Challenges of the Firefighter Marriage

by Grace Harty | Mar 31, 2025

In Challenges of the Firefighter Marriage, author Anne Gagliano, the widely read Fire Engineering and FireLife.com columnist, has teamed up with her husband, Captain Mike Gagliano, to share their 30-plus years of personal experience on how marriage can thrive in the...

Fit For Off-Duty: A Manual for Law Enforcement Officers: Healing from Work-Related Trauma, Restoring Personal Relationships, and Thriving at Home

by Grace Harty | Mar 31, 2025

Every Law Enforcement Officer is a Trauma Survivor. Even veteran officers may not realize this. But constant exposure to traumatic events takes a serious toll. The body is affected, so is the nervous system, and so are the officer’s personal relationships. Off-duty...

Increasing Resilience in Police and Emergency Personnel

by Grace Harty | Mar 31, 2025

Increasing Resilience in Police and Emergency Personnel illuminates the psychological, emotional, behavioral, and spiritual impact of police work on police officers, administrators, emergency communicators, and their families. Author Stephanie Conn, a clinician and...

The Body Keeps Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

by Grace Harty | Mar 31, 2025

Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics; one in three couples have engaged in physical violence. Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, one of the...

Mindfulness for Warriors

by kaira | Mar 26, 2025

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...