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The Victorian SES Health & Wellbeing Team are proud to introduce the ‘MindFit’ Podcast, where we mic up and chat with those who truly know how to keep their ‘Mind Fit’. We talk health, nutrition, science, psychology, wellbeing, performance, resilience and post-traumatic growth, with those who through their own lived experience, have become experts and industry leaders. Our aim is to spread the word of good health and wellbeing to our members, and families & friends of those on the front line serving our community.
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Tuesday Aug 02, 2022
Tuesday Aug 02, 2022
In this episode we talk with Rob Atkins, Ex- Victoria Police member and co-founder of the first responder support group, Code 9 Foundation.
As a result of years of confronting callouts, Rob found himself retired prematurely due to ill health and unable to undertake his substantiative role 'on the beat'
Rob’s daily life was filled with nightmares, flashbacks, distress, and crippling anxiety. Talk therapy and medication had varying effects to empty Rob's cumulative trauma bucket and he eventually found himself broken and void of all hope. That is until, man’s best friend, a therapy dog by the name of Jimmy, came in to help restore Rob’s quality of life and give some light at the end of the tunnel.
Listen in to hear how Rob’s life has changed since meeting his furry best mate, Jimmy.
Content warning: contains subjects that may trigger some listeners.
For more info about Code 9 Foundation head to: https://www.code9ptsd.org.au/
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