Since there have been humans, there have been threats to human life. Since there have been threats to survival, there have been warriors and protectors fighting to keep their people alive and thriving. For most of history, when warriors returned from danger, they gathered together around the fire. They processed the threat they had survived, rested, and regrouped. This is what nervous systems are used to. This is what they expect.

Humans were never meant to do hard things alone. They were meant to do them together.

Police officers face a 54 percent higher risk of suicide compared to the civilian population. This isn’t some abstract statistic—it’s real and it’s personal.

This increase in risk isn’t because of the title “police officer.” It’s because the profession places individuals in a perfect storm of risk factors:

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