Wellness Warrior Style

Kim Colegrove is the author of Mindfulness for Warriors and the founder of Pause First Academy—an organization that provides online and in-person wellness and resilience training for society’s warriors, protectors, guardians, and healers. Kim is an experienced keynote speaker, and in 2022, she was awarded the Mid-America CIT (Critical Incident Team) Teacher of the Year award. Colegrove is the widow of a first responder who died by suicide. She previously taught mindfulness in corporate settings such as Garmin International, United Way, Department of Veterans Affairs, and The National Court Reporters Association. After her husband’s death, Kim turned her attention to helping warriors learn how to cope with stress and trauma. She now leads a team of culturally competent instructors who offer resilience training with a focus on holistic wellbeing and work-life balance. 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 to her career writing about awesome women. A multiple-time bestselling author, Becca Anderson is known for many things, including her books Badass Affirmations and The Book of Awesome Women, her Your Blessings blog and Every Day Thankful Facebook page, as well as her many appearances on both national and bay area tv and radio shows such as ABC, NBC, and NPR. She credits her spiritual practice and daily prayer with helping her recover from cancer. 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 shares prayers and affirmations, inspirational writings and suggested acts of kindness at https://thedailyinspoblog.wordpress.com

Contents
Foreword

Introduction



Part I: Crossroads




Chapter 1: Getting Oriented
Chapter 2: Assessing Where You Are
Chapter 3: Deciding Where You Want to Go
Chapter 4: The Journey Begins





Part II: The Journey




Chapter 5: Your Fellow Travelers
Chapter 6: Keith
Chapter 7: Ashley
Chapter 8: William
Chapter 9: Randy
Chapter 10: Darren
Chapter 11: Jamie
Chapter 12: Kenny
Chapter 13: Arlo
Chapter 14: Erik
Chapter 15: David
Chapter 16: Danielle





Part III: The Other Warriors




Chapter 17: Spouses and Families
Chapter 18: Rachel & Jeremy
Chapter 19: Retirees






Part IV: Debrief and Resources




Chapter 20: Key Terms
Chapter 21: Peersources
Chapter 22: Crisis Resources
Chapter 23: Resource Directory





Final Thoughts

Acknowledgments

About the Author