by Crawford Coates | Oct 7, 2022 | Blogs
I wrote an article about the term mindfulness a while back because it seems to cause some confusion. My friend George Ryan, who teaches meditation to LAPD special teams officers, doesn’t like the term. “I don’t want your mind to be full,” he...
by Crawford Coates | Oct 6, 2022 | Blogs
Nobody knows for sure rates of substance abuse among American first responders. Psychologist Ellen Kirschman and epidemiologist John Violanti–two of my heroes–have been looking at this for decades now. According to Kirschman, law enforcement officers...
