Sunday Morning Magazine

Hand in Hand Kids is an important, critical service for children who are facing foster care. Hand in Hand Kids provides help from the first hours to on-going support for families in crisis. Now into their 10th year Hand in Hand Kids has grown and expanded their services to help children feel loved and cared for, to help family grow to be intact. A big celebration is planned for June to acknowledge...

Jasmine Jean is a childhood cancer survivor, and Matthew is her life and business partner. Together they have created "SnuggleBuds". Based on her feelings to escape treatment as a child, Jasmine dreamed of the SnuggleBuds. This 'doll', a bud, that looks as similar as possible to the child--which includes have a spot for a catheter, a port for transfusion lines, the things a child going through tre...

Toby Nelson works with the US Census Bureau and is well infomred about the 2020 Census. It's easier to respond, than ever before. There's always the mail, but also an 800 number, and an online option. Toby provides a good perspective about the need to respond. The population statistics do affect the makeup of Congress. But beyond this it impacts the budgets for services and infrastructure as popul...

Seattle Urban Academy is a positive, alternative, educational community where high school students overcome risks and develop academic, social, and spiritual maturity to graduate to higher education and sustained employment. JT Williams is the Admissions Coordinator, and David McIntosh is a Teacher, and Student Development Coordinator. Together they provide strong insights to the great work being...

February is Heart Health Awareness month. Dr. Susie Woo is a cardiologist with Virginia Mason, and along with Monique Shields---a woman who represents very many of us--women with some history of heart disease in the family, and very possibly dealing with high blood pressure. It's all about life style and with taking this month to focus on it, we can begin, or continue good healthy steps. Monique m...

Doug Segal is author of "Struck--A Husband's Memoir of Trauma and Triumph". Seven years ago a horrific accident in LA left Doug's wife, Susan, with broken bones from head to toe, including a broken neck. It was a miracle she actually survived. Doug's email updates connected family, friends, and a wide network of others to Susan's condition, and these were angels Doug says who were instrumental in...

January is Human Trafficking Awareness Month. Elizabeth Melendez Fisher Good is the CEO and co-founder of Selah Freedom and the Selah Way Foundation, which exists to prevent sexual abuse, exploitation, and sex trafficking of children and young adults. Elizabeth is also the author of a new book which reveals how sexual exploitation and other exploitation begins at a very young age, and how we can b...

Karen Bonnell is a co-parent coach, mediator and trainer who helps families and couples navigate some emotional territory to reach a healthy place for all. Karen has over 30 years' experience working with families, and she is located close by in Kirkland. Karen's new book "The Stepfamily Handbook: From Dating to Getting Serious to forming a Blended Family" is co-written with Patricia Papernow, a n...

Killian Noe is the Founding Director and Pastoral Counselor of Recovery Cafe. It's an incredible place, a successful model, of helping persons struggling with addictions and mental health issues. It's successful--because the need is great. To meet the demand the Recovery Cafe is expanding. The original location is on Denny & Boren. A new RC is opening in SODO in January. There are 22 locations...

Dr. Stephen G. Post is a professor of medicine, and a best selling author. His newest book: God and Love on Route 80: The Hidden Mystery of Human Connectedness. A Story of Faith, Love, and Destiny for Everyone on a Spiritual Journey is a marvelous insight into the synchronicities in our life, if we pay attention. In his teens Stephen became aware of the 'God wink'. His book shares 12 episode, and...

Luke Minor is the Director of WA529, Washington state's program encompassing GET and the Dream Ahead option for college saving. It's a great way to plan for the future and take care of gifts that are priceless, and everlasting. And now the choices are greater. The funds can be used at all the various learning institutions, across the globe, and covers living expenses along with tuition and books....

Chuck Potrykus joins us once again, talking about mental health-- help and awareness. Chuck is a licensed mental health counselor with Pac Med in Canyon Park. The holidays, though fun for many of us, can be a big stressor in the lives of others of us. Social anxiety is very real, and Chuck provides good insights into compassion and self-care. Don't look for a quick fix, but find support, find a go...

Jingle Bell Run 2019. Just a week to go to this fun and important fundraising event, the 35th jingling year! Get out the bells, the festive gear, get out the walking shoes, gather friends and family and make this the greatest one yet. The honorees and the folks from the Arthritis Foundation--The Bock Family, with young Izzy (just 3 years old), Dr. Amish Dave, and Steve Wright from the Arthritis Fo...

Jae W. Oh is a nationally recognized Medicare expert. He is the author of a top-rated, top-selling book on Medicare, titled "Maximize Your Medicare" and because the Medicare system changes each year, Jae updates his book each year. Without question, it’s a complicated system, and we need a navigation tool to help us get through it. The enrollment period is soon ending—December 7. www.maximizeyourm...

Diane Hartingh Price and Sue Ives McCollum--two friends, two women who love to write, two women each with a health crisis, collaborated to create The Get Well Project.com. And they created the related tool, the book--Write Your Stress Away: Tame the Tension in Your Life. The book introduces us to the revolutionary Write to Be Well four-step method proven to bring relief from stress and optimize he...

Chris Edmonds is the co-author of "No Surrender: A Father, a Son, and an Extraordinary Act of Heroism That Continues to Live on Today". We hear some of the history, some of what it means to look back on the events that took place over 7 decades ago. And we hear about the ripple effect of an act of heroism, that saved lives, that made an impact where those involved continued to follow the concept o...

Dr. Shad Helmstetter is the founder and chairman of The Self-Talk Institute, founded in 1985, which develops self-talk learning programs, and trains Certified Self-Talk Trainers worldwide. He's the author of 20 books on the topic, and the newest is a succinct 60-min read, Negative Self-Talk & How To Change It. Dr. Shad knows we have busy lives, and so presenting a quick read to help us get on...

Zoe Freeman, head Figlet, and Mason Lowe, Deputy Director of the Pike Market Senior Center & Food Bank, bring news and an invite! The Great Figgy Pudding Caroling Competition is a long-standing (33 years!) wonderful winter holiday tradition in the Seattle area. The song and festivities happen on Friday December 6 at Westlake Park & Pine Street. Aside from the fun, this is a critical fundra...

Dr. Kelli Harding, is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York City. She has a specialty in Psychiatry and Neurology, as well as psychosomatic (mind-body) medicine. Dr. Harding is passionate about sharing what she has discovered in her medical studies and work. So she has written: The Rabbit Effect--Live Longer, Healthier, and Happier w...

Kevin O'Conner is the President and CEO of Life Center Northwest, which is dedicated to saving lives through organ and tissue donation. Life Center NW works with families, medical professionals, and communities across Alaska, Montana, North Idaho, and Washington. And in this collaboration aim to protect the gift of life by coordinating a number of facets: Creating a registry of organ donors, worki...

Open Enrollment time is upon us, and this includes Medicare. Jae W. Oh is a nationally recognized Medicare expert, and his expertise is invaluable in navigating the system successfully. So while we might not need it at this moment, we know someone who does, and everything we learn can only help us be more aware in the future. Jae is the author of a top-rated, top-selling book on Medicare, titled "...

Chuck Potrykus, a licensed mental health counselor with PacMed, back to talk about suicide and suicide prevention. Certainly having more public conversations about suicide is going to move us forward to being better and more compassionate friends, family, and coworkers, to those who struggle with suicidal thoughts. Chuck brings insights, and talks about the community Walks in October. PacMed is pa...

Heart Walk 2019 is happening all around the Sound, and the country. October 5 in Tacoma/Cheney Stadium, and October 12 at Seattle Center/Fisher Plaza. Gathering begins at 7:30, 1K Walk and Run, and 5K Walk begin at 9am. As guest Tom Bettesworth shares, walking is the thing that helped him lose weight and get health after his heart episode 5 years ago. Tom also talks about work/life balance. Amy Be...

Vaping has been in the new a lot lately. The rise in teen vaping has been driven mainly by flavored cartridge-based products such as Juul, which controls roughly three-quarters of the U.S. e-cigarettes market. More than 3.6 million U.S. kids use e-cigarettes, including 1 in 5 high school students; 97 percent of kids who use e-cigarettes use flavored varieties. Bloomberg Philanthropies just contrib...

Susie Rheault brings her new book "My Wild and Precious Life: A Memoir of Africa" to us to share a compelling story of finding our life purpose. And sometimes when we have that idea in mind, we might happen to stumble on it, or it simply comes to us. Susie "stumbled" on an orphanage in Tanzania in 2011. She and her husband were seeking for a meaning work, and in 2 small concrete buildings housing...