This week Victoria Lynn Bentley, a licensed professional counselor, talks with us about emerging from COVID quarantine and reclaiming our lives. Victoria discusses reopening ourselves to vulnerability, the value of mindfulness, and the use of Telehealth to have a someone to talk to about our fears...
Our guest this week along with her colleagues published an opinion article in Newsweek about the effect of visiting policies in hospitals and nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic. These authors suggest that it is time to make some adjustments to support family visits.
Over 81,000 drug overdose deaths occurred in the United States in the 12 months ending in May 2020, leaving loved ones struggling with their unexpected death. Learn more about the complicated grief that follows, and ways to move past the stigma, blame, isolation, and shame that may come with their...
How do we balance risk and still live a productive - even exciting - life? David shares his perspective on how he applies his risk model from his professional and recreational life to the COVID pandemic.
Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead - has beautiful traditions to honor and remember the dead. We talk about beliefs, foods, drinks, and how to make an ofrenda or altar to celebrate loved ones.
As COVID-19 marches onward, we are discovering there is a surprising subset of young, healthy people who can also get very sick, or have mild initial symptoms, but have long-term effects. The people who also were hospitalized have long recoveries, due to the ravages of COVID, the body's immune...
This week, you can listen to Nicole, a 38-year-old mother of 2 talks about her experience with having COVID-19. She was not hospitalized but managed her symptoms from her home. Hers is a great example of all that can happen when tested positive for COVID-19 and the long illness that follows.
This virus does not care whether you believe or not. The virus doesn’t care about your party affiliation. The only way to get our lives back, and get our economy back, is if we work as responsible citizens to defeat the murderer at the door.
From vaccines to cancer treatment, any new drugs go through rigorous testing called Clinical Trials before they are approved. Learn about what clinical trials are and how we benefit.
He then stops eating and drinking, is admitted to the hospital for dehydration, and returns to the Hospice care facility. He is still refusing to eat or drink and is now on his ninth day. As a family member, what are you supposed to do?