Episode 220

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17th Oct 2025

220. Empathy in Action: Supporting First Responders

Tony DeMaio discusses the urgent need for suicide prevention, particularly among veterans and first responders. He shares insights from his work with Helping Heroes USA, emphasizing the importance of community support, identifying at-risk individuals, and engaging in empathetic conversations. The discussion highlights the impact of trauma, the broken mental health care system, and the necessity for practical solutions to address the growing suicide crisis. DeMaio also introduces his upcoming book, 'Silent Battle,' aimed at guiding families and friends in supporting those struggling with mental health issues.

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R.E.S.T. With Virginia Dixon
Helping People Reason Significance and Find Significance in Reason
Discipleship Counselor and Educator, Virginia Dixon, shares her Reconstitution Approach to Healing: R.E.S.T.™ (Relational, Emotional and Spiritual Truths) seeking to help her listeners and clients release confusion, chaos, and dis-ease in order to find clarity, order, and ease.
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The R.E.S.T.™ with Virginia Dixon Podcast features numerous resources, authentic client stories and experts in various disciplines to provide each listener practical tools for their own journey to freedom and healing. Confusion often leads to chaos and dis-ease, causing imbalances that lead to illness infecting the body, soul and spirit. Therefore, learning how to reason and reconcile unresolved emotional conflicts within yourself and others is imperative to find R.E.S.T.™ (Relational, Emotional and Spiritual Truth) and establish clarity, order and ease. Years of working in the field of neuroscience technology as well as collaborating with medical practitioners while serving as the Director of Inner Healing at both the Center for New Medicine and Cancer Center for Healing, strengthened Virginia's commitment to help those she serves find increasing measures of freedom, reconciliation and transformation.