Brighten Up Podcast
What is the most impactful factor in one's life? FAMILY! The things you like, the habits you form — or don't form 😏, and the personality you have are all heavily influenced by your family.
Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Donna Kuo is on a journey to explore the various ways to improve family mental health and well-being! Forget all the phony pop-psychology and embrace an attitude of constant growth and learning by hanging out to listen to talks with professionals of various fields that relate to all things mental health!
Episodes
11 episodes
The Pink Battlefront: The Role of Community in Surviving Breast Cancer
The old African proverb, "It takes a village to raise a child" is widely known, but is enough attention paid to the power of community in overcoming family hardships? Of all the difficulties the family unit faces, few are as daunting as a breas...
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Episode 11
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42:40
Virtual Frontier: Video Gaming & Teenage Boys
Frontiers are often characterized as unknown territory because of the lack of knowledge there is to them. The same rings true for the video game industry. It has only been a short time since children began growing up with them. Those that did a...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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32:09
You Are Not Alone: Let's Talk about Prevention
It cuts across economic status, it affects all age groups, and it touches so many lives. . . It is suicide. It is such a heavy discussion, yet such a dire one. Brave spaces are needed for brave people to talk, to reach out, to de-stigmatize.
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Episode 9
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42:42
Rising Invisible Threat: Cybersecurity for Senior Citizens
Have you heard of Pig Butchering Scams? Long gone are the days of "Nigerian Princes" seeking our bank info to park their money in exchange for a monetary gift for us. Online scams have become far more sophisticated today, from copycat websites ...
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Episode 8
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41:05
Fammelly is What You Make it
WARNING: Laughter and Joy are contagious in this episode! Donna sits down with one of America's favorite families — The Donnellys! No, seriously. What started as a humble attempt to showcase a daughter's gymnastic prowess on YouTube quickly bec...
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Episode 7
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54:33
Beyond The Spectrum: Autism as more than a Disorder
Donna wanted to do something special on the Brighten Up Pod for April, the month internationally recognized as Autism Acceptance Month. The topic is near and dear to her, so she wanted to provide greater insight, inspiration, and hope for famil...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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1:04:00
The Neurodiversity Among Us: Adult Females and Autism
Neurodiversity means "Our society benefits from multiple different neurotypes in various ways", says Dr. Stacy Greeter, Brighten Up's guest in this month's episode. As part of Autism Acceptance Month in April, Donna has a compelling conversatio...
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Episode 5
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1:00:05
The Rise of Eating Disorders
In the past five years, Eating Disorders have more than doubled among people younger than 17 and the trajectory of this development seems to be getting worse. In this episode, Donna speaks to Clinical Psychologist, Dr. Debra Gill, so she may sh...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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57:20
Think with your Gut! Your Brain on Food
Clinical Nutrition expert Ashley McIntyre joins Donna on a deep dive. . . into the belly of the beast! All jokes aside, what goes into your belly affects your brain, your wellness, and more importantly, your daily emotional state — way more tha...
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Episode 3
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1:05:21
Medicine that isn't medicine: Music Therapy
Therapists come in all forms, as do their practices. In this conversation, Donna speaks with music therapist Haley Verinder to discuss the not-so-mainstream form of treatment, music therapy. What the heck is it? How is it used? Why should...
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Episode 2
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43:03
Into the World of Teenage Girls & Social Media
In this debut episode, Donna sits down with one of her favorite humans, her daughter Lindsay, along with her friend, Morgan. Social Media can be a wonderful place in some ways, but quite toxic in others. For teenage girls, it is a world in and ...
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Episode 1
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