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Sunday, October 8, 2023

Walking a labyrinth and diamond painting, tools for the toolbox to help with mental health (audio)

FM #1071 = This is the Franklin Matters radio show, number 1071 in the series.

This shares my conversation with Rick Rollingcross. We had our conversation in the Franklin TV Studio on September 21, 2023.

Rick provides his short story, and as a retired psychologist advocates for additional tools in the toolkit to deal with time away from screens. He has a regular session at the Senior Center for “diamond painting” which he describes during our talk. He also advocates for walking a labyrinth.

Sessions on diamond painting are available through Tri-County Continuing Education.

Our conversation runs about 16 minutes. Let’s listen to my conversation with Rick recorded Sep 21, 2023

Audio file -> https://franklin-ma-matters.captivate.fm/episode/fm-1071-labyrinths-diamond-painting-09-21-23

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Tri-County Continuing Ed catalog for the Fall of 2023 -> https://a9m535.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/BROCHURE-8.30edit1.pdf

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Update: As this was prepared for publication, Rick added this update on his foundation:

"The Rollingcross Foundation has been given state and federal permission to operate as a non profit and I am in the process of setting up its account. Understanding that the school year has been off to a chaotic start with the unexpected arrival of 30 migrant students i waited until October before reaching out again to the schools. I have sent a letter with research that I hope will give us some traction to Assistant Superintendent Paula Marano"

The labyrinth at FUSF on a sunny day in 2016

Monday, January 13, 2020

"Third, how about we rethink smartphones at school?"

Via PsychologyToday - although from Jan 2018, it is as relevant (if not more so) today!

"My inbox has been inundated with reports that our kids are literally dying because of excessive cell phone use. From an editorial in the Lancet to my local radio station, the news is alarming. In many cases, I’m told, our children are on their phones eight or more hours a day, with experts saying it should be limited to just two.

Jean Twenge’s new book iGen has been front and center, insisting that we do something and do it quickly. Kids are using their cell phones way too much and putting their mental health at terrible risk. National surveys are showing that kids today are more anxious than ever before, with spiking rates of depression and suicide. Twenge suspects that this uptick in problems (which every mental health professional knows is happening) occurred at just about the same time as cell phones became a common accessory for most teens. Correlation doesn’t imply causation, but in this case, one has to wonder if the very real increase in emergency room visits for mood disorders and self-reported anxiety among teens isn’t a byproduct of more accessible technology that both connects and isolates at the same time."