Picture a crowd of children filling Angels Stadium in Anaheim three times over... that's the number of kids in Orange County suffering from mental health symptoms right now. In this show we're joined by Dr. Lorry Leigh Belhumeur, a licensed psychologist and the CEO of Western Youth Services. Dr. Leigh Belhumeur shares how exposure to toxic stress can impact brain development in children, 4 categories of "buffering" to build resilience, and how to navigate the return to school and life activities as California reopens.

Every person deserves to have the best chance to have the healthiest baby possible, but issues like poverty, lack of health insurance, and other barriers to care can make that difficult. This week we're talking with Dave Lugo from MOMS Orange County about the issues mom's face in pre and post-natal care, how we can all listen well to the mothers around us, how the pandemic changed the pregnancy and birth experiences, and much more.

As we continue to grapple with the mental health effects of the pandemic, art has become an essential medium to support emotional healing for those living with pain, grief, fear or stress. In this episode we're joined by Laurie Zagon from Art for Creativity and Healing to discuss how art can help anyone process the difficulties of life, how abstract art is a language for expressing what we don't have words for, and how artists help us expand our imagination to build a better world.