Post Tenebras Lux - After darkness I hope for the light
Hello there and thanks for stopping by. That's how you open a blog right? I haven't done this before so here goes nothing. I think the appropriate adage is fake it til you make it. The same way I've survived the last 10 years of my career, though looking back there's been a lot more faking it than making it. But that's a story for many more days down the road. Today I'll talk about the who and the why. Who I am and why I am doing this. So who am I? My name is Chris. I am currently a regular member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the RCMP, the Kings Cowboys. I am corporal by rank and am posted in the far north region of the Northwest Territories. My career has taken me and my family across northern BC, western Alberta, the Sub-Arctic and now into the Arctic. These past 10 years have been filled with some wild adventures, hair raising police work and more trauma than I could possibly ever recount. That trauma has taken an immeasurable toll on my mental healt...