A series of frank discussions with Rosecrance experts moderated by John Williams. Content intended to inform and alert listeners to behaviors that can impact susceptibility to substance abuse.
Latest episodes
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How Do We Build a Healthier Society?
In this episode, what a healthy society looks like. Tune in while the Rosecrance therapeutic recreation coordinator Abby Nelson and the Regional Director of Rosecrance in Chicagola…
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How to Build Resilience and Practice Emotional Mindfulness
In this episode, we discuss the process and outcome of successfully adapting to challenging life experiences, especially through mental, emotional, and behavioral flexibility and a…
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A Distinct Crisis: Mental Illness and Suicide Amongst Police, Military, and Veterans
In this episode, we’ll dive deeper into the mental health challenges that first responders are facing, including recent losses faced by our own Chicago Police Department. This conv…
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Burnout: When it’s just too much
In this episode, we’ll talk about burnout – Why we’re feeling more tired and mentally exhausted, how this affects work and home life, and how to tell the difference between a few b…
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Trauma Upon Trauma – Mental fatigue and emotional exhaustion
In this episode, we introduce some big-picture issues (COVID, political conflicts, climate change, global crises, mass shootings/violence, inflation, etc.) and how they affect us.…
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Mental Health: How do you help your kids? What works?
In this episode, we’ll talk about how to help kids who are struggling, what types of coping skills work, and why resiliency is possible – and important. Tune in while T.D. Hostikka…
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How mental illness overlaps with substance use and addiction
In this episode, we talk about how some kids, but not all, cope with mental illness by using drugs and alcohol, which worsens symptoms and can lead to longer-term substance use. Tu…
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How Do We Help Our Kids: What’s happening and what’s normal?
The past few years have been especially tough on kids: The COVID-19 pandemic caused isolation with closed in-person schooling and remote learning, actual missed milestones like in-…
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Trauma and crisis close to home
In this episode, we discuss how stress can become overwhelming when a crisis strikes close to home like it did with the Highland Park Shooting. Tune in while the Rosecrance Clinica…
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Understanding the various societal issues and how they affect us
Episode three, series seven of on your radar: Mental Health is brought to you by WGN Radio and the doctors and clinical staff over at Rosecrance. In this episode, we acknowledge al…
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How the stigma has evolved surrounding mental health and mental illness
Episode two, series seven of on your radar: Mental Health is brought to you by WGN Radio and the doctors and clinical staff over at Rosecrance. In this series, we differentiate bet…
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The difference between mental health and mental illness
Episode one, series seven of on your radar: Mental Health is brought to you by WGN Radio and the doctors and clinical staff over at Rosecrance. In this series we differentiate the…
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Living in recovery as the family
Episode four, series six of on your radar: Living in Recovery is brought to you by WGN Radio and the doctors and clinical staff over at Rosecrance. In this series we explore what l…
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Building a better life in recovery
Episode three, series six of on your radar: Living in Recovery is brought to you by WGN Radio and the doctors and clinical staff over at Rosecrance. In this series we explore what…
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Breaking the misconceptions of sobriety
Episode two, series six of on your radar: Living in Recovery is brought to you by WGN Radio and the doctors and clinical staff over at Rosecrance. In this series, we explore what l…
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You’ve got help…Now what?
Episode one, series six of on your radar: Living in Recovery is brought to you by WGN Radio and the doctors and clinical staff over at Rosecrance. In this series we explore what li…
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It’s OK to Not Be OK: Anxiety and apprehension around managing change and uncertainty
Episode four, series five of on your radar: The New Normal is brought to you by WGN Radio and the doctors and clinical staff over at Rosecrance. In this series we explore the impac…
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Older Adults: Coping with loss and loneliness from the pandemic
Episode three, series five of on your radar: The New Normal is brought to you by WGN Radio and the doctors and clinical staff over at Rosecrance. In this series we explore the impa…
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Going back to the workplace
Episode two, series five of on your radar: The New Normal is brought to you by WGN Radio and the doctors and clinical staff over at Rosecrance. In this series we explore the impact…
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Young Adults: Finding footing after loss of structure
Episode one, series five of on your radar: The New Normal is brought to you by WGN Radio and the doctors and clinical staff over at Rosecrance. In this series we explore the impact…