E.124 Unmasking Heroes: The Trials and Triumphs of First Responders
Finding Your Way Through Therapy
Steve Bisson
5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
What if the biggest heroes in our society, first responders, are also the ones silently suffering? Imagine being a police officer, firefighter, ER staff, military personnel, or any first responder, tasked with the wellbeing of others, but grappling with your own issues such as grueling work hours, balancing work and family life, and the potential accumulation of trauma. We step into their shoes, unearthing the challenges they face and the resilience they display. From personal stories of emergency situations to the illuminating discussions on the need for specialized resources, we aim to shed light on the often unseen side of their lives and bring attention to the much-needed support.
With first responders, they carry tales of adventure, tales of courage, but often these stories are shrouded by a cloak of confidentiality, making their socialization a complex process. In this candid conversation, we accentuate the vital importance of a support system that allows them to share their experiences, and the need to recognize their individual capabilities. Looking forward to my dialogue with Liz Kelly in the upcoming episode, we will be navigating through various topics such as holidays, stress, mood disorders, and more. This intimate exploration invites you to glimpse beyond the uniform and into the hearts and minds of our first responders.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi and welcome to Finding Your Way Through Therapy. |
| 0:06.9 | The goal of this podcast is to demystify therapy, what can happen in therapy and the wide |
| 0:12.1 | array of conversations you can have in and about therapy. |
| 0:16.0 | Through personal experiences, guests will talk about therapy, their experiences with it, |
| 0:22.2 | and how psychology and therapy are present in many places in their lives. |
| 0:27.3 | With lots of authenticity and a touch of humor, here is your host, Steve Bisson. |
| 0:34.4 | Thank you very much, thank you a thousand times, welcome to episode 124. |
| 0:38.5 | If you haven't listened to episode 123 yet, please go back and listen to it because Brad |
| 0:43.4 | Mastrangelo was an amazing person, he is a stand-up comedian, he is someone that I've |
| 0:48.7 | known through some work colleague, a friend of mine, and I went to see him a few weeks ago, |
| 0:55.6 | he was amazing as a stand-up, so please catch his shows, but also listen his message |
| 0:59.7 | about laughter and mental health. |
| 1:02.4 | But episode 124 is a little unique, I think it's the second time that I've done this via |
| 1:07.2 | YouTube as well as recording the episode, and so if you want to go check it out on YouTube, |
| 1:13.0 | it's available, which is not typical of my solo episodes, but episode 124 will be on |
| 1:18.5 | first responders, one of the things that comes up with first responders and the stuff that |
| 1:23.3 | I've done overall in the years that I've worked with, first responders is that there's |
| 1:27.8 | a lot of things that are very ill-defined, and that's part of the issue with first responders |
| 1:34.8 | at times. |
| 1:35.8 | So I wanted to work on a couple of ideas, the first thing is that first responders are usually |
| 1:41.4 | the first to the scene or the first to intervene in a crisis situation of some sort, it doesn't |
| 1:47.4 | always have to be crisis, but it could be through working in the community, working in |
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