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Resilience Development in Action: First Responder Mental Health
Resilience Development in Action is a weekly mental health podcast for first responders, hosted by Steve Bisson, LMHC, a licensed mental health counselor based in Holliston, Massachusetts.
The show is for police officers, firefighters, EMTs and paramedics, dispatchers, corrections officers, and their families. Each episode is a conversation with first responders, clinicians, peer supporters, and family members about stress, trauma, burnout, recovery, and building resilience over a whole career.
Steve has more than 25 years of experience working side by side with first responders. The podcast started in May 2021 and has over 300 episodes. New episodes come out every Wednesday on all major podcast apps and on YouTube at youtube.com/@RDAPOD.
Topics include first responder mental health, critical incident stress, PTSD, peer support, finding a culturally competent therapist, family and relationships, and practical tools for staying well on and off the job.
Resilience Development in Action: First Responder Mental Health
Latest Episodes
I Turned 190 Hours Of Conversations Into A Book
190 hours of conversations can change you, but only if you can actually find the part you need when you need it. That’s the problem we’re solving here. With the book release one week away and our 300th episode right around the corner, we pull b...
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What If Healing Starts With One Honest Check-In
Most in the first responder world are trained to scan for risk and take ownership fast. That’s a strength on the job, but it can become a quiet trap off the job: when something goes wrong, we blame ourselves before we admit the situation was ch...
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Daily Resilience Tools For First Responders
Your toughest calls do not end when the radio goes quiet. They follow you home, into your sleep, and sometimes into the choices you make to cope. I sit down with Kevin Lewis, a Navy veteran, martial arts Hall of Famer, and longtime executive pr...
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A First Responder Mental Health Podcast Hits 300 Episodes
300 episodes doesn’t happen by accident. It happens because you keep showing up for the work and because a community of police officers, firefighters, EMS professionals, dispatchers, and paramedics decides that mental health matters enough to p...
Healing After Trauma
Trauma doesn’t end just because we’ve learned how to function. Susan Snow knows that firsthand, and she shares the moment a “normal day” cracked open years of buried pain when live coverage of the Columbine shootings triggered flashbacks to the...
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