Emotional

E.63: Relieving PTSD, Depression, Anxiety & Trauma

with Captain Dan Willis

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Session Notes:

Everybody deals with some level of trauma in their life. For some, trauma is severe enough to leave lasting effects, including post-traumatic stress.

Captain Dan Willis, retired Homicide Detective and SWAT Commander, as well as wellbeing coordinator and teacher, talks about the high levels of PTSD and trauma among first responders. He shares insights and tools from his book, Bulletproof Spirit:

  • How trauma accumulates in small increments for first responders who are exposed to the worst of human nature, day in and day out…

  • The telltale signs of trauma and PTSD…

  • How trauma “crushes the spirit and “suffocates the heart”…

  • The essential strategies to heal the broken spirit…

  • How loved ones and peers can offer support to those living with trauma and PTSD…

To learn more about Captain Dan’s work, visit www.FirstResponderWellness.com and to purchase a copy of his book, you can find it here: https://www.amazon.com/Bulletproof-Spirit-Responders-Essential-Protecting/dp/1608682617

E.47: Renewal Through Nature

with Andrés R. Edwards

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Episode Notes:

What if the key for both personal thriving and planetary thriving is that humans return to our innate interconnectedness with the natural world?

Andres R. Edwards, award-winning author of sustainability books, shares deep insights and science from his new book, Renewal: How Nature Awakens Our Creativity, Compassion, and Joy:

  • In busy urban areas… how to bring the benefits of being out in nature into our interior spaces?

  • What awe, beauty, time in spent in nature, and natural design do for human health…

  • The difference between children with “Nature Deficit Disorder” and children in Scandinavian countries who are raised with “friluftsliv”

  • What is Compassionate Conservation and what the case of the relocation of the leopards in Mumbai teaches us about how we can do conservation well

  • Nature as a mentor for humans… where that takes us…

To learn more about Andrés’s work, visit www.AndresEdwards.com