The First Responder Wellness Podcast
First Responder Wellness is a residential and intensive outpatient treatment center that exclusively treats public safety professionals for alcohol, post-traumatic stress, addiction, anxiety, and depression. Since 2018, we have had more than 1,800 public safety professionals attend our long-term program. On The First Responder Wellness Podcast, we sit down with members of our clinical team, organizational leadership, subject matter experts, and alumni who have experienced the program firsthand. Each episode is designed to bring insight, hope, and practical tools to first responders and their families, while shedding light on the unique challenges and resiliency within the public safety community.
The First Responder Wellness Podcast
The Opposite of Addiction Isn’t Sobriety, It’s Connection | A First Responder's Recovery Story
If you are a first responder, or you love someone who is, this story will hit home. In today's episode we talk about:
- The culture of "suck it up, keep moving, give me the keys and I'll do it right
- Why alcohol + PTSD is such a dangerous combination
- Why the opposite of addiction is really connection
- How gratitude, humility, and facing the pain became his way out
- What culturally competent, first-responder-only treatment felt like, and why that community mattered.
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https://www.firstresponder-wellness.com/
888-443-4898