so humbled by my brothers and sisters left and right being there to support the mission when there’s a need that I can’t personally meet.

Buddy Hackett you are one of the real ones. You always show up for others without question and often without recognition so I’m taking this opportunity to give you a shoutout.

Yesterday I was talking to some peers and one mentioned he wasn’t going to be able to hunt muzzleloader open because he was without a fi***rm.

He missed the morning hunt but he’s got one less hurdle to getting out there and feeding his family now thanks to Buddy and Renaissance Fi****ms, Training & Development.

🇺🇸🫡

10/29/2026

Today’s lessons from the tree line post will be short sweet and to the point. (Pun intended).

Processing the meat takes way more attention to detail than acquiring it.

As with any task the proper tools for the job are key. For butchering that means sharp knives…..

For those of us a little less cautious with their fingers you should buy extra bandaids BEFORE you start cutting…

The lesson as it pertains to our mental health journey is simple, humor is good, once you’ve patched up your wounds so there’s no cross contamination it’s ok to laugh at your mistakes while attempting to not make them again…

I’m on bag 1 of 6 and have managed to stab 3 fingers so far 🫡

10/28/2026

Lessons from the tree line chat.

Let’s talk successfully crossing whatever finish line we’ve set for ourselves.

The last week and a half have been a wild adventure for me.

What I thought was a week in Maryland turned into another week slated to be in northern Maine after I answered a phone call at 5am while I loaded my final bits of gear on to roll home.

Caller: “Hey, I’ve got your tag, the hunts on”

Me: “Oh cool, when?”

C: “Sunday pm”

Me: “that isn’t gonna work, see you Monday pm”

C: “sounds good see ya there”

Me: “Where exactly is there by the way….”

So I proceeded up to northern (ish) Maine yesterday afternoon. Got there, hunted for 40 ish minutes (aka did a rapid walk through a zone) no animal.

This am, first ones in the woods 5 days from the last successful early morning no less than 710 miles from where I was when I got the call Friday, 45 minutes into the woods..

My guide: “whatya see”

Me: (as I’m looking closer through the scope at the object 230 ish yards away up the gentle slope) “idk probably another stump”

BANG.

Another successful hunt.

But finding the target, reaching the goal etc is just the first step (and often the easiest one) to a whole process.

The haul out with your wild game is often one of the hardest things, they call it dead weight for a reason.

Thursday took me hours alone to get my deer .60 miles out of the National swamp (because unless you had a permit to be there you can’t be so the help I had couldn’t come in).

Today took a team of 6 guys hours to get out because moose are apparently not little or light.

Thursday, I had just taken the most elegant deer I’ve ever had, and it nearly killed me (that might be a little dramatic) but really, I’m bruised all over, my neck is kinda stuck and I can’t turn my head at the moment (it’ll grow back… maybe…).

As I struggled to carry the weight of my pack, while dragging an animal that weighs more than me I started to get a little overwhelmed with the literal weight of the job. So I stopped, I laid in the little patch of sun shining though the canopy and reminded myself I prayed for this moment, I prayed for a successful hunt, I asked for meat for my family and it was provided.

Often in the day to day of our lives we are met with overwhelming struggles, hard tasks. There are days the weight of what we do with labyrinth is nearly crushing but I prayed for this purpose too.

So the challenge for today is this: Look at the hard things in your life with the filter of “is this what I wanted and or asked for”

If the answer is yes, maybe etc… give yourself the grace to breathe, recognize it’s hard and heavy but keep on going, find joy in the struggle because that discomfort is often growth happening.

10/27/2026

It’s late and I’m up early so I won’t hold y’all up too long with today’s lessons from the tree line post.

I follow the rules, I struggle to not follow them, the anxiety of worrying about looking over my shoulder etc is too much to worry about so I do it right and often come home empty handed while others cut corners.

Thursday was no exception, I spent the time and energy had the discipline to get where I needed to be legally etc. meanwhile I watched no less than 5 people cross from our unit into the next that was restricted to get better access to the herd over there.

Too often in life, especially in non profit work I get disheartened when I see people cheating their way to success. I refuse, my integrity is not for sale at any cost even if it means taking longer to succeed or even failing to meet the goals.

So the challenge for today is simple: are there people left and right of you cheating where you’re holding the line, how does that affect you?

Lastly, look into that mirror; are there areas in your own world that you’re cutting corners? Don’t cheapen your success by cheating your way there, that’s not real success it’s just a facade and will ultimately fail to stand the pressure of time.

Video I took is of a dude being super stealthy crossing by me from the restricted unit back to ours 😈

10/25/2026

I was torn as to which direction to go with today’s lessons from the tree line post.

But here it is, we’re back in time to Wednesday (the day before most of the tidbits of thought).

We hunted Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday am. A million things went wrong, right etc… I was getting in my own head pretty bad, I just wanted to have a successful hunt and it seemed like no matter what I did, tried etc I ended up more frustrated, sore, tired and pretty close to not having fun for a moment.

So we took a tactical timeout for a couple hours and went blue crab fishing.

Talk about fun! You tie or hook on some bait, send it in the water and the crabs floating by on the tide grab on and stay there until the surface. So you reel them up and a friend comes and nets them (or they run over to knock your big ones back in…. Sorry Dan, rookie mistake on my part😂).

Anyways, I laughed so hard I couldn’t breathe goofing around with the crabs, almost losing gear etc. during the time spent crabbing I didn’t once think about the weight I had assigned to succeeding in the goal. The fact is for the first time ever, I took almost a week off to go do something I love alongside people I admire and look up to.

Sometimes we get so hyper-focused on the goal that we forget to enjoy the journey.

Healing from trauma can be the same way, we want to be better so badly we don’t take the time to realize how far we’ve come. We chase that goal so aggressively that it decreases our ability to be present and content with the small things along the way.

Challenging question of the day: Do you have a goal that you’re so passionate about reaching that it’s potentially hurting you along your journey?

If you do (most of us do) identify a way to take a breather that’s a good healthy coping mechanism, live, laugh, allow yourself the breath of fresh air and then come back at your target again. If you’re looking for a healthy breather let’s connect, I’ve got a few good ways to breathe OR if I don’t do anything you’d enjoy I’ve got some friends in my network who probably do what you’re looking for.

10/24/2026

Day two of my lessons from the tree line shenanigan.

Yesterday I posted about the struggle to find my way in the darkness.

Once I got to my target tree came the next hurdle, it was hard enough to attempt to navigate without lighting and I barely succeeded.

And that’s when the day got harder.

I’m not hunting from the ground, I’m hunting from a tree “saddle”, which is a fancy way of saying I’ve gotta climb 20’ up the tree with stuff that’s not exactly the easiest or safest feeling in daylight never mind pitch black. The first picture is the true color of the night without the filters or long exposure on my phone, the second picture is with the flash on.

The light was once more useless, climbing is a two hand job, so up I went in the darkness.

Was it uncomfortable yes, but I knew what each piece of gear feels like, I climb the exact same way, have all of my buckles, straps, clips, pouches in very specific locations and always stop to ensure I’m taking the time to do it correctly and consistently apparently day or night. I had ZERO issues, every single piece of the operation happened the way I’d dream a perfect climb should work.

Therein lies the lesson; we should be practicing our “climbing” consistently, it’s far safer and easier to make the choice to rise above the obstructions within the darkness when you’ve learned in the daylight.

We should challenge ourselves to learn good healthy coping mechanisms consistently (peer connections, mindfulness, building our support network, maintenance sessions with our providers etc) so when the darkness is at its most dangerous we can succeed without second guessing our movements, we don’t need to look for our support because it’s already exactly where we need it!

Today’s reflective challenge question: what are you doing to ensure you’ve got your gear in order before the darkness comes.

If you don’t know the answer that’s also ok, reach out to me I intentionally have a network of badasses and I can get you started in the right direction with relative ease.

10/22/2026

This week has really challenged me mentally, physically and emotionally.

To set the scene: I left home for the 7.5 hour journey at 9pm Sunday, I got here 4 something am, rested literally 4 minutes before the crew that came down Saturday woke and started getting ready to go so I pounded another pre workout and sent it to hunt all day and I’ve been chasing the lost sleep all week while hunting pretty much non stop.

This morning I was trying to find a tree I had scoped out yesterday in the zone I got early access to.

I got up wicked early, was the first person in the woods in my zone, opened the truck bed and realized I left my headlamp on my bed last night when I fell asleep.

So I’m walking through the woods/swamps of the Chesapeake bay’s “blackwater national forest” (think thousands of acres of marsh, trees, swamp, waterways etc..)

I get to my pin on my app using my cell phone light to navigate but it’s too dull to see my tree. It’s the only live one in a field of mostly dead ones.. easy to spot in daylight but it’s completely gone no matter how hard I try to shine the light through the darkness I can’t find it, emotions set in and I’m getting frustrated.

I look up and see Orion so I turn my phone to camera mode which turns off the flashlight, and wouldn’t you know it… There not 15 yards from me is my tree waiting silently in the darkness for me to stop and embrace the beauty within the setback.

So I took a picture, and that’s my tiny long winded snippet for today.

Sometimes we need to pump the brakes, turn off the little light that isn’t helping much which will allow us to look into darkness and find our way.

Challenge for the day: Take a look in the mirror, what is your current darkness, let’s embrace it together and get you to your tree.

10/22/2026

Hey y’all, it’s been a hot minute since I’ve posted.

Rest assured when I get quiet on social media that we’re grinding, growing and making strategic moves behind the scenes to grow our mission.

I’ve been on a wild hunting adventure this week with Jefferey Stebbins and Tiffany Ann of the Holy Mackerel our deep sea fishing partners, while simultaneously working to create some local connections for future peer trips towards this direction.

Lots of people think hunting is all about us wanting to senselessly kill animals and that’s about as far as you could get from what’s actually going on so pump the brakes and hang out with me for the next few days while I post some inspirational lessons from the trees.

Address

271 Derry Road
Litchfield, NH
03052

Telephone

+16033381586

Website

http://www.LabyrinthTS.org/, https://youtube.com/@labyrinththerapeuticservices?si=LFVbJinqOnIO0T06

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