Hi and welcome to Finding Your Way Through Therapy.

The goal of this podcast is to demystify therapy, what can happen in therapy and the wide

array of conversations you can have in and about therapy.

Through personal experiences, guests will talk about therapy, their experiences with it,

and how psychology and therapy are present in many places in their lives.

With lots of authenticity and a touch of humor, here is your host, Steve Bisson.

Thank you very much, thank you a thousand times, welcome to episode 124.

If you haven't listened to episode 123 yet, please go back and listen to it because Brad

Mastrangelo was an amazing person, he is a stand-up comedian, he is someone that I've

known through some work colleague, a friend of mine, and I went to see him a few weeks ago,

he was amazing as a stand-up, so please catch his shows, but also listen his message

about laughter and mental health.

But episode 124 is a little unique, I think it's the second time that I've done this via

YouTube as well as recording the episode, and so if you want to go check it out on YouTube,

it's available, which is not typical of my solo episodes, but episode 124 will be on

first responders, one of the things that comes up with first responders and the stuff that

I've done overall in the years that I've worked with, first responders is that there's

a lot of things that are very ill-defined, and that's part of the issue with first responders

at times.

So I wanted to work on a couple of ideas, the first thing is that first responders are usually

the first to the scene or the first to intervene in a crisis situation of some sort, it doesn't

always have to be crisis, but it could be through working in the community, working in

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