FRC Blog

Coaching is Not for Crisis

Our coaches are not clinicians, cannot diagnose or prescribe, and are not qualified to handle true crisis situations.

Are you born or bred? What leads a person to first responder life?

“Firefighters are not machines.” You can’t have them working nonstop with one day off and hardly any sleep.

It’s a job of boots and tears, but it seems clear in training that first responders are not the ones allowed to cry.

Resilience is our ability to adapt or bounce back when things don’t go as planned. Resilience is about learning to deal with problems.

Years may go by, but it’s the person we hold close. It’s okay to remember and move on, and we will never forget.

FRC attended the 31st 1st Responder Conferences event in Boston/Woburn, co-hosted by the Middlesex Sheriff’s Office.

Just like we need to eventually clean out that messy room, we need to clean out that messy head. It doesn’t have to be hard.

No one signs up for trauma because it’s fun. We sign up for trauma to help people out of it, not to wear the scars of it for the rest of our lives.

With connection and comradery comes confidence. Having a life coach who’s also part of the first responder world is gold.