In this episode of Exposed the Podcast, Natalie Hayden dives deep into the topic of recognizing signs of mental health issues in young people. She stresses the importance of paying attention to the well-being of youth and offers valuable tips for parents, educators, and anyone impacting the lives of young people.

Natalie shares her personal insights as a parent, emphasizing the need for adults to lead by example when it comes to taking care of mental health. She discusses the significance of observing behavioral changes, sleep disturbances, emotional responses, substance abuse, difficulty concentrating, and social withdrawal in young individuals.

Episode Highlights
03:08 - When we talk about taking care of young people and recognizing the signs of mental health, think about some of the things that you could be doing or even neglecting in your own mental health. And if you can practice some of these healthy strategies and tips, you will have a young person that will see what you've done because oftentimes they do as they see and not as we say.

04:01 - You notice a change in behavior. You notice they're spending more time alone. They're not talking to their friends as normal. There's a total change.

05:59 - Just noticing excessive worry or sadness and severe like anxiety and all of those things. Just pay attention to those things we're talking about. Tips on how to help our young people through mental health and some of these issues that they could be facing day to day that we could typically overlook.

07:13 - Keep in mind, it is so important to approach your young person with sensitivity and care and observation and compassion and making sure that if you're not sure how to do and say all the things that you involve professional support, and then go to the schools.

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In this episode, Natalie provides a passionate recap of their recent engagements with young people, from exploring healthy relationships in Milwaukee to sitting down with youth in Sacramento, California.

Tune in to hear about the impactful conversations and workshops that Exposed the Podcast is leading to empower the next generation. From advocacy to self-accountability, this episode highlights the work being done to promote awareness and education that can break the cycle of abuse.

Natalie shares the team's commitment to supporting and amplifying the voices of youth is unwavering, and their message of empowerment and advocacy reaches far and wide.

Episode Highlights

02:39 - We believe that true empowerment comes from us cultivating what does healthy relationships continue to look like amongst our youth, and that conversation will never get old.

04:49 - One thing that young people teach us in this day and time is that it's okay to take a break and to be joyful and playful and all of those things in spite all the work that there is to be done.

08:28 - We just do our best to make sure that we're standing 10 toes down on, for 1, becoming aware of some of these signs of an unhealthy relationship, holding oneself accountable, learning about who you are and creating barriers and expectations and boundaries and all of these things.

11:51 - Before we can go out and do all the work and reach the world, we got to start right in our backyard. So we start within our families. We start within, you know, the people that we're closest to and ask these questions and just see what their thoughts are about it. And that is one way that we can build and empower our young people.

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