Mental Health Awareness In The Holiday Season: With Dr. Gary Starkey

It's no secret that The Life Work Balance Nation supports Mental Health Awareness, and we know the Holiday Season can be a time where we need to shed some light on this subject.

 In this episode we bring in a Professional Psychiatrist of 40+ years and National Psychiatric Public Speaker, Dr. Gary Starkey (who also happens to be Leah's dad) to talk about the importance of protecting our mental health in the Holiday Season.  He helps to educate us on some of the under lying triggers that occur this time of year.  As well as gives us tangible take aways to incorporate into our holiday season to help protect our Mental Health.

Dr. Starkey not only educates us on the situational triggers, but on the environmental triggers as well.  We learn about supporting those going through grief or loss, as well as seasonal triggers, such as Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD).  We learn about the importance of 10 hours of daily sunlight.  He suggests getting sunlight first thing in the morning and right before the sun sets in the evening.  He also suggest to those in exceptionally cloudy or dark regions this time of year who are affected by SAD to look into using a special Full Spectrum Sunlight Lamp to adda few extra hours  of artificial sunlight to their day.  We have found a few different links to various brands of various price points.  (we are not affiliated with these brands or companies.  We suggest you do more research to see what brand or lamp works best for you and your lifestyle)
Verilux HappyLight - BestBuy
Verilux HappyLight Lucent - Bed Bath and Beyond

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