Our Vice President of The Soul Focused Group, Dustin Washington, hosts this week’s new podcast. Dustin is joined by Anuar Velazquez to discuss possible healing solutions in law enforcement, and how to implement trauma healing in institutions. Anuar shares his own experiences with witnessing trauma as a former police officer. He explains that many police officers come into the workforce with unhealed childhood trauma. Police officers take on more trauma while working, but have no way to heal from the traumatic events they witnessed. At The Soul Focused Group we believe that our subconscious programming is holding us back from healing. Anuar believes the toxic masculinity that is ingrained into the institution is an example of subconscious programming blocking growth. Our groundwater is contaminated with thoughts and opinions that are not ours. We must learn and find healing solutions that make us all better people.
Anuar and Dustin also explore how unhealed trauma is a setup. Our first responders are being setup by being expected to not acknowledge their trauma. Anuar shares how many officers are forced to respond to various types of calls with no time to process or decompress in between. This can cause police officers to show up to incidents numb, angry, frustrated, or exhausted. Anuar shares how hard it became to feel empathy with his family because he was suppressing his trauma and not talking about the things he witnessed while patrolling. We need to stop showing up to work with unresolved stress from home, and we should stop taking our negative emotions from work home with us. Anuar and Dustin close out this amazing conversation by discussing possible healing solutions for law enforcement. Anuar believes that we train law enforcement for combat, and don’t prepare them to resolve situations. Police officers need to be able to see themselves in the people they serve. Our relationship with power and ego has to change for us to start building self-solidarity with ourselves.
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