When more than 10,000 people registered for Mike Taigman’s webinar on stress management, it was clear more was needed. The techniques in “Super-Charge Your Stress Management in the Age of COVID-19: A Handbook for Emergency Service and Healthcare Professionals” are rooted in neuroscience-based research, yet are simple enough to be learned in minutes.
“Emergency responders want to continue to do what they do. They find purpose and even joy in serving, even when it means running toward danger rather than away,” said Taigman. “And yet the personal risks and magnitude of suffering with this pandemic is something no one should have to face alone.”
With 40 years of experience in emergency services leadership and 600 authored articles, “Super-Charge Your Stress Management in the Age of COVID-19” reflects Taigman’s mission to reduce suffering in the world. The techniques in the book include practices that minimized post-traumatic stress disorder among those who had worked during 9/11.
“Our friends in emergency services and healthcare have described intense suffering and stress related to COVID-19,” Taigman and co-author Sascha Liebowitz said about their book. “We wrote this book to help. The techniques are easy to learn and use in any situation.”
Techniques include: tactical breathing, crisis rehearsal, grounding, cognitive reappraisal, and “Can I, Will I” decision-making.
“The amount of positive feedback from the original webinar has been overwhelming,” said Taigman. “We hope the book will get these techniques into more hands quickly, and for the long haul we must now anticipate.”
Taigman are Liebowitz are local residents. Taigman served as regional director for Ventura County AMR.
For more information, testimonials and links to buy the book, visit www.combatcovidstress.com. “Super-Charge Your Stress Management in the Age of COVID-19” is available at Aerbook, Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
Vow3 Publishing is offering discounted bulk rates for foundations, civic groups and individuals who would like to sponsor books for an emergency services or healthcare organization. For more, visit www.combatcovidstress.com/contact or contact Taigman, vow3publishing@gmail.com.
As an educator and author of emergency services personnel for several decades, Taigman has focused on helping emergency medical services. He has worked with emergency services and healthcare organizations in 48 of the 50 states, most of the Canadian provinces, Israel, Palestine, Australia, and throughout Europe.
His expertise includes stress management, resilience, EMS street survival, patient-centered leadership, and effective quality and performance improvement.
He teaches improvement science as an assistant professor in the Masters in Healthcare Administration and Interprofessional Leadership program at the University of San Francisco and an adjunct professor in the Emergency Health Services Management graduate program at the University of Maryland Baltimore County.
Liebowitz is a writer and author of Living Every Minute of It, a blog about living each day with patience, tolerance, kindness, and love toward oneself and others. A former New York lawyer, she lives in California focused on family, writing, and being of service to others. She holds a BA from Columbia College and a JD from New York University School of Law.