Fire Family Peer Support

During this week, we want to make sure I take time to thank each and every member of EMS for their time and dedication. It is often a thankless job where you see people on their worst days. It carries the weight of the trauma you see day in and day out. We literally owe our lives to you. Thank you!

We were honored to be apart of an IAFF COE webinar. Missed it? Here its is:

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Secondary trauma is also a concern, when family members and firefighters are going through this together, it can be hard to find grace for each other.

People can't see it from the outside, but trauma survivors' nervous systems are doing like 100X more work than the average person's.

We don't feel permanently burned out for no reason— under the hood, our engines are ALWAYS redlining. Even when we're supposedly "at rest."