In The Hot Box is a weekly talk show hosted by Mareo Lawson dedicated to interviewing local members of the community and reporting news, events, and traffic from the San Fernando Valley’s Hot Box. Today, Mareo interviews filmmaker Eric B. Ramsey about his new film “Unspeakable Indiscretions” which recently premiered at ArcLight Sherman Oaks. Ramsey invites you to contact him at 818-325-5731 or modelramsey@yahoo.com.
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Today’s show, “Beauty from Within” was my initiation to KPCRadio.com. I had a great chat with nutritionist and author, Ken Babel about maintaining natural beauty and his most recent book, “Mushrooms for Health and Longevity.” We gabbed about mushrooms, powerful ways to eat and how to improve “hanky panky” while living a beautiful life.
Today, Dr. Angeles Arrien, cultural anthropologist and award winning author who speaks internationally, shared her insight into Gratitude, explaining how every culture has ways to say “Thank You”. Dr. Arrien spoke about the gratitude practices, perennial wisdom (multi-cutlural wisdom), and the four universal portals to gratitude. She also discussed overcoming the obstacles to gratitude, and shared insight into “grateful seeing”. Her book “Living in Gratitude” is a must read if you are interested in cultivating gratitude into your daily life!
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“Parks Make Life Better” is the newest slogan from the California Parks and Recreation Society, an organization dedicated to promoting the benefit of parks, and the professions associated with park and recreation departments. Patty Ham, Supervisor for the Borchard Park Community Center in Conejo Valley, CA, spoke about how parks build community, provide leisure and recreation opportunities, and even help with community conflict resolution.
For more information visit:
Borchard Park Community Center
California Parks and Recreation Society
National Recreation and Parks Association
Each year in Los Angeles County approximately 1400 foster youth “age out” of the foster care system. Many of these young adults are ill equipped to support themselves and navigate being on their own. In an effort to assist these young adults, the Southern California Foster Family Adoption Agency (SCFFAA) created the Foster Youth Alumni (FYA) Co-Mentoring Project, a program that puts willing, supportive and committed adults together with transitioning young adults. This innovative program provides mentoring in a non-traditional way, offering a “family style” experience whereby both the young adults, and the adult co-mentors benefit from working together. Lianne Goldsmith, Program Director of the FYA Co-Mentoring Project spoke about her program, and how individuals can get involved.
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Dr. Sonja Lyubomirsky joined me via phone today to discuss her research on happiness, her book “The How of Happiness”, her upcoming book “The Prepared Mind” and her “Live Happy” and “Gratitude Stream” apps. Sonja shared why it’s important to study happiness, how we measure happiness, the different happiness activities we can engage in, and how we have the power to be happy!
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Representatives from the Department of Veteran’s Affairs (DVA) came to share information about how they are helping veteran’s thrive! Sandra Robertson, Patient Centered Care Coordinator, talked about Patient Centered Care, the new focus that the DVA has taken to provide veterans with the health related support they need, and a variety of healing modalities that compliment western medicine, such as Tai Chi Classes, pet therapy, mindfulness based stress reduction, yoga, drum circles etc. Alisa Donner, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Manager discussed Patient Aligned Care Teams (PACT), a new health care delivery system that provides veterans with their own “team” for health promotion. Callie Wight, Women Veterans Program Manager highlighted the issues that women vets experience and the services offered to this fast growing population of veterans.
When it comes to the health of veterans, it has never been more important than it is now. Transitioning from the military back to normal, everyday life can wreak havoc on their mental wellbeing. But the possibility of them coming across financial hardships along the way is also very likely, and without receiving the relevant support, their health is only going to continue to suffer. They shouldn’t worry though. By visiting sites similar to https://www.gofundme.com/c/blog/financial-help-for-veterans, you can find out what types of financial support are on offer for veterans returning from combat, and this is based on whether they have been wounded, are disabled, or if they’re homeless, amongst other things. This type of help can take the pressure off them when returning to civilian life, and if this is controlled, it could improve their health as a result. But sometimes this is not the case, and learning about what type of services are offered to returning veterans is a step in the right direction.
For more information about today’s topics visit:
Greater Los Angeles Health Care System (DVA)
Meditation is one method to help offset the adverse effects of stress. Today, on Thrive! – The Living Well Show, Trudy Goodman, founder of InsightLA, discussed Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and the benefits of meditating. David Pohlman PhD, Co-Director of the Los Angeles Transcendental Meditation (TM) Program, explained the difference between TM and MBSR, and Diana Winston, Director of Mindfulness Education at the Mindful Awareness Research Center (MARC) shared information about research findings related to mindfulness meditation. All three guests discussed different ways to meditate and the benefits of each.
For more information about meditation or the programs mentioned in the program visit:
InsightLA – http://www.insightla.org
MARC – http://www.marc.ucla.edu
Transcendental Mediation – http://www.losangelestm.com
Mindful Valley – http://www.mindfulvalley.org
Labyrinth walks (walking meditation) take place on solstices and equinoxes at the Holy Spirit Retreat Center in Encino – http://www.hsrcenter.com