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Kansas natives return home with nonprofit to help veterans with PTSD, other issues

Wichita Eagle - 10/20/2021

Oct. 20—Brian Wellbrock has been a personal trainer and life coach for almost 30 years, and out of that work grew a nonprofit that he's now bringing to Wichita.

Faith in Action is specifically geared to veterans who are dealing with anything as serious as PTSD or as basic as transitioning out of the military. Wellbrock said he wants to help firefighters and law enforcement officers as well.

Wellbrock, who works with his wife, Silesia, is not a counselor and said that "we don't go where a counselor would go."

He said he found through his life coaching and personal training that he had to get to the root of people's emotional problems in order to help them solve physical ones.

"It helps them heal inside and reclaim themselves, and all of a sudden you see them catapulted in this slingshot of wanting to take care of themselves."

Nine years ago, Wellbrock started working with veterans, and he's written three books that form the basis of the program's 12-week course.

The course is called Courage 2 Change Reset. It's free to veterans. The three books are a total of $65. Wellbrock's daughter, Shelby, does fundraising for Faith in Action to offset costs for participants.

The Wellbrocks have been running the nonprofit out of Colorado Springs, but they're returning to Kansas and continuing it online here. Brian and Silesia Wellbrock are Hays natives.

"Wichita is a very strong military community," Brian Wellbrock said.

He said physical activity and nutrition are a big part of the course.

"You can't really have healing without the physical component, and that's what makes this course so different."

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