Mind the Gap: Reducing Stigma around Mental Health

WARNING: This episode contains discussions of suicide. Isabel Friedrichs joins the show to discuss her newly-published poetry collection, "The Blue Series: Poems on Love, Loss, and Learning to Heal", and how we can use art as a coping mechanism and a way to reduce stigma.

Professor Jeanine Skorinko joins the show to discuss gender, sexuality, and how we can be authentic in relationships.

Kelia Bergin joins to talk about how we can set healthy goals, make progress toward them, and pivot when things don't work out.

This episode, I talk to MHC President Ágata Romero about getting in touch with our identities, who we really are, and making commitments to ourselves.

This episode, our advisor and WPI professor, Richard Lopez, talks about social media, contingent self-worth, and how we can build real, deep community.

This episode, Professor Stacy Shaw shares insights from her research and personal life. We discuss how to set ourselves up for success in work, personal life, and more.

Join us for our first discussion of work/life balance with MHC's Vice President, Dina Kalmanson!

This week we talk with Assistant Director of the Center for Wellbeing, Gina Heinsohn, who is also a new advisor for WPI Mental Health Committee, about new beginnings, transitions, and what the CWB is.

WARNING: This episode contains discussions of self-harm and suicide. This week, Jack Schoenrock joins to the show to discuss men's mental health and how we can take care of one another.

I discuss support systems, public health approaches to mental health, and frogs in a pond with Dean of Student Wellness, Charlie Morse.

Noah Bedard joins the show to discuss mental health education research, his experiences with faculty, and how peers can support each other.

Sabrina Rebecchi, director of counseling at WPI, joins the show to discuss her career and philosophy in counseling, struggles she's experienced, and differences between WPI and other schools.

Brynne MacWilliams, the former president of WPI's mental health committee, discusses the origins of the club, social stigma, and empathy.