Recording Library of West Texas

What's it like to have food insecurity during a pandemic? How does the stress of being food insecure affect mental health? How has COVID-19 changed the way food pantries work? Craig Stoker with the West Texas Food Bank joins us on this episode of Centers Solutions to discuss hunger during a pandemic.

Amanda is sharing her personal story and giving us an inside view of the challenges faced by our local journalists and how the events of 2020 have compounded those challenges!

What is it like to be homeless during a pandemic? The Centers Solutions podcast team sits down with The Fields Edge to discuss how COVID-19 has affected those who are homeless. Listen to this episode to hear how you can rent a llama for a good cause!

Transitioning out of Quarantine...Join us as we discuss our move forward from isolation with Elaine Bedell, Executive Director of Healthy Minds - Midland. Kristi Russom Edwards, LPC, gives us some great tools for going forward with lessened anxiety!

We have been podcasting for 1 year--join the Centers' Solutions team as we clink glasses in celebration of the year in review--followed by a discussion about the JOY WE FOUND IN QUARANTINE! (If we have tagged you, we mentioned you in the episode!) Recording Library of West Texas Kim Jennings Collier--you were our most listened to episode! Stephanie Leigh Moses Reflection Ministries of Texas Sibley...

"Protect our Frontline West Texas" is a coalition of West Texas Healthcare Providers Battling COVID-19. Co-founder, Dr. Summer Merritt, joins the podcast team to share the local experience from our own dedicated healthcare workers. The mental health challenges are increasing in this important line of duty and Kristi Edwards, LPC, offers some coping techniques.

Join the podcast team as we go live on location for this episode! We are at the Sibley Nature Center chatting with Phil! Kristi explains how important getting outside is for your mental health. Stay tuned at the end for an audio described nature walk!

Kristi Edwards, LPC, and the podcast team bring coping tools to walk us through the "rebuild."

Listen to our therapist explain how to handle your mental health during this pandemic. COVID-19--Are we all in this together? We are the world, but in the Permian Basin--the struggle is unique. Oil Prices have affected our community's livelihood, in addition to the world economic and health crisis. This special edition of Centers Solutions will go over the problems we are facing in the Permian Bas...

Michael with RLWT talks with Mission Agape about how to deal with food insecurities during the quarantine. Listen to Ric and Stacy offer words of encouragement during this difficult time.

Why volunteer with Big Brothers Big Sisters? What can that do for your mental health? Volunteering is so important! Not only does it make the world a better place, but...it helps YOU be a better YOU! **VOLUNTEERING counteracts stress & anxiety **VOLUNTEERING ignites those "happy" chemicals in your brain **VOLUNTEERING increases self-confidence **VOLUNTEERING creates a sense of purpose **VOLUNTEERI...

Listen to one of our favorite community warriors, Courtney Heard with Chevron Permian, as she describes her experience with Centers' "Kids First" from a volunteer's perspective. Kids First supervised visitation and exchange program gives children and parents the opportunity to bond in a secure and controlled environment. It is all about keeping kids SAFE! Recording Library of West Texas

Instead of resolutions, we are talking about creating "intentions" for our lives--present and future. Kristi Edwards walks us through an ALMOST therapy session and EMBRACING THE PROCESS OF YOUR PROGRESS!

Listen to the Award Winning Book club review Now That You Mention It by Kristan Higgins live from the recording studio at the Recording Library of West Texas. RLWT is a 501.c3 non-profit organization dedicated to converting text to audio for those with a visual, physical or learning impairment. Join in on our book club that you can listen to anywhere! Support us at www.recordinglibrary.org

Kids Grieve too--and grief has many triggers in today's world! Rays of Hope Children's Grief Center joins the Centers Solutions podcast team to discuss their programs for helping children through the grieving process and the mental health connection.

What is Mindfulness? Mindfulness is the concept of maintaining a moment-by-moment awareness of our thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and surrounding environment, through a gentle, nurturing lens. Jennifer Whitehead, Stress Management Specialist at Midland Memorial Hospital, joins the podcast team to share information on the practice and how it can help our community.

A CULTURE OF STRENGTH... Student Athletes often struggle in silence through academic stress, exhaustion, and the pressure to perform. Forrest Allen with Midland College joins Centers Solutions to discuss the issues faced by our students and the mental health connection.

Libby Campbell, Executive Director of the West Texas Food Bank joins us to talk about the all-encompassing effects of not having enough food to eat. Listen as we discuss the Food-Body-Mind connection...

HOLIDAY STRESS ALERT! Let's face it: Sometimes the holidays are not so jolly. In fact, this time of year can create feelings of doubt, overwhelm, anxiety, and depression. Kristi Edwards leads the podcast team in an ALMOST THERAPY session with coping techniques for the "most wonderful time of the year..."

Almost therapy is a subcategory of Centers Solutions where we have Kristi talk about certain topics and offer tips and tricks on how to cope with things and keep your mental health happy. On this episode we talk about feeling stuck and how you can unstuck yourself.

LIGHT THERAPY? We tried it! Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) affects many of us--learn a little about this approach to helping you feel a little better!

Homelessness--it's a critical issue in the Permian Basin. We tend to see Homelessness as symptom of Mental Illness. Maddie West with Family Promise of Midland, TX joins our podcast to address the other side--the mental health affect on families because of their homeless state. Give a little listen! Recording Library of West Texas Centers Solutions is a podcast dedicated to your mental health. List...

Listen to the Award Winning Bookclub review Days Without End by Sebastian Barry live from the recording studio at the Recording Library of West Texas. RLWT is a 501.c3 non-profit organization dedicated to converting text to audio for those with a visual, physical or learning impairment. Join in on our book club that you can listen to anywhere! Support us at www.recordinglibrary.org

Kimberly Crisp joins us in the studio to discuss running for City Council. Get to know the candidates starting Monday, October 14th through Nov 5th on our newest podcast, Tall City Elections! We’ve invited candidates to join us in the studio to tell us their plans and voice their opinions. Get informed and vote! Tall City Elections is a production of RLWT and the League of Women voters. All episod...

"The day you get told you have cancer is the day that your world stops turning, but the rest of the world keeps going." October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and the Centers Solutions podcast team welcomes Leticia Gonzalez Reinke to talk about her own experience and the way in which Centers for Children & Families has helped her along this difficult chapter in the life of her family.