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Radio From Hell Wellness Check for May 27th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Is Elena Wood there, Helena Helena, Nightingale College. That's who's
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  Speaker 1: bringing you this segment. Elena Wood from Nightingale College.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning. How's everyone doing today?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think it's I think it's the perfect time
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  Speaker 1: to talk about the five Seas of mental health. That's
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  Speaker 1: how I went down the list, and chardonnay is not there,
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  Speaker 1: and neither's candy.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, no, those are those are both on the
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  Speaker 2: agendam I see a few pages back?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so what the five seas of mental health? If
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  Speaker 1: you yes, if you do these things, it will well
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  Speaker 1: maybe not insure, but help help your mental health.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, support you in having good mental health.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: So the first is connection, thinking about relationships that we
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  Speaker 2: build long term, deep, meaningful connections. And the science really
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  Speaker 2: shows that we want quality over quantity in this area.
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  Speaker 1: And we were talking about that this morning as a
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  Speaker 1: matter of fact, early this morning with men have the
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  Speaker 1: tendency to as they get older, sort of isolate and
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  Speaker 1: not have connections.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly, and it definitely does impact not
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  Speaker 2: just their mental well being, but their overall physical health
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  Speaker 2: as well.
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  Speaker 1: And if you need to borrow five bucks, it's you know,
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  Speaker 1: if there's nobody there you can borrow it from. Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: What's the next one?
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  Speaker 2: The next one is compassion, and compassion is a willingness
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  Speaker 2: to sit in discomfort, both with ourselves as well as
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  Speaker 2: with others, and to be kind to ourselves and others
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  Speaker 2: during these times of discomfort. Sometimes that might come easily
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  Speaker 2: to you for other people, but not so much for yourself.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's absolutely true. I hadn't thought about thought
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  Speaker 1: about it that way, but that is true. You you
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  Speaker 1: you feel you can feel the pain of other people,
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  Speaker 1: you can, you can take on there, but sometimes you don't.
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  Speaker 1: You don't allow Yeah, you're very hard on yourself that way.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely. I like to ask myself how would I
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  Speaker 2: treat a friend in this situation? And that helps me
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  Speaker 2: not always, but often it helps me be a lot
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  Speaker 2: kinder to myself.
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  Speaker 1: I would ask myself that, But I don't have any friends.
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  Speaker 2: You need connection, one at a.
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  Speaker 1: Time, I know, and I'm going to I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: be working on that. What's the next one.
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  Speaker 2: The next one is coping?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I can't do that.
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  Speaker 2: This is talking about building healthy skills and mechanisms when
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  Speaker 2: we do come across stress in our lives. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it can be so easy to just zone out, stare
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  Speaker 2: at our phone, stare at our TVs, whatever it might be.
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  Speaker 2: But we also need to develop skills that can can
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  Speaker 2: help move us further along in our lives. So things
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  Speaker 2: like journaling, talking with friends, moving our bodies, those can
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  Speaker 2: all help us manage stress and difficulties in a more
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  Speaker 2: healthy way.
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  Speaker 1: It's I mean, it really is hard. I mean if
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  Speaker 1: you're having health issues or you know, like when I
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  Speaker 1: had I got I had RSV last year, and that's
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  Speaker 1: really bad. And I just I said to my wife,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I understand why people just say that's it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just going to sit in front of the TV
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  Speaker 1: and watch TV and just wait, wait for the wait
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  Speaker 1: for Frank Chris to come along. He's our grim reaper friend.
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  Speaker 2: Oh Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, it's I mean, it really does. You
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  Speaker 1: just feel such despair Now. I don't feel that way now,
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  Speaker 1: but when I was ill, I did feel so.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely absolutely. It's easier in the moment for sure
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  Speaker 2: to zone out and do all of these things, but
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  Speaker 2: in the long run, we definitely benefit more from doing
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  Speaker 2: these healthier mechanisms.
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  Speaker 1: And what's the community is the next one?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, community and and this is different from connection. Community
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  Speaker 2: is part of being something that is that is bigger
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  Speaker 2: than ourselves, feeling a sense of purpose, a sense of
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  Speaker 2: engagement with people who are approximately close to us, maybe
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  Speaker 2: so like our neighbors, our church group, our exercise class,
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  Speaker 2: whatever that might be. Or it can be more of
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  Speaker 2: like a global community. If you have like a really
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  Speaker 2: thriving online connection with people, that can be a great
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  Speaker 2: way to build community as well.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. I'm joining the Elks. That's what I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to become a Mason. That's what I'm gonna do. That's
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  Speaker 1: community as a community helped. I mean, I mean it's
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  Speaker 1: I say that as a joke, but I mean that's
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  Speaker 1: that's why people did join social clubs a lot. It's
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  Speaker 1: you know, yeah, it was a way to establish, you know,
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  Speaker 1: to have some community. What's the final.
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  Speaker 2: Scene, exactly? The final see is care and this is
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  Speaker 2: about being pro active in our own well being, So
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  Speaker 2: practicing things like self care, reading a book, taking a break,
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  Speaker 2: making sure we're showering or bathing regularly, as well as
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  Speaker 2: seeking professional care such as going to a therapist, seeing
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  Speaker 2: our primary care provider regularly, things like that. So being
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  Speaker 2: just proactive about our own well being.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to carry Gina. I promised today. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to start showering, right, don't you. That's caring for us
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  Speaker 1: as well.
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  Speaker 2: In the room. You're gonna help with everybody's mental well being.
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  Speaker 1: I've got I promise, and I promise that I will
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  Speaker 1: not stop using the odor of ink. I'll use theodorank,
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  Speaker 1: I promise. All right, okay, yes, all right? Where can
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  Speaker 1: people find out more about this? Elena?
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  Speaker 2: People can learn more about this as well as Nightingale's
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  Speaker 2: amazing programs by visiting Nightingale dot edu ms Wood.
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  Speaker 1: It's always a pleasure. Thanks for being with us.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, yeah, thank you. Take care bye bye.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll