being in the best shape of your life.
You work out every day (whether you want to or not… thank you academy).
You drink a ton of water to get through your academy classes.
You get good sleep because you aren’t yet working shift work.

….you are overall quite happy and feeling good!

Did you know that if you are sleep deprived, your body starts burning your muscles instead of fat?
And meal prep? Ya… right! Who has time for that? Not you.

And all of this doesn’t account for the stressful calls that turn into people fighting you, death scenes you thought only appeared in movies and crashes that do things to body parts you couldn’t have ever dreamed up… which of course you don’t really talk about.

But your body feels this stress and your mind holds onto it. 

Enter: The Hypervigilance Roller Coaster

This turns you into what they told you to be aware of in the academy. 

This is what they told you not to become. But they didn’t teach you how to overcome it. 

And this is why I created the Culture Shock Challenge… to challenge you to change your habits and show you how doing things slightly differently while working the job, will actually preserve your body and mind instead of ruin it. 

…. And honestly- I was trained to put myself last. 

Herein lies the problem –

IF WE AS FIRST RESPONDERS DO NOT TAKE CARE OF OURSELVES… WHO WILL BE AROUND TO TAKE CARE OF THE PUBLIC AS WE FALL APART?

Because we will fall apart… it’s inevitable.

You cannot pour from an empty cup, Sheepdog… you must fill your cup up, even as a first responder. 

I learned the hard way and suffered a career ending injury, was diagnosed with PTSD and an anxiety disorder. I didn’t fill my cup up, no one taught me how to counteract hypervigilance or what to do to make sure I was on my best game at work. 

So I am going to do that for you. 

But like I said- this is a challenge.

I never said it would be easy- but this can be life changing for you if you go all in. 

Hell it’s only 14 days. You can do anything for 14 days. 

Plus, this was specifically designed for first responders (spouses should do this too!). 

All you have to do is commit. That’s it. Show up and do the work for the next 14 days and reep the results. 

The challenge is as follows: