Ask the Author: Brian Casey
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Brian Casey
My latest book, Peer Support Fundamentals, is a workbook based on a course I teach by the same name. The idea is to embolden coworkers to better support those in mental or emotional distress. Not all distress needs to be pathologized, and so-called ‘factory floor’ workers can be a great source of care and comfort.
Brian Casey
Fear that the otherwise, but seemingly significant, ordinary people and events will be lost forever.
Brian Casey
My definition of a suffering artist is an otherwise artist who has an unrelated full-time job. I’m a police officer, and when I get off work, I just want to watch TV. But I’m nagged by the thought that if I don’t write down my observations and experiences, they will be lost forever. So, I’m keeping a journal for my next book.
Brian Casey
Please read my book (just joking). Keep a journal, don’t edit while writing in it, add a lot of sensory detail, and describe your observations about yourself. Enjoy the editing process.
Brian Casey
The imagined pleasure of seeing someone reading my book on an airplane. Minus that, finding a permanent home for my expressed observations.
Brian Casey
The ambulance call came over the radio, “Child not breathing”. We arrive at the wrong address.
Brian Casey
I’d like to be Epictetus’s handyman. He’d call on me when he needed something repaired and we’d chat as I worked. Then he’d make me lunch.
Brian Casey
It takes me months to complete a book. So, a summer read(ing) list can be a fall, winter, spring list as well. I do not begrudge this, for speed does not equate impact for me. Working on the book Rebel Yell right now.
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