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Some of this material references first responders. Essential workers face many of the same challenges, and this content applies to you too. First Responder’s Nervous System: From “Code Red” Activation to the Struggle to Deactivate Imagine you are just about to leave a long shift when dispatch says we have a 10-32 (person with a gun) in progress, your nervous system was already on but now it’s activated and you are wired with adrenaline and ready to take action, your heart racing, your hand...

Some of this material references first responders. Essential workers face many of the same challenges, and this content applies to you too. We hear it all the time. The “Culture” of the organization is responsible for …. The “Culture” is the reason why we are facing the challenges with, recruitment, retention, leadership, camaraderie, mental health, physical health … and the list goes on and on. The truth is exactly that. The culture of an organization is a byproduct of the behaviors its...

Some of this material references first responders. Essential workers face many of the same challenges, and this content applies to you too. You don’t walk away from a thirty-year career in law enforcement without a few scars to show for it. The unfortunate truth for most of us is that those scars and wounds were self-inflicted. I hear it all the time from first responders how the job did this and the job did that… The truth is, we have been blessed with the best job in the world; noble,...