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Mental Matters - Suicide Prevention Training and Awareness | Guest Pam Olsen, NCSP (1/20/16)

Jake and Bodie receive a wealth of resources and information this week from Pam Olsen, the treasurer for the National Coalition of Suicide Prevention.  Pam provides a number of useful tools and courses for any one of any goal and skill level to take advantage of, in the hopes that both awareness of and acceptance to discuss suicide are raised.

Mental Matters - Fear and Ideology | Guest David Bradfield (1/13/16)

Jake flies mostly solo this week, with phone in guest David Bradfield, whose credentials include service overseas in the CIA.  They discuss politics, fear and the use of ideas to sway others, while trying to promote the notion that if ideas can be held loosely, hey don't need to be a hotbed for personal emotional response.

Mental Matters - Homeostasis and How it Affects Us (12/23/15)

Nearing the holidays, Jake and Bodie talk about just why it is that we tend to fall back into old patterns of childhood and younger days when we get around family, as well as other familiar groups that we know very well. This week's vocab word: homeostasis.

Mental Matters - Recognizing Ethical Therapists (12/16/15)

In this week's episode Jake and Bodie discuss how to evaluate an ethical therapist and whether or not you should necessarily continue seeing your therapist. Is your counselor simply telling you what to do or actually empowering you to make your own choices?

Mental Matters - Authenticity, Kindness, and Compassion (12/2/15)

Join the weekly show for Bodie and Jake discussing emotionality and generosity during the holiday season.  The expectations we place upon ourselves, one another and our greater society when it comes to the holidays is discussed.  Genuineness and authenticity are addressed in how we treat one another as Americans.

Mental Matters - Fear and its Origins | Guests David Bradfield and Brandon Cassinelli (11/25/15)

Join Jake and Bodie as they interview Brandon Cassinelli, Reno police officer, and David Bradfield, former CIA agent, about the nature of fear in their professions.  The biological origins of fear are discussed, as are modern day ramifications for letting our fear get the better of us.  Current events in the form of rational and irrational fears are addressed in the wake of the terror attacks in Paris, France.

Mental Matters - Stress and Anxiety in College Part 2 | Guest RJ Harts (11/18/15)

This week, Jake, Bodie and RJ continue to address stress on college campuses.  Their goals this week include an open discussion about social media and its impact on instant gratification, perceptions of entitlement, and how social media can be a positive or negative influence.  Some specific mental health concerns addressed include indirect PTSD and the powerful nature of perceptions.

Mental Matters - Stress and Anxiety in College | Guest RJ Harts (11/11/15)

Join Jake, Bodie and RJ Harts as they discuss mental health on college campuses this week.  Particular focus is placed on how campus life can effect anxiety levels and how graduation, work in the field and everyday life cause our stress levels to rise.   

Mental Matters - DCFS Mobile Crisis Response | Guests Michelle LaBranch and Cassi LeVesque (11/4/15)

Join Jake and Bodie as they interview Michelle & Cassi, members of the Mobile Crisis Response Team, a Team in the Northern Nevada who responds to members of the community under the age of 18 when they are experiencing crisis.  A truly invaluable resource for parents and young persons alike to aid in necessary intervention.  For additional details or to utilize their services, call 775-688-1670.

Mental Matters - Thinking vs. Feeling | Guests Kelly Rush and Steve Barcia (10/28/15)

Join Jake and Kelly Rush as they address some broad stroke therapeutic strategies and theories, with some specific focus on emotional functioning.  Physiology and psychology are both addressed and the brain itself is put up for discussion as it relates to both emotionality and higher functioning thinking.

Mental Matters - Mindfulness with Bodie and Lindsay (10/21/15)

Tune in for this week's Mental Matters session as Lindsay and Bodie discuss mindfulness, being in the present moment, learning to listen to our senses and helping us to overcome some of the concerns we carry from the past by recognizing our efficacy in the present.

Mental Matters - Differentiation and its Importance | Guest Jesse Lott (10/7/15)

Jake and Bodie co-host the show this week with colleague Jesse Lott, who helps discuss the therapeutic idea of differentiation and why it is important. Mental Matters can be heard live on 1180 AM in northern Nevada and California or online at americamatters.us

Jake & Telisa on the Rush Hour Podcast @AmericaMatters.us

Join Kelly Rush on her Rush Hour podcast as she interviews Jake and Telisa about the upcoming TuTus and Top Hats Against Domestic Violence event, co-sponsored by your very own Zephyr Wellness, and benefitting Northern Nevada Safe Embrace.  Learn about Telisa's story, and Jake's vision for an up and coming Zephyr Wellness!

*Note - audio edited to provide content relevant to Zephyr Wellness and the TuTus and Top Hats event.  For full audio, visit ftp://shows.americamatters.us/Show/Rush%20Hour