Off Shift: A Front Line Guide To Getting Your Head Right

By Daniel Mercier

THE SHIFT ENDS. YOUR HEAD DOESN'T ALWAYS GET THE MESSAGE.

You're trained to deal with other people's worst days.
You stay calm when things go wrong. You make decisions under pressure. You keep moving when you're exhausted, angry or carrying something you'd rather not talk about.
Then the shift ends.
But what happens when the uniform comes off, and everything you've been carrying comes home with you?
OFF SHIFT is a practical guide for police officers, firefighters, paramedics, military personnel, veterans and others who spend their working lives looking after everyone except themselves.
Drawing on five years in the British Army, twenty-eight years in policing, and his later work counselling veterans and frontline staff, Daniel Mercier tackles the things that often get ignored until they become impossible to ignore.
Sleep. Stress. Hypervigilance. PTSD. Grief. Alcohol and drugs. Physical health. Relationships. Money. Retirement. Identity. And the difficult question of what happens when simply telling yourself to "get on with it" no longer works.
There are no lectures here and no expectation that you suddenly become someone you're not.
Instead, OFF SHIFT offers straightforward routines, practical strategies and honest conversations designed for people who understand discipline, pressure and getting the job done.
You already know how to look after everyone else.

It's time to start looking after the person behind the uniform.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HDZBV6FB
• ISBN13: 9798192166130
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"