Yaron Porter
"You can't really overcome PTSD. But hey... You can learn how to dance with the demons"
Israel
English, Hebrew
Yaron, born in 1984, lives in Tel-Aviv and Miami.
On August 2011, squad of 24 terrorists from ISIS Sinai wanted to enter the city of Eilat, they planned to carry out a terror attack. Yaron's team were the first to encounter, eliminate, and stop them.
The incident and the difficult scenes he saw left Yaron with PTSD.
From a successful businessman and a skilled warrior, Yaron fell into a deep pit of hell.
Today he is in a better place, Yaron is a public motivational speaker & volunteering in Tracking and rehabilitate veterans suffering from PTSD in Israel and USA.
Yaron's Life motto: "You can't really overcome PTSD. But hey... You can learn how to dance with the demons"
Post-trauma, to identify, to overcome, to succeed
In his lectures Yaron tells his personal story and thus helps to prevent suicides among military veterans, who have gone through similar experiences to his own.