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First Responder Wellness is a residential and intensive outpatient treatment center that exclusively treats public safety professionals for alcohol, post-traumatic stress, addiction, anxiety, and depression. Since 2018, we have had more than 1,800 public safety professionals attend our long-term program. On The First Responder Wellness Podcast, we sit down with members of our clinical team, organizational leadership, subject matter experts, and alumni who have experienced the program firsthand. Each episode is designed to bring insight, hope, and practical tools to first responders and their families, while shedding light on the unique challenges and resiliency within the public safety community.
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First responders are normal people asked to do abnormal things, over and over again. When repeated exposure to trauma collides with sleep deprivation, family pressures, perfectionism, shame, and a culture of silence, simply “grinding it out” can stop working. In this episode of the First Responder Wellness Podcast, Chris Logan sits down with Kim Statham, M.A., LMFT, for a candid conversation about suicide prevention in the first responder community. They examine how accumulated stress can co...
In this episode of the First Responder Wellness Podcast, host Chris Logan sits down with Chaplain Nick to explore the unseen world of first responder chaplaincy. From his unique beginnings as a reserve firefighter to serving law enforcement agencies , Nick shares how the job reshapes the human soul. They dive deep into the heavy reality of compassion fatigue, the trauma of witnessing sudden loss, and why "the hardening of the heart" becomes an accidental protective measure for public safety ...
Scott Irwin was living out of his car when he joined the Marine Corps. It gave him discipline, direction, and the foundations of leadership, but it was also where his drinking began. While building a successful career in law enforcement, primarily working gangs and narcotics, Scott made the decision to get sober and begin rebuilding the trust and relationships his drinking had damaged. In this episode of the First Responder Wellness Podcast, Scott opens up about sobriety, restoring his fami...
In this episode of The First Responder Wellness Podcast, Chris Logan sits down with Chris Catren, former Chief of Police and Director of Strategic Relationships at First Responder Wellness. After nearly 30 years in law enforcement, Chris Catren had seen the job from every angle: officer, detective, supervisor, chief, and department leader. But when he first toured First Responder Wellness, he admits he came in skeptical. He had a hard time believing that first responders were really opening...
In this episode of The First Responder Wellness Podcast, Chris Logan sits down with Fred, a retired Los Angeles firefighter and Deputy Chief, to talk about 35 years in the fire service, the calls that stayed with him, and the cost of always trying to “stay strong.” Fred shares what it was like starting his fire career at Fire Station 9 on Skid Row, working some of the busiest assignments in Los Angeles, and slowly realizing that the calls he thought he had buried were beginning to add up. H...
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