Dan Willis

Captain Dan Willis (ret.) served for 30 years with the La Mesa Police Department in California and now travels the country as an international instructor on trauma recovery, resilience and wellness. He is the author of the emotional survival and wellness guidebook Bulletproof Spirit: The First Responders Essential Resource for Protecting and Healing Mind and Heart, which is required reading at the FBI National Academy. For more information, visit FirstResponderWellness.com.

Post-traumatic stress: causes, symptoms and ways to heal

March 24, 2021

Post-traumatic stress is an injury, not a weakness. It is not a mental disease or disorder, but a serious and potentially life-threatening injury to your brain and its ability to […] Read More

Everyday work trauma and your brain

It’s affecting you more than you think

February 21, 2021

The daily traumas of police work can not only injure an officer’s brain, causing post-traumatic stress and a host of other crippling psychological and emotional wounds, but work traumas can […] Read More