How Trauma Survivors Can Benefit From Individual Therapy
In a one-on-one setting, therapists streamline treatment to your distinctive goals, the challenges you’re facing, and the traumatic situations.
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Home is Ground Zero: Where Signs of Firefighters Struggling First Appear
It's important to unpack and assess the life experiences packed into our mental backpacks.
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Gaining Traction: Reach Your Goals with Coaching
A life coach will hold you accountable for the things you set out to do, ask you what step you want to take next, help you navigate both successes and failures, without judgment.
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Wellness Wednesday – Bone Health
Each week, we discuss a variety of different health and wellness topics (last week’s topic was grip strength), some of which may be more applicable to you than others. Everyone needs to pay attention to this week's topic of bone health, particularly women of every age.
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Wellness Wednesday – Why Grip Strength Matters
Human physical evolution was optimized to perform an array of survival tasks, including gripping and carrying things. If you had to identify a human physical superpower, it would probably be the ability to carry heavy things over long distances. That is likely why grip strength is still highly correlated with longevity and quality of life. Yet, for various reasons, as a species, we are losing our grip on functional strength and good health (pun intended).
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Facing the Fire: What’s Holding You Back?
We live in a messy world. A stressful job, a stressful cadence of hours, and a stressful living situation make it more challenging. That stress might hold you back from completing your responsibilities and achieving your goals. If so, how do we prevent being held back? What’s the root cause of your stress, and how can you face it head-on, overcome it, and achieve not only your responsibilities but your biggest goals? Let’s get to it.
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Can You Re-Wire a Negative Mindset?
What happens when the “what if” or worst-case scenario becomes the only scenario? First responders live in both scenarios each time they go to work and often when they return home.
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Fitness Gear Guide: 8 Essential Tools for Optimal Workouts
Firefighting presents numerous challenges that can hinder achieving fitness and performance goals. The stress of the job, sleep deprivation from shift work, and home responsibilities often stack the deck against us. Fortunately, tools and technologies are available to keep us on track, helping us optimize our performance while maintaining an excellent quality of life on and off the job.
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The Fitness Key: Unlocking Resilience for Firefighters’ Overall Wellness
Discover the transformative power of fitness in building resilience and improving overall wellness for firefighters and first responders.
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Have We Stalled Out at Awareness?
In a time where increased discussions are being had regarding mental health, trauma, PTSD, and the toll of the job, why does it feel like nothing is changing?
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