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Wellness Check with Alaina Wood from March 10th, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Hm, so I'm going here. Oh is it? I know
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  Speaker 1: what that means? Yes, in Elena on the phone, It's time.
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  Speaker 2: For Elena Wood from Nightingale College. Good morning, miss Wood.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, good morning. What a lovely introduction today. Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: I just was listening to the music and it made
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  Speaker 2: me want to talk like an old time announcing good.
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  Speaker 1: Morning, miss Wood.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning.
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  Speaker 2: All right, what have we got today? Coping with stress?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, A lot of times when we feel stressed, it
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  Speaker 3: can be really tempting to turn to a lot of
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  Speaker 3: our you know, typical coping mechanism. Alcohol, you know, just
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  Speaker 3: say say it, alcohol, hall, whatever it might be. And
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  Speaker 3: I just today have some options that are a little
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  Speaker 3: bit more helpful, a little bit healthier for us.
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  Speaker 1: All right, all right, go ahead, Okay.
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  Speaker 3: The first one is to feel and name your feelings.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of times when we have these uncomfortable emotions
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  Speaker 3: pop up, we, like I said, we don't want to
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  Speaker 3: feel them, and when we give them a name, it
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  Speaker 3: actually helps us to be more capable of feeling and
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  Speaker 3: processing them. So trying to say something like this is
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  Speaker 3: a feeling of stress, and that can help us to
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  Speaker 3: more easily move on.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I thought you meant like, I'm feeling this feel,
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  Speaker 2: this feeling.
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  Speaker 1: Of anger, and I'm naming it Tom.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, if you really want to, you're welcome.
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  Speaker 1: To personalized it somehow. Is Tom bothering you again?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but just just sort of if you.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, what's the next one?
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  Speaker 3: The next one is to treat the feelings as messengers precisely. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the part of the purpose of these emotions
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  Speaker 3: that arise is to tell us that something is off,
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  Speaker 3: and so if we allow them to, they can be
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  Speaker 3: a catalyst for change. They can just kind of help
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  Speaker 3: us understand better how we feel about what's going on
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  Speaker 3: in the world.
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  Speaker 2: If you're stressed about a situation, maybe it's because you
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  Speaker 2: weren't prepared for it, and maybe next time that situation
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  Speaker 2: is coming up, you'll be better prepared.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks, Jana, Now you've made me feel guilty.
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  Speaker 3: Hint.
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  Speaker 2: Anybody, So now choose an action that you can take.
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  Speaker 1: What in an action to counteract it or what?
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  Speaker 3: Well, this can be honestly about anything. If you notice
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  Speaker 3: that you're feeling stressed out about a situation, there might
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  Speaker 3: be something that you can do to alleviate that stress.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe prepare a little bit more, maybe pause and take
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  Speaker 3: a few breaths. If you're feeling overwhelmed by the world
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  Speaker 3: at large, which I think a lot of us are,
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  Speaker 3: you know, there's small things we can do. We can
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  Speaker 3: write to our officials, we can call in those kinds
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  Speaker 3: of things.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel pressured every year around this time about
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  Speaker 2: taxes and getting taxes done.
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  Speaker 1: And I excuse me and all.
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  Speaker 2: And I realized that all I really have to do
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  Speaker 2: is call and make an appointment to get them done.
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  Speaker 1: But I, yeah, but it for some reason, I don't
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  Speaker 1: do that.
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  Speaker 3: And if you just do the thing, you'll stop feeling
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  Speaker 3: stressed about it.
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  Speaker 2: Finally I did it yesterday, and and I've been feeling
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  Speaker 2: stressed about it for like two weeks, and finally yesterday, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I'll come in next week and we'll do them.
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  Speaker 3: Good job.
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  Speaker 1: Really stupid, you know anyway, But you're not alone.
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  Speaker 3: We all do this kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: We're all stupid depression. What else? What have we got here? Now?
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  Speaker 1: Build community?
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  Speaker 3: Build community? Yes, so seek out and provide support and comfort.
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  Speaker 3: Get close with the people that are your physical neighbors,
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  Speaker 3: as well as making connections with folks who are your
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  Speaker 3: digital neighbors, so to speak. So just doing your best
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  Speaker 3: to be part of your your local group.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, now this one, when I try to move my body,
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  Speaker 2: this is also depressing suppression.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, moving our body can be super helpful. A lot
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  Speaker 3: of times that sensation of stress is also accompanied by
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  Speaker 3: that physical freeze response, and so just finding ways to
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  Speaker 3: move our body can help us to kind of process
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  Speaker 3: those emotions, get out of that physical freeze. And this
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  Speaker 3: doesn't have to be like go into a CrossFit class
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  Speaker 3: or something like that. It can be a walk. You
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  Speaker 3: can wrestle with your dog, you can dance in your
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  Speaker 3: living room, whatever it is.
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  Speaker 1: That's the one I want you to do. Bil dance
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  Speaker 1: in your living room.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna come over and dance in your living room.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, what's next next is to find some joy. You know,
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  Speaker 3: when we're feeling stressed, our brain really fixates on all
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  Speaker 3: of the perceived threats around us. And so being really
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  Speaker 3: intentional about finding joy, humor, pleasure, all of these themes,
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  Speaker 3: this small happiness that can really help our brain to
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  Speaker 3: recalibrate a little bit. And notice that, you know, the
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  Speaker 3: whole world is it out to get us?
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  Speaker 1: So to speak, Well, I don't know exactly. I think
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  Speaker 1: maybe the world is out to get me. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: mean just.
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  Speaker 2: Tom tom uh.
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  Speaker 1: And then.
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  Speaker 2: And then seek is seek help the next one or yeah,
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  Speaker 2: yeah yeah, seek help that is yeah, that's good.
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  Speaker 3: That yeah. I just know that there is help out there.
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  Speaker 3: There's professional care that you can use, there's community resources,
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  Speaker 3: all these different avenues that we can take, and of course,
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  Speaker 3: if it is an emergency, you can dial the nine
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  Speaker 3: eighty eight crisis line.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Elena Wood Nightingale College. Where can people find
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  Speaker 2: out more?
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  Speaker 3: You can learn more about this as well as Nightingale's
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  Speaker 3: amazing programs by visiting Nightingale dot edu.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Thanks Elena, will talk to you soon, all
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  Speaker 1: right
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Take care all right,