Welcome home cojourners. I'm so glad you're here for another episode, and I know it has been a while, and I am glad to get us going again in this beautiful journey of coming back to ourselves, reclaiming ourselves.

And today we have a special guest, a wonderful psychologist who is representing a team of psychologists who have come out with a new book,

you will get through this. Help for Depression, anxiety, grief and more, a mental health first aid kit.

Dr. Julie, thank you so much for being with us today.

How are you?

I am well. Thank you, Dr. Tama for having me. Oh absolutely I love the work that you do and one of the big focus and interest areas for me is how do we get this information beyond the academy and not just

in our individual offices but to the public. So I love that the three of you have worked together

to create this resource that is going to be so helpful to many, many people.

So tell us a bit about the three co-authors and how you all came together to work on and I love the title you will get

through this. Yeah yeah start at the idea about two years ago I had started to have this feeling related to noticing a pattern between friends, family, the clients that I was caring for related to people coming with questions that they were finding

information related to what they thought was going to help their mental health, their physical health,

you know there's still kind of like biosecococial

perspective of their health. Finding the information online in some places that

were less than helpful or you know the information just wasn't as complete as we would have wanted and I had this idea of what if there was a

a compendium really like brief concise clear understandable, like cutting through all the jargon, like what if there

was a place people could go to find the information that their therapist, their psychologist,

would want them to know.

If they're waiting two months for an appointment here's

something to get you started it's a first date kid right it's like oh how do I

find the band-aid that's going to help me you know like take a first step

toward managing my chronic pain or if I'm experiencing

loneliness or work stress and so with that idea I knew I could not do this alone and

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