generation sos: ON RECORD

Our guest, a friend and old roommate of Carmen's, lost her mother to suicide in 2021. She walks us through grief, confusion, anger, loss and all of its nuances. Also, how can we be a friend to someone going through life-changing emotion? 

Piper, our very first guest from “one of the lucky ones”, relapsed. She came to us to speak on her determination to stay alive and gratitude for another chance to get clean.

Want to do a mindfulness activity with us? A story of youth empowering youth. Violet, Cooper, and Liz are all mental health ambassadors for their church. They received training to bring these skills to their church's mental health check-ins, combatting this crisis one step at a time. 

What is the "Kunal lifestyle," and how did he get there? Our guest talks about depression, binge eating, ADHD, and undoing years of unhealthy coping mechanisms. 

Going through the cycle of addiction, rehab, and relapse is never easy. Try doing it in college. Hear how smoking weed in high school brought our speaker to this point. 

Your hosts, Carmen, Jackie and Emily (AKA Douglas) giggle and reflect on one year of generation sos: ON RECORD.

What impacts your mental health? A conversation about therapy and pain. 

From overdosing to getting sober, Aaron turned adversity into opportunity, and wants to use his journey to help others do the same. Listen to him speak of his own experience with addiction, and the importance of proper treatment. 

From a functional alcoholic to a dedicated sober, Mari discusses the normalization of drinking and cocaine use in college. How do we navigate a culture that makes drinking, drugging and blacking out feel so normal?

A speech language pathologist and model who was bullied growing up shares how she navigates loving her past and present self through awareness, therapy, and embracing her individuality.