Podcast Time

 Check out The INTRODUCTION: A BEHIND THE SCENES VIRTUAL SPIN of your HOSTESS Genine LaTrice Perez, Prevention Specialist Region 9.  With so many working from home during the pandemic, our Prevention Specialist had to be creative with her living space to maximize her impact for agency programs. In this episode she introduces programs and topics that will be discussed in future episodes. 

 Check out our segment on MISS TEEN TOURS.  Youth Programming is essential. Leadership development is just one of the areas in which the Region 9 Prevention Providers serves the community. Watch and learn more about the Miss Teen Tours program; a six-month community service, character building, education enrichment, and cultural awareness program for girls between the ages of 11-18. 

Check out HOT TOPICS IN THE HOT TUB where my close friends and I discuss topics regarding the Nationwide DEA Drug Take Back, Dementia, Monitoring Health of our Loved Ones in and out of the Hospital, and the medications that we are prescribed and how experience.  important it is to ensure that we pay attention to the fine print and do our own research when prescribed medications.    So, tune in to this episode with my girls, CandySoul, Sandra Ledbetter, and Ebonie "Miss Pinky" Anderson for Hot Topics in the Hot Tub.  

Check out  IN THE FACE OF TRAUMA  According to https://www.therecoveryvillage.com  Grief and addiction are so deeply linked that grief work is often a significant part of recovery from substance use disorders. For many people, a loss they could not accept set them on the path to addiction. The risk of developing a substance use disorder is even greater when a loss was traumatic or occurred under traumatic circumstances.  So, tune into this episode and see how our very own host turned PAIN into PURPOSE in the tragic loss of her daughter and is helping the greater community through her experience.  

 According to https://positivepsychology.com, "Self-care is a sustainable and holistic investment in our minds and bodies. It includes taking good care of our physical health, most notably by eating healthily, exercising, and sleeping well."  With that being said, let's get to the basics of Self-Care. Check out my morning regimen, and one of my secret weapons, as I introduce to you my friend, and colleague, Ms. Cheryl Humphrey and her amazing moisturizer, Candy Butta.   

 According to https://archives.drugabuse.gov/news-e......"Staff scientists are considering the possibility that exercise—including active play, outdoor adventure, team sports, martial arts, and dance—not only boosts energy and keeps weight in check but also helps prevent substance abuse.  Although people tend to think of exercise as good for the body, it also benefits the brain. With that being said, let's talk about our "HOW YOU LIVING?" Healthy Initiative in partnership with Michael N. Washington, Jr. and BODY & SOUL LR. 

Well, of course there are always those fumbles, stutters and missed moments of greatness that are cut during the final edits of any show. We  are no different on HOW YOU LIVING? The Podcast. In fact, we have way more than we can bring to you, but our producers pulled together a few of those special moments and in this episode here in our BLOOPERS & BEHIND THE SCENES segment.   

So, stay tuned. Keep an open mind, and don't fret the small stuff.  Laugh if you want to laugh. Pinpoint the "don'ts", and even cringe at the "Oh, no no no portions". We understand the call an the assignment...and the process in which it takes to do what we do...and we are here for it. Okay. forget all the reading. Get to watching! 

What I would normally list here, is included in the introduction of the podcast, so I won't add it here. I just want you to check it out, and understand that  in the world of PREVENTION there had to be an issue or set of issues that made a program like our Region 9 Prevention Providers needed.    

We all battle with or will battle with something in our lives. As we know life isn't perfect. By the very name of our Podcast, we CARE--and genuinely want to know "How You Living?" and we want the response to be that you're LIVING YOUR BETS LIFE.  After the death of my daughter, trauma and grief were real. I needed something to cope and to take the pain away. I chose Music as my anti-drug...and yet I call it my drug--my therapy.    

Check this episode out! It's Sundresses at Sunset Part I. Just a good time with good people and music for the soul.   

THIS EPISODE NOT FUNDED BY REGION 9 PREVENTION PROVIDERS. THIS WAS AN INDEPENDENT PROJECT. THE CONTENTS ARE FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY AND ONLY DEPICTS the MUSIC OF GENINE LATRICE PEREZ.