Harness the Power of Anger
The earlier we recognize the signs of growing anger, the sooner we can address them and respond in a healthy way.
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STRESS
Firefighting is a career of extremes that cannot be left at the office. Firefighters deal with life and death on a daily basis and are usually unable to debrief completely before heading home. Many firefighters find it difficult, if not impossible, to discuss work with their loved ones. We combine both on-duty and off-duty topics to provide firefighters with the tools required to deal with the stressors of firefighting.
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Why Crisis Feels Like Home: The First Responder Paradox
For those who grew up feeling unsafe or unsupported, choosing a career where they’re in control can be an attempt to reclaim power and find purpose.
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3 Lessons I Learned About the Power of Community in My Recovery
Overcoming obstacles, whether physical, mental, or emotional, isn’t something you have to face on your own.
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Dispatchers on the Frontlines: Natural Disasters and Moral Injury
Moral injury is no different than any other type of trauma injury; experiencing it does not make the dispatcher broken, unfixable or damaged for life.
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Mindfulness: How Can it Help the Fire Service?
The fire service is well overdue to bring in skills and practices its members can use to keep themselves grounded.
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Why Hearing But Not Seeing is So Detrimental for 911 Dispatchers
Due to being removed from the scene, many dispatchers do not get the end of the story that started so terrifyingly in their ear.
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Have We Stalled Out at Awareness?
While lectures, classes, and presentations are a great way to educate people, the learning shouldn’t stop there.
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How Asking for Help is a Powerful Move
When you ask for help, by requesting someone pitch in their ideas or do something for you, you’re empowering them.
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Negative Bias and Gratitude
As a species, our brains have kept us safe from predators, rival tribes, dangerous situations, and the environment for generations through our sympathetic nervous system and the fight, flight or freeze response. We are attuned at a very primal level to sensing danger and being ever watchful for it. We are even able to deal with very stressful situations, process these, move from fight, flight and freeze and then regulate, through homeostasis back to our rest and digest state. But something happened to us along the way.
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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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