Happy 250 Birthday Navy! ⚓️

Great leaders embrace the suck. Bad leaders embrace the suck-ups.

1/ To obtain security clearances, US Dept of Defense used to require people to disclose mental health treatment. It was widely considered a career ender. I wrote the document that led them to change that—and STOP requiring disclosure Ironically, a hypothetical example I used in

Recognizing that even the 'wins' can leave scars trib.al/zJm0Cv1

This is true and it’s worth it, fellas. I’ve had many jobs (could have many more if AI takes over) but psychotherapy is the most personally rewarding and intellectually stimulating work I’ve ever done. Apply. Bite your tongue. Get licensed. Do good work. You could change lives.

Mental Health Screening May Worsen Outcomes: Evidence from a Firefighter RCT A randomized controlled trial involving 459 firefighters compared universal mental health screening to a control group. Key findings at 3 months: • No significant increase in help-seeking rates. •

Being trained to work with trauma doesn't mean that you over identify everything is being related to trauma. It means that you're good at distinguishing what is clinically significant from what is not clinically significant, regardless of whether it is meaningful or not. I think

Spending this week in training. ASAP Training and Trauma Support for First Responders. So far I’m cautiously optimistic. asap-training.com

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Every day I'm torn between wanting firefighters to be unbreakable and wanting a culture where it's safe to break.

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What I like about Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is that it is a wellness model of mental health. As opposed to most disease models (like the DSM), ACT concerns itself with what makes people healthy.

People who recover from trauma or grief learn 2 things: 1. “I will be okay despite the fact that this happened.” 2. “I have the strength, skills, and worth to live on in as best a way that I can” (all things considered). #1 is relatively easy to accomplish. #2 is tricky

On BGR, we focus on leadership and wellness, and with that we have a stellar, impactful guest to hit on both.  I am pleased to feature local WA state police leader and mental health counselor Lt. Corey Williams!  Corey shares about the origin of both careers, and how he can even

Stop for a moment. Look around.

The new 80-pounder caught me by surprise. Nothing like finishing a workout with kettlebells in the rain to jump start the day.

youtube.com/playlist?list=… On BGR, we focus on leadership and wellness, and with that we have a stellar, impactful guest to hit on both.  I am pleased to feature local WA state police leader and mental health counselor Lt. Corey Williams!  Corey shares about the origin of both