by admin | Apr 9, 2022 | First Responders, Health & Wellness, Mental Health, Podcasts, Resilience, Suicide Awareness
Norm DeVarennes was a police officer with the RCMP for 28 years. In both this podcast and his book, he dives deep into his emotion as he reflects on the effect a career in policing on his mental health. His goal is to have other first responders see themselves...
by admin | Feb 14, 2022 | First Responders, Mental Health, Podcasts, Suicide Awareness, Uncategorized
Kwesi Millington welcomes Deon Joseph who discusses shifting perspectives and saving skid row. Deon Joseph is an LEO (Law Enforcement Officer), as well as a Law Enforcement Consultant and Trainer on Homelessness and Community Policing. From patrolling the streets to...
by admin | Jan 17, 2021 | First Responders, Mental Health, Personal Development, Suicide Awareness
There’s an inconvenient truth floating in the air. No one wants to admit it. They think it, but they will not admit it. Here it is: When someone dies after an interaction with the police, sometimes that person had a hand in their own demise. What’s inconvenient about...
by admin | Jul 17, 2020 | Health & Wellness, Mental Health, Resilience, Suicide Awareness
I wanted to die. In 2011 I was charged with perjury. With a job I loved threatened and looking at possible jail time, I didn’t want to be here anymore. I sat at the edge of the bed with a handful of pills …. Fitness saved me. On Halloween 2017, I sat in a...
by admin | Jun 7, 2020 | Mental Health, Resilience, Suicide Awareness
It may have cost me my freedom. In the beginning of March 2009, I took the stand in a public inquiry. I was a police officer. I was explaining the actions I took on a tragic night in 2007. My lawyer “prepared” me. He asked me questions in a very adversarial tone to...
by admin | Nov 20, 2019 | Mental Health, Suicide Awareness
I remember sitting at the edge of the bed. I remember looking at those pills. I remember thinking, “How many of these do I need to take so that I don’t wake up anymore?” I also remember, thankfully, how I was able to get out of the bed. When I was diagnosed...
