Dr. Jenny Prohaska

02/12/2026

I made a personal choice to trade "freedom and fun" for "passion and purpose".

I chose it.

So that means I chose late nights, less sleep, financial insecurity, teaching myself something I don't know, and then making sure I master that same thing I just taught myself.

No one required it of me, no one assigned it to me. It would be easier to keep my responsibility low, but if you want to get really good at something, you will pay for it.

You will pay for it by sacrificing time, comfort, relationships, and a sense of security.

But sacrifice doesn’t register as punishment if you choose it.

02/12/2026

Struggle isn’t a threat. It’s actually a great teacher.
I can look back now and feel grateful for the difficulties that no one rescued me from.
Of course, constant struggle isn’t ideal, but how you view difficulties you face makes all the difference.

It’s the same mindset we train at Tactical Longevity. Seeing struggle clearly, and using it wisely to make us better.
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02/04/2026

A bad incident doesn’t define the next one.
𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐨 𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐛𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥.

We train people to separate the event from the interpretation, so one bad moment doesn’t bleed into the next.

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02/02/2026

One (of the many) downsides of kids playing less team sports: 𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞. Here are 5 ways to make up for that skill gap: 1.) Normalize the correction without drama 2.) Train recovery not comfort. 3.) Build reps under mild stress. 4.) When giving feedback, separate identity out from performance. 5.) Train to the skill gap. Tactical Longevity.

01/28/2026

Today marks the 40th anniversary of the Challenger Disaster.

If you’re old enough to remember it, the explosion is probably the part that stands out.
But in the work I do now, I see the Challenger Disaster through a different lens:
It’s a reminder of what happens when an 𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒛𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒐𝒐 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒍𝒚 𝒐𝒏 𝒓𝒖𝒍𝒆𝒔, 𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒂𝒍𝒖𝒆𝒔 𝒋𝒖𝒅𝒈𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆, and unintentionally creates downstream risk for the teams who come next.


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If you’re old enough to remember it, the explosion is probably the part that stands out. But in the work I do now, I see the Challenger Disaster through a di...

01/27/2026

HIGH SELF-EFFICACY is one of the strongest predictors of long-term psychological stability.

It’s also one of the clearest predictors of performance under stress.

People with high self-efficacy see hard things in life but don’t jump to feeling helpless.
So they are more likely to engage, than to shut down.

People learn it by being put in situations where their decisions matter.
Where they can see cause → effect.

If you are in a leadership role, ask yourself:

✅ Am I building an environment where people learn they can influence outcomes?

🚫 Or an environment where they learn their actions don’t matter?

01/26/2026

Adaptation to change is more of a TREADMILL and less like a WAVE.

You gotta keep up or you're going to be thrown off the back.

If you told me even 5 years ago that I'd be making video content as part of my daily professional activities, I wouldn't have believed you.

If you told me that I'd have to spend hours and hours learning how to write about complex topics in concise ways to capture "content" so that people with ever shortened attention spans would listen, I wouldn't have believed you.

But here we are.
You adapt or you get thrown off the back.

01/21/2026

Calling it a generational problem may be too simple. It's a stress tolerance problem. That differentiation matters because of how you go about fixing it. Watch to see why your current "fixes" therefore probably aren't working. Tactical Longevity

01/20/2026

That thing already happened.
What you turn it into is still under your control.

If this hits close to home for your organization,
I help teams turn “what happened” into better performance when conditions tighten again.

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01/13/2026

One crisis used to follow another.
But now they just overlap.

We’ve had more “once-in-a-lifetime” events in the last few years than most people were supposed to see in an entire lifetime.

This means that the old model for handling each crisis as it comes no longer works.

There is no resetting time left anymore, which means instead you need to develop a philosophy of operating, not just jump from incident to incident with “coping skills”.

That’s the gap we train for.
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01/12/2026

You may only see what’s on screen, but we almost always have a secret guest tucked away right at our feet. 💚 Jax 💚

01/05/2026

So there was this really seemingly small moment back in November that I’ve been thinking about ever so often for a while now. This was when we were down in Beaufort, South Carolina teaching Tactical Longevity at Beaufort Police Department.

It was a totally organic and unplanned moment. And honestly it could’ve been missed entirely.
At some point during the week, my co-instructor mentioned, totally offhand, that he hadn’t been able to find his usual Celsius anywhere. If you know him, you know that’s kind of his thing. It wasn’t a complaint. Just a comment he made in passing.

Later that day, someone (and actually not just one but TWO officers) from the department had gone out and found one for him.

No announcement, no “look what we did”, it just showed up.

On the surface, that’s just a thoughtful gesture. But things like that don’t happen accidentally.
That comes from a culture where people are paying attention to each other, their guests (us), and I am also very confident - their community.

It’s a culture where someone hears something small and thinks, I can take care of that.
And that kind of hospitality doesn’t magically turn on when it’s self-serving, or when outsiders are watching. It’s practiced in their culture regularly, and it’s just a part of the norm of how people operate there every day.

You can feel it when you’re in a place like that, and they sure aren’t going to brag about themselves, so I will.

It was a small gesture, but told us a lot about the kind of culture they’ve built there.

Tactical Longevity Beaufort Police Department, Beaufort, SC Cummings Foundation for Behavioral Health