He/She/They - What does it all mean?

Behavioral Health Therapist, Tamilyn White returns to the NorthLakes Podcast to talk about pronouns - why they are important, how to integrate them into your life, and why they are especially important in health care.

If you have been wanting to learn more about this "new" way people are addressing each other, this is the episode for you.

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Tamilyn White

Why pronouns are important

Understanding Neopronouns

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The NorthLakes Podcast returns with a conversation about High Blood Pressure with Family Nurse Practitioner, Emma Cole and Registered Dietitian, Rebecca Crumb-Johnson. They share some explanations of High Blood Pressure, how the heart works and why healthy blood pressure is a good thing. 

It’s a fun and informative discussion about a condition that affects many of us. 

Here is a link that explains the DASH diet Rebecca refers to: https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/education/dash-eating-plan

Not many people enjoy getting a vaccination. For some, it's extremely hard. To help make it easier, NorthLakes is working to create environments and conditions that will make it a more tolerable experience. Nurse Practitioner Angela Lunn tells us all about Sensory Friendly Vaccination Clinics in this episode.

Materials for this program were shared by the Autism Society.

More information can be found here:

https://autismsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/AS_VEI_Guide-to-accessible-vaccine-clinics_EN.pdf

This episode of the NorthLakes Podcast is supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of a financial assistance award by CDC/HHS. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by CDC/HHS, or the U.S. Government.

What is Trauma? How does it effect people? What can they do about it?

These are just some of the questions that Behavioral Health Therapist, Jane Moker answers in this episode of the NorthLakes Podcast.

Jane provides care at NorthLakes Community Clinic - Marinette.

What is Dry Needling? How can it be part of Chiropractic Care? Learn this and more in this in-depth conversation with Park Falls Chiropractor Claire Tomashek. Dr. Tomashek uses it to help treat patients for a variety of conditions and explains how it integrates with the other methods she uses in her practice.

The second week of August is National Health Center Week, so in this episode we will talk to NorthLakes CEO Reba Rice about Federally Qualified Health Centers, some NorthLakes history, and how and why we and other health centers do what they do.

It’s a great hour of conversation with one of the driving forces of how NorthLakes started in an old coffee shop in a small town to a center that has a coverage area over 20,000 square miles.

https://nlccwi.org/careers/current-openings/

Social Anxiety in Children is this month's topic and for it we talked with Behavioral Health Therapist Paul Workman. Paul works with kids of all ages in the Hayward and Minong schools and people of all ages in our Minong clinic. From that experience he provides insight on what Social Anxiety is, how to treat it, and the short and long term effects it can have.

Learn more about NorthLakes Behavioral Health Services here:

https://nlccwi.org/care-and-services/behavioral-health/

Massage therapy is a newer service here at NorthLakes so we wanted to learn more about it.

Luckily Massage Therapist Tracy Davis was willing to talk.

Here’s our conversation:

Do you think that you know everything about Lyme Disease? So did we until we sat down with Physician Associate Tom Nigbor. He shares everything that someone who lives or visits an area with a lot of ticks should know. Along that way he may tell you a couple of things that you may have wrong about this common disease, how to spot it, and how it is treated.

What is NorthLakes Sliding Fee Scale? How does it help people access care? Director of Patient Financial Services, Tricia Krym answers these questions and explains how people can find out if they may qualify.

The end of the Public Health Emergency (PHE), means there are some changes to some peoples Medicaid (AKA BadgerCare) coverage.

What do you need to know? Get the lowdown on the latest edition of the NorthLakes Podcast where we talk to Access Coordinator, Medicaid expert, Patty Turner.

This episode has information specific to the Spring of 2023. If you need the most up to date information about BadgerCare, Medicaid, or anything insurance related, call us at: 888.834.4551

Two links mentioned in this episode:

Marketplace: https://www.healthcare.gov/

Medicaid/BadgerCare: https://dhs.wisconsin.gov/badgercareplus/index.htm

Rebecca Crumb-Johnson is a Registered Dietitian as well as a Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist at NorthLakes. In this episode she shares what she knows about sugar and why we crave it, what it does to us and why that may not be good.

In the episode she talks about the World Health Organization's recommendations on consumption. Here is a link to that: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789241549028

Occupational therapist, Angie Schoeppach works with patients every day that have a challenge keeping their emotions in check. She brings her insight to this episode of the NorthLakes Podcast. The conversation goes from why regulating your emotion is important to how she works with patients find the emotional, "just right zone".

Your host also shares a moment of needing to regulate his own emotions right before Angie arrived.

What is a community health worker? They are a key component in breaking down barriers to wellness at NorthLakes Community Clinic. In this episode with talk with two of them, Brenda Spurlock and Xristobal Ramirez Romero about what they do and how they collaborate with the providers at NorthLakes.

Fear of going to the dentist is a real thing and everyone experiences it in a different way. In our talk with NorthLakes Community Clinic Dentist Tina Sopiwnik, she shares how she works with her patients, both young and old, to make a visit easier.

She also shares some suggestions on how parents can make those visits easier for their kids. We also talk a little bit about her dog.

All of us have experienced grief in one way or another or will at some point. What is it? What can cause it and what are ways to work with it?

Behavioral Health Therapist Jennifer Hodgson jumps on to the podcast to answer some of these questions and explain how you may be experiencing grief and might not even know that is what you are feeling.

To learn more about Jen, follow this link to her webpage: https://nlccwi.org/providers/jennifer-hodgson-m-ed-lpc/

Why is it important to screened for colon cancer? How do you do it?

Dr. Dee shares all this and more.

NorthLakes Community Clinic's dental outreach program goes to schools in 23 counties in the northern third of Wisconsin. What can you as a parent expect and what services will your children receive?

We learn that and more in this episode of the NorthLakes Podcast.

What is autism? What do you call it? What does it mean when someone says "they are on the spectrum"? Behavioral Health Therapist Sean Inderbitzen breaks down these questions and more in this episode.

Sean sees patients at NorthLakes Community Clinic - Birchwood and Hayward as well as in some of the local schools. He provides care to many people who have autism and offers a unique perspective because he has it as well.

Sean has appeared on several other podcasts and you can find links to them on his Linkedin account

Tamilyn White is a Behavioral Health Therapist at our clinic in Hayward. She has long COVID and she shared what that experience has been like.

Here are some of the haiku's she wrote:

worst headache ever

chest filled with heavy cement

coughing always is not fun

the only one sick

only I took Moderna

better choice-Phizer?

week 2 of COVID

isolation really sucks

I am so so bored

Stiff and sore. Stretch some.

So good to yoga again. 

Now back to bed. Cough.

COVID says “feeling 

better now? No you’re not! Ha!

I’m COVID. You’re mine!”