La'Nita Johnson, an education foreign service officer, mental health advocate and antiterrorism educator recounts how she narrowly survived a terrorist attack in Burkina Faso in 2016. After being diagnosed with PTSD La'Nita shares how she's learned to accept her diagnosis, live out loud with mental illness and provide other resources for civilians with a similar experience.

In this episode, we get the. whole picture. Who La'Nita was before the attacks, details of the horrific events that happened in January 2016 and the steps she took to get to a better understanding of herself and the road ahead.

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