New WisdomWithin Episode On Air!

Our WisdomWithin Podcast has just published its newest episode – first of our Lived Experience series – it’s “The Teens & Tough Stuff & Project Semi-colon” Episode.  This discussion tackles some tough topics, including the increasing prevalence of youth suicide, but also a very life affirming message, including from “Project;”, and from studies showing that the very nature of the problem itself,  has led today’s young people to be more open and willing to seek mental health help than their own parents may have been brought up to be. While it might sound like a hard listen, it’s actually sending a significant, positive message – and so, we continue… ;

Here is a direct link to the podcast episode for you:

https://anchor.fm/WisdomWithin/episodes/E21—The-Teens–Tough-Stuff–Project-Semi-colon-Episode–Lived-Experience-Series-e3sbad

New WisdomWithin Podcast Episode On Air!

Our newest episode shares shoutout greetings to listeners across America and across the globe! Your humble podhostess and peer support human, Kathy Surline, also walks us through more good finds from TheMighty.com and thoughts from their contributors on who their “safe person” is; how we can be an emotionally safe person for someone else, and even, for ourselves! 

Here’s a direct link for you to tune in and share:

https://anchor.fm/WisdomWithin/episodes/Episode-19-The-Howdies-Around-the-World–Whos-Your-Safe-Person–Sometimes–Thats-YOU–Episode-e3na4c

Self Care in Crisis & Sensitivity as a Superpower!

https://anchor.fm/WisdomWithin/episodes/Episode-16-The-Self-care-In-Times-of-Struggle–or-Your-Sensitivity-is-a-Super-Power-Episode-e3j1a7

WisdomWithin Podcast’s timely new episode joins our podhostess and peer support human, Kathy Surline, with a walk through self care during times of crisis or struggle, with real time tips and tools you can use, and how all of us who struggle with being “over” sensitive, actually have a superpower!

Use the direct link (above) to listen in to the newest episode today! 

WisdomWithin Podcast: New Peer Support Episode On Air!

https://anchor.fm/WisdomWithin/episodes/Episode-15-The-What-the-Heck-is-a-Peer-Support-Specialist-and-How-Do-I-Get-One–Episode-e3ic2f

Use the direct link (above) to join your WisdomWithin podhostess and peer support human, Kathy Surline, for an inside look at what peer support is, who does it, what we do, where we do it, why we do it and how! Available on your favorite listening platform today! We appreciate your participation, support and feedback! 

Academy of Peer Services Virtual Learning Community Project Features WisdomWithin Podcast

https://aps-community.org/2019/03/25/wisdom-within-postcasts/

Delighted, as Academy of Peer Services student/alum, to have our new podcast project featured by their Virtual Learning Community! The VLC is a project of the Academy of Peer Services, intended to create a bridge from knowledge (learned in APS courses) and applied skills, to practice in peer support and supervision in the workforce.

The Academy of Peer Services  is a venture of the New York Association of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services (NYAPRS) and Rutgers University School of Health Professions (SHP) with funding from the New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH). The Academy of Peer Services is separate from, but works in collaboration with, the New York Peer Specialist Certification Board to ensure quality education, training, and professional development of the peer support workforce in New York State.

WisdomWithin’s Podcast Episode on Mindfulness Now Airing!

https://anchor.fm/WisdomWithin/episodes/Episode-14-The-What-the-Heck-is-Mindfulness–Episode-e3hk0h

Catching up on delayed production with our release of Episode #14, the “What in the Heck is Mindfulness?” episode, now available across your favorite listening platforms! Well, we obviously keep mentioning it, but exactly what is it? What does the science say? Does it really help? And what if I only have a minute or two, here and there, to give it a try? All this and more, with your podhostess and peer support human, Kathy Surline, & our support dogs, Bella & Biggs, snoring along in the background. 

Newest Podcast Episode On Air!

We got a bit behind this last week, but are happily back to the airwaves with our newest installment of the WisdomWithin podcast, focusing on calming our noisy minds! Thanks for the great feedback to date! We look forward to your continuing comments, constructive criticism and suggestions!

https://anchor.fm/WisdomWithin/episodes/Episode-Not13—The-Calming-Our-Noisy-Minds-Episode-e3hjct

Moving from the maelstrom …

A swell of very good people are struggling at the end of a gut wrenching week.

First, I hope that you are taking time out, during and from the madness, to just take care of your self and be grateful for what is good. There is always good.

Then, as the maelstrom ensues, may we all calmly seek some sort of perspective; some outside-this-moment thought process, which I admit to presently struggling for myself.

Out of recent social discussion, in obvious current events, where folks were civil, but of obvious and diametrically opposed thought; finding myself overwhelmed by the need for looking bigger picture, comes the following …

I invite you to look at epigenetics.

Think, “epic” and “generational”. In your own line of humans; in our collective lines of humans. The concept that each generation is affected, effected, adapted by, ravaged by, some social, national, international event(s) of epic proportion. The effects of each are then handed down, for better or worse, through all the generations that follow. No wonder then, we all might feel in chaos.

Just in our young country’s time (and we are a very young country, fellow humans), revolution, evolution, Civil War, slavery, abolition, women’s suffrage, hurricanes, earthquakes, WWI, drought, prohibition, The Great Depression, WWII, Korean Conflict, Vietnam War, civil rights, equal rights, human rights, assassinations, Watergate, AIDS, Gulf War, 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, market crash/recession, more hurricanes, wildfires, the opioid crisis, MeToo, Puerto Rico, internet and social media, Ford/Kavanaugh … clearly, you get the idea.

My point, dear people, and I do have one, is that each generation faces its own epigenesis; we either work through it, so that we can adapt and evolve, or we can be crushed by the chaos that consumes us.

Our internal, innate survivor, enables us to adapt and evolve, individually. What we choose to do with that evolution going forward, and how,  is up to us, individually and collectively.

This all said, my offering of the moment, something that gives me a bit of hope in difficult times, something from the next generation, developed by my now grown son, (educated by all our tax dollars and his own epigenetics, poor lad), and now his own amazingly well-evolved work team  … wherever U stand, TheVoteNeedsU …

https://thevoteneedsu.com/