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Wellness Check with Alaina Wood for November 12th, 2024 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Thank you well to talk to Elena Wood from Nightingale
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  College about improving one's mood and with by nostaga. You know,
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  those whiskey can improve your mood.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think that's on her list.
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  Speaker 1: No, No, we're going to talk about how nostalgia can
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  improve your mood and increase your resilience.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, Good morning. How are you doing today?
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  Speaker 1: I'm in the mood for an old fashioned love song.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 3: I love that.
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  Speaker 2: I was looking over your list to Elena. I do most
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  of these things, and I actually do them when I
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  if I'm feeling blue, I will do a lot of
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  these things on your list.
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  Speaker 3: I love that. That's so great.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk a little bit about them individually. What what
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  are we talking about here? What nostalgia things can you
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  do that will help?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so just kind of tuning into and remembering the
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  good times in our past can really help us to
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  be happier and, like you said, even increase our resilience.
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  So my first recommendation is to listen to old music,
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  songs from your childhood or your teenage years. They can
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  help to bring a sense of comfort and joy and
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  just you know, kind of remembering those good old days.
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  When life was maybe a little easier for you.
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  Speaker 2: Would we think that hair metal would make you feel
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  better about it?
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  Speaker 1: But it does. I think the lazy days of summer's
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  that's what. Okay, so hair metal for Gina.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. The next recommendation is to look through old photo albums.
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  And this can be digital, this can be paper, this
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  can be even just looking through your social media feed
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  from several years ago and remembering those joyful moments, connections
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  with friends and family, how cute your kid was when
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  they were a tiny baby. Those kinds of things can
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  really bring us a lot of joy.
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  Speaker 1: I remember when my kids were cute.
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  Speaker 2: I am in the morning here, I do this every day.
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  I pull my Instagram up and I just leave it
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  off to the side and really just scrolling through it
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  and looking at my family pictures again makes me.
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  Speaker 1: And you're lucky your kids are still cute.
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  Speaker 3: The next recommendation, oh sorry, you want to say some Okay.
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  And the next recommendation is to watch classic movies or
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  old TV shows. And I have a couple of what
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  I call comfort movies and shows that I turned to
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  and things still really really hard, are they? And yeah, okay,
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  so I'm really love the Dick Van Dyke Show, which
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  I know is quite old, but it just feels like
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  cozy and happy to watch. And then, of course, don't
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  make fun of me, but The Princess Bride is one
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  of those films that I just absolutely love.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a little lft kills. I like to watch Hogan's Heroes.
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  I don't.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Mystery Science Theater always comforts me. Yeah, watch the
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  next one. The next one is to reconnect with old friends.
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  So somebody that was in your life many years ago,
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  maybe they are as close to you, either like physically
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  geographically close to you, or maybe you've just kind of
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  lost touch over the years. But reconnecting with somebody that
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  you knew and loved years and years ago and just
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  catching up on those old memories as well as what's
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  happening now.
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  Speaker 1: Like Paul Simon and our Garfuncle just did. They just
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  got back together for the first time in years.
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  Speaker 3: And that's a really good example.
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  Speaker 1: I said, it was very cathartic.
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  Speaker 3: I love that visiting places from your past, going back
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  to places that had a sentimental meaning for you as
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  you were growing up or even just in the last
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  several years, that can bring up really positive memories and
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  even fun memories.
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  Speaker 1: Mm hmm, okay, next.
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  Speaker 3: Engaging in hobbies you enjoyed as a child, and I
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  really want to emphasize activities that involved play and just
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  sun can be really really good for our mood.
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  Speaker 2: I need to get my barbies out.
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  Speaker 1: I missed my match book.
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  Speaker 2: I love you play with a match book collect.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you don't play with it.
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  Speaker 2: You just just that's not a good idea.
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  Speaker 1: You just look at it, and you look at all
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  these different match books.
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  Speaker 3: Oh that's good. And finally, just of course, always remembering
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  to keep ourselves rooted in the present moment. It's it's
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  so great to remember these good times, but it doesn't
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  really serve us to live in the past. So while
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  we're looking at old photos and things like that, remembering
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  that you know, today is twenty twenty four and we
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  need to be in this moment too.
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  Speaker 1: That's That's what I was going to ask you about that,
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  because when I do some of these things, it has
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  the tendency to make me too sad, and I don't
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  you know, I think, oh, I don't, I don't want
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  to do that anymore. It makes me too say you
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  start wallowing in it, and it's kind of Yeah. The
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  way to not do that is to ground yourself in
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  the present.
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  Speaker 3: I guess yes, absolutely so. Just having little remembers that
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  can be yourself back anything to last minute things like
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  physical touch can be really helpful to just bring yourself
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  back to that present moment.
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  Speaker 1: Elena Wood a Nightingale College. Where can people find out more?
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  Speaker 3: Season learn more about this as well as Nightingale's amazing
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  programs by visiting Nightingale dot edu.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Very much, Thank you, takeing care, talk to you next time.
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  Speaker 2: All right,