Monthly classes from Reforged include a nontraditional peer-support group for veterans and first responders.
Raul Aguilar shapes his blade during a three-day knife-making course from Reforged in August.Suicide and Crisis LifelineIn San Antonio, where August days are regularly over 100 degrees, most people try to stay inside or retreat to a cool body of water to avoid the heat.
He kept teaching classes. And as he worked with the veterans, they’d talk about their struggles. His wife, a licensed counselor, helped him refine the program. Healey was one of those people. Before he became lead instructor, he took the class himself. Caylor tried to hire him on the spot. On day one, they start with a rectangular piece of steel and begin to form a knife through repeated heating and hammering. It’s the most physically demanding day.
Later the blades will be heat tempered to make them strong, and students will begin to fit their handles. Then, as the blades cool, the group breaks for lunch and the huddle – what Caylor calls an “openly hidden peer-support group” that Reforged alumni receive an open invitation to return to whenever they need.“We got a lot of these veterans that feel like they’re too tough, too macho to really feel their feelings,” he said.
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