Ep. 97: How to Adjust to First Responder Family Life, w/ Hailey Palos

Blue Grit Radio : the better cops and community podcast

I’m pleased to bring you more conversations about family dynamics as they relate to first responder life. Marriage is hard. Parenting is hard. Balance is hard. These are all common adages and topics OUTSIDE of first responder life.
We dive into this with Hailey, a therapist and advocate for first responders. As a relatively new first responder spouse herself, she shares what transition was like for her, her husband as he was a new recruit, and balancing their brand new family.
We cover what brought her into her profession, talking about bridging communication and trust with our own spouses, and how just like how first responders have things we gotta work through- mental health professionals are no different! (Smash the stigmas!)
From Hailey:
I am a first responder family and mom to an adorable toddler and angel baby with lived experience in the unique aspects of first responders, first responder family dynamics, postpartum struggles, loss, parenting, trauma (including birth trauma) and professional stressors.

I always knew my goal was to become a therapist because my own trauma, and ultimately healing, led me to therapy. Finding someone who held a great balance of their own personality while also being a neutral and insightful third party was a challenge. So this is my goal today; to hold that balance and de-stigmatize the idea of how a therapist “should” be.
@palospractice
Palospractice.com

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