Welcome to Resilience Development in Action with Steve Bisson.

This is the podcast dedicated to first responder mental health, helping police, fire,

EMS, dispatchers, and paramedics create better growth environments for themselves and their teams.

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Okay. teams. Let's get started. Well, hi everyone and welcome. I'm so happy to have you to hear. I hoping that you continue to like and subscribe if you think about it and then put in a review those

reviews are always helpful but today i have someone that i met through online and i read her book

and it's called one of our books i didn't read the other one yet but i'm going to be reading it calling

helping the helpers but this one is dump the bucket let's see killing trauma and police with EMDR i'm

covering her name that That's not fair.

I read the book. You know me. I never lie on my podcast. You can see there's a little crease.

There's little notes. There's a whole night thing. But the good thing is Stacey already sucked up to me.

She signed the first page. So, ha ha, I got a signed version. But in all reality,

making EMDR reachable for first responders is so important. And this book does it in droves. So welcome Dr. Stacey Raymond. This is the last time I'm going to call you, Dr.

Welcome to Resilience Development in Action. Thank you for having me. It's great to be here. I think that, you know, I introduced a little bit of both books already, but, you know, you're much more than two books, I'm assuming. Anyway, I hope. But I really felt like I got to talk to you a few minutes before the interview and then, you know, we've exchanged a few times. We seem very similar. I think we have a karaoke night that we're going to do sometimes. Yes. Right. How about you introduce yourself to my audience who may not know who you are?

Sure. All right. So I'm Stacey Raymond. I've been a clinical psychologist in private practice for 27 years.

So I work in Ridgefield, Connecticut. I am a peer support clinical supervisor for a local police department. I grew up raised by a Marine

and a police officer. He just turned 90 yesterday. So he said, you know, Marines don't die.

They just go to hell and regroup. That's what he told me. So I'm going to follow that.

So it was difficult at times, you know, to be raised by someone with that background, especially because he came from his own issues even before he enlisted in the military.

But that was my first understanding of what it was like to be a police officer,

at least to live with one and to see the work that he did and how it impacted him and to live

with somebody with post-traumatic stress that never addressed it because, you know, he's 90.

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