{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Just Breathe","title":"Stronger Together","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1606,"description":"We spend a lot of time talking about what happens on the job. But what happens when the first responder comes home? The shift work, the silence, the faces that say everything without saying a word — the family feels all of it. And almost no one prepares them for it.\nDr. Tracie L. Keesee sits down with Dr. Ellen Kirschman — retired psychologist, author, and one of the foremost voices in first responder family wellness — for a candid, compassionate conversation about what it really means to love someone in uniform and what families need to survive it together.\nWHAT WE COVER\nWhy no other job spills into home life as fast or as powerfully as first responder work\nThe most devastating challenge first responder families face — and why it starts before the first shift ends\nWhy stonewalling happens and what it costs the people on the other side of it\nHow to communicate when you can't talk about what you saw — and why silence is never the answer\nThe rules couples should establish before the big one hits — not during it\nHow to help young children understand when mom or dad comes home with that face\nWhat it means when a child thinks everything bad is their fault\nWhen it's time to seek counseling — and why you need someone who actually understands first responder culture\nThe spouse who over-functions and loses themselves in the process\nWhy some first responders bring work communication home — and what it does to the family\nWhat connection really means — and why anything that breaks it causes lasting damage\nThe one truth most first responders hate hearing — and why it might save their marriage\nABOUT DR. ELLEN KIRSCHMAN\nDr. Ellen Kirschman is a retired psychologist who spent four decades counseling first responders and their families. She is the author of the landmark books I Love a Cop and I Love a Firefighter, as well as co-author of Counseling Cops: What Clinicians Need to Know. She also writes a five-book crime fiction series featuring police psychologist Dot Meyerhoff. Her...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/U6hooJF6wPF6fib2UIxiCJPT3haZgYLNN9HJnTMTqd4/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9jZGVm/NmM3ZTQ5OTFjZjk3/NDZmZWNkYmVjN2Fj/OGFmMi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}