Episodes
Aug. 1, 2022
Courageous Women – Resiliency 2022
Today’s show will focus on the topic of courage, connectedness, and resiliency. The question of courage has been in the public debate sparked by Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony in front of the January 6th Committee. Many have ...
July 25, 2022
Promoting Nurse Well-Being during COVID
COVID-19 exacerbated stress and trauma universally, creating a secondary pandemic that increased demand for mental health care in a system on the verge of crisis. An intense and immediate need for population well-being suppor...
July 18, 2022
Uncovering Bipolar Disorder:A Journey of Hope and Transformation
Shelly Sood and Nikhil Torsekar, husband and wife, will share that with an understanding of mental health conditions and receiving support and guidance, and accepting help, health, and life can be transformed. They navigated ...
July 11, 2022
Violence in Society: Lessons from Northern Ireland
We live in a world of violence and sometimes we can feel overwhelmed and helpless. From the streets of our town and cities like Chicago to the Genocide in Srebrenica, Bosnia what lessons can we learn from peacemaking in Belfa...
June 27, 2022
The Art of Talking to Children
After over two years of disconnection, frequent trauma, and grief, so many children are longing for connection, belonging, and the opportunity to process experiences. Meaningful conversations offer them all these gifts and mo...
June 13, 2022
Life after 45 – Optimistic Aging – 45 Forward
Today’s show is about navigating a successful life as you age. Just over 34 percent of the US population is aged 50 and over, and the numbers are rising rapidly with the aging of the baby-boom generation. The numbers are proj...
June 6, 2022
Creating Safer and Supportive Schools
In the United States, the nineteen children murdered in Uvalde now are tragically added to the 4,357 American children from the ages of one to nineteen who died from gun violence in 2020. After every mass shooting, the dialog...
May 30, 2022
The Value of a Life Plan
Shannah Kennedy is one of Australia’s foremost strategic executive life and health coaches, working with clients to help them transform their careers, well-being, and lives. She is a bestselling author, well-being specialist,...
May 23, 2022
How to End Parkinson’s Disease—and Why We Need to.
Brain diseases are now the world’s leading source of disability. One of the most debilitating, Parkinson’s disease, is the fastest growing neurological disorder in the world. Over the past 25 years, the number of people with ...
May 16, 2022
Bridges to Therapy: Closing the Gap for Georgia’s Youth
In 2021, Georgia ranked 49th in access to behavioral health services. Children and youth have been particularly affected by the shortage of providers; longer wait lists to receive mental health services are contributing to in...
May 9, 2022
One Trusted Adult: Creating Safety for our Youth
These days, it feels like we can’t look at the front page of a national newspaper or watch five minutes of cable news without hearing of a school shooting or a person in a position of power who abused a child or teenager. The...
May 2, 2022
Are you the victim of sexual harassment? SpotTheLine can help
Lauren Roselle and Joelle Casteix from SpotTheLine are here to talk about a brand-new, free app that can identify, prevent, and de-escalate sexual harassment. A sexual harassment issue can be intimidating to address, jarring ...
April 25, 2022
Everyone is talking about trauma! What is it and can it be fixed?
Clive Corry of Action Trauma Limited, will tell us what trauma is and why it affects so many people in the world in so many different ways; often causing them to hurt themselves and others. Clive says that trauma is a disturb...
April 18, 2022
Resilient Retreat- Providing Hope & Healing
Resilient Retreat was formed in 2018 and has been providing interdisciplinary workshops and training to victims of trauma since 2019. Over four hundred and fifty trauma victims, including survivors of abuse, sexual assault an...
April 11, 2022
Ukrainian Humanitarian Project
The Russian invasion of Ukraine caused a shock wave throughout our world. As the images of destruction besieged our social media, many of us wondered how we could help. The Trauma Resource Institute was called into action by ...
April 4, 2022
Collective Healing and Systems Change
What do we learn when we integrate the perspectives of trauma and systems change? Why is a trauma-informed lens absent from the mainstream discourse about social and environmental problem solving and what changes when we brin...
March 28, 2022
Rebuilding your life after Incarceration
In Correctional, Shankar frames his unexpected encounters with the law and the unraveling of his life through the lenses of race, class, privilege, and his bicultural upbringing as the first and only son of South Indian immig...
March 21, 2022
International Social Work: Loma Linda University’s Trauma Team
The Loma Linda University (LLU) International Behavior Health Trauma Team (IBHTT) operated by the LLU School of Behavioral Health (SBH) has been providing international trauma preparatory training and psychological first aid ...
March 14, 2022
The Heart of Caring: A Life in Pediatrics
Pediatrician Mark Vonnegut has spent forty years treating children for coughs, fevers, ear infections, and sometimes more serious complaints. In that time, he has seen the American medical system change in ways he couldn’t ha...
March 7, 2022
Compassion for Ukraine: Promoting Peace & Healing
Many in the global community want to help Ukrainians and may not know how. Vira Salzburn will discuss with host Elaine Miller-Karas how a group of international Community Resiliency Model teachers gathered with their Ukrainia...
Feb. 28, 2022
Compassion & Loving-kindness in Response to Genuine Despair
We are inundated with information about all that is wrong in the world. Sometimes it feels so overwhelming we throw our hands up, believing we can’t possibly make a difference. But we can. There is a quote that goes, “everyon...
Feb. 21, 2022
Becoming a Thriver of Intimate Partner Violence: Using the Truth
Bernita R. Walker, the CEO and Co-Founder of Project Peacemakers, Inc. will share the wealth and wisdom of her experience as a Violence Prevention Practitioner, an Intimate Partner Violence Survivor, and a retired Deputy Sher...
Feb. 14, 2022
Steps in Courage: Racial Equity, Healing, and Civic Engagement
A team of multi-generational civil rights leaders, historians, educators, community leaders and clinicians gathered together to participate in a landmark initiative, the Kellogg Foundation’s Racial Equity 2030 grant opportuni...
Feb. 7, 2022
Keeping Faith: Trauma and Resiliency among Black Youth in America
Reggie will discuss how Black youth in America are confronted by trauma disproportionately affecting their communities. As we remember the past, engage the present and envision the future, the protective factors within youth,...