Fear of going to the dentist is a real thing and everyone experiences it in a different way. In our talk with NorthLakes Community Clinic Dentist Tina Sopiwnik, she shares how she works with her patients, both young and old, to make a visit easier.

She also shares some suggestions on how parents can make those visits easier for their kids. We also talk a little bit about her dog.

All of us have experienced grief in one way or another or will at some point. What is it? What can cause it and what are ways to work with it?

Behavioral Health Therapist Jennifer Hodgson jumps on to the podcast to answer some of these questions and explain how you may be experiencing grief and might not even know that is what you are feeling.

To learn more about Jen, follow this link to her webpage: https://nlccwi.org/providers/jennifer-hodgson-m-ed-lpc/

Why is it important to screened for colon cancer? How do you do it?

Dr. Dee shares all this and more.

NorthLakes Community Clinic's dental outreach program goes to schools in 23 counties in the northern third of Wisconsin. What can you as a parent expect and what services will your children receive?

We learn that and more in this episode of the NorthLakes Podcast.

What is autism? What do you call it? What does it mean when someone says "they are on the spectrum"? Behavioral Health Therapist Sean Inderbitzen breaks down these questions and more in this episode.

Sean sees patients at NorthLakes Community Clinic - Birchwood and Hayward as well as in some of the local schools. He provides care to many people who have autism and offers a unique perspective because he has it as well.

Sean has appeared on several other podcasts and you can find links to them on his Linkedin account

Tamilyn White is a Behavioral Health Therapist at our clinic in Hayward. She has long COVID and she shared what that experience has been like.

Here are some of the haiku's she wrote:

worst headache ever

chest filled with heavy cement

coughing always is not fun

the only one sick

only I took Moderna

better choice-Phizer?

week 2 of COVID

isolation really sucks

I am so so bored

Stiff and sore. Stretch some.

So good to yoga again. 

Now back to bed. Cough.

COVID says “feeling 

better now? No you’re not! Ha!

I’m COVID. You’re mine!”

Have you considered what chiropractic care can do before, during, and after a pregnancy? Neither had we until we talked to Doctor of Chiropractic Lorelei Wakefield. It's more than just helping with a sore back deep into the third trimester.

Take a listen and then call NorthLakes Community Clinic to find out how we can assist you!

Diabetes Prevention with NorthLakes Registered Dietitian, Rebecca Crumb-Johnson.

What can you do to help prevent diabetes? Some causes are hereditary, others people are able to control.

Rebecca gives some great advice about how to make diabetes less likely in your life, what she does in her role as a registered Dietitian and as a Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist.

Is there someone in your life that plays video games? A lot of video games?

Is that bad? We dig into that question in this episode and talk a lot about addiction in general.

Angie and Jennie break down what picky eating is and some some things that parents can do to detect it and what to do about it.