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Radio From Hell Wellness Check for April 15th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: All right, let's begin. Let's get on the floor. It's
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  Speaker 1: time for Alana would to join us for the check up,
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  Speaker 1: the uh the uh we're wellness check up? And Hi, Elena,
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  Speaker 1: how are you today?
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  Speaker 2: Gay there, I'm doing so good. How are you?
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  Speaker 1: I'm great? Uh? So you want to talk about build
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  Speaker 1: building resilience today? Can you just get a Can you
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  Speaker 1: just get a kit somewhere and put it together and
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  Speaker 1: call it good?
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  Speaker 2: Or I mean that would be really really nice, And
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  Speaker 2: you know, on on some websites there might be ways
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  Speaker 2: to kind of build out a metaphysical kitka, probably not
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  Speaker 2: something you can just pick up at your local gas
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  Speaker 2: station or grocery store.
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  Speaker 1: So resilience what what is? What is resilience?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, resilience is our ability to kind of bounce back
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  Speaker 2: and come back even stronger, maybe from difficult times in life.
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  Speaker 2: So our ability to navigate the emotional, physical ups and
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  Speaker 2: downs of the world and still remain strong and able
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  Speaker 2: to live our lives afterwards.
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  Speaker 1: Well I should, so I should just now be getting
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  Speaker 1: over the insults I suffered on the playground in the
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  Speaker 1: sixth grade.
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  Speaker 2: Well, this is part of resilience. Yeah, it's standing bullying things.
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  Speaker 1: Like that, For sure, So how do you build resilience?
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  Speaker 1: This is for yourself or maybe you can offer these
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  Speaker 1: ideas to your children as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, And you know a big part of resilience
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  Speaker 2: is kind of building up our reservoir of strength so
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  Speaker 2: that when these difficult things do happen, we have that
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  Speaker 2: to lean onto. So the first tip is, of course,
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  Speaker 2: to take care of your physical health. And we've talked
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  Speaker 2: about this so so much so drinking enough water, are
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  Speaker 2: getting enough sleep, moving our body regularly. Having this really
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  Speaker 2: strong base of physical well being is going to help
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  Speaker 2: us be able to bounce back and take care of
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  Speaker 2: our mental and emotional well being even better.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So that's that's okay. I'm trying to check
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  Speaker 1: off the things that I can't do, but I could
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  Speaker 1: do that. I could probably okay, all right.
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  Speaker 2: Next, yes, I believe in you.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Next is to build a community, reaching out, connecting to
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  Speaker 2: people that you love, creating connection with people that you
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  Speaker 2: are in proximity with, so folks in your neighborhood, the
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  Speaker 2: people that you work with regularly, and then of course
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  Speaker 2: just building up peer support groups and people that you
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  Speaker 2: enjoy connecting with.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's it's interesting. I think I've lived a
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  Speaker 1: lot of In a lot of places I've lived, I've
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  Speaker 1: lived very close to other dwellings and really not known
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  Speaker 1: or associated with the people that live. Yeah, yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: don't really know.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely I am guilty of that too. I have, you know,
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  Speaker 2: a handful of folks I'm really close with in my
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  Speaker 2: neighborhood and some that I have never even talked to.
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  Speaker 2: So it's it's an area that I have lots of
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  Speaker 2: opportunity for growth.
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  Speaker 1: What's next next is to lean.
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  Speaker 2: Into your personal strengths and values, And a lot of
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  Speaker 2: this boils down to just really trying our best to
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  Speaker 2: be true to ourselves. So if we value creativity and fun,
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  Speaker 2: or if we value traditional values, just really leaning into
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  Speaker 2: that space and trying our best to make decisions that
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  Speaker 2: align with those strengths and those values. I, for.
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  Speaker 1: One, value values I truly do of course.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm so glad.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. Next.
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  Speaker 2: Next is, of course, to take steps to care for
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  Speaker 2: your mental health, doing practices like meditation, gratitude, personal reflection,
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  Speaker 2: and of course connecting with mental health professionals when needed.
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  Speaker 1: When you mean like weekly, daily, yeah, I.
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  Speaker 2: Mean there are some times in our life when it
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  Speaker 2: might need it that much so for sure.
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  Speaker 1: I had a friend who went to therapy almost every
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  Speaker 1: day for a while. Really almost everything else, I gotta
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  Speaker 1: do it or I won't make it through. All right,
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  Speaker 1: what's next?
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  Speaker 2: Plus the next is to take perspective and this is
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  Speaker 2: simply an invitation to to have a growth mindset, So
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  Speaker 2: recognizing that failure is temporary and that emotions and feelings
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  Speaker 2: do not last forever. Of course, we don't want toxic
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  Speaker 2: positivity like oh good vibes. Only we allow ourselves to
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  Speaker 2: feel the frustration, to fill upset and also remember that
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  Speaker 2: this is this is just a moment of frustration.
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  Speaker 1: I'm very good at the frustration and being upset. I'm
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  Speaker 1: very very good at that. You work in radio. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's right, Yeah, that's the one I'm best at. I
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  Speaker 1: think of all the ones we've talked about, well, And
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  Speaker 1: so where you know these are? You send us these
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  Speaker 1: lists with the topics and is there any way people
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  Speaker 1: can access those?
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  Speaker 2: Yes? And yes you can learn more about this as
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  Speaker 2: well as Nightingale's amazing programs by visiting Nightingale dot edu.
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  Speaker 2: Simple as that they are also posted on our website
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  Speaker 2: every single time we do so you can find them
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  Speaker 2: at x ninety six dot com as well.
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  Speaker 1: There you go. Thank you, thank you, thank you, Elena.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk to you again soon.
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  Speaker 2: Sounds great. Take care all right, thank you very much.
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  Speaker 1: Okay,