This past summer, I headed to Southeast Ohio to train a small, rural fire department on Trauma Related Stress Injuries, or TRSI©. Being from a small, rural farm town where I had lived across the street most of my childhood from the flashing light alerting drivers to the fire truck dispatch, I had some idea …
A while back, I saw a new substance abuse counselor post something on a social media site indicating he loved “saving lives.” It took me back to 1998 when I first graduated college and moved to Washington D.C. and thought I was off on an adventure to save some lives of my own. It was …
A few years ago on vacation, I sat on a tiny island while being hit by a Category 4 hurricane. To me, while I know logically there are worse, it says to me, “this one is bad, look out, take cover.” When I think of four alarms, the same severity registers; “look out, this one …
Today these photos popped up in my social media “memories” feed. When I saw them, I couldn’t believe it had been a year. It may look like a bowl of rocks to some, but to me, it was the start of everything new. A year ago, I had invited a former coaching student who had …
I’ve been told more times than I can count, I’m “too smart for my own good.” Whether that is me dismantling an argument, struggling to take things at face value and over analyzing, or asking deeper questions that someone wasn’t prepared to answer about a casual statement. I always thought that regardless of whether they …
