10/22/2025
We are so fortunate to have Brandi as one of the dedicated providers here at the Hub. From day one, her mission has been clear: to walk alongside and support the very people who dedicate their lives to supporting us—especially in life’s hardest moments.
First responders, we see you. Brandi created SHIFT as a way to stand with you and your families, recognizing both the weight and the worth of the work you do. You don’t have to carry it all alone.
SHIFT is just getting started, and Brandi is excited to bring forward new resources and opportunities designed with you in mind. Stay tuned—there’s much more to come.
👉 Follow SHIFT's page to stay connected, and please share it with the first responders and families in your life who could benefit from this support.
My husband and I have both worn the badge. We met as cops. We built a life around the job. And we’ve carried what comes with it courtrooms, scenes, trauma, chaos, and the kind of numbness that creeps in over time without asking permission.
What we didn’t see coming was what the job would slowly take from us.
We lost our footing as a couple.
We stopped knowing how to rest.
We couldn’t function in “normal” life.
The silence between us grew louder than any siren.
It was grief after grief. Loss after loss.
And still we showed up for others.
While quietly falling apart at home.
Trying to find joy while playing with our child while everything else in our lives made us numb.
When we finally reached for help, we found it in individual therapy and in Jesus. But we also realized something painful: not every first responder has access to real, relevant, affordable mental health support. And not every therapist understands this world from the inside out.
So we built SHIFT.
Shift is a nonprofit offering group therapy and support services for first responders, their spouses, and couples created by a first responder family, for first responder families.
Because we need more than awareness.
We need actual support.
We need spaces where we don’t have to explain the job before we can talk about what it’s doing to us.
First responders are twice as likely to experience PTSD and depression than the general population.
1 in 3 has thought about su***de.
Marriages in these professions break under pressure more often than not.
But healing is possible.
Not in silence. Not in shame.
In connection. In truth. In community.
That’s what Shift is.
Thanks to local donors, these groups are offered at no cost because healing shouldn’t be a luxury. And because the people running toward everyone else’s crisis deserve somewhere to land with their own.
If you’re a responder, a spouse, or a couple hanging on please hear me:
You are not too far gone.
You are not weak.
You are human. And you are not alone.
This is why SHIFT exists.
Because we’ve lived it.
And because we believe there’s more for you more peace, more clarity, more life than the job ever told you was possible.
We’re here.
And we’re not going anywhere.
Sincerely,
B. Krugler
SHIFT
