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Being well

  • Season: Season 3
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Life lessons from real life.

Today, we look at well-being with wisdom gleaned from the first two years of this podcast. We listen with an ear to taking care of ourselves in ordinary times from people in the throes of extraordinary times… warfare… pandemic… social change… illness… and the challenges of just being human.

Explore the complete list of past episodes.

BE UNCOMFORTABLE

Providence caregivers Jeremy Edmonds and Victoria Johnson reflect on their experiences of racism in our first podcast episode, "I see you. I hear you. I ache for you," published just weeks after the murder of George Floyd.

UNPLUGGING IS OK

Syndicated advice columnist Amy Dickinson talks with Seán about her strategies for the first winter of the COVID-19 pandemic in the episode, "COVID Winter Strategies," published in October 2020.

ANIMALS ARE OUR FRIENDS

Mazie B. is 11 years old and she offers advice for social distancing and building relationships with pets. Also heard in the episode, "COVID winter strategies," from October 2020.

PERSON TO PERSON IN WARTIME

Providence caregiver Inna Pashniak talks with her friend Oleksyi Kurka who is internally-displaced in Ukraine. He talks about the ways people are reaching out to one another, even as missiles are fired at civilian targets, in the episode "Life during wartime" from March 2022.

GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE FOR KIDS

In June 2022, we talked about the standards of care for trans kids with pediatricians and endocrinologists and we augmented that conversation with stories from trans youth, parents of trans kids, and trans and non-binary adults. Sam Pleger, who is 19, talks with his mom Erin about his experiences as a kid in Montana and her experiences parenting a trans kid.

COVID-19 REALITIES

Dr. Zahra Esmail and social worker Christina Rothans, palliative care team members, talk about the realities of caring for dying patients during the height of a COVID-19 surge in Southern California in an episode from January 2021.

CONTRIBUTORS

  • Mazie B
  • Erin Pelger
  • Oleksyi Kurka
  • Seán Collins
  • Zahra Esmail DO
  • Inna Pashniak
  • Sam Pelger
  • Victoria Johnson
  • Christina Rothans LCSW
  • Amy Dickinson
  • Jeremy Edmonds

KEYWORDS:

  • racism
  • gender-affirming care
  • trans health
  • covid-19
  • ukraine
  • narrative medicine
  • war trauma
  • storytelling
  • well-being
  • caregiving