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Healthy Habits: The Mayo Lab Podcast with David Magee

Motherhood Moments

We must guide a generation of young people who battle a perfect storm of dangers: drug misuse, mental health struggles, social media overload, intense academic pressures, a grim economy, and a precarious future. And with so many experts out there in so many areas—parenting, addiction, mental health—it’s hard to know where to start.

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Parenting Pointers: Helping Our Teens

Motherhood Moments

Besides the unprecedented rise in suicidal behavior, the report shared other grim findings on sexual violence, substance misuse, depression, and other mental health woes. That’s why he joined with the University of Mississippi’s Thomas Hayes Mayo Lab to create The Mayo Lab Podcast. The same goes for nourishing their mental health.

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Parenting Pointers: Promoting Emotional Readiness for the Workplace

Motherhood Moments

Their responses were disheartening, to say the least: 51 percent said they needed help for mental health problems in the past year. In his book, Magee builds a compelling case that smartphones and their associated apps “have more to do with the mental health and substance misuse epidemic than most parents and educators can conceive.”

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The Best And Worst States To Retire In 2023, Ranked

Savings Corner

To find some objective answers to the where-to-retire question, Bankrate crunched a bevy of statistics on costs of living, public health and other metrics to create a comprehensive ranking of the best and worst states to retire in the U.S. Delaware, West Virginia, Missouri and Mississippi round out the top five. Mississippi 46.

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Parenting Pointers - What Parents Can Do to Protect Their Children on Social Media

Motherhood Moments

Murthy says while we don’t yet know the full impact on our young people, there are “ample indicators that social media can also have a profound risk of harm to the mental health and wellbeing of children and adolescents.” Student wellbeing activist David Magee couldn’t agree more. In fact, it’s making them sick and miserable.” Don’t preach.

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Smart Safety: Release Recovery Podcast

Motherhood Moments

It’s a recipe for disaster, says Zac Clark, founder and CEO of Release Recovery , a substance use disorder and mental health organization based in New York that offers transitional living, case management, interventions, and other recovery and family support services. This is a great start,” concludes Clark.

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Money Matters - Hardest States for Gen Z to Earn a Living

Motherhood Moments

This is based on the state’s current living wage of $45,739, which is calculated using ‘geographically specific expenditure data for food, childcare, health care, housing, transportation, and other necessities’, according to researchers at MIT.

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