Mindful Responder: The First Responder's Field Guide to Improved Resilience, Fulfillment, Presence, & Fitness--On & Off the Job

What is mindfulness? Meditation? How might they work for today’s first responder? In this pathbreaking book, Coates takes these grand—and often misunderstood—concepts and breaks them down into basics for today’s first responder. Mindful Responder combines science, stories, exercises, interviews, and firsthand experience to explore mindfulness and meditation in a practical, no-nonsense, and often hilarious manner. This is your field guide for improving resilience, fulfillment, presence, and fitness—on and off the job.
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"If you're a first responder seeking to understand mindfulness and add tools to help strengthen your resilience, this practical guidebook was written specifically for you. Coates communicates with clarity and passion while answering important and pressing questions about mindfulness for law enforcement, firefighters, EMS, dispatchers, and other first responders. This book is a gift to the heroes of our society."
--David Black, Ph.D., CEO of Cordico
"I was, to put it mildly, skeptical about mindfulness and meditation--until I read this book. Coates knows first responders and speaks to the challenges of this work in language that grabbed mefrom the get-go. Essential reading that's going to do a lot of first responders a lot of good!"
--Lt. Jim Glennon (ret.), author of Arresting Communications and co-author of Street Survival II
"Mindfulness and meditation are powerful tools to sharpen the mind and reduce stress. No one needs those tools more than first responders."
--Ellen Kirschman, Ph.D., author of I love a Cop: What Families Need to Know and Counseling Cops: What Clinicians Need to Know