Parenting Well Podcast

  I am Dr. Shelly Mahon, your host, and today’s WELL source is Brooks Witter . Brooks is the co-creator of Wise Roots Parenting , a set of online programs that support parents in successfully launching their child into adulthood. As a licensed professional counselor, he has the skills required to help parents who are both experiencing challenging times with their children and struggling to take ca...

I am Dr. Shelly Mahon, your host, and today’s WELL source is Wendy Van Besien. Wendy is an inspiring positive psychology practitioner that weaves together critical examples, expertise, and easy to apply steps that will motivate you to reach your potential and live a flourishing life.   In this podcast, Wendy shares how to:   Develop and foster resilience   Deal with everyday disturbances   Tap int...

I am Dr. Shelly Mahon, your host, and today’s WELL source is Wendy Gossett.   Wendy is a parenting and relationship coach based in the Denver metro area. Her primary focus is temperament psychology, which is a technique parents can use to understand what their child is doing and why they are doing it. By recognizing their brain functions,  parents can learn to accept and pull the best out of their...

I am Dr. Shelly Mahon, your host, and today’s WELL source is Shane Niemeyer. By the time Shane was 28 years old, he was a heroin addict and had been arrested 25 times. After a failed attempt to take his life by suicide, he transformed himself. Today, Shane is a motivational speaker, elite triathlete racing ironman and 70.3 distances, full-time strength and endurance coach, and author of The Hurt A...

I'm Dr. Shelly Mahon, your host, and today’s WELL source is Christopher Lord. Chris works in the Health Promotion Office for The University of Colorado Boulder as the Assistant Director of Alcohol & Other Drug Programs. His job largely entails prevention and early intervention work around substance use and recover.   In today’s show, Chris will share more about his role at the University, and appr...

I'm Dr. Shelly Mahon, your host, and today’s WELL source is Megan Jacobs from The Truth Initiative: Inspiring Tobacco Free Lives. Megan is the managing director of product for the Innovations Center at Truth Initiative.  She brings a user-centered approach to product design that is key to the quit-smoking and vaping programs that are used by hundreds of thousands of people who want to break free f...

I'm Dr. Shelly Mahon, your host, and today’s WELL source is Gabrielle French. Gabrielle is a sophomore at Stargate High School in Thornton. She has been working with Broomfield Communities that Care on preventing teen substance for almost two years and is passionate about advocating for Colorado teens. In today’s show, Gabrielle will give us the facts about vaping and share a young person’s perspe...

I'm Dr. Shelly Mahon, your host, and today’s WELL source is Dr. Ilona Jaspers . Dr. Jaspers has more than 15 years of experience as a professor of pediatrics, microbiology and immunology, and environmental sciences and engineering at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She specializes in the effects of ambient air pollutants on respiratory immune disfunction. In today’s show, Dr. Jasp...

I'm Dr. Shelly Mahon, your host, and today’s WELL source is Dr. Rob Valuck . Dr. Valuck is a Professor in the Departments of Clinical Pharmacy, Epidemiology, and Family Medicine at the University of Colorado Schools of Pharmacy, Public Health, and Medicine. He is also the Director of the Center for Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research (CePOR) at the School of Pharmacy.  Finally, Dr. Valuck is the coor...

I'm Dr. Shelly Mahon, your host, and today’s WELL source is Trina Faatz. Trina is an advocate for child welfare and family wholeness. She is certified as a Peer Recovery Coach to work with parents and teens struggling with the challenges of substance use.  Now, as the facilitator of the Boulder County Substance Advisory Group, and leader of young people in recovery panels, she brings a personal an...

I'm Dr. Shelly Mahon, your host, and today’s WELL source is Avani Dilger, MEd, MA, LPC, CACIII .  Avani is the founder and executive director of Natural Highs: Healthy Alternatives to Drug & Alcohol Use. She is also a Licensed Professional Counselor, a Certified Addiction Counselor, a Somatic Psychotherapist, and a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT). She specializes...

I'm Dr. Shelly Mahon, your host, and today’s WELL guest is  Dr. Rieder . He is a philosopher by training, bioethicist by profession, communicator by passion, and author of the book, “In Pain: A Bioethicist’s Personal Struggle with Opioids.” In Pain describes Dr. Rieder's sudden and intimate run-in with the health care system that left him dependent on oxycodone. In this podcast, we discuss: The nu...