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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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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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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Dyslexia in the Fire Service
Dyslexia should never prevent anyone from working in the fire service. However, academic testing and note memorization have a tendency to derail some individuals with dyslexia. But this should not be the case.
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Stress Mitigation for Firefighters
Despite the reputation stress has, it remains an important aspect of optimal functioning. Therefore, the goal should not - and cannot - be the total elimination of stress.
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Re-Wire Your Brain’s Response To Danger
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.
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Resilience & Vehicle Maintenance (From Behind the Line S1E2)
When we think about the toll of the job, it comes through many moments. Moments big and small. The wear is a bunch of bumps that push your system when added up over time.
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Why CBD is Being Used to Calm the Mind
If CBD doesn’t make you feel high, why are people using it to reduce stress or “calm the mind”? Research into CBD has shown it has multiple effects on the brain from reducing symptoms of anxiety all the way up to reducing seizures.
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If You’re Stressed, Choose Activity
Just be stressed and workout. Simple right? When your system is processing trauma, feeling heavy, unsure, dealing with the unknown and thinking flight or flight - CHOOSE ACTIVITY.
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Don’t Age Yourself Over Stress
We need to look no further than Hollywood or the realm of professional sports to see that humans are thriving at ages that were once deemed over the hill.
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