A Penny for Your Thoughts Cards: Inspire Communication, Connection, and Problem-solving

Show Guests: Janine McGraw & Kathryn Snell-Ryan

A Penny for Your Thoughts innovates interactive card games and products that inspire communication, connection, and problem-solving. A Penny For Your Thoughts: A Survival Kit for Kids & Adults is a kid-friendly communication card game that sparks conversation and playfully opens the door to kids' social and emotional lives. The book includes 80 hand-illustrated cards designed to increase connection between kids and adults, foster positive ways to communicate feelings, and teach social and emotional skills that lead to success-at home, at school and with friends.

This game integrates Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) skills, helping children to articulate their feelings and learn how to manage them in healthy and adaptive ways. While these skills aren't learned overnight, we believe that practicing them can be fun, connecting, and completely within reach! Join us as Janine and Kathryn describe how A Penny for Your Thoughts uses the power of SEL to create a unique learning experience can truly be challenging, engaging, and meaningful for the entire family.

Inoculated: How Science Lost Its Soul in Autism

Show Guest: Kent Heckenlively

It reads like a mystery thriller, a lone whistleblower, akin to All the President’s Men’s Deep Throat, spills the government’s secrets. But like the film Contagion, what’s at risk is the health of millions! But fiction it is not. This remarkable chronicle wades directly into the maelstrom that is the vaccine/autism controversy. Kent Heckenlively’s Inoculated: How Science Lost Its Soul in Autism may initially read like a spy novel but unfolds to a complete accounting of all the actions and documents that comprise a government cover-up, putting a vast number of the nation’s children at great risk to trigger autism once inoculated with the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine. Heckenlively, the father of a child stricken with autism after being vaccinated—who remains unable to speak—reviewed some of the most damaging government documents with deep emotion as he realized that had the information been made public in 2000 when the initial indicators were surfacing, he and his wife could have made informed choices that could have saved his children from their struggles. Whether you already believe there was a government cover-up, that vaccines can be harmful to children—or you haven’t made up your mind, you owe yourself a look at the facts in Inoculated.

Why Kids in Foster Care or Anywhere in America are Vulnerable to Human Trafficking

Show Guest: Dr. John DeGarmo

As anyone who has worked with foster children will tell you, most foster children face an enormous amount of emotional issues, many times stemming from the lack of healthy love. And for those who may have been abused, beaten, or neglected, they typically suffer great difficulty connecting with others, as well as managing their own emotions. According to Dr. DeGarmo, director of The Foster Care Institute, human traffickers target vulnerable children, including those in large facilities, such as large foster care group homes, where they are able to locate a greater number of children who are defenseless, naïve, and hurting, thus easier targets to victimize, lure, and exploit.

He sheds light on the dark little secret many in our society either are not aware of it, or refuse to acknowledge, which is: the highest rate of child sex trafficking occurs right here in the United States. Shockingly, between 300,000-400,000 children are exploited commercially in our nation for purposes of sex each year. In addition, roughly 2 million children are exploited in this manner across the globe, and it is estimated that human trafficking generates more than 32 billion a year, which is second only to drug trafficking. While it may be almost impossible to fully protect children from the dangers online, in this eye-opening interview Dr. DeGarmo shares the most important strategies that all parents, and anyone caring for children, can implement to better protect them from these threats.

Feng Shui Mommy: Creating Balance and Harmony for Blissful Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood

SHOW GUEST: Bailey Gaddis

Before she was a beloved pregnancy blogger, certified birthing doula, and childbirth preparation educator, author Bailey Gaddis met her own pregnancy by buying a bunch of books - which, for the most part, made her even more confused, insecure, and scared.

Feng Shui Mommy: Creating Balance and Harmony for Blissful Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood is her way of giving pregnant women and new moms a better option. Adopting the principles and philosophy of feng shui, the Chinese system of a connected inner and outer harmony, this book guides women to their balanced center and supports them in tapping into the primal energies brought forth in the birthing experience.

Feng Shui Mommy offers a holistic approach to pregnancy and child rearing, with chapters dedicated to the mind, body, and spirit for each trimester. The book is composed of four parts- First Trimester, Second Trimester, Third Trimester, and the Fourth Trimester, which happens to be the first three months after the baby is born. Illustrations enliven the text throughout. Feng Shui Mommy is an oasis that welcomes all, encouraging each woman to unapologetically embrace her own journey," writes Bailey. "This book gives you permission to follow your own path to birth and beyond."

InnovaTel Telepsychiatry - Bringing High-Quality Mental Health Care to People in Rural Areas

SHOW GUESTS; Jonathan Evans & Dr. Liberty Eberly

"Founded in 2014, InnovaTel Telepsychiatry has built an impressive platform to deliver clinical services to under-served communities by leveraging innovative teleconferencing, video and voice technology, while also improving clinical practice standards. By focusing on a need created from a shortage of psychiatrists in community mental health settings, rural areas that experience difficulty recruiting and retaining qualified psychiatrists, can now receive excellent care.

Participating in sessions from the comfort of their own homes, patients can receive treatment without the stress of travel or up-close, face-to-face meetings in clinical settings. This approach also allows practitioners to increase productivity, and have more availability to actually practice psychiatry.In our interview with Jon Evans and Dr. Liberty Eberly, they will share how InnovaTel's founders came to believe in the viability of the telepsychiatry model, as well as real live success stories from the both practitioners and patients.

I AM WHO I SAY I AM – Personal empowerment to withstand the pressures at school, home, and in the work

Show Guest: Mischa Martineau

A message to parents: Are you ready to positively influence the trajectory of the life of your teen? The ultimate question is: What is your child thinking?

Mischa Martineau is the developer of the I AM WHO I SAY I AM - My Discovery Journal. It is an interactive journal with imaginative concepts around controlling self-talk to build resiliency, increase self-esteem and self-efficacy - the personal beliefs that determine the goals we dare to set and achieve. Whether your child faces challenges related to: bullying, cultural changes, mental and physical health and wellness, I AM WHO I SAY I AM aligns with programs of awareness to deepen their effectiveness and increase the participants' abilities to self-motivate and self-sustain personal growth and change. The I AM WHO I SAY I AM cognitive behavioral program, focuses on Martineau's assertion: "There is a powerful difference between telling a person what to think and teaching them to think for themselves."

Carefrontation: Breaking Free from Childhood Trauma

SHOW GUEST: Arlene Drake

“Carefrontation can help anyone who has experienced emotional or physical abuse. Whether you know or suspect you were abused, this book will change your life for the better.” -Bob Beckel, CNN and USA Today commentator

You’re stuck. Stuck in anxiety, nightmares, depression, addictions and aggressions that sounds all too familiar for many adult survivors of abuse. You’ve been through countless hours of therapy and nothing has worked. You’ve survived your abuse but you haven’t recovered. You are not alone. Welcome to the end of endless therapy, where’s there’s a beginning, middle and end. In our interview, Arlene details her breakthough technique of working directly with the hurt child inside to get to the root of suffering and heal once and for all. Carefrontation: As Arlene shares, “If we can finally acknowledge that the suffering and the pain can stop, the destructive patterns can end. We can graduate, at last, into a life beyond “abuse victim” and for the first time take the power back from our abusers and finally be at peace.”

Resilience Not Included: Practical Parenting Tips for Instilling Resilience

SHOW GUEST: Beth Terry

Beth Terry's book, Raising Resilient Kids, is packed with wonderful insights, practical information, and delightful stories from her 30 years of raising OPK's - Other People's Kids.

Like everyone, Beth learned the hard way, only instead of one child at a time, she started with three pre-teens all at once when she was only 33. After that, her involvement at church landed her a handful of god-kids who were hurting and needed her help, one of whom came with a Probation officer! She got those kids squared away, then fell in love with a man who had four little girls under the age of 10. Beth didn't have nine months to get used to the idea of kids in the home again... she dived right in.

Moms and Dads - this is the advice you wish you had when you started your family. Your kids will benefit, new moms and dads will love the sections on family meetings and chore lists. In an interview you will not want to miss,Terry shares her unique take on the world and how Raising Resilient Kids will help you make it through your day and give you ideas you can share with those you love.

What We're Afraid to Ask: 365 Days of Healing for Adult Survivors of Childhood Abuse

Show Guest: Anna M. Jones

Did you know that more than 3.6 million reports of child abuse are made annually in the United States involving more than 6.6 million children? (Childhelp Statistic). And what happens to these children when the abuse they suffered is left untreated? These individuals grow up while struggling with mental health issues and disorders such as low self-esteem, anger, anxiety, and depression just for starters. What We’re Afraid to Ask dares to pursue 365 questions most survivors are reluctant to to ask, such as, “How do we know what our Lord’s divine purpose is for our lives when we had parents who did everything in their power to extinguish our true characters?” This groundbreaking book will bring truth to the false beliefs the abused soul might have regarding God and themselves.

"Sober College examines and manages addiction treatment from a brain perspective"

SHOW GUEST: Oriana Murphy

A young adult's path to sustainable, long-term sobriety and healthy living requires an approach that is comprehensive, specifically tailored to age and creates an emotional attachment to the idea of being sober. This concept of attraction-based programming is at the core of what sets Sober College apart from other drug rehab centers.

Many young adults come to Sober College struggling in several aspects of their lives. The program empowers young women and men ages 18-26 to discover their purpose, find true passions and follow a path of excellence. They offer an innovative drug rehab program and one-of-a-kind treatment model built around the Five Core Competencies, seamlessly integrating academics and rehabilitation. Sober College's primary objective is to identify factors that have influenced the development of addiction and help clients learn how to cope with difficult emotions, be successful and live and enjoy life while sober.