Brain health seminar to help improve Amarillo veterans and first responders mental performances

By Editor On Sep 22, 2021

AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) – The Texas Panhandle War Memorial Center is hosting a two-day seminar aimed at improving the mental performance of veterans and first responders.

It is run by the Dallas-based Center for Brain Health, and the instructors challenged everyone to be innovative, focused, and open to change.

This helps veterans who have been through stressful situations make the transition back to normal society easier.

“It’s not just some of the things that happened [you]”Said Katie Hinds, Center for Brain Health clinician and seminar leader. “Instead, how can you start now to take control of your own brain and your daily thinking at home with your family, but also in your work place, which is different from your previous military life?

The organizers wanted to bring this seminar to Amarillo to help veterans slow down from the fast paced lifestyle in which they worked.

“They lived in such different conditions and then just walked in again and suddenly trying to be who everything was before they left, and it’s not,” said Mary Nell Lemert, organizer of the Texas Panhandle War Memorial Center.

Army veteran and seminar attendant Donald Corbin said that people often overlook how soldiers’ experiences are made and how they influence the way they think.

“Taking this break is necessary because I always think about the next step, the next step, what’s wrong with the kids, what’s wrong with work, what’s wrong with personal life,” said Corbin.

Corbin had children to look after and shared the biggest lesson he learned today in taking breaks so that he could focus on the moment.

“Forget about emails, forget about the morning meeting and just be there with friends and family when they are there,” said Corbin.

The Texas Panhandle War Memorial Center plans to host more of these events in the future and is encouraging people to follow them online for upcoming dates.

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