by Hannah Packer | Sep 30, 2025 | Mental Health, Trauma - PTSD, Work & Employment
Carrying the Weight No One Sees When the shift ends and the uniform comes off, the weight of what you’ve seen doesn’t just disappear. Police officers, firefighters, paramedics, nurses, military personnel, and other frontline workers face experiences most people can’t...
by Susan Packer | Sep 4, 2025 | Mental Health, Parenting, Trauma - PTSD, Work & Employment
If you’re a parent working as a police officer, firefighter, paramedic, or other first responder, your work is more than just a job, it’s a calling. You’ve seen the best and worst of humanity, sometimes all in the same shift. And while you signed up to serve and...
by Susan Packer | Jul 22, 2025 | Crisis, Grief, Mental Health, Trauma - PTSD, Work & Employment
“I Don’t Know What to Say”: Supporting a Colleague in Crisis In emergency services—whether you’re a firefighter, paramedic, police officer, or dispatcher—you’re trained to respond quickly and effectively to other people’s crises. But when it’s your own colleague who’s...
by Finding Solutions Together | Nov 4, 2024 | Anger Management, Anxiety, Change, Conflict, Cooperative Parenting, Crisis, Family, Grief, Infidelity, Parenting, Problem-Solving, Separation & Divorce, Stress, Teens, Trauma - PTSD
Counting to Ten is Not Enough! How do I Calm Myself Down? When I was a child, my parents used to say “count to ten” or “take a deep breath” however this never seemed to work. Either I would refuse to do it as they were TELLING me to do...
by Finding Solutions Together | Oct 16, 2024 | Anxiety, Crisis, Depression, Diabetes, Love & Relationships, Mental Health, Sexuality, Spirituality, Trauma - PTSD
TV – Mental Health Analogy If I were to try to explain how I feel it would go something like this. I am a TV. I have many channels. During a day my channels get changed. A few channels come in clear without a lot of “fuzzy”. Some channels I’m not sure have...
by Finding Solutions Together | Sep 23, 2024 | Addiction & Substance Misuse, Anger Management, Change, Mental Health, Sexuality, Trauma - PTSD
ANTS: Our Thoughts or Not ? The following contribution is from a middle-aged woman who suffered severe child abuse, sexual abuse, containment and physical violence as well as the early demise of her mother. Father’s subsequent downturn to alcoholism and...
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