Mental & Physical Wellbeing & Anti-Burnout for Officers

Avoid burnout, exhaustion, anxiety, depression, trauma & chronic stress 

 

In This Free Webinar, I go over the causes & solutions of Burnout in officers & how to overcome them with a Mind, Body & Energetic Approach based on Traditional Chinese Medicine. There is a PDF that goes with it as well.

Download the Free PDF with notes from the webinar here

 

This Anti-Burnout course for LE Officers is recognized as a Vetted & Approved Program by the National Fraternal Order of Police Division of Wellness Services. 

CA POST Certified 3 Part 60-hour Course Title Under “Wellness” #43170

(STC) Standard & Training for Corrections Cert# 05751983, 02165424, 00775027 40 hours total in 3 courses

Contact Support@billfarr.com for question 

Anxiety, depression, trauma, PTSD, suicide, cynicism, divorce, heart disease, weight gain, alcoholism are all an epidemic for those in law enforcement as well as burnout & exhaustion. This seminar is a preventative approach to all those and more.

How does an enthusiastic, optimistic in shape rookie become a bitter, angry, out-of-shape veteran counting the days to retirement?

 

• What do officers who are not dealing with these issues do differently?
• What are the long-term effects on the brain, nervous system, and hormones of officers?
• Why do so many officers die soon after retirement?
• Why do so many have marital problems?
• Why do officers withdraw and isolate themselves?
• Why have so many officers committed suicide?
• Why is the life expectancy of an officer 15 years less than normal people?

 

Families of Officers

Right now things are worse than ever for law enforcement. That means children of officers are going to suffer more, they’re going to get neglected more due to stress and resentment building, in turn making unknowing children feel like they are not loved because mom or dad is trying to get over what’s happening to them at work. It also means that spouses of cops are going to be neglected more than ever, and unfortunately abused. Ignoring this is just turning your back on them. Facing this requires some work, but the benefits far outweigh the effort.

 

Burnout

• Feeling Overworked, fatigued, resentful
• Feeling undervalued and unappreciated
• In a state of physical, mental, & emotional exhaustion from demanding circumstances or situations.

Emergency workers and police officers are always in the top 5 careers most likely to become burnout in studies.

 

 

If unchecked, the downward effects of hormone imbalance will immediately cause:

• Weight gain
• Lack of sleep
• Low energy & personality
• Social isolation
• Sarcasm, bitterness, resentment, anger 
• Procrastination and difficulty in decision making not related to work.
• Noninvolvement in children’s needs and activities.

Hormone Imbalance & Weight Gain

Heart Disease, Diabetes, & Stroke

 

6 Week Course (Under 30 Minutes a day from home)

 

 

Avoid Officer’s 3 Regrets

• They didn’t spend more time with their family
• They didn’t keep up their health
• They didn’t do more of the things that they love doing.

 

 

Prevention is the Key – It’s Predictable so It’s Preventable   

Just like good policing, this is a preventative approach to safety, which is much easier than fixing a problem after it’s started. The exercises I have mapped out prevent what seems to be inevitable for so many officers such as divorce, cynicism, weight gain, lack of focus, enlarged amygdala increasing fight or flight, and the other risk factors.

Mission

The goal is to leave the job with your career, family, & relationship better based on your experiences, stronger and more loving, as well as your integrity intact, idealism undiminished, reputation in the community and with the brotherhood sterling, your hope faith, and attitude positive and pride in a long career that has made a difference in people’s lives. This is the objective of this seminar.

 

Focus Training

It can improve your accuracy at the range, your ability to stay calm in an argument with your spouse or kids, meditate, your ability to recover from hypervigilance, to lose weight, sleep better, and the list goes on.

 

An Officer’s Wellbeing Checklist

 

 

Better Officers / Better People / Better Community Relations

Having awareness of the risk factors, the solutions, and uniformity in the way officers think emotionally not only creates less reactive and volatile officers but also better husbands or wives, better parents, and happier people.

 

Tracking – Credit for the work

The seminar also includes a back-end system that can track an officer’s class completion, as well as answers to exercise questions and login time, and new lessons not opening up until previous lessons are completed. So there are multiple tracking methods if you’d like to add the completion of this to a bonus program or mandatory for a promotion as an example. Considering the number of risk factors caused directly by the job, some form of credit should be given for the work and it is trackable.

If as an individual officer, you want to get credit for this seminar with the department then send them the link and I’ll do everything I can to get your department on board to offer it with possible credit, either way, the benefits far excide the price and effort as it will directly affect your happiness and that of your family.

 

Risk Factors Covered (with solutions for all provided)

• Loss of the Executive Function of the brain
• The up and down cycle of Hypervigilance
• Hormone Imbalance – affecting physical & mental health
• Burnout
• Anxiety & Depression
• Suicide
• Lower Life Expectancy
• The damaging effect of Singular Identity
• Heart Disease, Diabetes, & Stroke
• Neck, Back, & Shoulder Pain & achy joints
• Trauma & Bottling it up
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
• Lack of Sleep
• Eating Quickly & Unhealthy
• Long Hours
• Low Energy
• Inability to Focus
• Shift Work – affecting hormones, digestion, sleep, mood, and more
• Cynicism & Negativity
• Withdrawal & Isolation
• Divorce/Unhappy Relationships
• Damaged Parent/Child Relationships
• Sitting Disease
• Plateauing
• Weight Gain
• Regret & Wasted Time
• Other factors particular to the officer, prescient, environment including a lack of appreciation leading to resentment.

 

How These Risk Factors Costs a Department/Community:

• Higher Incidents 
• Law Suits
• Poor Police / Community Relations
• More Accidents 
• Sick days
• Workers’ Comp 
• Man Power – Loss of Officers to Retirement, termination, paid or unpaid leave
• Lowered Productivity
• Lowered Retention Rate
• Lowered Engagement

 

 

Bill is certified as a Trauma-Informed Coach, a Master Herbalist, and a Diet & Nutritional Advisor. He’s also a member of the International Alliance of Holistic Therapists, a best selling author, has taught in more than 20 countries, has worked with professional athletes, artists, consulted for large companies on avoiding burnout & lowering stress in the workplace, has been featured in Redbook, The Boston Globe, Expert Beacon, Fact-Based Health, and many more, with over 100 radio interviews. He has over 400,000 Social Media Followers & over 10 Million Video views.

 

 

 

Sources:

• Officer burnout – https://www.inverse.com/article/56412-world-health-organization-job-burnout-signs-you-have-it-who-s-most-at-risk
• https://www.officer.com/home/article/10233798/preventing-the-long-and-lonely-ride-to-officer-burnout
• https://business.lovetoknow.com/which-professionals-are-prone-burnout
• Officer divorce – https://www.policemag.com/374429/dealing-with-divorce-on-the-home-front
• Health disparities – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4734372/
• Officer heart attacks – https://policehealth.com.au/heart-attacks-top-5-causes-police-officer-deaths-statistics-are-alarming
• Officer cancer and other diseases – https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/disease-risk-and-mortality-among-police-officers-new-evidence-and
• General health in LE officers – https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/programs/pubsaf/lawenforcement.html
• Officer suicide – https://www.addictioncenter.com/news/2019/09/police-at-highest-risk-for-suicide-than-any-profession/
• https://www.nami.org/Advocacy/Crisis-Intervention/Law-Enforcement
• Officer stress, anxiety, depression, & mental health – https://www.waldenu.edu/programs/criminal-justice/resource/five-reasons-the-mental-health-of-police-officers-needs-to-be-a-priority
• https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/247781#1
• Amygdala Source – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZGxYBsUXgU
• Burnout and PTSD – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFkI69zJzLI
• Source – https://www.helpguide.org/articles/stress/burnout-prevention-and-recovery.htm