Mindfulness For Warriors (eBook)

Empowering First Responders to Reduce Stress and Build Resilience (Book for Doctors, Police, Nurses, Firefighters, Paramedics, Military, and Others)

Kim Colegrove (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
Mango Media (Verlag)
978-1-64250-175-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Less than three months after retiring from a thirty-year law enforcement career, Kim Colegrove's husband chose suicide. Since that day, Colegrove has been helping first responders across the country practice techniques to cope with the stress and trauma that their works brings, and this book continues that mission by offering first responders and their families hope by introducing meditation and mindfulness as viable and practical tools to help reduce stress, regulate emotion, and improve overall health and well-being.

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Coping with the Stress of First Responder LifeMindfulness for Warriors is a work of major importance that offers practical approaches to self-care and serenity for our first responders... Louise Harmon, author of Happiness from A to Z#1 New Release in Military FamiliesA traumatic way of life.First responders have the incredibly difficult job of running toward danger while the rest of us run away. No training prepares them for what they see and endure. Kim Colegrove understands what its like to watch someone go through that. After 30 years in law enforcement, her husband took his own life. This agonizing experience opened Kims eyes to the desperate need for an effective form of stress-relief and support for first responders.The power of meditation.Taking care of our mental health is a priority. For first responders, like cops and EMTs facing trauma, ensuring that their heads are in a healthy place is crucial. Kim is here to propose meditation as a resource for first responders.A source of hope.In 2017, Kim founded The PauseFirst Project, Mindfulness for First Responders. Kim offers the PauseFirst block of training to organizations across the country; teaching techniques that help reduce stress, regulate emotion, and improve overall health and well-being. Her work to bring awareness is a tribute to both her husband and the countless other first responders struggling with the realities of their jobs.In Mindfulness for Warriors find:Evidence-based practices to help first responders and families deal with stressInterviews with first responders who share stories of overcoming, surviving, and thrivingColegroves own raw and intimate story of her husbands troubles and how she continues each day fighting in his memoryIf youve looked for encouragement from books likeBulletproof Spirit, Bullets in the Washing Machine,orI Love a Cop (Third Edition);you will find a further source of healing inMindfulness for Warriors.

Inhalt

Part 1: The Warrior

• Chapter 1: From Widow to Warrior
• Chapter 2: What Is a Warrior?
• Chapter 3: Death Notification
• Chapter 4: He Was Kind of a Big Deal
• Chapter 5: His Buried Trauma
• Chapter 6: The Ripple Effects of Suicide

Part 2: The Weight

• Chapter 7: Stress and Trauma: The Effects of Accumulated Stress and How Trauma Impacts the Brain and Body
• Chapter 8: The Toxicity of Stoicism: How Ignoring Emotions Will Ruin You
• Chapter 9: Suicide Ideation: The Common Predictors of First Responder Suicide

Part 3: The Wisdom

• Chapter 10: Surviving and Thriving: First Responders Share Their Stories of Darkness and How They Are Healing
• Chapter 11: Meditation and Mindfulness: What They Are and How They Can Help
• Chapter 12: Breath: The Body’s Natural Stress Reliever
• Chapter 13: Learn to Pause℠ Mindfulness Training: Present Moment Awareness, Self-Awareness, and Self-Coaching
• Chapter 14: Pause15 Meditation℠: A flexible meditation practice that caters to the individual. 3 Steps, 4 Techniques, 15-Minutes a Day

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.3.2020
• Vorwort: Becca Anderson
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Lebenshilfe / Lebensführung
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
• Schlagworte: Anxiety • bring awareness • Cops • dispatchers • doctors • emotional survival for law enforcement • emts • encouragement messages • Firefighters • First Responder • healed • health wellness • Law enforcement • law enforcement gear • leo wife • love cop police wife how married dating ellen kirschman officer bullet washing machine bullets critical incident debriefing ptsd first responders law enforcement family devotional bulletproof spirit proof cuffs coffee responder stress mental health • medical first responder • meditation anxiety • meditation books for men • meditation gifts • mental health books for men • mental health help • mental health wellness • military veterans • mindfulness meditation • nurses • paramedics • PauseFirst Project • Police • police families • police gifts • police wife • PTSD • regulate emotion • techniques to help reduce stress • what i need
• ISBN-10: 1-64250-175-1 / 1642501751
• ISBN-13: 978-1-64250-175-9 / 9781642501759