Police officer unwellness is a crisis that needs immediate action.
Unwellness in policing is more widespread than we imagine and it is costing our communities more that just dollars and cents.
First, let’s talk about what unwellness in law-enforcement might look like:
In my Armor Your Self book, I defined comprehensive wellness within the domains of physical fitness, mental fitness, emotional fitness and spiritual fitness and gave over 180 tips, tactics and techniques to strengthen and condition resilience in those areas.
So, when we examine unwellness within those domains, it could look like: obesity, exhaustion, fatigue in the physical domain. The mental or cognitive domain could see brain fog, poor decision-making and poor communication skills as signs of unwellness… Continue reading
