Wellness Warrior Style: A Simple, Peer-Supported Guide to Help First Responders and Veterans Heal

A Warrior’s Roadmap to Healing Trauma 

“A book that will save lives and a book about those who save lives.”—Belles and Rebelles

Work stress relief—even after retirement—for first responders, veterans, service members, or others.  Hear from warriors who credit author Kim Colegrove’s first book for saving their lives, and discover proven techniques and peer support to conquer long term effects of stress and restore your well-being as a resilient warrior.

Reclaim your resilience and restore well-being. Wellness Warrior Style focuses on the unique challenges faced by those on the frontlines and offers support for all of society’s warriors, protectors, guardians, and healers. Understand the long term effects of stress, PTS (Post-Traumatic Stress), and find work stress relief tailored for first responders.

Healing trauma for first responders. Whether you're a police officer, firefighter, emergency medical responder, mental health crisis worker, service member, warfighter supporter, veteran, or anyone else in public safety and service, take off your armor and set aside your shield. Let’s tackle these issues together.

Inside, find:

• Personal stories from your peers, offering a sense of camaraderie
• Peer-supported resources, including culturally-relevant curriculum created by fellow warriors on Kim’s online platform, Pause First Academy
• Strategies to help you navigate chronic stress with resilience and strength
• How to ask for help—and the importance of doing so

If you have read Walk the Blue Line, The Myth of Normal, or Nothing's Wrong, you’ll love Wellness Warrior Style.

Kim Colegrove is the author of Mindfulness for Warriors and the founder of Pause First Academy—an organization that provides online and in-person wellness and resilience training for society’s warriors, protectors, guardians, and healers. Kim is an experienced keynote speaker, and in 2022, she was awarded the Mid-America CIT (Critical Incident Team) Teacher of the Year award. Colegrove is the widow of a first responder who died by suicide. She previously taught mindfulness in corporate settings such as Garmin International, United Way, Department of Veterans Affairs, and The National Court Reporters Association. After her husband’s death, Kim turned her attention to helping warriors learn how to cope with stress and trauma. She now leads a team of culturally competent instructors who offer resilience training with a focus on holistic wellbeing and work-life balance.

Becca Anderson comes from a long line of teachers and preachers from Ohio and Kentucky. The teacher side of her family led her to become a woman's studies scholar and to her career writing about awesome women. A multiple-time bestselling author, Becca Anderson is known for many things, including her books Badass Affirmations and The Book of Awesome Women, her Your Blessings blog and Every Day Thankful Facebook page, as well as her many appearances on both national and bay area tv and radio shows such as ABC, NBC, and NPR. She credits her spiritual practice and daily prayer with helping her recover from cancer. An avid collector of affirmations, meditations, prayers and blessings, she helps run a "Gratitude and Grace Circle" that meets monthly at homes, churches and bookstores in the San Francisco Bay Area where she currently resides. Becca Anderson shares prayers and affirmations, inspirational writings and suggested acts of kindness at https://thedailyinspoblog.wordpress.com