Listen as Rick, Sasha and George and I discuss:

🧠 what depression looks like in children, including boys

🧠 how to manage a situation when your child is struggling emotionally

🧠 how to help our children cope

🧠 self injury, like cutting; why does it happen

Remember as a kid walking to school with your friends and talking trash? Or congregating in the hallways at school to socialize and blow off steam. It has been difficult for some adults to manage #COVID19. 🦠 🦠 🦠 🦠 Imagine how our children and teens are feeling - some missed prom, others will miss graduation and many will miss both. They are limited in their outlets to decompress. AND SOME WERE ALREADY STRUGGLING WITH SADNESS, NERVOUSNESS, ANXIETY, ANGER, SUICIDAL THINKING before COVID19.

My guest, high school counselor 'Coach' Phillip Wells and I discuss the issues teenagers are harboring, and we also talked to two callers who called in during the show on 951-MY-BRAIN.   Listen and/or watch and you'll learn: 

🧠 why children are not comfortable talking to their parents 

🧠 the four parental styles and which style children respond to the best 

🧠 how to help our children cope 

🧠 breaking down the 504 Plan - how can it help your child in college

The case of Ahmaud Arbery has prompted outrage recently as his murderers - two men seen on video - killed this 25 year old Black male and were not arrested for more than two months. Miami's Hot 105's FM Shelby Rushin and Big Lip addressed this matter on live radio to check-in with the community and help people process such an unfortunate event. I was asked to opine on the state of mental health in the Black community, including during COVID-19.  Listen as I discuss racial stress and minority traumas that are pervasive in our Black communities resulting in Black people suffering 20% more than White communities from serious, psychological distress. We have more cases of debilitating, persistent, resistant depressive episodes and most likely, undiagnosed PTSD or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder along with other undiagnosed mental health problems. 

Happy COVID19 Mother's Day to all of the women! Mother's Day probably feels different for some of us - no waiting in long lines at restaurants, no deposits to hold a reservation to eat but instead maybe a home cooked meal or picnic like lunch or dinner that someone picked up from your favorite restaurant. Mother's Day this year presented challenges for some - at home you're doing your thing as a mother but filling in also as a teacher! Kudos to all of you who are working from home and home schooling!   

COVID19 has presented challenges for some - social distancing may mean no intimacy for people who live alone or are single. A few of my social media followers wrote in to ask if sex dolls were considered odd. It made me think back to this caller - a gentleman who purchased a $2,000 sex doll that included a heated vagina. Listen as he details his interests in owning a sex doll. When his fiance enters the room during the call, he doesn't back down but reminds her of her limitations in the bedroom.

When a woman uses a dildo or vibrator is that the same as a man using a sex doll or a "pocket p*ssy"?

The US just reported its deadliest day for coronavirus patients as states reopen, according the WHO, as published by CNBC.

How are you coping with this type of data? Do you fear reintegration? Are you ready to go back to work? Are you a small business contemplating if to open, or not?

Learn the best ways to improve your immune system's response to disease. 

And of course, in the end my definition of B-R-A-I-N-L-O-V-E