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Podcast: The Squad Room: Police Health | Development | Leadership
Episode: My Bad Haircut: What Trivial Things Can Teach Us About Mindfulness, Compassion and Resilience
Description: Oftentimes, it’s the minor things that can set us off and send us spiraling out of control, handing over our sovereignty to anxiety and anger. Getting cut off in traffic, waiting in long lines… A bad haircut can be one of those things. In this episode I share the story of how a hair stylist (that’s being generous) took to my head as if storming the beaches of Normandy, and how it gave me the opportunity to practice the BADGES model of self-awareness to keep me calm, centered, and here laughing about it. A...