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Radio From Hell Wellness Check from October 14th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Oh it's Lena Wood, Yes, right there from Nightingale College.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning.
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  Speaker 3: It needs to be here today.
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  Speaker 2: It's nice to have you here. I was.
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  Speaker 1: Looking over, just looking over this list of tips to
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  Speaker 1: manage stress and overwhelm related.
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  Speaker 2: Overwhelmed by the overwhelmed by the news. But I don't
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  Speaker 2: see anywhere here eating that that's a coping mechanism, that
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  Speaker 2: a way to manage your stress.
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  Speaker 3: That that didn't quite make the list just because we
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  Speaker 3: need to condense things here we only have a few
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  Speaker 3: minutes together or but you know, it's it's definitely a
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  Speaker 3: coping tool. Yeah, people don't know if it's the most
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  Speaker 3: healthy all the time.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't see drinking on here either.
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  Speaker 3: So no, yeah, I had to leave that one off too.
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  Speaker 1: But people are overwhelmed by the news and depressed by.
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  Speaker 2: It a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely, And I don't think it's a new phenomenon.
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  Speaker 3: I do think having like social media and news available
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  Speaker 3: to us every second of every day has increased those
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  Speaker 3: feelings of stress, overwhelmed, depression. Yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 1: I mean I will say sometimes to my wife, I say, oh,
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  Speaker 1: did you.
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  Speaker 2: Hear about is this about Trump? I don't want to
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  Speaker 2: hear about it I don't want to hear.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, which is a way of just just telling your
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  Speaker 1: partner to shut up as a way of coping with
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  Speaker 1: the stress.
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  Speaker 2: I guess.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: But what are some of the what are some of
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  Speaker 2: the things you have for us?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: The first tip I have is to use mindfulness tools
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  Speaker 3: and practices. So when you feel yourself starting to get stressed,
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  Speaker 3: starting to feel overwhelmed, give yourself permission to pause, take
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  Speaker 3: a breath, maybe go outside, touch grass, look at the sun,
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  Speaker 3: things like that that help you feel a little more centered,
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  Speaker 3: a little more calm.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I would caution against staring at the sun, not directly.
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  Speaker 3: Feeling the warmth of the warmth of the sun. Yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: So, So just go out to nature and go.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: What's next?
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  Speaker 3: The next tip is to have phone free zones. So
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  Speaker 3: by this I mean having areas in your home or
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  Speaker 3: at work where you simply don't have your phone with you.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe this is at the dinner table, maybe it's on
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  Speaker 3: the couch while you're watching your show at night, wherever
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  Speaker 3: it is that makes sense for you to just simply
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  Speaker 3: not have your phone with you. That way removes all
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  Speaker 3: of the temptations to open it up and start scrolling.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we do, particularly at the dinner table.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. The only time phone appears is if we're having
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  Speaker 3: a discussion and there's some question, let me.
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  Speaker 2: Get Okay, I'm gonna go get my phone. But but
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  Speaker 2: you don't have them at the table.
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  Speaker 1: But they're handy nearby, all right, So no no phone zones.
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  Speaker 1: What what else we got.
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  Speaker 3: Next is to choose how much news you consume. So
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  Speaker 3: you you do have a choice, how much you are
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  Speaker 3: engaging with television, with your social media, with your spouse, talking.
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  Speaker 2: To about with the radio from hell show.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't want to say radio. Everyone listen all the
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  Speaker 3: time to the radio, so I'm kidding, but you do.
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  Speaker 3: You do have a choice, So set some boundaries and
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  Speaker 3: be intentional about what and how much you do engage that.
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  Speaker 3: What's next next is plan to take positive actions. And
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  Speaker 3: this is just reminding us, you know, we absolutely cannot
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  Speaker 3: control everything, and there there are things that we can do.
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  Speaker 3: You can volunteer in your community, you can write letters
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  Speaker 3: to your lawmakers, you can make donations the organizations you
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  Speaker 3: believe in. There's there's so many things that we can do.
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  Speaker 1: You can make signs and march up and down in
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  Speaker 1: front of things that you don't protest.
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  Speaker 2: On Saturday Saturday.
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  Speaker 3: Really, yeah, going to protest all of these things. This
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  Speaker 3: is action that you can take. You influence outcomes for sure.
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  Speaker 3: All Right Next, all right, next is to connect with
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  Speaker 3: your community, talking with people that you love and that
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  Speaker 3: you care about, and also getting to know the people
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  Speaker 3: who live next door to you, who live within your neighborhood.
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  Speaker 3: Connecting with these people, building groups that you support and
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  Speaker 3: trust can really help when things get difficult.
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  Speaker 1: It's true, it's I think most I don't really I
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  Speaker 1: do know my neighbors. It's almost impossible to not know
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  Speaker 1: my one neighbor because she's so she's just a very
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  Speaker 1: gregarious person. But I think a lot of people don't
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  Speaker 1: really even know who lives on either side of them.
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  Speaker 2: They don't know, they don't they don't talk to them
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  Speaker 2: because they're jerks. Yeah, I mean, because you.
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  Speaker 3: Don't know their jerks if you don't talk to them.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just assuming.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely. Yeah, I am guilty of not knowing all of
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  Speaker 3: the folks that live right next to me. And so
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  Speaker 3: it's something I've been trying to work on, being a
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  Speaker 3: little more friendly, being a little more available, but it's
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  Speaker 3: you've got to put effort in.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it is true and you should and uh,
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  Speaker 1: then finally we have what does it look for?
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  Speaker 3: Look for the helpers, missus Rogers. Yeah. Yeah, so you know,
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  Speaker 3: even when there are really difficult and scary things happening
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  Speaker 3: in the world, there's always people somewhere doing their best
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  Speaker 3: to help make the world a better place. So keep
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  Speaker 3: an eye out for the folks who are who are
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  Speaker 3: doing good, and also put in some work so that
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  Speaker 3: you can be one of them.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I think it behooves all of us too. If you
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  Speaker 1: see an opportunity to give somebody a hand or just
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  Speaker 1: even a word of encouragement, you should do it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely. It doesn't have to be a huge thing.
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  Speaker 3: You don't have to fly halfway across the world. You
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  Speaker 3: can be a helper within your own community for sure.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Elena.
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  Speaker 1: If people want to find out more about this and
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  Speaker 1: other things, where do they go?
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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 2: All right, thank you, talk to you soon, Thank you
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  Speaker 2: very much. Okay,