Survival strategies for a COVID-19 winter

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 4, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Have you heard about the time a monk, a rabbi and an advice columnist walked into a podcast?

Join an all-star, international line-up on the Hear Me Now Podcast episode, "COVID Winter Strategies." Now available wherever you subscribe to podcasts, this installment asks thoughtful people about coping techniques we can use this winter – the Northern Hemisphere's first pandemic hibernal.

While warmer weather allowed us to congregate outside amid social distancing, winter weather won't be as forgiving – think seasonal affective disorder meets surging coronavirus.

Hear how "Ask Amy" columnist and "Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me" regular panelist Amy Dickinson, Rabbi James Stone Goodman of Central Reform Congregation, "Music Inside Out" radio host Gwen Thompkins and others plan to beat the winter blues.

Other guests: Robin Henderson, PsyD, chief executive, Behavioral Health for Providence Oregon; Catherine Stifter, restorative exercise specialist; Dom Christopher Jamison OSB, Abbot president, The English Benedictine Congregation London, UK; Joe Newberry, clawhammer banjo artist, guitarist, and singer/songwriter; Maizie B, 11, and Allie I., 12.

Just some of the places where you can find Hear Me Now Podcast: Apple, Spotify, Google Podcasts, and Pocketcasts.

Host: Seán Collins worked at NPR's newsroom in Washington, D.C., producing the flagship newsmagazine All Things Considered. He also was on staff at Morning Edition and Talk of the Nation. Seán is a former Benedictine monk and now lives more-or-less quietly in St. Louis with an 11-year-old puggle named Gibson.

About Hear Me Now Podcast

Hear Me Now is a production of Providence's Institute for Human Caring. Providence, the nation's fourth-largest health care system, is dedicated to caring for the whole person. A key element of this includes listening to patients, their loved ones, our caregivers and communities. The twice monthly Hear Me Now Podcast helps fulfill the unmet needs of patients, their loved ones, caregivers, and communities by offering a place for in-depth conversations that matter. The Hear Me Now Podcast empowers consumers to expect and demand highly personalized, whole person care across the spectrum of their encounters with healthcare providers. The Hear Me Now Podcast also explores socio-economic encounters and other issues that impact our individual and collective sense of wellbeing. Contact us at [email protected].

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