Healthy Options 11/3/21: Enhancing Learning and Resiliency Through Reducing Stress and Anxiety

Host/Producer: Rhonda Feiman
Co-Producer: Petra Hall
Technical assistance: Joel Mann & Amy Browne

Program Topic: Enhancing learning and resiliency through reducing stress and anxiety

1. What are the different kinds of stress?
2. When might stress be a helpful thing to experience, and how can we utilize it in a positive way?
3. Learn how to do “box breathing” as a tool for resetting the nervous system.
4. What is a flow state and how can it be achieved?
5. How can an understanding of our human physiology help us be more resilient and better learners?
6. How is movement helpful for alertness and learning?

Guest: Ian Ramsey, educator at North Yarmouth Academy, where he teaches mindfulness and other techniques to enhance learning and resiliency. He directs their Kauffmann Program for Environmental Writing & Wilderness Exploration, and is a founding board member of Physiology First, a nonprofit that offers students around the world science-based tools they can use to reduce stress and anxiety.

About the host:
Rhonda Feiman is a nationally-certified, licensed acupuncturist practicing in Belfast, Maine since 1993. She primarily practices Toyohari Japanese acupuncture, using gentle and powerful non-insertion needle techniques, and also utilizes Chinese acupuncture and herbology. In addition, Rhonda is a practitioner of Qi Gong and an instructor of Tai Chi Chuan in the Yang Family tradition.

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Technoptimist Radio 11/3/21: Mars colony tech arrives on Earth

Join Teresa Carey as she breaks down the latest news on the technology that is solving the world’s biggest problems. In today’s show, Teresa covers new technology inspired by a Mars colony, a breakthrough in animal biology, and the first-ever drone organ donation delivery.

To learn more about the topics in this episode:
Ex-SpaceX engineers bring Mars colony tech to Earth
Scientists got an animal to breathe without oxygen
First-ever: drone delivers lungs for transplant

About the host:
Teresa Carey is a senior staff writer at Freethink.com, where she covers genetics and the environment. She is also a US Coast Guard licensed captain and a NatGeo Explorer. In addition to Freethink her work can be found in BuzzFeed, Scientific American, PBS NewsHour, NPR Weekend Edition, Smithsonian and more. @teresa_carey

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Tough Island, Maine, Episode 12 11/2/21: Island Life on Matinicus

Producer/Host: Crash Barry

This week on Tough Island, Maine… while camping with Alice on an even more remote Maine island, Crash is introduced to Carlos Castaneda, then Crash’s parents visit Matinicus. Also, a scary Halloween tale of gunfire and whiskey.

About the host:
Writer Crash Barry lives near a cannabis grove in the foothills of western Maine. Thirty years ago, he moved to Matinicus, Maine’s most remote inhabited island, to live and work as a sternman aboard a lobster boat. In Tough Island, Maine, Crash retells his misadventures using dramatic storytelling and unique sound design.

For over 25 years, Crash has worked as print, radio and on-line journalist, reporting on the intersection of politics and culture. He’s the author of the rollicking novel Sex, Drugs and Blueberries, a gritty memoir Tough Island and the true story of Marijuana Valley. Crash is also a filmmaker and wrote and directed the screen adaptation of Sex, Drugs and Blueberries.

Crash’s podcast Devils and Dirtbags is an ongoing investigation of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield, Massachusetts and a true tale of deceit, homicide, molestations and cover ups. The actions of evil Bishops and their unholy henchmen play out like a Hollywood movie, rife with death, destruction and disgrace, all framed by a murder mystery that haunted Springfield until an ex-priest made a deathbed confession. Crash tracked down both the murderer and another former priest, a serial child rapist that served as pastor of Crash’s childhood parish, to see if they felt guilt for their sins and crimes.

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Community Wellness Watch 11/2/21: Local mental health and substance use recovery services

Producer/Host: Emma Weiss, WERU intern

Each month, WERU intern Emma Weiss sits down with local healthcare providers to talk about how they have adjusted their practices throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and how they continue to keep our communities healthy and safe.

Program Topic: Local providers offering mental health and substance use recovery services throughout the COVID-19 pandemic

-Learning about mental health and substance use recovery throughout the pandemic
-Discussion of changes and adjustments made to practices providing mental health services and recovery support during the pandemic
-Challenges and triumphs from clients and staff throughout the pandemic
-Learning how listeners can access these services or become volunteers

Guests:

Theresa Mastricolo, Supervising Manager
Midcoast Recovery Coalition in Camden
[email protected]
(207)-701-1182

Dr. Megan Houseknecht, Clinical Psychologist
Mount Desert Island Hospital Behavioral Health Center in Bar Harbor
(207)-288-8604

Dr. Andrés Abreu, Director, Physician, Psychiatrist
Mount Desert Island Hospital Behavioral Health Center in Bar Harbor(207)-288-8604

About the host:
Originally from Hamden, CT, Emma Weiss has always called Maine her second home. After earning her bachelor’s degree in psychology and education at Oberlin College, she moved to MDI full time and began hosting “Moose Juice, Jellies & Jams; Tales and Tunes for Kids of All Ages” twice monthly on Saturdays at 11am during WERU’s Family Radio Hour. Emma joined the WERU team in April and has been working on our NextWave Radio initiative as well as the Community Wellness Watch programs. She now resides in Philadelphia and will work for WERU remotely for the next few months.

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Outside the Box 11/2/21: ““Right to Food?”

Producer/Host: Larry Dansinger

About the host:
Larry Dansinger (no pronouns) of Bangor came to Maine in 1974 and has been here ever since. Some of Larry’s activities since then: Done community organizing on numerous issues through INVERT and then Resources for Organizing and Social Change (ROSC), committed civil disobedience several times, grown a garden yearly since 1977, joined various food cooperatives and two men’s groups, refused to pay federal income taxes for war, lived on a community land trust for 23 years, and met a wonderful partner whom Larry has loved for over 40 years. Larry has produced Outside the Box features on WERU since 2007 and continues to look for unique ways of seeing almost any problem or situation.

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Pet Sounds 10/31/21: The Yezo Virus

Producer/Host: Dr. John Hunt

About the host:

My Sunday morning short has been running for about 11 years. I’ve cover a wide range of animal related topics from COVID to porcupines.

After graduating from Michigan State University Veterinary School in 1982 I practiced at three different veterinary hospitals in the Hartford, Conn area for 5 years. Then I bought a small part time clinic in Bucksport and turned it into a full time small animal surgery and medicine hospital. From 1987 to 2014 I enjoyed serving the Bucksport-Orland area pet owners. My kids grew up in Bucksport. I was a Boy Scoutmaster for a few years, and coached cross country and track in the Bucksport school system for 20 years. I’ve written three books working on a fourth.

I sold my practice and retired from practicing medicine in 2014. Since “retiring” I’ve continued Pet Sounds and my monthly Lets Talk Animals show on WERU. I’ve been teaching at local community colleges, officiating at high school track meets, writing and started a blog on line.

I enjoy hiking, reading, writing and anticipate spending more time with my first grandchild.

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