Departments

Stronger Relationships. Safer Officers.

Wellness and Peer Support is a priority for your department, county, or agency.

You know that your personnel have a greater chance to be impacted by PTSD and to die by suicide than any other occupation.

You see the burnout.

Departments often miss a critical element of officer mental health and resilience: their relationships!

What keeps an officer safe on the job spills over negatively at home. Spouses and families receive the officer when they are exhausted, on the downside of hypervigilance. Training doesn’t just turn off when officer’s leave work and some of that behavior spills over into the officer’s relationships. Spouses and families do not understand why the officer is different or cannot engage which often leads to conflict and disconnection.

Research backs that just like an officer’s work life spills over at home, home life spills over at work. This sets up a negative cycle for the officer, impacting their mental health and resilience.

Officers with a healthy and stable family life are less prone to distractions while on duty. Educating couples about the biological and neuropsychological aspects of policing enhances their relationships, making them more resilient and closely connected. Consequently, officers face fewer distractions, enabling them to concentrate better on their tasks and make safer decisions. This, in turn, impacts the officer and department relationship with the community. When they make those decisions, they come home!

Harness the resource that your law enforcement personnel need most, relationships!

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The Hold the Line program has been an amazing blessing for our families!

We’ve been working with our agency’s families for years trying to help them find skills that will strengthen their relationships, help them understand the root of their difficulties, and give them the support they deserve to have happier families.

The Hold the Line program has been an amazing blessing for our families! It fills in the gaps of many of the other trainings we have been providing and really helps people to understand the unique relationship challenges we face as law enforcement families.

Thanks to Cyndi for her efforts to share and make a difference!

Chaplain Spencer

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Education

Get updates on podcasts and resources to share with your officers and department to impact their emotional and relational health, including a monthly newsletter to enhance your wellness initiatives.

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The Book

Endorsed by Dr. Ellen Kirschman as one of the best books to read if you are a cop or love one, Hold the Line is essential reading for officers and spouses. Grab the book for your academy graduates or as a part of the department or agency library. Bulk orders are available.

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Training

Workshops and webinars for officers, spouses, or couples to empower them to counter the impact on mental and relational health and their relationships. Check out the Train the Trainer program, which includes everything you need to host your own events.

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Train the trainers

How it Works

By using education and training as a Certified Seven Principles Educator from Gottman Institute; along with certifications with Brene Brown as a Certified Daring Way™ Facilitator, Cyndi hosts Daring Way workshops using research-based information on what makes couples work in addition to surviving affairs, trauma, and parenting for LEOs and their spouses to implement in their home and work life.

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What to Expect

You can expect to learn new ways to have a stronger and more productive department. The tools and various resources that will be available to implement will make stronger, healthier bonds both professionally and personally.

My gift to you is the free workbook ($27 value)

70 pages of tools for you to use that includes:

Podcast Episodes That May Interest You

Indirect Trauma in Law Enforcement Relationships

In a dual first responder home, there are times when first person and vicarious trauma must coexist. We may experience the traumatic incident firsthand and then hear the other person’s view of the same incident when we are home together. While the differing perspectives can be beneficial, it’s not always

Cyndi Doyle and Melissa Kaiser talk about how law enforcement families are impacted by trauma.

Trauma in Law Enforcement Families

As a couple, we are aware that officers and their families can be impacted by the job. Sometimes, the impact is trauma. Trauma can be direct or indirect. Secondary traumatic stress can impact officers, spouses, children, or even extended family and friends. We need to be aware of the signs

Thriving In and Out of the Career

In this podcast episode, host Cyndi Doyle interviews Brian Ellis, a retired law enforcement officer and creator of Magnus Worx, about the importance of wellness and resilience in the law enforcement profession. Wellness is not just a physical issue, but also a mental one, and it is crucial for law

Perfect for LEO couples and their therapists!

"As a licensed therapist I am always on the look out for books that I can share with my clients.; books that resonate with them, but also provide important skills and/or validation in a format that non-clinicians can appreciate. This is one of those books. I have used this in session as a teaching guide (both law enforcement and non law enforcement clients) and had clients read it on their own (and with their partners) as a means of discussion. Cyndi Doyle has accomplished the ultimate in our field. She has written a book that both professionals and clients can utilize and enjoy alike."

Brandy Stiles

Licensed Therapist, Reviewed on Amazon

Testimonials for the Hold the Line Training Program - Train the Trainer program

“We’ve been working with our agency’s families for years trying to help them find skills that will strengthen their relationships, help them understand the root of their difficulties, and give them the support they deserve to have happier families. The Hold the Line program has been an amazing blessing for our families! It fills in the gaps of many of the other trainings we have been providing and really helps people to understand the unique relationship challenges we face as law enforcement families. Thanks to Cyndi for her efforts to share and make a difference!”

"Cyndi did an amazing job at the training in Florida. Her delivery of the lesson materials were so raw, and purely authentic. She really was able to connect not only with spouses such as myself, but with agents. That was definitely key for me because while understanding what spouses face, we came to realize in depth, the severity and reality of what agents experience-which explains why they are the way they are after taking on such a job within law enforcement. My husband and I feel so connected to the lesson materials and actually have many experiences to share, as well as ideas and activities to incorporate along the way as needed."

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