Meditation with Gina White: Returning to Real Life When Summer Ends

Many of us struggle to manage stress from our jobs, our lives and other external factors, and as we return to our busy lives from summer breaks and vacations, it can be all the more difficult.

Join us August 28 for a meditation workshop aimed at helping you navigate chronic stress. Come practice with Gina White and learn how to use the same tools she teaches first responders use to help navigate the chaos.

Gina's book Tactical Brain Training will be available for sale and you will have an opportunity to have her sign it.

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Tickets will be open to the public on Monday, June 30.

About the author:

Gina Rollo White, MA Mindfulness Studies, is the founder and director of Mindful Junkie Outreach. A mind body teacher, educator, and author, she has spent over fifteen years teaching mind body interventions. Gina has spent the last decade developing and leading mindfulness workshops for first responders (law enforcement, correctional, fire, etc.).

Gina is also an experienced Pilates instructor. Gina has been training with techniques passed down from Joseph Pilates for over 10 years. She believes in the mind body connection, and she felt a strong pull to incorporate training the mind as part of her physical training efforts. Gina believes that for optimum health, it is important to train your body and mind together.

About the book:

For first responders, stress and trauma are part of the job. But that doesn’t mean they have to let the chaos be part of their everyday lives.

First responders—law enforcement, firefighters, emergency medical professionals, military personnel, and more—spend each day confronting stress and trauma head-on. Rarely is there time to process and recover from the turmoil and violence they encounter day after day. It doesn’t help that first responder culture encourages a “get on with it” attitude, offering limited resources for the internal struggle that builds up over time.

It doesn’t have to be this way.

Tactical Brain Training offers a solution for first responders to use their incredible emergency management skills to recover from the rigors of this demanding work. Developed by Gina Rollo White, a therapeutic mindfulness expert with over 10 years in the first responder world, this first-of-its-kind guidebook provides proven, sustainable strategies for regulating stress and trauma in real time and following the emergent event. Whether you are a first responder yourself, a clinician supporting someone in this profession, or a family member, this book will empower you to:

• Connect with real-life stories that showcase the types of challenges faced by first responders
• Learn scientific insights behind the long-term impacts of stress, trauma, and mindfulness
• Practice short, effective brain exercises, both written and in guided videos, that build mental clarity and put you in the driver’s seat of how you respond
• Develop a personalized mindfulness action plan for neutralizing stress and bringing your brain back “online”

Although running toward chaos may be part of the job, living in a state of internal chaos does not have to continue to be the norm.

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