Stories

Pretty quick into the George Floyd thing I learned that a first responder— a paramedic like me— stood there and filmed the entire interaction. Her iPh...

I didn’t think a whole lot about having PTSD until my wife started telling me stories about things I did at night while I was asleep.

•  She told me
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I got out of the service and got my law degree. I didn’t serve long— just enough to pay for school. Because of that, though, and because my family is ...

I was a nurse back in 2020– during the pandemic.

At first, I was scared and overwhelmed about an unknown virus coming from China. Nobody knew anythin...

We received a call to a house fire. Shortly after arriving, we heard there was a strong likelihood someone might still be inside.

“He’s probably in t...

I’m a paramedic. I’ve been called to numerous homes when an elderly patient suffers a heart attack or seems to be having a stroke. I always do the bes...

I received a 9-1-1 call that caught me off guard— in a way none of the others ever had.

It was a co-worker’s family calling. His brother-in-law was o...

I was at my daughter’s college graduation. It was a 2-year community college— the kind where they do a lot of vocational training.

I found myself spe...

Three are three key talking points in this presentation…

1️⃣ Emotional health is a vital component of total health— yet it’s one we often overlook. I...

It was Christmas Day, a few years into being a firefighter.

I had some seniority at the station, so I wasn’t scheduled to work that day. But, I had a...

I joined the State Highway Patrol while I was in my mid-twenties. Real fast, I picked up special code words and nicknames the guys had for various sit...

This talk is divided into three parts—

1️⃣ PTSD & Moral Injury are different (2:04)

2️⃣ What Moral Injury looks like (30:34)

3️⃣ Healing Moral Inju...