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Moral distress, mismanaged, can lead to dysfunction and what we call moral injury. Today's guest is Dr. Jaimie Lusk, a Marine Corps Iraq veteran and a psychologist from Portland, Oregon, with expertise on moral injury. Dr Lusk talks to us today about moral distress and injury and what we can do about it, including how ritual impacts your recovery after taking a human life.

Resources:

• Dr Lusk's website is https://www.drjaimielusk.com
• Transform Your Guilt and Shame by Carolyn B. Allard
• Dr. Shira Maguen's research on the Impact of Killing
• Everett Worthington's website on forgiveness is https://www.evworthington-forgiveness.com
• For more on Moral Injury listen to Hey Chaplain Episode 020 with Chaplain Debra Fontes

Music is "Back to Portland" by TrackTribe

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Veterans, Betrayal, Guilt, Health, Hunting, Killing, Moral Distress, Moral Injury, Parenting, Police, Psychology, Responsibility, Ritual, Shame, Transgression, Trauma, Values, Portland, Oregon

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This is episode 144 and we're going to talk about autopsies. Don't worry I'm not going to take it too far; you can go ahead and keep eating your breakfast. But I'm going to share with you the my recent visit to observe an autopsy and also my conversation with the local Chief Death Investigator. First I made a recording of my thoughts as I drove to visit the coroner's office to observe an autopsy. Then I recorded my reaction immediately after experiencing my first autopsy. Finally, we'll sit down with Chief Death Investigator Kelsie Gwartney, who will share how she got into the business of doing autopsies and what a police officer should know, that I didn't know, before you go observe an autopsy for the first time.

Music is by National Sweetheart

Special Thanks to Shaun Hachinsky from Episode 033

Hey Chaplain Podcast Episode 144

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Chaplains, Autopsy, Bodies, Death, Detectives, Forensics, Investigations, Science, Kansas City, Topeka, Kansas, Arizona

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This is a special bonus episode of Hey Chaplain and we're giving you a replay of Episode 319 of the Blue Grit Radio podcast by Eric Tung. In this episode Eric interviews chaplains Jared Altic and Matt Domyancic about police wellness and various chaplain related topics, including some of the problems helpers have when engaging police culture and what a chaplain's chief motivation needs to be.

Music is by Jessie Villa.

Hey Chaplain podcast Bonus Episode 52

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Police, Chaplains, Culture, Expectations, Health, Helpers, Ride Alongs, Wellness, California, Kansas, Washington

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Imagine that someone with a knife or another deadly weapon is charging at you with intent to kill. How close do they have to be for you to deploy deadly force? Did you say 21 feet? That's what I've always been told. But what if you take that shot and now you're on trial for murder and the prosecutor has evidence that says the assailant was twenty-two feet away when you took your shot. Oh, no!

Our guest today is Doug Deaton, and hopefully your lawyer will hire someone like Doug, a veteran cop and expert on use of force issues, to give testimony as an expert witness in court. Doug has done exactly that and I brought him today to tell the story of when a lawyer let him explain the 21-foot rule to a jury.

Music is by Chris Haugen

Hey Chaplain podcast Episode 143

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Police, Career, Court, Detectives, Expert Testimony, Guns, Justice, Movement, Shootings, SWAT, Tactics, Dallas, Texas

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Today we're coming back to our interview with identical twin first responders Stuart and Steve Littlefield. Stuart is thirty-year cop, on the SWAT team and also a homicide detective; Steve is the thirty year firefighter. Both worked at the same time in the same city, my home of KCK. Today we're going to to talk about a couple of dramatic critical incidents they were involved in and also answer the question of which service is healthier and which one is worse.

Hey Chaplain Episode 142 Part Two

Music is by DJ Williams

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Police, Fire, Accident, Barricade, Crime, Culture, Danger, House Fire, Injury, Mental Health, Murder, Risk, Rivalry, Shooting, SWAT, Kansas City, Kansas

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Identical twins but one's a firefighter and the other one is a cop and both have 30 year careers in the same city. That's not a bad premise for a tv show… but it's also the background of the two guests we have on today's show. Returning guest and friend of the show, retired detective Stuart Littlefield, has brought his brother, retired firefighter Steve Littlefield, to talk about the their two paths in fire and policing. These two identical twins have a lot to say about the supposed rivalry between the two services and what it's like to know that your brother is in danger, just down the street.

Hey Chaplain Episode 142 Part One

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Police, Fire, Career, Danger, Detective, Family, Fear, House Fire, Humor, Injury, Risk, Rivalry, Shooting, SWAT, Kansas City, Kansas

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START HERE: Welcome to the sixth year of Hey Chaplain, the police wellness podcast.

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Music is by Wes Hutchinson and by Chris Haugen

Hey Chaplain Episode 000.6

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This episode marks our fifth anniversary where we go back and do follow ups and business checks, checking in on some of our past guests to get updates. This year I built the episode around an interview I recently had with Steve Keogh, the retired Scotland Yard murder detective who was on the show a few years ago. We also hear a behind-the-scenes canine for Brotherhood for the Fallen.

Links and resources:

• Steve Keogh - Ep 030, Ep 061: https://stevekeogh.com
• Jason Marsman - Bonus Ep 50: Brotherhood for the Fallen https://www.brotherhoodnyc.org
• Jim Sutterby - Ep 003, 007, et al.
• Richard Breshears - Ep 101
• Ryan Miller - 023, 056, 097, et al.
• Shawn McGee - Ep 069

Music is by Chris Haugen and by Jeremy Korpas and Rick Barry ("Care is Heavy")

Hey Chaplain Podcast Bonus Episode 51

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Police, Books, Career, Detectives, Feedback, History, Podcasting, Promotions, Retirement, Television, Kansas City, London, Overland Park, Spring Hill, Kansas, England, UK

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