WHO DOESN'T LOVE A GOOD PODCAST?? STUCK IN TRAFFIC? NO PROBLEM! NEED TO WALK THE DOG FOR FIVE HOURS A DAY? NO PROBLEM! NEED SOMETHING TO LISTEN TO TO TUNE OUT YOUR CHATTY OFFICEMATE? NO PROBLEM!
BECAUSE WE CARE SO MUCH ABOUT THE WORLD LEARNING MORE ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH, WE'VE ALSO MADE A SERIES OF PODCASTS SO THAT YOU CAN LEARN ON THE GO. WE COVER THE SAME TOPICS AS OUR SHORT VIDEOS, BUT WE GO INTO MORE DETAIL AND GIVE YOU A BIT MORE BACKGROUND.
PODCAST OF THE WEEK
I never ask for help
- no successful person ever
title: who ya gonna call?
focus: SO, you’ve decided that it might be helpful to get some professional mental health support. AWESOME! 100 bonus grown up points for you. But how do you actually do that!? Where do you go?? Who ya gonna call?? Certainly not the ghost busters. This week we’re all about how learning how to actually get help. Because the worst thing you can do is wait until you need help to try to figure out how to navigate this confusing system! We cover the difference between the services you can get from your family dr, a community counsellor, a clinical psychologist, and a psychiatrist, as well as some other mental health supports you should know about.
THE STRONG INDIVIDUAL IS THE ONE WHO ASKS FOR HELP WHEN HE NEEDS IT
- Rona Barrett
title: Getting help is hard!
focus: If you’ve been following along week by week you’ll know that we’ve been throwing a LOT of information at you so far about the things you can do to improve or protect your mental health. Talk about mental health! Be aware of your emotions! Manage your emotions in a healthy way! Make sure you have enough (and the right kind of) social support! We sound a bit like a naggy mom (no offense mom..). So this week we wanted to change gears and focus on what someone else can do to help you with your mental health! And no, we’re not talking about the guy who says he will heal your mind for five easy instalments of $19.99. Seeking professional mental health support is hard for so many reasons… There’s a lot of stigma around needing help with your mental health, and with being “in therapy”! There’s also just the scary question of “When do I actually need to seek professional help?” To help you understand the benefits of seeking help, when you should actually pick up the phone to make that call, and some of the most common misconceptions or barriers to seeking help, we interviewed a phenomenal clinical psychologist here in Kingston, Ontario.
THE STRUGGLE IS REAL - EPISODE 7
October 20, 2016
You're the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with
- Jim Rohn
Title: Who's got your back?
Focus: Having good support in our lives is amazing… It means someone is there to pick you up when you’re feeling down, make you laugh when it’s hard to smile, and to feed you pizza when you’re too hungry to move. But sometimes we have to step back and make sure that the people supporting us are actually giving us the kind of support that we need! Check out our latest video, podcast, and articles to learn more about how social support actually changes your body’s way of handling stress, how long this has been beneficial, and the kinds of faux-supporters you may have to watch your back around.
THE STRUGGLE IS REAL - EPISODE 6
October 6, 2016
Humans See what they want to see
- Rick Riordan
Title: Sometimes our brain is a big jerk.
Focus: Whenever we're experiencing a big emotion, our brains try to do us a big favor by looking for evidence to support us (your brain's got your back). But, the problem with this is that it prevents us from seeing anything in our environments that would contradict how we're thinking and feeling. Psychologists call this phenomenon a "confirmation bias" and we're here this week to talk about what the heck that means, how to recognize when YOU'RE using it, and how to kick this bias in the face when it's getting in your way.
THE STRUGGLE IS REAL - EPISODE 5
September 22, 2016
CAn we fix it? Yes we can!
- Bob the Builder
Title: Your Emotion Toolbox
Focus: We now know that there are tools to manage our emotions but big whoop, tools are useless if you don't know how to use them. Today we go into detail about what those tools look like in real life and talk about making your own "toolbox" of emotion regulation strategies so you can begin to feel in more control of those wily emotions
THE STRUGGLE IS REAL - EPISODE 4
September 8, 2016
CHICKITY-CHECK YO SELF BEFORE YOU WRECK YO SELF
- Ice Cube
Title: Check Yo Self
Focus: Once you get rolling in that ocean of emotion, you gotta learn how to steer the ship. Your emotions are a roller coaster, but you’re the one who builds the track. You gotta check yo self before you wreck yo self. Enough analogies for you? This week we’re talking about what to do with your emotions once they start bubbling up to the surface. We’ve got a cameo appearance from Vanessa and Kalee’s phenomenal supervisor, Dr. Tom Hollenstein, and he’s going to tell you all about the ways that you can keep your emotions from wreckin yo self.
The Struggle is Real - Episode 3
August 24, 2016
Feelings are much like waves, we can't stop them from coming, but we can choose which one to surf
- Jonatan Martensson
title: All the feels
focus: How would you feel if someone called you an "emotional person"? Probably offended. Why? Because for some reason we think emotions are bad. But NEWS FLASH, every person is an emotional person. We all have emotions but often we do our damnedest to pretend that we don't. Today we are going to talk about why emotions are important and why we should start paying attention to our own.
THE STRUGGLE IS REAL - EPISODE 2
MOST OF THE SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE I’VE KNOWN ARE THE ONES WHO DO MORE LISTENING THAN TALKING
- Bernard Baruch
title: How to talk to your friends about mental health
focus: We all know that you're an amazing friend who wants to shower your loved ones with support and respect. But when it comes time to talk about mental health and a problem they're having? It gets a little tricky. Let us shower you with some tips on how to be a rockstar mental health advocate and listener.
THE STRUGGLE IS REAL - EPISODE 1
WHEN YOU DON'T TALK, THERE'S A LOT OF STUFF THAT ENDS UP NOT GETTING SAID.
- Catherine Murdock
title: Talking about mental health
focus: We're going to be dropping all kinds of knowledge on you about why it's so important to talk about mental health, what stigma is (we had to look it up), and what you can do to get better at talking about mental health!