Mindfulness for Warriors

Empowering First Responders to Reduce Stress and Build Resilience

By: Kim Colegrove

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins

Publisher's summary

Less than three months after retiring from a 30-year law enforcement career, Kim Colegrove's husband chose suicide. Since that day, Colegrove has been helping first responders across the country practice techniques to cope with the stress and trauma that their work brings. And this book continues that mission by offering first responders and their families hope by introducing meditation and mindfulness as viable and practical tools to help reduce stress, regulate emotion, and improve overall health and well-being.

Coping with the stress of first responder life

First responders have the incredibly difficult job of running toward danger while the rest of us run away. No training can prepare them for what they will see and endure. Colegrove understands this, and her personal experience opened her eyes to the desperate need for an effective form of stress relief and support for first responders.

No matter our profession, taking care of our mental health needs to be a priority. For first responders like cops and EMTs, ensuring that their heads are in a healthy place is crucial, because each day can bring them face-to-face with another trauma. With 40 years of experience, Kim Colegrove is here to share with listeners that there is a viable and practical resource for first responders found in meditation.

In 2017, Kim founded the PauseFirst Project, Mindfulness for First Responders. She teaches techniques that help reduce stress, regulate emotion, and improve overall health and well-being. Colegrove's work to bring awareness is a tribute to both her husband and the countless other first responders who struggle with the realities of their jobs.

Listeners will find evidence-based practices to help first responders and their families deal with stress, as well as interviews with first responders who share their stories of overcoming, surviving, and thriving.

©2020 Kim Colegrove (P)2020 Blackstone Publishing

Fire wife and Yoga instructor/ 5 stars

A wonderful, to the point heartfelt book. The pause method is a brilliant, simple , beneficial meditation technique. Kim, thank you for sharing your heart on a subject matter that needs to be shouted from the rooftops. From another first responder wife to you- thank you dude. #breakthestigma

Advocacy for Post Traumatic Growth

I am an active duty police sergeant, graduate level adjunct professor at a prominent Washington D.C. area university, a husband and father of four sons. I am also an author and trainer, seeking to lead resilience and wellness among first responders, leaders and their families. This book strikes a balance between delivering personal narrative, case studies, science and practical solutions for mitigating the corrosive consequences of unaddressed critical incident stress and trauma. In explaining mindfulness, Kim Colgrove offers an important component of your personal wellness regimen, and when combined with other deliberate resilience practices, can lead you away from the prison of negative trauma effects and towards the scientifically demonstrable phenomenon of post traumatic growth. This book provides a tool that assists us in the trauma healing process, towards a vibrant and joyful life. Further, the ideas communicated in this book are applicable to anyone seeking to reconcile anxiety and/or depression.

A must read for veterans and first responders

This book can save your life. Profound. if you serve you should read this. sound be required reading for everyone and for the families of those who serve.

Must read for first responders…

Fantastically written, and so relatable for a Marine Corps Veteran and first responder like me. A must read for any first responder of any sort.

great book!

Very insightful on the power of meditation. I recommend this book if you're looking to learn different ways of meditating, I'm sure that one of them will work for you, and help calm the mind and be able to focus more on the job you're doing.

Understanding my pain

Great quick book. Explained I am not alone in my feelings. I needed this book!

life changing

I attended The Battle Within where the author talked about mindfulness. This has changed my life. I meditate daily, and employ breathing exercises multiple times per day, and even teach them to patients in crisis when my AMR EMS unit is called to respond.

A must read for first responders

I’m a flight paramedic navigating my own mental health journey. This book came into my life at the exact right time

should be titled: why you need help as a warrior.

if the book was titled why you need help as a warrior it would be 5 stars.
1/3 of the book deals with mindfulness while 2/3 deals with why.

filled with bullahit and useless info

the helpful techniques mentioned in this book could fit into 15 minutes. other time is filled with useless bullshit. moreover, these techniques are very well known.