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"Mindfulness isn't about pausing when you need to take action...Mindfulness is having the sense to appreciate the miracle of the present moment." ~ Crawford Coates Working through some difficulties earlier this year, I stumbled upon Mindful Responder by Crawford Coates. Having dabbled in various forms of mindfulness to help with job-related stressors, I decided to …
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This past week, I joined several others in learning all about child safety seats. At the end of four days we knew many things, the most important of which is...you guessed it, "check the manual."This may seem like a dig at our instructors (it's not) or my being sarcastic (it is). In the end, it's …
When someone is bleeding - and I mean serious, uncontrolled bleeding - life is literally leaving their body. Though we often associate "bleeding out" with horrific events, it doesn't take an active assailant (shooter, knife-wielder, bomber, etc.) event to cause death from bleeding. Here's a sobering fact: serious, uncontrolled bleeding can cause death in the …
Jon David LeRoy 