Mindfulness For Warriors

Kim Colegrove is a veteran meditator and speaker with over 40 years of experience. She is the creator of PAUSE15 Meditation℠ and Learn to Pause℠ Mindfulness Training, and the founder of The PauseFirst Project: Mindfulness for First Responders. Colegrove’s expertise in meditation has benefited individuals and corporations across the country, including Garmin International, The National Court Reporters Association, Department of Veterans Affairs, United Way, and others. In 2014, Kim lost her husband David to suicide, less than three months after he retired from a 30-year law enforcement career. She created The PauseFirst Project to honor David’s memory, and to help other first responders cope with stress and trauma. She partnered with Major Darren Ivey of the Kansas City Missouri Police Department in 2017 and began offering a 4-hour block of mindfulness training to law enforcement professionals and other first responders. The course has been very well-received and Colegrove now speaks at conferences and offers her course to first responder organizations nationwide. Kim is a contributing writer for In Public Safety, an American Military University (AMU) sponsored website. In August, her In Public Safety article, "My Husband’s Suicide: Recognizing Predictors of Police Suicide," was published on PoliceOne online, which boasts over 600,000 subscribers and over 2 million monthly visitors. Previously, Colegrove was a regular contributing writer for Kansas City Health and Wellness magazine. Colegrove has combined many years of meditation experience with her background in corporate mindfulness and her own personal story of tragedy and loss to create an informative and inspirational book that is a must-read for first responders and their families. Learn more about Kim's work at www.kimcolegrove.com. Becca Anderson comes from a long line of teachers and preachers from Ohio and Kentucky. The teacher side of her family led her to become a woman’s studies scholar and the author of the bestselling The Book of Awesome Women. An avid collector of affirmations, meditations, prayers and blessings, she helps run a “Gratitude and Grace Circle” that meets monthly at homes, churches and bookstores in the San Francisco Bay Area where she currently resides. Becca Anderson credits her spiritual practice and daily prayer with helping her recover from cancer and wants to share this encouragement with anyone who is facing difficulty in life with Prayers for Hard Times and her latest, The Woman’s Book of Prayer. The author of Think Happy to Stay Happy and Every Day Thankful, Becca Anderson shares prayers and affirmations, inspirational writings and suggested acts of kindness at https://thedailyinspoblog.wordpress.com.

• Part 1: The WarriorChapter 1: From Widow to WarriorChapter 2: What Is a Warrior?Chapter 3: Death NotificationChapter 4: He Was Kind of a Big DealChapter 5: His Buried TraumaChapter 6: The Ripple Effects of SuicidePart 2: The WeightChapter 7: Stress and Trauma: The Effects of Accumulated Stress and How Trauma Impacts the Brain and BodyChapter 8: The Toxicity of Stoicism: How Ignoring Emotions Will Ruin YouChapter 9: Suicide Ideation: The Common Predictors of First Responder SuicidePart 3: The WisdomChapter 10: Surviving and Thriving: First Responders Share Their Stories of Darkness and How They Are HealingChapter 11: Meditation and Mindfulness: What They Are and How They Can HelpChapter 12: Breath: The Body’s Natural Stress RelieverChapter 13: Learn to Pause℠ Mindfulness Training: Present Moment Awareness, Self-Awareness, and Self-CoachingChapter 14: Pause15 Meditation℠: A flexible meditation practice that caters to the individual. 3 Steps, 4 Techniques, 15-Minutes a Day