The Mindfulness for Warriors Handbook

Less than three months after retiring from a thirty-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 works 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.

Sommario

Part 1: The Warrior

• Chapter 1: From Widow to Warrior
• Chapter 2: What Is a Warrior?
• Chapter 3: Death Notification
• Chapter 4: He Was Kind of a Big Deal
• Chapter 5: His Buried Trauma
• Chapter 6: The Ripple Effects of Suicide

Part 2: The Weight

• Chapter 7: Stress and Trauma: The Effects of Accumulated Stress and How Trauma Impacts the Brain and Body
• Chapter 8: The Toxicity of Stoicism: How Ignoring Emotions Will Ruin You
• Chapter 9: Suicide Ideation: The Common Predictors of First Responder Suicide

Part 3: The Wisdom

• Chapter 10: Surviving and Thriving: First Responders Share Their Stories of Darkness and How They Are Healing
• Chapter 11: Meditation and Mindfulness: What They Are and How They Can Help
• Chapter 12: Breath: The Body’s Natural Stress Reliever
• Chapter 13: Learn to Pause℠ Mindfulness Training: Present Moment Awareness, Self-Awareness, and Self-Coaching
• Chapter 14: Pause15 Meditation℠: A flexible meditation practice that caters to the individual. 3 Steps, 4 Techniques, 15-Minutes a Day

Info autore

Kim Colegrove is a veteran meditator and speaker with over 40 years of experience. She is the creator of PAUSE15 Meditation℠ and Learn to Pause℠ Mindfulness Training, and the founder of The PauseFirst Project: Mindfulness for First Responders. Colegrove’s expertise in meditation has benefited individuals and corporations across the country, including Garmin International, The National Court Reporters Association, Department of Veterans Affairs, United Way, and others. In 2014, Kim lost her husband David to suicide, less than three months after he retired from a 30-year law enforcement career. She created The PauseFirst Project to honor David’s memory, and to help other first responders cope with stress and trauma. She partnered with Major Darren Ivey of the Kansas City Missouri Police Department in 2017 and began offering a 4-hour block of mindfulness training to law enforcement professionals and other first responders. The course has been very well-received and Colegrove now speaks at conferences and offers her course to first responder organizations nationwide. Kim is a contributing writer for In Public Safety, an American Military University (AMU) sponsored website. In August, her In Public Safety article, "My Husband’s Suicide: Recognizing Predictors of Police Suicide," was published on PoliceOne online, which boasts over 600,000 subscribers and over 2 million monthly visitors. Previously, Colegrove was a regular contributing writer for Kansas City Health and Wellness magazine. Colegrove has combined many years of meditation experience with her background in corporate mindfulness and her own personal story of tragedy and loss to create an informative and inspirational book that is a must-read for first responders and their families. Learn more about Kim's work at www.kimcolegrove.com.

Riassunto

Coping with the Stress of First Responder Life

“…a work of major importance that offers practical approaches to self-care and serenity for our first responders...” —Louise Harmon, author of Happiness from A to Z
#1 New Release in Military Families
The Mindfulness for Warriors Handbook is a new and expanded edition of Mindfulness for Warriors, providing an additional valuable resource for first responders.
Ensuring their heads are in a healthy place is crucial. After 30 years in law enforcement, Kim Colegrove’s husband took his own life. This agonizing experience opened her eyes to the desperate need for an effective form of stress-relief and support for first responders like cops and EMTs facing trauma.
A traumatic way of life. First responders have the incredibly difficult job of running toward danger while the rest of us run away. No training prepares them for what they see and endure. Kim understands what it’s like to watch someone go through that and is dedicated to helping first responders.
A source of hope. In 2017, Kim founded The PauseFirst Project: Mindfulness for First Responders. She offers the PauseFirst block of training to organizations across the country; teaching techniques that help reduce stress, regulate emotion, and improve overall health and well-being. Her work to bring awareness is a tribute to both her husband and the countless other first responders struggling with the realities of their jobs.
Inside find:

• Evidence-based practices to help first responders and families deal with stress
• Interviews with first responders who share stories of overcoming, surviving, and thriving
• Colegrove’s own raw and intimate story of her husband’s troubles and how she continues each day fighting in his memory

If you’ve found encouragement from books like Bulletproof Spirit, Bullets in the Washing Machine, or I Love a Cop, you’ll find a further source of healing in The Mindfulness for Warriors Handbook.

Prefazione

Back of Room Sales/Bulk Sales

• Kim is a regular speaker and teacher in the first responder community, reaching hundreds of first responders each month.
• Several different agencies have already booked 35+ units of Kim's 4-hour first responder mindfulness training course for 2019. 
• 2018 speaking engagements include:
  • 2018 CIT International Conference
  • 2018 C.O.P.S. National Conference
  • 2018 MIssouri Reentry Conference
• In January 2019, Kim will begin offering a quarterly PauseFirst Teacher Training Course. The book will be a teaching tool for all certified teachers, creating an opportunity for exponential book sales.

Social Media/Email Marketing

• The PauseFirst Project has recently been accepted by CAPS (Center for Advanced Professional Studies) to improve branding and create a robust social media marketing strategy.

Media

• Author proposes a national speaking book tour to promote the book and raise awareness of first responder suicide.
• Author will self-promote by contacting newspapers, magazines and radio and TV stations.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Kim Colegrove
• Editore: Ingram Publishers Services
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 26.09.2023
• EAN: 9781684814398
• ISBN: 978-1-68481-439-8
• Pagine: 228
• Categorie: Guide e manuali > Libri sul benessere, vita quotidiana > Condotta di vita, auto-realizzazione; Saggistica > Psicologia, esoterismo, spiritualità, antroposofia > Psicologia applicata; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Psicologia; Mindfulness, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Mindfulness & Meditation, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Military Families, SELF-HELP / Self-Management / Stress Management, SELF-HELP / Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Coping with / advice about death and bereavement