Sleep is critical to a healthy life and recovery; why is it so dismissed? Why do we value or encourage shortening our sleep opportunities?

Our Friend, Dr. Virginia Crabtree, joins us again to discuss why we need sleep, who needs the most, and how to get the best sleep ever.

Kelly dives into her questions, and Sarah is all about her naps.

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Guest Speaker Bio:
Dr. Valerie Crabtree is a full faculty Member in the Department of Psychology and Chief of Psychosocial Services at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. She holds a PhD in counseling psychology, and her specialty training is in pediatric behavioral sleep medicine, with a completed post-doctoral fellowship and faculty position in the Division of Pediatric Sleep Medicine at the University of Louisville. Dr. Crabtree’s research interests include sleep disturbances, fatigue, and daytime sleepiness in children undergoing active treatment for cancer as well as in cancer survivors. Dr. Crabtree is board-certified in behavioral sleep medicine and provides clinical services to children with cancer and hematological disorders, with a focus on directed interventions to improve sleep and fatigue in this population. She also has an interest in sleep and fatigue among medical trainees and has both published and presented on this topic across audiences. Dr. Crabtree and her co-author, Dr. Lisa Meltzer, published a book in 2015 entitled, “Pediatric Sleep Problems: A Clinician’s Guide to Behavioral Interventions.”

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If one more person asks Sarah if she is grateful for the lessons she learned due to her illness, she may lose her mind.  Thankfully, she talked to Stacey Coach about how to foster gratitude and find a connection with a higher power.

Join Kelly and Sarah as they discuss with Stacey why finding your community is so essential, how shame will prevent you from moving forward, and finding a way gratitude is possible, even when angry.

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Bio:

Stacey Couch facilitates the sacred bond between humans, nature and the Divine. She is devoted to helping spiritual seekers discover their inner wisdom and enter into an intimate relationship with their soul. Well versed in spirituality and symbolism, Stacey supports your ability to see the overarching cosmic design in your life. Her approach is inter-spiritual and holds a reverence for all paths that lead to the Divine. Decades of experience with nature, shamanic, archetypal, and spiritual studies creates Stacey’s unique blend of rational and mystical perspectives. She believes that by guiding others toward truth, compassion, and service that she also serves Mother Nature. Stacey has worked in the field of spirituality for seventeen years, has been the owner of Wild Gratitude LLC for ten years, and has published a memoir titled "Gracious Wild: A Shamanic Journey with Hawks". 

https://www.wildgratitude.com/

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Supplements are all around. The general idea is that supplements are "good for us" or at least neutral.  Dr. Alison Mondul walks us through why that isn't necessarily the case and how come it's so hard to get good research on them. 

Dr. Mondul also discusses #MiCares , a new research project that will help us understand the world around us.

https://micares.health/

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About our Guest Host:
Alison Mondul, PhD, MSPH is an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. She completed her PhD in Cancer Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, her MSPH at The Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, and her BS in Microbiology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is a member of the Cancer Control and Population Sciences Program at the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center.

Dr. Mondul studies the role of modifiable risk factors in the etiology of cancer. In particular, she has studied how lifestyle factors and factors related to diet and nutrition, such as micronutrients and lipids, may influence prostate, bladder, and kidney cancers, as well as other genitourinary conditions such as benign prostatic hyperplasia, and how genetic factors may contribute to or modify these associations. More recently, she has become involved in studying head and neck cancer, which is an exciting area of inquiry as it remains an understudied cancer. Dr. Mondul is a co-investigator on the new Michigan Cancer Research and the Environment (MI-CARES) Study, which began recruitment in 2022.

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