Checking In w/ Dr. Shairi Turner
Checking In with Michelle Williams
The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Michelle and Dr. Shairi are telling you to text! Dr. Shairi Turner is the Chief Health Officer of the Crisis Text Line. She discusses the help that the Crisis Text Line provides and how to get involved. CHECK IN to this episode if you need a new, simple way to receive some help!
For more information about the Crisis Text Line, visit: https://www.crisistextline.org/
For immediate help, text HOME to 741741
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Welcome to checking in with Michelle Williams, |
| 0:06.6 | a production of IHeart Radio and The Black Effect. |
| 0:34.5 | What if I told you that there's a free mental health resource that you can text whenever you feel like you need help with your anxiety, depression, or even loneliness? |
| 0:39.5 | Well, I'll be sharing that and more coming up next on checking in. |
| 0:51.5 | I'm really, really thrilled about today's episode, checking in. |
| 0:55.0 | It really is about the foundation of checking in. |
| 0:57.5 | Everything as it relates to mental health. |
| 1:04.8 | Today, we have someone amazing, an internist and pediatrician with expertise in trauma-informed practices and mental health. |
| 1:07.4 | And she is currently the chief health officer of the crisis text line. You guys give it up, |
| 1:15.3 | and please welcome Dr. Shari Turner to checking in. Thank you, Michelle. It's an honor to be here, |
| 1:22.3 | have this conversation with you. Absolutely. Absolutely. Do you still have your podcast? Did I hear correctly? |
| 1:29.4 | So I did a podcast. We have a partnership with Nike and we did the no off season podcast, which was about |
| 1:37.2 | nine episodes, talking to different athletes, elite athletes about their mental health journey. |
| 1:44.0 | And I was able to |
| 1:45.1 | honor to do some of those interviews and just hear the incredible stories that they shared. |
| 1:53.2 | That is so amazing. I'm so glad that a company like Nike has something like this because |
| 1:59.6 | mental health and mental illness can affect everybody. |
| 2:04.0 | Just because somebody might have had a perfect score, you know, probably does not mean that they |
| 2:09.1 | have not been dealing with probably the anxiety that it takes to, you know. |
| 2:14.8 | To be an elite athlete. |
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