E.221 From Survival Mode to Sustainable Service: A First Responder's Guide to Wellbeing

Resilience Development in Action

Steve Bisson

Religion & Spirituality, Self-improvement, Education, Psychology, Counseling, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Honest, Substance Use, Social Sciences, Science

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🗓️ 10 September 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Send us a text The weight of caring for others can become unbearable when we forget to care for ourselves. This powerful conversation with Deidre Gestrin, a licensed clinical professional counselor and certified health coach, takes us deep into the reality of burnout among first responders and helping professionals. Deidre shares her profound personal journey through burnout - a harrowing experience that led her doctor to deliver the stark warning: "Your job is killing you." With remarkable ...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Resilience Development and Action, where strength meets strategy and courage to help you move forward.
0:07.3	Each week, your host, Steve Bisson, a therapist with over two decades of experience in the first responder community,
0:13.0	brings you powerful conversations about resilience, growth, and healing through trauma and grief.
0:19.0	Through authentic interviews, expert discussions, and real-world
0:22.2	experiences, we dive deep into the heart of human resilience. We explore crucial topics like
0:28.4	trauma recovery, grief processing, stress management, and emotional well-being. This is
0:34.4	Resilience Development and Action with Steve Bisson.
0:43.2	Welcome, welcome, welcome.
0:44.8	Episode 221.
0:49.2	If you have a listen to Episode 220, it was with my buddy Bill Duanelles.
0:50.6	So go listen to it.
0:54.7	We talk about Fortress, among other things, which hopefully now peak your interest and go listen to it. It's a new approach and adding another element to how we can support
1:00.7	first responders on a regular basis. But episode 221 was with Deidre Gestrin. Deidre Gestrin is
1:07.5	the founder of abundant wellness essential. She is a certified health coach and a licensed clinical professional counselor, LPC, who understands the challenges of high-performed career.
1:16.9	She is based out of Ohio.
1:18.6	She's worked with private and governmental contracts, as well as the DOC in Idaho.
1:23.3	Department of Corrections for those who don't know what that means.
1:26.3	Deidre is on a mission to help high achieving professionals as well as first responders
1:30.4	conquer burnout and thrive in their careers in the next few years.
1:35.8	So she reached out to me on Facebook and I can't wait to hear her interview, so here it is.
1:48.0	Yeah. interview, so here it is. GetFree.AI.
1:49.5	You heard me talk about it.
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