Overview

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 work 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. Coping with the Stress of First Responder Life First responders have the incredibly difficult job of running toward danger while the rest of us run away. No training can prepare them for what they will see and endure. Colegrove understands this, and her personal experience opened her eyes to the desperate need for an effective form of stress relief and support for first responders. No matter our profession, taking care of our mental health needs to be a priority. For first responders like cops and EMTs, ensuring that their heads are in a healthy place is crucial, because each day can bring them face-to-face with another trauma. With forty years of experience, Kim Colegrove is here to share with listeners that there is a viable and practical resource for first responders found in meditation. In 2017, Kim founded the PauseFirst Project, Mindfulness for First Responders. She teaches techniques that help reduce stress, regulate emotion, and improve overall health and well-being. Colegrove's work to bring awareness is a tribute to both her husband and the countless other first responders who struggle with the realities of their jobs. Listeners will find evidence-based practices to help first responders and their families deal with stress, as well as interviews with first responders who share their stories of overcoming, surviving, and thriving.

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A work of major importance that offers practical approaches to self-care and serenity for our first responders...Kim Colegrove's marvelous book is an essential read for these brave people. -- Louise Harmon, author of Happiness from A to Z An invaluable tool to help the helpers. Her mindfulness practices and meditation techniques offer much respite, relief, and calm to anyone who picks up this book. -- Becca Anderson, author of Prayers for Hard Times

"""An invaluable tool to help the helpers. Her mindfulness practices and meditation techniques offer much respite, relief, and calm to anyone who picks up this book."" -- ""Becca Anderson, author of Prayers for Hard Times"" ""A work of major importance that offers practical approaches to self-care and serenity for our first responders...Kim Colegrove's marvelous book is an essential read for these brave people."" -- ""Louise Harmon, author of Happiness from A to Z"""

Author Information

Kim Colegrove is a veteran meditator and speaker with over forty years of experience, and the founder of The PauseFirst Project: Mindfulness for First Responders. Colegrove's expertise in meditation has benefited individuals and corporations across the country. Becca Anderson comes from a long line of teachers and preachers from Ohio and Kentucky. The teacher side of her family led her to become a woman's studies scholar and the author of the bestselling The Book of Awesome Women. An avid collector of affirmations, meditations, prayers, and blessings, she helps run a ""Gratitude and Grace Circle"" that meets monthly at homes, churches, and bookstores in the San Francisco Bay Area where she currently resides. Pam Ward found her true calling reading books for the blind and physically handicapped for the Library of Congress' Talking Books program.

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