[ENCORE] Ep. 124: Promoting Mental Health with Dr. Jess Shatkin
Show notes & links available here. About Dr. Jess P. Shatkin In this episode, I’m speaking with Dr. Jess Shatkin, about preventing mental illness and promoting health in children and adolescents. As a clinician, researcher and educator, Dr. Shatkin is one of the country’s foremost experts in adolescent mental health, risk and resilience. We talked…
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Ep. 157: Personal Update & Insights during COVID, Fires, & General Mayhem
SHOW NOTES Join the Sunshine Parenting Patreon community for bonus podcast episodes and resources! Those things that are really, really important are generally the things that you wouldn’t be able to take in a fire.Audrey MonkeHi Podcast Friends,This week I share a personal update and some insights I’ve gained over the past few weeks.Among other…
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Ep. 154: Race-Based Stress of Black Americans and Coping Strategies
SHOW NOTES This week on the podcast, I bring you my conversation with Dr. Courtney Thomas Tobin, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the UCLA School of Public Health. You may remember Courtney from Episode 145, when I spoke with her and her husband Danny about welcoming a black son…
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Ep. 146: How are you doing? A Mid-year Check-in
Show Notes My family’s favorite word to use is ‘unprecedented,’ because everything is unprecedented this year. We try to use the word as much as possible. -Audrey Hi Friends, How are you doing? I mean, how are you really doing? Many of us – kids and adults alike – are really struggling right now – physically, emotionally,…
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Two Ways to Be a Better Parent
This weekend, I had the pleasure of listening to Madeline Levine, PhD. (author of The Price of Privilege, Teach Your Children Well) speak at my favorite annual camp conference. Dr. Levine has insight as to why so many of our children are suffering from terrible mental health issues (anxiety, depression, eating disorders, sleeping issues, self-mutilation, etc.). …
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