Low Testosterone and Cardiovascular Risk Factor in Firefighters
Low serum testosterone levels can be an independent risk factor for cardiovascular and all-cause mortality.
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Re-Wire Your Lizard Brain’s Response to Danger
Neuroscientists would argue that risk-takers behave more irrationally... no matter how great the risk to self. Do you have a “lizard brain?” Well, you sort of do. The more primitive parts of the human brain — the brain stem, cerebellum, and basal ganglia — are shared by lizards and humans. Charmingly, humans and lizards both inherited these parts of our brain from fish.
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Ambiguous Loss & the Firefighter
His toothbrush is by the sink. Her sandals are by the door. They are part of our lives, but they aren’t here for days, weeks, or sometimes months, depending on their role as a firefighter (e.g., municipal, wildland, strike teams).
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Our Relationship with Morals
Around the kitchen table, there is no shortage of advice. We listen in on the newest relationship conflict, the justification for questionable behaviors, and the self-righteous indignation we are all susceptible to as either the participant or the bystander. We subjectively define what is acceptable and rarely take the time to measure up our behavior to any particular standard.
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How Not to Stress the Small Stuff
Life’s little annoyances happen all the time. Have you noticed how you feel when they happen to you? Most of us have had a bad encounter with something or someone trivial at some point in our lives. Maybe we knocked over our drink a moment after pouring it, couldn’t find our keys when we were running late for work, or maybe our spouse snored a bit too loudly last night.
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Your Money Should Work as Hard as You Do
Let’s say you have a little money. You know you should be doing something with it to prepare for the future. But when faced with all the options out there, sometimes it feels like the easiest option is just to put it in your bank account and forget about it.
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How do We Maintain Our Love for the Job?
From a broad perspective, it is essential that our industry remains relevant and strives to meet the needs of our respective communities. Relevancy is often associated with funding approval and municipal support. There are several ways to increase awareness and involvement which may lend toward our goal of maintaining our love for the job.
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Firefighting and the Paranormal
"Have you ever had an experience you just couldn’t explain? Perhaps you’ve walked into an empty room at the firehouse and had the inexplicable feeling that you weren’t alone. Maybe the air felt strangely cold. Did you glimpse a face in the window when you knew no one was there?"
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Peer Support: Two In, Two Out
Peer support has become a hot topic lately, and for good reason. The peer-to-peer support model has been around since the late 1700s and has been used to help improve health outcomes and quality of life for a range of mental and physical health conditions, including asthma, cancer, diabetes, and substance use disorder.
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