May Is Mental Health Awareness Month and Anna continues her interviews on the topic. This week, her guest is David Wood, licenced therapist and Regional Director of Family Care Center, the largest outpatient behaviorial health provider in Tennessee. They talk about how the mental health needs change throughout one's life, from the simple needs of a small child, through the teen years, adult years, and senior citizen years.

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With the current economy on shaky ground, finances are a worry to all Middle Tennesseans. Anna chats with Paris Jackson, Financial Advisor at Northwestern Mutual.
This visit, Paris gives some insight on the current financial situation. With tariffs, a dropping stock market, new laws affecting investments, and rising costs of foods and goods, what do we do? She gives advice about how to react when we look at our 401k balance and see it's down, or our investment account balance, and see it's dropped. She tells us how to strategize, how to make a financial plan, and how to lower our debts, even in today's financial climate.

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Since May is Mental Health Awareness Month, Anna speaks with LPC-S David Wood, the Regional Director of Family Care Center, the largest outpatient Mental Health provider in Tennessee,. In this interview, he gives some insight on why May can be extra stressful. He also discusses Women's mental health issues, which can often be linked with Caregiver roles, and the realization that women have needs that often go unexpressed and unmet.He and Anna Marie also talk about Childhood Trauma, and how it can affect your adult life in possibly negative ways.
To learn more, reach out to Family Care Center HERE.

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Anna discusses the lifesaving gift of organ donation wit Emily McKinley, Director of External Affairs, at Tennessee Donor Services.
Their goal is to save and improve lives through organ, eye and tissue donation. As a non-profit organ procurement organization, they serve more than 6 million people in Tennessee and Virginia. Emily tells us what organs can be donated, how it can save or change lives, and how the families of Donor Heroes are helped to honor their loved one. More info is at www.donatelifetn.org

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Anna chats with Kimberly Wells, Vice President of Women's Services at Ascension Saint Thomas. They discuss the Women's Health services offered, things and their efforts to make medicine easier through the use of Navigators who advise patients about what options are available. They also talk about women may not have known, what they should be checking, and a free event on Thursday, May 8th at the Pinnacle. It's called HerHealth360.
Atendees can meet medical professionals focusing on womens' health, join a question and answer session, shop at vendors' booths, have a beverage, and even make appointments for things you've put off!
You can get more info about the free event (including some free screenings) HERE: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lauralynn_health-wellness-healthcare-activity-7300985563082358784-TxSc

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This month on Focus we're honoring National Donate Life Month, with interviews that give you more information about organ, eye, and tissue donation and transplantation. In this interview, Dr. Jacfranz Guiteau, a kidney transplant surgeon at Ascension Saint Thomas in Nashville, discusses kidney disease, treatments and transplantation.

He discusses what's new, why transplants are needed, who can donate, what it'll cost to donate or receive a kidney. This incredibly informative and helpful information may help dispel some questions or fears that you may have about the possibility of a transplant for someone in your life.

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Our Place Nashville empowers adults with developmental disabilities by providing affordable housing, work that is meaningful, and inclusive communities in which to live. Isolation is a frequent problem for this group.

Executive Director Jordan Collins tells Anna about the non-profit, and explains that half of the residents are neurodivergent (“friends”) and the other half are neurotypical (“housemates”). The natural supports provided by this model allow all the residents to thrive. You can get more information about Our Place Nashville, find out how to get involved, or how to support them, at www.ourplacenashville.org

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Allied Behavioral Health Services is committed to offering diversity-informed, strengths-based, and affirming therapy for all clients. Executive Director Alison Peak, LCSW,ISH-E, says their therapists have experience in helping clients of all ages navigate life transitions, family stress, identity exploration, and relationship issues as well as mental health concerns including depression, anxiety, and trauma. They have four locations in the Nashville/Middle TN area, and welcome clients of all ages, cultural backgrounds, and identities. You do not need a referral from a doctor, and they accept all insurances. Get more information at www.alliedbehavior.com

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