Brainwaves Unplugged: Real Talk on Mental Health
Brainwaves Unplugged: Real Talk on Mental Health
Podcast Description
This podcast unites personal narratives, expert insights, and meaningful life experiences to address mental health issues. Its mission is to dismantle the stigma surrounding mental health by providing a platform for open and honest dialogue. Each episode delves into authentic experiences, showcasing voices from diverse backgrounds, including mental health professionals, advocates, and individuals sharing their personal journeys. The program aims to create a supportive environment where listeners can learn, connect, and feel empowered to confront mental health challenges.
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Focuses on various aspects of mental health, including stigma reduction, personal recovery journeys, and therapeutic processes, with episodes like 'Unmasking Eating Disorders: Honest Conversations and Hidden Struggles' and 'Walking Through the Fear of The Unknown' providing authentic insights from both professionals and individuals affected by mental health challenges.
This podcast unites personal narratives, expert insights, and meaningful life experiences to address mental health issues. Its mission is to dismantle the stigma surrounding mental health by providing a platform for open and honest dialogue. Each episode delves into authentic experiences, showcasing voices from diverse backgrounds, including mental health professionals, advocates, and individuals sharing their personal journeys. The program aims to create a supportive environment where listeners can learn, connect, and feel empowered to confront mental health challenges.
In this episode, we explore why mental health literacy is the missing piece in today’s education system. Through both frontline experience and research, our guest shares how early intervention can change not just individual lives, but entire communities. If we taught mental health alongside math and reading, what kind of future could we create?
About Our Guest:
Currently a Nursing Instructor at the University of Virginia, Sherrie Page Guyer has been a registered nurse for over thirty years with experience in inpatient, outpatient, and community/school settings. 15 of those years were at a K-12 independent school where she worked as a school nurse, high school health teacher, and Health and Wellness Coordinator. Her doctoral project, ”Frontline School-Based Stakeholders and the Mental Health Literacy Needs of Adolescents” focused on teen mental health literacy programs in Richmond area high schools.
Sherrie also works as a freelance writer where her articles often focus on healthcare topics, with a special interest in the school nursing profession and teen mental health concerns. She has published in multiple national outlets including TIME Magazine, Newsweek, CNN, HuffPost, STAT, American Nurse Journal (ANJ), Inside Higher Ed, and more. She holds a BSN from UNC Chapel Hill, an MSN in psychiatric nursing from Yale University, and a DNP from the University of Virginia. Also a reviewer for The Journal of School Nursing (JOSN), Sherrie is a member of the National Association of School Nurses, the American Nurses Association, and Sigma International Honor Society of Nurses. In her free time, she enjoys walking her dog, reading memoirs, and practicing Yoga.
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