Train Your Brain Like You Train Your Body: Consistently
Training your brain starts with knowing where you are. Know your emotions, tendencies, and options to move forward.
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‘Mindset’ and ‘Resilience’ Mean Different Things to Different People
Pick up a book with the word 'resilience' in the title, and you may find a varying amount of actual resilience discussed inside.
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Pregnant Workers Fairness Act Creates a Legacy of Support and Safety
By Melissa Lawlor, MSN, CNM, FNP-C, Breastfeeding Medicine, FF/EMT Pleasant Valley Fire District Fire Commissioner, Dutchess County Deputy Coordinator for First Responder Health and Wellness Hey, fellow firefighters! Let’s chat about something that’s as crucial to our work as keeping our SCBA in top shape: how the U.S. Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) supports our …
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Building Her Own Box
Firefighters all have unique journeys with many stories to tell from the profession. For Clare Frank, her journey is anything but ordinary and she honors these experiences in her new book, Burnt: A Memoir of Fighting Fire.
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Beyond Bricks: Architect Robert Mitchell Designs Fire Stations with Safety at the Core
In an exclusive interview, Cres Guard sat down with Robert (Bob) Mitchell, an architect with Wendel Companies. With a remarkable career designing public safety facilities spanning back to 1993, Bob has been the creative mind behind the design of more than 200 fire and police stations. His years of experience and hundreds of municipal interactions have taught him much about public safety departments and their intricate operations.
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From Rookie to Resilient: A First Responder’s Guide
You are starting as a new recruit. You have trained hard to pass your fire department physical requirements, and you received a clean bill of health from your pre-employment physical. You did everything right - so now it is time to begin the best career in the world.
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Does Unresolved Trauma Create Poor Leadership?
It’s no secret today that as first responders, we are faced with a constant gauntlet of various types of traumas. In its simplest form, just showing up for a shift or call exposes you to a situation most in society will never experience, never mind endure time and time again. Big city, small town, volunteer or full-time, we immerse ourselves into the worst days of the public in the name of helping others.
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Are Antioxidants the Key to a Healthier Fire Service?
It's no secret that firefighting is an exhilarating but dangerous job. Exposure to pollutants, trauma, sleep deprivation, and high-intensity work can cause free radical damage that accumulates over a 25+ year career. This damage contributes to firefighters' increased risk of cancer and cardiovascular disease. Antioxidants can help fight free radical damage. Could antioxidants be the answer to improving health in the fire service?
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