May 19, 2024 • 28 mins
Heather McCarthy and Jill Merritt, instructors at Shred 415 in Hinsdale discuss fitness, nutrition and getting in shape for summer. Dr. David Anderson checks in for Mental Health Awareness Month to discuss the Child Mind Institute’s Positive Parenting, Thriving Kids series aimed at helping parents navigate the mental health issues impacting today’s youth.
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Welcome to the Weekly Show on iHeartRadio. It's on every weekend on ninety three
point nine Light FM, Rock ninetyfive to five and one oh three five
Kiss FM. I'm Mick Lee.This show is here to keep you up
to date and informed on things happeningin our city and suburbs, with informational
topics every week, from healthcare,to finances, education and more. Plus
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we love spotlighting local charities and nonprofits. Today on the show, we have
our friends from Shred four fifteen andHinsdale here to talk about fitness and nutrition
and if you're looking to get inshape for summer, some great tips for
you that you're gonna want to knowto get started. We also have doctor
David Anderson from the Childmind Institute todiscuss mental health awareness and how parents can
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navigate the mental health issues impacting today'syouth. That and more on the Weekly
Show and It Gets Started. We'rejoined by Heather McCarthy, personal trainer,
fitness and nutrition coach and instructor atShred four fifteen in Hinsdale. Also Jill
Merritt, who's a personal trainer atShred four fifteen as well. Hi ladies,
thank you so much. For joiningus today. Hi, May,
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We're so excited to be with youand here. Thanks for having us so,
Heather, I had you on withus last fall to talk about New
Year's resolutions and staying motivated during theholiday season, but I wanted to bring
you and Jill in as the expertsin fitness and nutrition to talk with us
about heading into warmer weather and beingconfident in yourself in the upcoming summer months.
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Can both of you, ladies justtell us a little bit about who
you are and your background and expertiseand health and fitness. Yeh, fay
mite, Jill Merritt and I ama certified personal trainer and I also teach
at shredcore fifteen for almost five yearsnow. And I am Heath McCarthy and
I am a certified personal trainer hereat Shred four fifteen for nine years.
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I also have my own business calledbody Lab by Heather, where I personal
train and do nutrition coaching. I'malso functional and pain free movement specialists and
a pre impulse natal specialist. Oh. I'm also the gree Certified, which
is kind of like a heart.I just keep going with my c But
yeah, thanks for having us.Yeah, I also work out at Shred
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four fifteen in Hinsdale. There's locationsacross the city and suburbs and nationwide as
well. And I've really enjoyed gettingmore fit over the past couple of years
there, and so working with bothof you over the past few years has
really upped my confidence and feeling goodand healthy. And so, like I
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was saying earlier, is you know, we're heading into warm weather season.
Everybody starts taking off their their wintercoats and putting on skirts and shorts and
tank tops and so plenty of peopleare are thinking about how do I shed
these pounds? So I'm more confidentas I head into the summer months and
bathing suits and stuff like that.So, ladies, what are some key
strategies that individuals can employ to kickstarttheir fitness journey heading into summer. So
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I think the most important thing isto start from where you are. Set
short term achievable goals. Not likeI'm going to lose fifteen pounds. How
about I'm going to move my body. I'm going to go for a walk
three to four days this week afterdinner. So start small. Try to
find something that you enjoy. Itdoesn't have to be running, you can
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go for a hike or biking planein the backyard with the kids. Just
moving your body consistently, staying hydratedand then nutrition is another huge piece of
it. But just get started andstay consistent and schedule it just like all
the other millions of things that wehave to do every day, just like
picking up the dry cleaning, exercisingand moving your body should be on that
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checklist, making it a habit.Right. So at shred four fifteen to
a group setting workout. It's notlike a typical gym where you're going to
go in and kind of be onyour own. Tell us how it compares
with other physical exercise options and whyit's different then just the old fashioned gym
you would think of. It's thebest of all the world because it's a
combination of resistance and cardio which willbring about superior improvements in your body composition.
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Plus the best part is it's greatmusic. There's someone hearing you on
the entire time. You don't haveto really think about it. You walk
in, you get it done,and we offer modifications for everyone in the
room. So if you're not arunner, you can walk and still get
a really great workout. Yeah,when I first went, I was kind
of intimidated at the thought of going. But then once you get in there
and you see everybody's doing the pacethat's good for them, and you don't
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feel self conscious. You're kind ofjust in the zone, right, And
I think it's the head helps toIt's like it's pretty dark in there,
there's loud music, so it kindof puts fosunses into yourself too. You
know, you don't feel like you'reon stage by any means, and if
you're shy. It's a group class. That's a good introduction to group fitness
because it's it really encourages you tobe on your own path. So there's
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an introduction to both cardio and weightexercises in these classes. Why is that
such an important thing to kind ofmix up both of them in your workout
routine? Resistance training is so important, especially as we're getting older, our
bones are naturally losing density and pickingup those weights and training is going to
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help you not only raise your metabolism, but increase your bone density. So
you know also too, I'd liketo complement Jill's response, is that the
weight training too, you start whereaswherever you're at. If you want to
start with three pound weights, weoffer that, you know, or no
weights. I feel like body weightis a really good place for most people
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to start and then start to increaseyour weight. Don't like get online see
an influencer lifting fifty pounds over theirhead and think that's the only way to
go. You have to start withwhere you're at to get success. And
also with that, you know,another thing that I think is still prominent
is that you know, women thinkthat if they start lifting weights are going
to get sulky. Well, you'renot going to get bulky unless you are
also eating in a cleric surplus,so you are actually going to lean in
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and look thinner. The stronger youget, it's totally changed your body recomp
especially as you age. Just likeJill said, all those great other reasons
that you're not a dressing in yourbody and so we can be strong for
our grandkits some day. Yeah.We're speaking with Heather McCarthy, personal trainer,
fitness and nutrition coach and also aninstructor at Shred for fifteen in Hinsdale,
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and we also have Jill Meyritt who'sa personal trainer and instructor at Shred
for fifteen as well. Thank youso much for joining me today. We're
talking about fitness and nutrition and kindof focusing more on as we head into
the summer months, people maybe beingintroduced to the for the first time working
out and wanting to feel confident asthey get into that bathing suit. You
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know, we've been talking about exercising, but another big part of it is
also obviously nutrition and eating healthy.What are some dietary tips would recommend so
you can focus on seeing the workpaying off from working out. Number one,
Let's say I am not talking toour teenagers or our young twenty something
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that could like literally get one dessertand lose ten pounds, or my husband
who also can kind of do thatthing. So besides that, for the
rest of us, let me answerthat question. You know you need to
actually look at your what you're eatingfirst of all. You you know,
I hate to say a log becauseI know that makes people roll their eyes
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and they want to fight me onthat. But I know that when I
first started looking at my own Iwas way way in a surplus and I
did not even realize that, especiallyas much I work out was making me
feel hungry all the time, andthen I was just eating too much.
I had no idea until I couldsee it on paper. You know,
I think a good place to startif that is waste too much. And
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what I'm saying is just trying tostart to think about getting some form of
protein the thirty grams and every timeyou're eating, because that helps you feel
fuller, It supports your workouts reallywell, suppose your muscle building, muscle
recovery, and just helps you feelmore energy throughout the day. So that's
also just a good building block tostart with if you're just dipping your toe
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in this process. So one ofthe things that I discovered when I started
to try to push myself harder workingout was that I just didn't have that.
I don't have the same motivation forworking out at home by myself than
I would if I went to aclass at Shread four fifteen. I think
that's why I've seen more successes.Sure, I can go for a run
outside and run, you know,a couple miles, but I'm just not
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going to push myself as hard asthe group setting. And that's why I've
really liked Shred four fifteen. Overthese past couple of years. But that's
for me, that's how I getmotivated. What are some other things that
you see that people can do tostay motivated? And then I have one
follow up question kind of in thesame same territory. Well, you know,
I actually what I also think aboutwhen I have a conversation with my
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clients is that it's not always motivationbecause let's be honest, I'll wake up
super motivated on a Monday after aweekend, and then by Wednesday, Thursday,
I'm not as motivated. I'm tiredfor my week, work in kids,
in life has hit me. I'mnot motivated. But I like to
think of then that's when the disciplineand the habits kick in, right,
So give yourself some grapes too thatyou know you might move your body that
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day. It might not be atthe same level you move that on Monday,
but maybe you do something for thirtyminutes. Maybe Again, we go
back to a walk. Now awalk is super popular, talk about that.
Let's also say a walk that increasesyour heart, right, not one
that you're picking flowers on like,you have to be moving your body during
that walk, and that if youneed a rest day and you know,
if that helps you come back stronger, you will find that you will come
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back so much better if you giveyourself a recovery day. If you're too
sore, you're too fatigued, youdidn't sleep last night, again, give
yourself that day off to come backstronger the next day. And oftentimes I
find that that is exactly the kindof that you need. So I think
one of the hardest things when you'rereally pushing yourself is when you hit that
plateau. What advice do you havefor your clients or anybody listening right now
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who's working hard and getting frustrated thatthey just can't seem to get to the
last few pounds or goals that theywant to. Well, you know with
the plateauing specifically that you said thatis sometimes when that's a good time to
mix up your routine. And whenI say routine, I'm speaking about nutrition
and about your workouts. So it'sabout changing things up. Maybe you go
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like spend a week a little lowerand the car just to mix it up,
or you are changing your workout routineand doing more resistance training and lessening
the cardio a little bit. You'rejust playing with it to try to pull
your metabolism out of that plateau.Also realize that if it's that last five
pounds we're talking about, you mayhave to do things that make you a
little more uncomfortable. First of all, check if that number that you have
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in your head is a realistic numberactually in your body. And if you're
not fifteen anymore, to not bethe same number you graduated in high school
necessarily right, Like you might havemore muscle on your body, your body
has changed, You're different. Soif that number is still realistic. Knowing
that, then you need to lookat changing your routines, be willing to
take a little more sacrifice than youdo to get to that last goal that
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you have. Things aren't easy likethey were at twenty, right, But
that's I know. I hate tosay it, but it's true. But
I love the dialodin every year alittle harder. Yeah, And I love
walking into the shread class and seeingpeople of all ages, genders, backgrounds.
You see it all. I mean, I'll be running next to it,
somebody who looks like they're in theirtwenties and it pushes me. I'm
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going to try to push myself harderto try to keep up with them,
and you know, in the samething, you see somebody who's in their
seventies and they're kicking your butt,and you're like, Wow, there's something
for everybody here. And you knowwhat, you know, I've said before,
I love when I see parents beable to kick their high school kids
but on class. I really enjoythat when that happens. So for anybody
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listening right now who wants to getget in shape for summer, or maybe
just they've you know, maybe they'vefailed big time over the winter and just
kind of lost track of what theywere, what their goals were, and
they want to get back into it. How beneficial can it be to see
guidance from a place like Shred fourfifteen or a personal coach like you,
Heather. Well, you know,this is how I think about it.
Make it like really short and extinct. Is that you know, if let's
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just say, Mick, like you, I or Jill, we had a
legal issue, we wouldn't then goonline and start googling our issue and try
to solve it. Or if wehad a very serious medical thing, we
wouldn't again just start looking at influencersonline and seeing what they're doing. We
would consult someone who knows what they'retalking about, right, that's someone who
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is certified, who has a lotof experience. And I do attribute that
same mindset to working out and fitnessand how what your body composition looks like.
So you work with someone like Jillor I who really and so much
of our lives in you know,being certified, working with hundreds of clients
and spending the time in this spaceto get the best results for you.
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So you need someone that has thataccountability, you know, to do that
with you. You know, Ispend my entire life thinking of it,
so you don't have to obviously,you know, everyone else has our jobs
and kids and a life and afamily and friends. And that just gets
you results so much quicker than goingonline and finding an influencer that is showing
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you know, their arm strength orsomething like that. It's just not the
straightest past. Maybe you can getto that point eventually, but it doesn't
happen overnight. You've got to workhard for it. And so that's why
I appreciate all of you over atshred that that help out so many people
to be the best they can be. Thank you. We both love it
and we love people like you thatcome in and want to work so hard
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because it's never no matter what,the workouts are never easy, and we
always appreciate everyone as long as showup at with your best, whatever that
looks like, in during that day. We are so happy and inspired to
be supporting you. Yeah, andhopefully you're listening right now, and this
is the motivation you need to getthat weekend workout in. Don't blow it
off. Heather McCarthy, personal trainer, fitness and nutrition coach and instructor at
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Shred four fifteen in Hinsdale, andalso Jill Merritt, who's a personal trainer
and instructor at Shred four fifteen Hinsdale. Thank you so much for joining me
today here on the weekly show.And Heather, if anybody's listening right now
that wants to get with you forpersonal training or even just help with fitness
and nutrition, how can our listenerscontact you at body lab Xtheather dot com
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or you can follow me on Instagramat heathermac Underscore fit maac. Okay,
so it's again body Lab Xheather dotcom. And of course both Heather and
Jill are instructors at Shred four fifteen. Hinsdale, but there's Shred locations across
Chicagoland from the North Shore all theway out to Naperville and nationwide as well
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if you happen to be listening outsideof the Chicago Land area. Heather McCarthy
and Jill Merritt, thank you somuch for chatting with us today and of
course all the tips and tricks tostaying happy, healthy and fit this summer.
Thank you. This is the weeklyshow on iHeartRadio. As we continue,
Ryan Gorman is here with doctor DavidAnderson from the Childmind Institute. They're
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going to chat about Mental Health AwarenessMonth. Hey, Ryan, I'm joined
by doctor David Anderson, senior psychologistand vice president of Public Engagement and Education
for the Child Mind Institute. Youcan learn more at childmind dot org.
Doctor Anderson, we thank you somuch for taking a few minutes to come
on the show, and I wantto start with a sense as to the
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mental health issues that we're seeing inthis country as they relate to kids in
particular. What can you tell usabout the trend line. I mean,
we were in the midst of ayouth mental health crisis before the pandemic started,
and it's only really gotten worse.This is one of the reasons why
the Surgeon General fears back put outadvisory on the youth mental health crisis,
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and why so many organizations like usat the Child My Institute are trying to
bring attention to these issues and thekind of drivers that we see across the
country as kind of worsening the mentalhealth of children adolescents while also increasing the
stress of their parents. What isit that makes this a crisis? Is
it just the amount of children acrossthe country who are in need of some
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sort of mental health care. Imean, the real reason why we see
as the crisis is we as asociety have gotten a lot better at messaging
around mental health and bringing down stigma, making it so that people are more
aware of what depression looks like,what anxiety looks like, what ADHD looks
like, what trauma exposure looks like. And as we become more aware of
the effects of those things, whatwe're also seeing is this huge gap between
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the people who could utilize mental healthsupport and the amount of mental health support
they're getting. So in that sense, you know, the main drivers of
this crisis are that as people becomemore aware of the kind of support that
they might need. They don't haveaccess to providers, they don't see those
providers covered by insurance. We don'thave enough providers. We especially don't have
enough providers in rural areas or inareas where there's a high number of adverse
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childhood events. So really, whatwe're seeing is that this crisis keeps getting
worse because as you get a populationthat is more and more aware of the
help they need, but not seeinga societal movement toward getting that help,
it becomes that much more stressful.Are there certain issues that are driving the
depression and anxiety that we're seeing inkids these days? Specific issues that you've
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been able to pinpoint that are partof this mental health crisis? Absolutely?
So in general, you know,there's a wide variety of issues that drive
the mental health crisis, and it'simportant to kind of think about that because
all too often in media, whatwe're finding is that the argument around the
youth mental health crisis is centered aroundsort of what's present in the societals like
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geist like we're talking a lot abouttech, or we're talking a lot about
social media. And to be clear, there's research showing that social media does
worsen mental health for certain vulneral groupsof youth. So for example, teams
who are prone to depression, we'reteams who are having body image issues.
There's you know, very solid researchshowing that social media can exacerbate those mental
health struggles. But the issue thatwe have is as society, we tend
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to suggest that the most present thingin our mind must be the cause of
the problems we're seeing, and inreality, there's a lot more nuanced to
the argument. We're in the midstof increase in pressure on this generation.
We're seeing incredible kind of increases interms of achievement pressure and college admission.
We're seeing a country that's grappling witha political divide, with racism and discrimination,
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with increasing income in equality, andwith climate change. And we're seeing
increased stress on our workforce and onparents that also is trickling down to kids.
So, you know, what wewant to be thinking about is how
do all those factors combine to contributeto perhaps the worst thing of mental health,
and then also how do we providethe care to meet it. You
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know, we're not seeing universal screeningacross schools, which could be really helpful
in identifying kids who are at risk. We're not seeing prevention curricula across all
schools where we teach kids the keymental health and wellness skills that could prevent
mental health learning disorders later. Andwe're not seeing access to treatment. We're
not seeing enough in school providers,we're not seeing enough telehealth, we're not
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seeing enough access to care in ruralareas, and we're not seeing enough providers
just in general. So there's somuch that can be done within this crisis
around workforce development, around access tocare, around providing you knows us to
support for kids who might be atrisk, or even for parents who might
be experiencing extreme stress, or eventhe educators that are with our kids,
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you know, much of the week. All of these things can be bettered
and at the same time we cantackle some of the big issues as society,
including technology. I'm Ryan Gorman joinedby doctor David Anderson, senior psychologist
and Vice president of Public Engagement andEducation for the Childmind Institute, which you
can learn more about at childmind dotorg. Can you give us an overview
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of the work that you do specificallyat the Childlind Institute. Sure. So,
the Childmine Institute is focused on threemajor mission areas, and you know,
it's exciting to kind of talk aboutWe're focused on care, So what
that means is helping to develop thebest models of evidence based care for different
mental health and learning disorders that mightaffect children and adolescents, and then making
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sure that not only do kids getaccess to those services within our practices in
New York and San Francisco, butalso with schools and community that we partner
with to try to bring those servicesat low cost to students and kids who
most need them. The second majoraspect of our work is science, so
we focus on kind of both longterm and short term work in science.
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In the short term, we're working, for example, with the State of
California on a project called Next GenerationDigital Therapeutics, where our focus is on
building out digital products that amplify theeffects of therapy and help to arm educators
or parents with the tools they needto improve the mental health of the students
or the children in their schools orhomes. And then the long term kind
of bet with our research is inthinking about how we help to do the
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research for the sort of breakthroughs oftomorrow, where we look for objective markers
of mental health learning disorders and collectdata on thousands of youth. Where our
focus is on collecting these large datasets and then sharing them openly across the
world. So the Childman Institute,we're about big data and open science,
and we're really proud of the factthat by sharing all our data, we've
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seen more articles published in our databy researchers across the world than even within
our own house. And that's somethingwe think can help us to make sure
that scientific discovery has made possible withinour lifetime. And then the last piece
that we really focus on, whichI'll delve into a little bit deeper here,
is on education. So we wantto make free, evidence based information
available to the village that surround ourkids across the country and across the world,
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so that they can help to supportthe mental health of their children and
teens. And so what that meansis we've built a website that has hundreds
of articles for educators and for parentson all kinds of mental health topics and
topics related to mental health, andthat's childmind dot org. And then we've
also focused on programs that we've releasedacross the country in partnership with the state
of California and in partnership with organizationswithin the state of Ohio, where we're
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focused on making sure that we're scalingthe kind of release of evidence based educational
information and the mental health across entirestates and soon across the entire country.
You released a series of free videosand also some other resources called Positive Parenting
Thriving Kids. Can you dive intothat a bit? Absolutely so. Positive
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Parenting Thriving Kids is a resources developmentpartnership with the Governor and first Partner of
California as well as the Department ofHealth and Human Services in California, and
our focus was in trying to thinkthrough the challenges the twenty first century parents
face and in bringing as much expertiseto bear in creating a lightlift curriculum that
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parents can access and really utilize withtheir families. So we consulted thirty leading
experts around the country. We dida survey of a thousand caregivers across California.
We did focus groups with one hundredyouth because I think it's really important
as you're developing curricula that you alsocenter the feedback you're getting on the voice
of you to say is this right, Is this what you want your parents
and caregivers and educators to know?And from that we distilled it down to
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about twenty key topics that we thoughtwere most essential for parents and caregivers to
have information about in raising their kids. And what that meant was. We
created twenty videos in English, twentyvideos in Spanish, along with tip sheets
and a curated content library on childminddot org slash Positive Parenting where parents could
access this for free see all thevideos and access all the resources, and
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the topics really range. They're acrossfour categories. Reental self care and parent
child relationships. Healthy child adolescent growthwith topics like building self esteem and coping
with stress and building warm and positiverelationships with a child or teen. Big
changes and challenges like videos and tipsfocused just on the teenage years or focused
on having those tough talks with kidsaround sex, consent and safety, or
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about healthy use of technology, orabout alcohol and drugs. And then family
and community stressors, how to reallysupport kids who are experiencing or responding to
racism and discrimination, community violence,a parent who has a mental physical health
concern or say death and grief forseparation of divorce focused in on this,
like the topic list that we feltlike it was going to be most you
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know, especially from all the expertfeedback that we got most relevant for parents
and characters of today and making surethat they had bite sized, actionable practical
strategies they could use with their families. I'm Ryan Borman, joined by doctor
David Anderson, senior psychologists at thechild Mind Institute. You can learn more
about the video series and resources wewere just talking about at childmind dot org
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slash Positive Parenting. We talked aboutthe challenges that kids face these days and
some of the mental health issues thatare resulting from all of that. But
you also interact, like you've explainedwith parents. Can you describe the pressures
that parents are feeling these days?Yes, absolutely, I mean we've watched
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these pressures just compound in the sensethat because we live in a digital age,
because we live in a twenty fourhour news cycle, what we're watching
is a parenting generation that's getting moreand more men about the right way to
do things and the kinds of thingsthey should be doing for their kids than
any generation before it, and feelinglike, because of the accessibility of information
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the Internet age, the right answersmust be out there, and that puts
an incredible amount of pressure on parents, Parents who are working two or three
jobs, parents who are trying tofigure out how to get their kids to
the right school, parents who aretrying to just answer general questions about,
you know, how to support theirkids at different developmental stages. And that's
really what we're here for is tryingto make sure that we create programs where
if you're a busy parent and youknow you've only got you know, five
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minutes in the evening time to yourself, where you might be able to either
watch a video or read a particularthing. It's this question of can we
have that intervention moment where someone viewsa resource that we have and says,
you know what, I'm going totweak something for tomorrow at the breakfast table,
I'm going to focus on this particularstrategy, or when I'm getting my
kid ready for school, I'm goingto do this. When my teenager seems
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to give me that attitude once again, this is going to be what I
think about that help us to builda closer relationship and help us to feel
like we can maybe talk about afew of the tougher things again, and
those are the moments that we reallywant to be there for parents. And
finally, how can everyone listening supportthe work you're doing at the Childmind instan
not just during Mental Health Awareness Monthbut all year round. That's exactly it
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is if for us, this isa twelvemonth long, twenty four hour a
day thing, not just Mental HealthAwareness Month, and we along with partners
across the country within the nonprofit governmentyou know, and corporate partner world are
all working to kind of figure outhow we solve these issues together. So
really, if people want to beable to help us with this, it
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involves going on childmind dot org lookingat different ways that you might be able
to contribute to these efforts, toget involved, to spread these resources,
to make sure that your family andyour friends are aware of them, and
importantly follow us on social media andcheck out our resources online on childmind dot
org and on YouTube. And ifyou can, and please feel free to
make a donation on childline dot orgto the work at the Childmind Institute.
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And this month, all gifts aregoing to be matched three times to help
the Childmind Institute continue to do thetremendous work this institute is doing Doctor David
Anderson, senior psychologist and vice presidentof Public Engagement and Education for the Childmind
Institute. You can learn more atchildmind dot org. Doctor Anderson, thank
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you so much for taking a fewminutes to come on the show. We
really appreciate it. Thanks so muchfor having me. Ron. Yeah,
thank you, Ryan. Thank youfor listening to the Weekly Show this week
on ninety three point nine Light FM, Rock ninety five to five and one
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the things you're doing for our cityand suburbs, please email me directly Mick
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topics every week, from healthcare,to finances, education and more. Plus
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we love spotlighting local charities and nonprofits. Today on the show, we have
our friends from Shred four fifteen andHinsdale here to talk about fitness and nutrition
and if you're looking to get inshape for summer, some great tips for
you that you're gonna want to knowto get started. We also have doctor
David Anderson from the Childmind Institute todiscuss mental health awareness and how parents can
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navigate the mental health issues impacting today'syouth. That and more on the Weekly
Show and It Gets Started. We'rejoined by Heather McCarthy, personal trainer,
fitness and nutrition coach and instructor atShred four fifteen in Hinsdale. Also Jill
Merritt, who's a personal trainer atShred four fifteen as well. Hi ladies,
thank you so much. For joiningus today. Hi, May,
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We're so excited to be with youand here. Thanks for having us so,
Heather, I had you on withus last fall to talk about New
Year's resolutions and staying motivated during theholiday season, but I wanted to bring
you and Jill in as the expertsin fitness and nutrition to talk with us
about heading into warmer weather and beingconfident in yourself in the upcoming summer months.
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Can both of you, ladies justtell us a little bit about who
you are and your background and expertiseand health and fitness. Yeh, fay
mite, Jill Merritt and I ama certified personal trainer and I also teach
at shredcore fifteen for almost five yearsnow. And I am Heath McCarthy and
I am a certified personal trainer hereat Shred four fifteen for nine years.
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I also have my own business calledbody Lab by Heather, where I personal
train and do nutrition coaching. I'malso functional and pain free movement specialists and
a pre impulse natal specialist. Oh. I'm also the gree Certified, which
is kind of like a heart.I just keep going with my c But
yeah, thanks for having us.Yeah, I also work out at Shred
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four fifteen in Hinsdale. There's locationsacross the city and suburbs and nationwide as
well. And I've really enjoyed gettingmore fit over the past couple of years
there, and so working with bothof you over the past few years has
really upped my confidence and feeling goodand healthy. And so, like I
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was saying earlier, is you know, we're heading into warm weather season.
Everybody starts taking off their their wintercoats and putting on skirts and shorts and
tank tops and so plenty of peopleare are thinking about how do I shed
these pounds? So I'm more confidentas I head into the summer months and
bathing suits and stuff like that.So, ladies, what are some key
strategies that individuals can employ to kickstarttheir fitness journey heading into summer. So
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I think the most important thing isto start from where you are. Set
short term achievable goals. Not likeI'm going to lose fifteen pounds. How
about I'm going to move my body. I'm going to go for a walk
three to four days this week afterdinner. So start small. Try to
find something that you enjoy. Itdoesn't have to be running, you can
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go for a hike or biking planein the backyard with the kids. Just
moving your body consistently, staying hydratedand then nutrition is another huge piece of
it. But just get started andstay consistent and schedule it just like all
the other millions of things that wehave to do every day, just like
picking up the dry cleaning, exercisingand moving your body should be on that
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checklist, making it a habit.Right. So at shred four fifteen to
a group setting workout. It's notlike a typical gym where you're going to
go in and kind of be onyour own. Tell us how it compares
with other physical exercise options and whyit's different then just the old fashioned gym
you would think of. It's thebest of all the world because it's a
combination of resistance and cardio which willbring about superior improvements in your body composition.
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Plus the best part is it's greatmusic. There's someone hearing you on
the entire time. You don't haveto really think about it. You walk
in, you get it done,and we offer modifications for everyone in the
room. So if you're not arunner, you can walk and still get
a really great workout. Yeah,when I first went, I was kind
of intimidated at the thought of going. But then once you get in there
and you see everybody's doing the pacethat's good for them, and you don't
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feel self conscious. You're kind ofjust in the zone, right, And
I think it's the head helps toIt's like it's pretty dark in there,
there's loud music, so it kindof puts fosunses into yourself too. You
know, you don't feel like you'reon stage by any means, and if
you're shy. It's a group class. That's a good introduction to group fitness
because it's it really encourages you tobe on your own path. So there's
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an introduction to both cardio and weightexercises in these classes. Why is that
such an important thing to kind ofmix up both of them in your workout
routine? Resistance training is so important, especially as we're getting older, our
bones are naturally losing density and pickingup those weights and training is going to
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help you not only raise your metabolism, but increase your bone density. So
you know also too, I'd liketo complement Jill's response, is that the
weight training too, you start whereaswherever you're at. If you want to
start with three pound weights, weoffer that, you know, or no
weights. I feel like body weightis a really good place for most people
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to start and then start to increaseyour weight. Don't like get online see
an influencer lifting fifty pounds over theirhead and think that's the only way to
go. You have to start withwhere you're at to get success. And
also with that, you know,another thing that I think is still prominent
is that you know, women thinkthat if they start lifting weights are going
to get sulky. Well, you'renot going to get bulky unless you are
also eating in a cleric surplus,so you are actually going to lean in
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and look thinner. The stronger youget, it's totally changed your body recomp
especially as you age. Just likeJill said, all those great other reasons
that you're not a dressing in yourbody and so we can be strong for
our grandkits some day. Yeah.We're speaking with Heather McCarthy, personal trainer,
fitness and nutrition coach and also aninstructor at Shred for fifteen in Hinsdale,
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and we also have Jill Meyritt who'sa personal trainer and instructor at Shred
for fifteen as well. Thank youso much for joining me today. We're
talking about fitness and nutrition and kindof focusing more on as we head into
the summer months, people maybe beingintroduced to the for the first time working
out and wanting to feel confident asthey get into that bathing suit. You
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know, we've been talking about exercising, but another big part of it is
also obviously nutrition and eating healthy.What are some dietary tips would recommend so
you can focus on seeing the workpaying off from working out. Number one,
Let's say I am not talking toour teenagers or our young twenty something
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that could like literally get one dessertand lose ten pounds, or my husband
who also can kind of do thatthing. So besides that, for the
rest of us, let me answerthat question. You know you need to
actually look at your what you're eatingfirst of all. You you know,
I hate to say a log becauseI know that makes people roll their eyes
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and they want to fight me onthat. But I know that when I
first started looking at my own Iwas way way in a surplus and I
did not even realize that, especiallyas much I work out was making me
feel hungry all the time, andthen I was just eating too much.
I had no idea until I couldsee it on paper. You know,
I think a good place to startif that is waste too much. And
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what I'm saying is just trying tostart to think about getting some form of
protein the thirty grams and every timeyou're eating, because that helps you feel
fuller, It supports your workouts reallywell, suppose your muscle building, muscle
recovery, and just helps you feelmore energy throughout the day. So that's
also just a good building block tostart with if you're just dipping your toe
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in this process. So one ofthe things that I discovered when I started
to try to push myself harder workingout was that I just didn't have that.
I don't have the same motivation forworking out at home by myself than
I would if I went to aclass at Shread four fifteen. I think
that's why I've seen more successes.Sure, I can go for a run
outside and run, you know,a couple miles, but I'm just not
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going to push myself as hard asthe group setting. And that's why I've
really liked Shred four fifteen. Overthese past couple of years. But that's
for me, that's how I getmotivated. What are some other things that
you see that people can do tostay motivated? And then I have one
follow up question kind of in thesame same territory. Well, you know,
I actually what I also think aboutwhen I have a conversation with my
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clients is that it's not always motivationbecause let's be honest, I'll wake up
super motivated on a Monday after aweekend, and then by Wednesday, Thursday,
I'm not as motivated. I'm tiredfor my week, work in kids,
in life has hit me. I'mnot motivated. But I like to
think of then that's when the disciplineand the habits kick in, right,
So give yourself some grapes too thatyou know you might move your body that
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day. It might not be atthe same level you move that on Monday,
but maybe you do something for thirtyminutes. Maybe Again, we go
back to a walk. Now awalk is super popular, talk about that.
Let's also say a walk that increasesyour heart, right, not one
that you're picking flowers on like,you have to be moving your body during
that walk, and that if youneed a rest day and you know,
if that helps you come back stronger, you will find that you will come
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back so much better if you giveyourself a recovery day. If you're too
sore, you're too fatigued, youdidn't sleep last night, again, give
yourself that day off to come backstronger the next day. And oftentimes I
find that that is exactly the kindof that you need. So I think
one of the hardest things when you'rereally pushing yourself is when you hit that
plateau. What advice do you havefor your clients or anybody listening right now
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who's working hard and getting frustrated thatthey just can't seem to get to the
last few pounds or goals that theywant to. Well, you know with
the plateauing specifically that you said thatis sometimes when that's a good time to
mix up your routine. And whenI say routine, I'm speaking about nutrition
and about your workouts. So it'sabout changing things up. Maybe you go
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like spend a week a little lowerand the car just to mix it up,
or you are changing your workout routineand doing more resistance training and lessening
the cardio a little bit. You'rejust playing with it to try to pull
your metabolism out of that plateau.Also realize that if it's that last five
pounds we're talking about, you mayhave to do things that make you a
little more uncomfortable. First of all, check if that number that you have
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in your head is a realistic numberactually in your body. And if you're
not fifteen anymore, to not bethe same number you graduated in high school
necessarily right, Like you might havemore muscle on your body, your body
has changed, You're different. Soif that number is still realistic. Knowing
that, then you need to lookat changing your routines, be willing to
take a little more sacrifice than youdo to get to that last goal that
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you have. Things aren't easy likethey were at twenty, right, But
that's I know. I hate tosay it, but it's true. But
I love the dialodin every year alittle harder. Yeah, And I love
walking into the shread class and seeingpeople of all ages, genders, backgrounds.
You see it all. I mean, I'll be running next to it,
somebody who looks like they're in theirtwenties and it pushes me. I'm
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going to try to push myself harderto try to keep up with them,
and you know, in the samething, you see somebody who's in their
seventies and they're kicking your butt,and you're like, Wow, there's something
for everybody here. And you knowwhat, you know, I've said before,
I love when I see parents beable to kick their high school kids
but on class. I really enjoythat when that happens. So for anybody
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listening right now who wants to getget in shape for summer, or maybe
just they've you know, maybe they'vefailed big time over the winter and just
kind of lost track of what theywere, what their goals were, and
they want to get back into it. How beneficial can it be to see
guidance from a place like Shred fourfifteen or a personal coach like you,
Heather. Well, you know,this is how I think about it.
Make it like really short and extinct. Is that you know, if let's
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just say, Mick, like you, I or Jill, we had a
legal issue, we wouldn't then goonline and start googling our issue and try
to solve it. Or if wehad a very serious medical thing, we
wouldn't again just start looking at influencersonline and seeing what they're doing. We
would consult someone who knows what they'retalking about, right, that's someone who
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is certified, who has a lotof experience. And I do attribute that
same mindset to working out and fitnessand how what your body composition looks like.
So you work with someone like Jillor I who really and so much
of our lives in you know,being certified, working with hundreds of clients
and spending the time in this spaceto get the best results for you.
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So you need someone that has thataccountability, you know, to do that
with you. You know, Ispend my entire life thinking of it,
so you don't have to obviously,you know, everyone else has our jobs
and kids and a life and afamily and friends. And that just gets
you results so much quicker than goingonline and finding an influencer that is showing
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you know, their arm strength orsomething like that. It's just not the
straightest past. Maybe you can getto that point eventually, but it doesn't
happen overnight. You've got to workhard for it. And so that's why
I appreciate all of you over atshred that that help out so many people
to be the best they can be. Thank you. We both love it
and we love people like you thatcome in and want to work so hard
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because it's never no matter what,the workouts are never easy, and we
always appreciate everyone as long as showup at with your best, whatever that
looks like, in during that day. We are so happy and inspired to
be supporting you. Yeah, andhopefully you're listening right now, and this
is the motivation you need to getthat weekend workout in. Don't blow it
off. Heather McCarthy, personal trainer, fitness and nutrition coach and instructor at
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Shred four fifteen in Hinsdale, andalso Jill Merritt, who's a personal trainer
and instructor at Shred four fifteen Hinsdale. Thank you so much for joining me
today here on the weekly show.And Heather, if anybody's listening right now
that wants to get with you forpersonal training or even just help with fitness
and nutrition, how can our listenerscontact you at body lab Xtheather dot com
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or you can follow me on Instagramat heathermac Underscore fit maac. Okay,
so it's again body Lab Xheather dotcom. And of course both Heather and
Jill are instructors at Shred four fifteen. Hinsdale, but there's Shred locations across
Chicagoland from the North Shore all theway out to Naperville and nationwide as well
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if you happen to be listening outsideof the Chicago Land area. Heather McCarthy
and Jill Merritt, thank you somuch for chatting with us today and of
course all the tips and tricks tostaying happy, healthy and fit this summer.
Thank you. This is the weeklyshow on iHeartRadio. As we continue,
Ryan Gorman is here with doctor DavidAnderson from the Childmind Institute. They're
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going to chat about Mental Health AwarenessMonth. Hey, Ryan, I'm joined
by doctor David Anderson, senior psychologistand vice president of Public Engagement and Education
for the Child Mind Institute. Youcan learn more at childmind dot org.
Doctor Anderson, we thank you somuch for taking a few minutes to come
on the show, and I wantto start with a sense as to the
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mental health issues that we're seeing inthis country as they relate to kids in
particular. What can you tell usabout the trend line. I mean,
we were in the midst of ayouth mental health crisis before the pandemic started,
and it's only really gotten worse.This is one of the reasons why
the Surgeon General fears back put outadvisory on the youth mental health crisis,
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and why so many organizations like usat the Child My Institute are trying to
bring attention to these issues and thekind of drivers that we see across the
country as kind of worsening the mentalhealth of children adolescents while also increasing the
stress of their parents. What isit that makes this a crisis? Is
it just the amount of children acrossthe country who are in need of some
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sort of mental health care. Imean, the real reason why we see
as the crisis is we as asociety have gotten a lot better at messaging
around mental health and bringing down stigma, making it so that people are more
aware of what depression looks like,what anxiety looks like, what ADHD looks
like, what trauma exposure looks like. And as we become more aware of
the effects of those things, whatwe're also seeing is this huge gap between
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the people who could utilize mental healthsupport and the amount of mental health support
they're getting. So in that sense, you know, the main drivers of
this crisis are that as people becomemore aware of the kind of support that
they might need. They don't haveaccess to providers, they don't see those
providers covered by insurance. We don'thave enough providers. We especially don't have
enough providers in rural areas or inareas where there's a high number of adverse
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childhood events. So really, whatwe're seeing is that this crisis keeps getting
worse because as you get a populationthat is more and more aware of the
help they need, but not seeinga societal movement toward getting that help,
it becomes that much more stressful.Are there certain issues that are driving the
depression and anxiety that we're seeing inkids these days? Specific issues that you've
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been able to pinpoint that are partof this mental health crisis? Absolutely?
So in general, you know,there's a wide variety of issues that drive
the mental health crisis, and it'simportant to kind of think about that because
all too often in media, whatwe're finding is that the argument around the
youth mental health crisis is centered aroundsort of what's present in the societals like
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geist like we're talking a lot abouttech, or we're talking a lot about
social media. And to be clear, there's research showing that social media does
worsen mental health for certain vulneral groupsof youth. So for example, teams
who are prone to depression, we'reteams who are having body image issues.
There's you know, very solid researchshowing that social media can exacerbate those mental
health struggles. But the issue thatwe have is as society, we tend
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to suggest that the most present thingin our mind must be the cause of
the problems we're seeing, and inreality, there's a lot more nuanced to
the argument. We're in the midstof increase in pressure on this generation.
We're seeing incredible kind of increases interms of achievement pressure and college admission.
We're seeing a country that's grappling witha political divide, with racism and discrimination,
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with increasing income in equality, andwith climate change. And we're seeing
increased stress on our workforce and onparents that also is trickling down to kids.
So, you know, what wewant to be thinking about is how
do all those factors combine to contributeto perhaps the worst thing of mental health,
and then also how do we providethe care to meet it. You
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know, we're not seeing universal screeningacross schools, which could be really helpful
in identifying kids who are at risk. We're not seeing prevention curricula across all
schools where we teach kids the keymental health and wellness skills that could prevent
mental health learning disorders later. Andwe're not seeing access to treatment. We're
not seeing enough in school providers,we're not seeing enough telehealth, we're not
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seeing enough access to care in ruralareas, and we're not seeing enough providers
just in general. So there's somuch that can be done within this crisis
around workforce development, around access tocare, around providing you knows us to
support for kids who might be atrisk, or even for parents who might
be experiencing extreme stress, or eventhe educators that are with our kids,
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you know, much of the week. All of these things can be bettered
and at the same time we cantackle some of the big issues as society,
including technology. I'm Ryan Gorman joinedby doctor David Anderson, senior psychologist
and Vice president of Public Engagement andEducation for the Childmind Institute, which you
can learn more about at childmind dotorg. Can you give us an overview
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of the work that you do specificallyat the Childlind Institute. Sure. So,
the Childmine Institute is focused on threemajor mission areas, and you know,
it's exciting to kind of talk aboutWe're focused on care, So what
that means is helping to develop thebest models of evidence based care for different
mental health and learning disorders that mightaffect children and adolescents, and then making
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sure that not only do kids getaccess to those services within our practices in
New York and San Francisco, butalso with schools and community that we partner
with to try to bring those servicesat low cost to students and kids who
most need them. The second majoraspect of our work is science, so
we focus on kind of both longterm and short term work in science.
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In the short term, we're working, for example, with the State of
California on a project called Next GenerationDigital Therapeutics, where our focus is on
building out digital products that amplify theeffects of therapy and help to arm educators
or parents with the tools they needto improve the mental health of the students
or the children in their schools orhomes. And then the long term kind
of bet with our research is inthinking about how we help to do the
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research for the sort of breakthroughs oftomorrow, where we look for objective markers
of mental health learning disorders and collectdata on thousands of youth. Where our
focus is on collecting these large datasets and then sharing them openly across the
world. So the Childman Institute,we're about big data and open science,
and we're really proud of the factthat by sharing all our data, we've
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seen more articles published in our databy researchers across the world than even within
our own house. And that's somethingwe think can help us to make sure
that scientific discovery has made possible withinour lifetime. And then the last piece
that we really focus on, whichI'll delve into a little bit deeper here,
is on education. So we wantto make free, evidence based information
available to the village that surround ourkids across the country and across the world,
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so that they can help to supportthe mental health of their children and
teens. And so what that meansis we've built a website that has hundreds
of articles for educators and for parentson all kinds of mental health topics and
topics related to mental health, andthat's childmind dot org. And then we've
also focused on programs that we've releasedacross the country in partnership with the state
of California and in partnership with organizationswithin the state of Ohio, where we're
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focused on making sure that we're scalingthe kind of release of evidence based educational
information and the mental health across entirestates and soon across the entire country.
You released a series of free videosand also some other resources called Positive Parenting
Thriving Kids. Can you dive intothat a bit? Absolutely so. Positive
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Parenting Thriving Kids is a resources developmentpartnership with the Governor and first Partner of
California as well as the Department ofHealth and Human Services in California, and
our focus was in trying to thinkthrough the challenges the twenty first century parents
face and in bringing as much expertiseto bear in creating a lightlift curriculum that
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parents can access and really utilize withtheir families. So we consulted thirty leading
experts around the country. We dida survey of a thousand caregivers across California.
We did focus groups with one hundredyouth because I think it's really important
as you're developing curricula that you alsocenter the feedback you're getting on the voice
of you to say is this right, Is this what you want your parents
and caregivers and educators to know?And from that we distilled it down to
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about twenty key topics that we thoughtwere most essential for parents and caregivers to
have information about in raising their kids. And what that meant was. We
created twenty videos in English, twentyvideos in Spanish, along with tip sheets
and a curated content library on childminddot org slash Positive Parenting where parents could
access this for free see all thevideos and access all the resources, and
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the topics really range. They're acrossfour categories. Reental self care and parent
child relationships. Healthy child adolescent growthwith topics like building self esteem and coping
with stress and building warm and positiverelationships with a child or teen. Big
changes and challenges like videos and tipsfocused just on the teenage years or focused
on having those tough talks with kidsaround sex, consent and safety, or
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about healthy use of technology, orabout alcohol and drugs. And then family
and community stressors, how to reallysupport kids who are experiencing or responding to
racism and discrimination, community violence,a parent who has a mental physical health
concern or say death and grief forseparation of divorce focused in on this,
like the topic list that we feltlike it was going to be most you
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know, especially from all the expertfeedback that we got most relevant for parents
and characters of today and making surethat they had bite sized, actionable practical
strategies they could use with their families. I'm Ryan Borman, joined by doctor
David Anderson, senior psychologists at thechild Mind Institute. You can learn more
about the video series and resources wewere just talking about at childmind dot org
(25:26):
slash Positive Parenting. We talked aboutthe challenges that kids face these days and
some of the mental health issues thatare resulting from all of that. But
you also interact, like you've explainedwith parents. Can you describe the pressures
that parents are feeling these days?Yes, absolutely, I mean we've watched
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these pressures just compound in the sensethat because we live in a digital age,
because we live in a twenty fourhour news cycle, what we're watching
is a parenting generation that's getting moreand more men about the right way to
do things and the kinds of thingsthey should be doing for their kids than
any generation before it, and feelinglike, because of the accessibility of information
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the Internet age, the right answersmust be out there, and that puts
an incredible amount of pressure on parents, Parents who are working two or three
jobs, parents who are trying tofigure out how to get their kids to
the right school, parents who aretrying to just answer general questions about,
you know, how to support theirkids at different developmental stages. And that's
really what we're here for is tryingto make sure that we create programs where
if you're a busy parent and youknow you've only got you know, five
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minutes in the evening time to yourself, where you might be able to either
watch a video or read a particularthing. It's this question of can we
have that intervention moment where someone viewsa resource that we have and says,
you know what, I'm going totweak something for tomorrow at the breakfast table,
I'm going to focus on this particularstrategy, or when I'm getting my
kid ready for school, I'm goingto do this. When my teenager seems
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to give me that attitude once again, this is going to be what I
think about that help us to builda closer relationship and help us to feel
like we can maybe talk about afew of the tougher things again, and
those are the moments that we reallywant to be there for parents. And
finally, how can everyone listening supportthe work you're doing at the Childmind instan
not just during Mental Health Awareness Monthbut all year round. That's exactly it
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is if for us, this isa twelvemonth long, twenty four hour a
day thing, not just Mental HealthAwareness Month, and we along with partners
across the country within the nonprofit governmentyou know, and corporate partner world are
all working to kind of figure outhow we solve these issues together. So
really, if people want to beable to help us with this, it
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involves going on childmind dot org lookingat different ways that you might be able
to contribute to these efforts, toget involved, to spread these resources,
to make sure that your family andyour friends are aware of them, and
importantly follow us on social media andcheck out our resources online on childmind dot
org and on YouTube. And ifyou can, and please feel free to
make a donation on childline dot orgto the work at the Childmind Institute.
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And this month, all gifts aregoing to be matched three times to help
the Childmind Institute continue to do thetremendous work this institute is doing Doctor David
Anderson, senior psychologist and vice presidentof Public Engagement and Education for the Childmind
Institute. You can learn more atchildmind dot org. Doctor Anderson, thank
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you so much for taking a fewminutes to come on the show. We
really appreciate it. Thanks so muchfor having me. Ron. Yeah,
thank you, Ryan. Thank youfor listening to the Weekly Show this week
on ninety three point nine Light FM, Rock ninety five to five and one
oh three five Kiss FM. Asalways, if you're part of a local
charity or nonprofit and you'd love tobe here on the show to talk about
the things you're doing for our cityand suburbs, please email me directly Mick
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Lee at iHeartMedia dot com. Ifyou want to go back and listen to
this episode or previous one, youcan find the Weekly Show on iHeartRadio.
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