335: Female Firefighters and Emotional Resilience (with Kerry Wisdom-Henbest)
Vibrant Happy Women
Jen Riday
4.8 • 671 Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Kerry Wisdom-Henbest shares what she has learned about stuffing emotions versus feeling them and how she helps firefighters and first responders process the daily trauma they face. Hear why it is so important for first responders to start learning to process their trauma and her advice for handling trauma and developing emotional resilience.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Vibrants Happy Women Podcast. |
| 0:02.8 | I'm Dr. Jen Ridey, and on this episode, I'm talking with a female firefighter friend about emotional resilience and trauma. |
| 0:11.3 | Stay tuned. |
| 0:12.2 | Hi, I'm Jen Ritey, and this podcast is for women who want to feel more vibrant, happy, aligned, and alive. |
| 0:19.6 | You'll gain the emotional, physical, and spiritual tools you need |
| 0:23.1 | to get your sparkle back and ensure that depression, anxiety, and struggle don't rule your life. |
| 0:29.1 | Welcome to the Vibrant Happy Women Podcast. |
| 0:32.6 | Hey there, my friends. We're talking about trauma today, specifically from the aspect of firefighting and being a first responder. |
| 0:43.9 | You know, I've been thinking a lot about this analogy. Maybe many of you listening are not first responders or firefighters, but imagine everything that is required to be one and how we can learn from |
| 0:56.2 | them as we respond to crises and traumas in our lives. In this episode, I'm talking with a friend |
| 1:02.9 | of mine, Carrie Wisdom Henbest, who was one of the first female firefighters in the state of |
| 1:07.7 | Florida. And what she learned through that process about emotions |
| 1:11.9 | and stuffing emotions versus feeling emotions and healing them and overcoming those daily traumas |
| 1:19.9 | that firefighters and first responders face. I love the idea of increasing this ability, maybe adding it as a protocol. |
| 1:30.4 | Unfortunately, Carrie, you'll hear in this episode, says, Jen, the firefighting world is not |
| 1:36.1 | ready for a protocol about emotions yet. |
| 1:38.7 | But it got me thinking, what would it look like in our lives if we were to set things up with protocols like you'll hear |
| 1:46.2 | Carrie describing in this interview protocols for how when we get home we back our car in just like |
| 1:52.5 | you see the firefighters backing their truck in and we clean it all up and we have it already |
| 1:57.3 | and we have everything ready to respond to the next crisis. Just planning that |
| 2:01.1 | seed in your mind, because that could be an interesting concept. And as you'll hear me talk about in |
| 2:07.0 | this episode, I get excited. I say, Carrie, what if after they back the fire truck in, all the |
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