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Beyond the Headset: Finding My Voice
Paperback
Publisher: Beau Terre Press
Published: Dec 7 2025
Pages: 218
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
She answered thousands of 911 calls. But the hardest one was her own.
Kris Crawford spent decades as the calm voice on the other end of 911, guiding strangers through their worst moments, fires, shootings, suicides, and silences that stretched too long. To callers, she was steady. To officers, she was backup. But behind the headset, the weight of survival, both hers and theirs, was slowly rewriting her life.
In Beyond the Headset, Kris pulls back the curtain on the hidden world of emergency dispatch. With raw honesty and vivid storytelling, she reveals what it's like to live by the tones, to carry invisible scars, and to keep showing up when the cost is heavier than anyone sees.
From a childhood marked by trauma to a career defined by resilience, Kris's story is both deeply personal and universally human. It's about the calls that haunt, the silence that protects and imprisons, and the long, winding road to healing and truth.
This book is for anyone who has ever wondered what really happens behind the headset, and for anyone learning to reclaim their own voice after years of holding it in.
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