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Foreword

Mindfulness for Warriors is an outstanding book I will be giving to a lot of people. My father was a Marine who came back from war and became a fireman. He saw hand-to-hand combat and was wounded by a sword on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima in World War II. Dad not only survived, he brought home the sword that nearly killed him; it was displayed proudly beside an American flag in our living room. My dad was a badass. So are first responders.

I loved how brave Dad was, but I also sensed, beneath his tough exterior, he was hiding a lot of pain. He was a stoic who forged on without complaint, doing his very important work but at a high personal cost. So many more like him serve our communities and deal with extreme stress on a daily basis, often without any relief or any way to process the pain and PTSD they are suffering. Post-traumatic stress disorder is a serious syndrome and can’t be ignored. Tamping down those feelings for too long can lead to major consequences, as Kim Colegrove discovered with her husband’s tragic suicide. Our first responders—police, military, firefighters, paramedics, hospital workers, dispatchers, and many more do so much to help others; more often than not, they don’t get around to helping themselves. In Mindfulness for Warriors, Colegrove provides marvelous tools offering renewal for these courageous people who do so much for the rest of us.

Kim Colegrove’s book is an invaluable tool to help the helpers. Her mindfulness practices and meditation techniques offer much respite, relief, and calm to anyone who picks up this book.

—Becca Anderson, author of Prayers for Hard Times and Real Life Mindfulness