Coronavirus and Our Mental Health
Getting out of Tobacco Prison. The host for this show is Ken Burtness. The guest is Toni Baran. The Coronavirus Pandemic has clogged hospitals and ICUs, and kept many people who needed treatment for other problems away from getting help, medical health and psychological help. Addicts need both. During the first year of the pandemic, […]
‘It’s Show Time’ (Coronavirus and Our Mental Health)
Enter Movies, Exit Covid. The host for this show is Ken Burtness. The guest is Greg MacDonald. People are Covid weary, tired of being lock-downed, confined, cut off from being with people, from enjoying fun activities, from going to their favorite places. Now with loosening restrictions and coronavirus numbers falling, doors are opening, and one […]
The Pen is Mightier than the Virus (Coronavirus and Our Mental Health)
The Joy of Writing. The host for this show is Ken Burtness. The guest is Penny Pence Smith. At the beginning of the pandemic, personal contact was severely curtailed and voice contact was made more difficult, but written contact was almost always available. In the quiet of isolation, people could always pick up a pencil […]
Turning the Page on Covid (Coronavirus and Our Mental Health)
The Joy of Books. The host for this show is Ken Burtness. The guest is Mary Burtness. For two and a half years Coronavirus has demanded peoples’ attention, kept people mired in negative thoughts, ideas, and stories. Regular pastimes and joys have been neglected or forgotten. And yet some people found this difficult period an […]
A Paint Brush Beats Covid (Coronavirus and Our Mental Health)
The Joy of Art. The host for this show is Ken Burtness. The guest is Tamara Moan. For two and a half years, Coronavirus has been the great thief in the night. Covid stole jobs, decimated social activities, kept people away from family and friends, and disrupted lives. And this thief left people lonely and […]
Inmates: The Forgotten People (Coronavirus and Our Mental Health)
Help for High Risk People. The host for this show is Ken Burtness. The guest is Toni Baran. Throughout this coronavirus pandemic, people separated themselves from large groups, avoided close personal contact, and protected themselves from airborne viruses. Most could do that. People in prison could not. So, it has been no surprise that the […]
Parent-Child Love (Coronavirus and Our Mental Health)
The Joy of Fostering. The host for this show is Ken Burtness. The guest is Jamie McOuat. The harder life becomes, the more a person’s world narrows down, until there is only oneself left. ‘Everything is falling apart. How will ‘I’ survive?’ Paradoxically the answer often lays in opening up one’s world rather than narrowing […]
Positivity Trumps Negativity (Coronavirus and Our Mental Health)
The Joy of Cooking. The host for this show is Ken Burtness. The guest is Jeremy McOuat. Despite big crowds on the 4th of July, sold-out airplanes taking people everywhere, massive traffic jams, unmasked people breathing in everyone’s faces, and arms hugging friends and strangers, the Coronavirus Cloud of continuing new cases and new hospitalizations […]
Feeling Good in Difficult Times (Coronavirus and Our Mental Health)
Movie Therapy. The host for this show is Ken Burtness. The guest is Greg MacDonald. People see themselves: the good, the bad, and the in-between. If their self-image is mostly good, if they feel they are increasing their positive attributes and decreasing their negative attributes, they tend to feel satisfied, happy. This is very difficult […]
Thoughts Guiding Emotions (Coronavirus and Our Mental Health)
Escaping Negativity by Thinking. The host for this show is Ken Burtness. The guest is Jerry Brennan. Living in a world beset by seemingly insurmountable problems, it is hard not to fall into negativity. People are frustrated, feel cheated: this is not the world they bargained for, worked hard for. They are angry. Every day […]