Side effects may include.. 📌 Improved mood 😃📌 Increased Energy ⚡️📌 Clarity 👓📌 Internal satisfaction ❤️📌 Physical Strength 💪🏼📌 Mental Strength 📌 Radiance & Glow 💡📌 Increased creativity ✍️📌 Motivation 🔥📌 Overall wellness and Growth 🌱📌 Feeling unstoppable 🚆📌 Connection with your personal Power 💥📌 Transcending little energy ➡️ ⬆️ BIG energy WARNING ⚠️ ‼️ …
The ACUTE Stress Response 📌Systems that are challenged📌How to support them-Nutritionally-Physically📌Most importantly -WHY-( remember I’m a big proponent of knowing the WHY behind information ) I will always be expanding on these but here is a bite size breakdownSee below for the WHY & more on each Coming up ‼️ 📌A list of Antioxidant and …
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Who has been a victim of the mom seatbelt🙋🏻♀️ (who has been the mom seatbelt 🙋🏻♀️😂 ) You know when mom has to slam on the brakes and her arm comes flying across your chest 👀 Both of you are equally surprised… It all happens before either of you can consciously process the situation That’s …
I’m not here to serve up fluff sandwiches(Taste good but zero nutritional value…) Info can be like that tooSounds easy and cuteBut doesn’t move the needle I want to EMPOWER you with this information BUT I also love EASY ways to remember things so stay with me -I got you- First Responders If we want …
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Considering our jobs as First Responders evolve around STRESS, it’s not something we all understand all that well do you agree? We may learn about the stress response in relation to patient care but we are never taught much about how it relates to US! It’s time we take the time to really educate ourselves …
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Day 1 of career as a first responderGive me all the crazy callsI hope it’s busyI’m ready to gain some experience!Let’s do thisI’m cut out for thisI can handle it Day 5,840… Many many…many crazy calls and a pandemic later A collection of experiences ranging from the funny and laughing until you can’t breathe that …
What is one of the most underrated forms of exercise for 📌Fat loss📌Improved mood📌Cardiovascular health📌Metabolic health📌Musculoskeletal health📌Nervous system health Walking!!! That’s right, you don’t have to leave your workout drenched in sweat every time to have accomplished something High intensity all the time leads to diminishing returns… Work smarter Not harder applies here While I …
The Lymphatic System. This system is a huge part of our immune defense systems 🦠 I like to think of it as one of your bodies ways of taking out the trash 🗑 I have broken down… 📌 HOW it works 📌 WHY it’s so important for Firefighters to understand ‼️ 📌 PREVENTION measures 📌 …
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The gym is for building ourselves. It’s about growth both physically and mentally A place where you leave as More than when you arrived Weakness ➡️ StrengthThoughts ➡️ ActionFatigue ➡️ EnergyPain ➡️ Power To make working out about weight loss cheapens it’s power and yours. You are there to transcend all the BS. It’s a …
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It’s 2:00 AMThe tones come throughDispatch reports 🔊First Alarm Assignment Structure Fire Within fractions of a second, before the tone is even over, your brain 🧠 has already set a series of cascading events in motion before you can even consciously process any of this 🚨Heart rate goes ⬆️🚨Respiratory rate ⬆️🚨Blood pressure ⬆️🚨Blood sugar ⬆️🚨Body …
Is stress killing Firefighters? Or is it our inability to adapt to stress… Read More »