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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. Hold regular conversations to normalize how teens are feeling. Too many parents preach or hold one-sided conversations with our children. This is critical.)

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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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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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