Hi and welcome to Finding Your Way Through Therapy, a proud member of the SightCraft Network.

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.

Sojourn'all in the old studio, still in the old studio.

Welcome to Finding Your Way.

I'm your host, Steve Bisson.

If you haven't listened to Episode 186, please go listen to it.

Dave Roberts was a great guest.

Really enjoyed our conversation, so go listen to him.

We talked about grief.

We talked about resources.

We talked about a whole lot of different things, including his books. So go check it out. But episode 187, as we do this transformation to more of the things that I kind of work with, the people I would like to work with and the stuff that I want to do, including grief, trauma, and coaching. But this one's going to be about my first responder stuff. And what I mean by that is this, is that I actually

don't do peer support myself because I'm not a peer. I've never served as a police officer,

firefighter, EMT, paramedic dispatch. I've certainly been in the field with everyone, but I am not someone who served

in that type of environment. So I can't be a peer. A lot of people have asked me about peer support

systems and what's in place. So I can't talk for the country. I can't even talk all that

well about Massachusetts. I do know some resources, but let's start talking

about what it is and what it isn't. So the first thing I'm going to do is talk about the definition

of peer support. These are trained individuals who are in the same profession as the individuals

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