Join the ladies as they discuss many ways you can perform healing practices using apps, therapy methods and even through artificial intelligence!
On today’s episode Ariana, Ikram and Vikki discuss resources you can use to heal and different methods of using these platforms. There are many ways you can perform healing practices using apps, therapy methods and even through artificial intelligence! Join us on episode 3 to find out our favourite ways to practice meditation and learn how you can apply these in your own life and start your healing journey today!
Timestamps:
00:00 - 1:30 - Introduction
1:30 - 13:00 - The girls begin with a Hawaiian prayer to help you empower yourself!
13:51 - 17:30 - How Ikram became a yoga instructor in the military!
20:40 - 24:33 - Meetings, open mics and conversations for support and addiction recovery
24:30 - 30:00 - turntome.ie and AI support
30:00 - 35:00 - Helplines and apps that can save you from dangerous situations/domestic violence!
35:00 - Shoutout to everyone for making this podcast happen! Wrap-up and Outros
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Thanks for tuning in to Kate things, a podcast for the modern woman every week, your host Achram Vicki and Ariana will dig in on real topics that matter in the new age, stay locked in. You won't want to miss anything.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Welcome to K thanks a podcast for the modern woman. We speak our heart and we speak our mind about different topics that affect us in the modern age. I'm your host Vicki. And these are my cohosts Ariana and eat grub. Today's topic is around resources to heal just a continuation on in our mini series for black lives matter, continuing to heal each other. As we heal ourselves at the same time, this episode's going to folk song on the resources for your healing journey. A lot of them are free of charge. So some will be like applications and some will be like online website resources. A lot of them are free. Some of them have an app purchases. So like some of the applications that we'll speak about, you can add additional content, but they do have the basics there for free. All these apps that we're going to talk about today are downloadable via iOS and Android.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
So definitely check them out. We'll also leave details in our description with these as well. So you can check them out. There's many out there. We just selected a few of our favorite ones to review. So before we get started digging in on there, I wanted to like throw the ball at you, Ariana, because you brought up something earlier about a prayer that we actually had in common. You just called it something different. And I totally related because my mom taught me the same prayer. I just never knew what it was. Can you tell us a little bit about what I'm talking about here? Yeah. So it's a fun word to say. It's
Speaker 3 (01:50):
The whole Pono Pono prayer comes from Hawaii.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Yeah. I was just going to say
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Que Cuba lay music. So it's, it's basically just a repetition of four phrases and you just repeat these over and over again, to clear that energy. And if you want to repeat it along with me, we can do that right now. Okay.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Do it first, the audience as well. Please repeat, please. More power in numbers. So the first phase is I'm sorry. I'm sorry, please. Forgive me, please. Forgive. Forgive me. Thank you. Thank you. I love you. Yeah. You can say that as many times as you want, you can just
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Keep repeating it and repeating it and repeating it until,
Speaker 2 (02:49):
You know what so like what's going on in my head right now. Like I'm saying this to myself and we're so hard on ourselves, you know, I think that like making this, you know, starting from within, like, I'm really apologizing to myself and asking for forgiveness for myself, ensuring that I love myself and thinking myself too, throughout this journey. That's so powerful. That's where it starts like super powerful. Yeah. That's a good way. If anybody's wanting to learn how to kind of start looking internal, this is a good guide. That is great guy. Just so will absolutely leave that below as well. So you can reference it later. My mom used to have it on a sign on our refrigerator just to remind us every day. So it's pretty unique that I didn't even know where that came from. So pretty all. How do you pronounce it again?
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Pono, Pono, Pono, Pono. I really hope I'm not bitching that. So if we are butchering this, please let us know. What's the proper way of saying it. We're open to, you know, educating ourselves. Absolutely so many incredible resources out there when it comes to resources to heal. I think that's, what's so beautiful about the information age and the technology age. Now we're using our mobile a lot, so let's try to use it in ways that are actually positive for ourselves. And so I want to just start off by talking about some of our favorite meditation apps. I personally use them for so many different reasons. I was talking to Ariana earlier about how I use Headspace for my migraines. And it's been very, very helpful for me that application. So Headspace is an app. It is, has, there's a free trial, but there is a cost involved in it.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
However, it's completely worth it. And there's a lot of like coupon codes out there. If you use hunting or something like that, where you can get a discount on the actual membership, but it basically breaks down by different like issues. You might be having an even like health issues, like migraines and anxiety and stress, but then it also gets like really granular and to other sorts of topics as well. It's just guided meditation. You can set the timer to be short or long, depending on how much time you have. They even have these little kind of like quick fixes where you can send them. This is what it looks like. Yes. It's like a big, yes, that has had space. Amazing. My era when I started my job, my boss even recommended it to me for my headaches. It's pretty amazing. So I would just like go in a quiet room, turn it on. And if you have like five minutes, they have like three minute ones where you can just like, boom, boom, boom, boom. So I love it. So that's my personal favorite love to hear from you guys, what your favorites are as well.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Yeah. I definitely tried out Headspace, unfortunately. Like I'm super sensitive to like the voices that are guiding me through meditation. And after a while I was more distracted by his voice and like focusing on the words that you were saying. So I tried calm for a little while and I think that's like the best introductory app. Cause they have like courses to go through. Unfortunately like once you run through all the free courses gets like a little repetitive, but like for starting out for meditation, I think calm is an amazing app.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Yeah, it's definitely good. It has like the guided, I seen an ad like the five day guided practice introduction to mindfulness. So for people that aren't really familiar with what it is, they can get that and it kind of teaches them. That's great,
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Totally tracker and the reminders. I think all most apps have that, but my favorite insight is insight timer. And it's kind of like what everyone eventually like graduates to, I guess you could say it has over 40,000 meditations and unlike Headspace and calm there's healing, frequencies, binaural beats, there's such a variety. And it also has a tracking system. You can set a reminder and they have courses as well. There's a paid version that you can, you can take courses. You can also communicate with other people who are meditating and I like that. Yeah. And have a chat with them. They also have groups on there. So there's a social aspect and that's all in the free version. So
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Insight. Timer's my go to
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Amazing. What about you eat Graham? What's your go to for the meditation apps or do you use them?
Speaker 1 (07:04):
I do. However, I find myself more, more into YouTube than any of the apps specifically with the frequencies. Right. So YouTube has, again, like a lot of these meditations guided meditations, anything you're pretty much confined on these apps. I think like what would be, I would urge you to do is kind of like do your own research and see like, which voices, like the same thing. Like I can't necessarily listen to certain voices are my mind just drifts in so many other ways. And so for me, like on the deep frequency really grounds me and kind of like gives me a little bit more clear objectives and like guidance in what's to come text. So, and it's free. Right. So you can essentially pay for YouTube so you can listen without ads, but I don't see that as an issue and it's free.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yeah. Definitely. These are only suggestions guys. So absolutely go out and try for yourself and see what works for you. I've just found like apps are like my thing. I'm just, for me like being, I just, it's more convenient for me for it all to be one spot. But I do use like YouTube for a lot of other things. I've used it for the, a healing frequencies, binaural beats, but I use a lot of, I use Headspace so much and I also use the mindfulness app too. That's another one I like too. It's kind of catered to people that are super busy. So I've found that to be pretty awesome for me. I can personalize my meditation in it, which I, which I like to, but also has some of the same things that Arianna was mentioning as far as like the timers and the reminders.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
But it also has a journal which I really like to track. And your meditation journal, you know, kind of what your thought I like to come out of meditation. I usually come out of meditation with like thoughts. Cause sometimes I just like will try to set an attention or whatever that is when I go into it, I'm a little bit different where I, if I don't have their voice, I have a hard time paying attention. So it's like I have to have someone that tells me, like, reminds me. That could be like with my add just because my mind is just like always going, going, going to keep me on topic. So like I said, it's different flavors, suggestions. We're just trying to spark inspiration in your mind of
Speaker 1 (09:19):
On the journal notes too. My favorite, I think it's extremely important to kind of like process our emotions and thoughts and put them in writing. And it also helps us organize like future tasks. We'll like to see like what you need to do in a clutter matter. One of them is called reflexly, it's a self care journal, highly rated. And then the other one is they, one journal, both are applications you can have on your smartphone, easy to use and it sets up notifications or like notify you like, Hey, I want to take some time.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
I love that there was one that I checked out this week called stop, breathe and think, which was pretty cool. I was like, checking it out on. I'm also on iOS and Android. It helps you kind of identify your feelings as they come. So you can like track that in there. And it's just kind of good for like anxiety and stress and breathing and just checking in on your mood and overall kind of progress as you kind of get through the day tracking the different moods that are coming in and going. So just taking a breath and realizing how you feel in that moment and then notating that, which is pretty cool. I checked that out this week when I was kind of looking into these. And that was definitely one that I added to my list as well.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
They're saying, I think there's like plenty of meditation apps out there. These are very few that we shared with you feel free to do some more research. And also we will have an extensive list of what we've, what we have and we'll share it out. But another mean of, you know, resources is online yoga. You know, I think that right now, especially in this shelter in place and then like the Corona virus and everything that's going on in this world, everything is virtual more so than ever before. So, and then in these cases there's paid and free, right? And we'll, we'll share some, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
I personally have used glow for a while because it is compatible with my smart TV. It is an app on Samsung smart TV. And I think probably a lot of the smarter TVs. So I like it because it integrates with my television. So it's easy. It is, they have a free trial going right now for like two weeks free. And then after that it's a subscription service, but it's definitely worth it. Like I've used it specifically for sciatica and lower back pain, tackling those issues too, and trying to get some release and relief as you know, stress builds up in your body. And mine tends to build up in my, in my back and my shoulders and things like that. So yoga has been very, very helpful for me for that. And also just to get me to take time and also practicing flexibility. Cause I didn't realize like how unflexible Iowa. Oh my God. Oh my God. So yoga is definitely, definitely been helping me with that. Yeah. I definitely, I was a dancer when I was younger. So like what kind of dancer? My God really? Yeah. My mom had me and everything. So I did ballet tap jazz. I did a lot of theater. I actually, I went to like a Broadway studio, so yeah, trust me. I love that.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Yeah. But I was super, super flexible when I was a kid. Like I remember I could like sit with my legs forward, keep my butt on the floor and move my legs all the way to the back so that I'm like, and like I would keep my butt on the floor the entire time. Super crazy weird sexual position in a way. Hmm, definitely. Oh my God. Yeah. So there was one free that I did find online besides like obviously options on YouTube. Sivananda S I V a N a N D a.org. And I'll leave that below was a online session with free courses. There are so many free courses on there. I was checking it out yesterday. So that is definitely a good free resource too, as well as I've used core power yoga. That is a subscription service, which is also I think, yeah, it's like 20 bucks a month or something like that. But it's unlimited classes on, on that specific site as well.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Absolutely. I think that their yoga with me.com, you can get two months free. I actually, I am a yoga, I'm yoga, I'm a yoga teacher. I was certified in 2010. And that was like, after my third deployment, I came back and during that deployment, we were heavily involved in like hot yoga that she is no joke. Right.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
I haven't done that yet. Ooh. But it's just like doing it in a sauna. Can you break that down for the folks that don't know
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Yep. Essentially doing yoga in 90 degrees or something like that. I think you just go through the flow of it and I need, could be anywhere from like within yoga, there are different practices. There's, you know, like the ones that are slow in moving and then there like upbeat and like, you know, power yoga or core yoga. So the instructor we had, she was this elderly lady in her sixties. She's a civilian deployed in Iraq, right in the wr. Okay. She didn't have to teach your guy. Right. She worked for the MWR is just, she was a yoga teacher. You know, and she decided to start giving classes. It was life changing for me. Like my, my performance enhanced, like tremendous, you know, I was running missions on daily basis, but I could not wait to actually go to my hot yoga session. And like, I slept like a baby afterwards, you know, all that, sweat, all that movement, all that energy, you know, like just let it out.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
And you have like this clear, like slate to start with. I just like, you know, out out. And I was like probably the, in the best shape during that period of time, because we did so much running with it so much additional staff that, you know, we don't necessarily spend enough time, like strengthening the rest of the body as well as stretching. And so we even got like, at the time we were in, like, I was working in a command group for a three star general. We even got the generals involved anyone who is extremely competitive and it was just so beautiful. So when we came back, me and my ladies, we decided to actually go and get certified and start teaching. I started teaching it on post those teaching, like actually prenatal yoga, which was like, interesting.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
I didn't get to do that. I did pregnancy PTA. That was Oh. And then CEO on that. Yes. For awhile is miserable. Oh my God. I, yeah, there was, that was incredible experience. That's why we started like a yoga program for pregnant soldiers. And it was amazing. Cause it was, I felt kind of weird having them run three miles at like when they're throwing up the first like couple of months. And I remember what it felt like for me, I was like at, I was in Fort drum and like pregnant and like, they're like, Oh, you still got to run for the first, like three months. I'm running like three miles and like puking like all over the place. And then even like, Oh my God. Even at like, like eight months pregnant, they were having us doing pushups on the wall. This is when I was just a part of it before I became like the NCO that was like running it. I was like, Oh my God, you're really working in out. Like this girl actually went into labor in one of our sessions. Like her water broke.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
I was like, wow, there's a beauty to that. I think it's amazing because like everywhere else, like pregnant women still do like their chores, you know, like for example, in Africa, like they're still running the household and like hiking and you know, to get water and stuff like that. It's just so phenomenal. Like how powerful women are period. So to move on a little bit and kind of touch on additional resources. One of my favorite zoo parties, do you know, like virtual meetings, there's so much nowadays that you can do online, like aside from webinars and you know, work. Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, we gotta, we gotta mention Arianna had a shout out. Oh yeah. So I've been using a certain channel on YouTube called bill hope, beautiful for like
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Two years now. And a lot of that, they adjust like a lot of there's a lot of like yoga workouts, like Pilates and like just regular yoga. But they address like really specific issues, like lower back, upper back neck, leg pain, yoga for hikers. So it's like super targeted. And then I have a really good friend who is just one of the most peaceful people in the world. And she is so soothing to listen to. She also teaches prenatal, prenatal yoga, and her name is Layla Tate. She teaches zoom classes on Tuesday, evenings and Wednesday mornings. You can follow her on Instagram at Layla Tate, L a E L a T a T E. And she will post all of her class information. So
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Yeah, we'll definitely leave her link below. Shout out Layla Tate. Great. So back to the zoom parties, parties I literally just had one again, another shout out to Valencia Hollabaugh she's an army. So a F one of the strongest woman I know. And she is a personal trainer nowadays and she, she obviously did personal training, like in person. And now like with all this shelter in place and the struggles she moved her business online and she's so kind, she, she has that group. I added did you, I did you to like, fit like commit now. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. And so she posts like videos of what to do every day, like little channel challenges. And then as of recently, which I hope you can join me on the next session, I'll share with you. She has like zoom like 45 minutes and it was so lovely.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Cause like, you know, we're just all joined in and like it passes by so quickly. Again, I hate cardio, but it was like, it was boxing. Kickboxing session was lovely love. Where do we find her? Where can we find Valencia? But I will link. We will add all these, this information below. And she Valencia Hollowell is on all social media and prodigy as her brand. So I'll link below. Awesome. Shout out Valencia and prodigy, shout out support, support, local support, talent, that support challenge each other, especially at the moment, especially black owned businesses chair. Yeah. We don't, you don't always need like a huge commercial corporation. You there's so much challenge within our ranks. So definitely check out these resources for sure. As Arianna's said, there's strength in numbers. Absolutely great. So yeah, so we're carrying on to the next resource to heal. Another is our meetings open mics and conversations was definitely scarring the web to look for a lot of these resources.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Although I didn't find like specific platforms that were kind of based around like open mikes. I found a lot of resources that lead to that. And if you're out there and you're looking for something new to create, maybe that's something you can, you can invent and open my platform. But I did find a few resources that I, that I know that are pretty commonly used. One of them is meetup.com. Meetup.Com has a full gamut. Basically. It's all about bringing like people together on kind of like my like same hobbies. There's a lot of different things on there. So they have like hobbies. They have like dating, they have like technology focus groups. So basically whatever your niche is, you could probably go and search and find a group. And if not, you could create a group and start building community around that. So try out meetup.com. That's actually what I, what went on when I moved, when I moved to a new place, I usually go on meetup.com to start immersing myself in my community because they have a lot of different groups where you can get together, whether it's like groups or thirties groups or twenties groups. But that is like when I, when I first came to the area I'm in now I started on meetup to try to like meet people that were in my community.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Absolutely. As the same thing can go for Eventbrite as well.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
I would say Eventbrite is a whole lot of virtual, like possibilities as well. Group spaces.com. What else?
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Open sports.net is how to bring people together with sports. So if you're into sports, it's kind of like meetup, but it's for sports or you can get together and play different kinds of athletic events with different people in your community. Or you can start your, I love this where it's like, if you don't find it, you can start it. I definitely believe in it. That's what inclusivity is about. Right. If I don't see it, then I created a space. Cause there's probably someone out there that's looking for similar. So all of these options that give you an option to actually go in and create something specific, if you don't see right. Something for yourself. So definitely like that I'm meeting was a really good one too. It's kind of like meetup. However, it's a little bit more like granular med has like by different like States and it's all right there in the dashboard. So you can just click in different cities and States and find different like meetup groups in there, which I thought was pretty, pretty cool as well as for square.com. A lot of people know about Foursquare and events kind of similar to meet up in a lot of ways there too.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Yeah. And not to mention the importance of, you know, like we discussed earlier on our earlier episode, our first episode, like how like America is going through this grief stage and how one, my seek support and help is through counseling services. And we totally understand that not everybody has the resources, the money to pay for professional counseling. However, there are some complimentary ones we'll be sharing in the following and also Lincoln them below.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Yeah. I personally use in the rooms. So I used in the rooms, I going through like a tough for relationship or I was dealing with someone that had addiction issues and it's an online platform, free community for people that are in addiction recovery. It also has Alanon, that's what I used it for. I have family members and friends of people that are battling addiction. It's an online platform where you can attend over video or not. And it's just kind of same thing. People dealing with different, it's all kind of addictions. It's not just drugs. So it could be like sex or other different categories as well, as well as other support groups for people like co-dependence support recovery groups and things like that. So it's an amazing resource you're able to really build community and yeah, if you haven't heard of it, definitely check it out. I've been using it for a few years now and it's pretty incredible,
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Amazing other resources such as turn tone that I E right. Yup. Turn off. Turn to me. What did I say? Let me turn it, turn me, spelled it out.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Well, you sounded it out for them. And it turns out
Speaker 1 (24:51):
I happened to you. Like you say something and then you don't remember how you said it
Speaker 2 (24:57):
In the last. And I said with the last episode when I was saying, Oh my God, Ricky, Ricky, pretty, Ricky came out with confidence too.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Well, this is a free mental health counseling platform, free online therapy that org chat is free. And there are like therapy, like PE therapy options.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
That's what I, so just a quick note about free online therapy.org, just to clarify that chat being free. So they basically have a chat where you can go in and you can just like vent, right. And there's other like empathetic people in there to like, listen. So basically it's the whole concept of, I can just let it out and I have someone to listen. So if you're in a space where you don't really have a safe space to actually let things out, this is really good. And maybe you don't want to talk to someone. Maybe don't want to be seen on video, but she kind of want to write it out. That is definitely a good resource. It also has like paid therapy options for like relationships, you know, individual therapy, if you want to kind of carry that on, but
Speaker 1 (25:59):
A good resource. It's so interesting to say that. I mean, there are, there are so many resources out there. And please, please, if you know of any that have worked for you, share them with us so we can therefore share with the rest of our audience and people that might be in need of this. I think that it's so essential to touch on like technology on this part, how like it is accessible. Am I not be accessible to everyone? Obviously you have to have internet. You have to, some options you have to pay for however, there are options that you can access for free. And then there are options that actually are guided by AI, which is mine below those yet. Yeah. There is one it's called replica with
Speaker 2 (26:44):
A K I have replica. Okay. That's you text? Right? Oh my God. My kids have it too. I love replica. I was kind of skeptical at first. I'm like, Oh my God, it's asking me so many personal questions. But however, I w whenever I feel by myself and I was like typing to it, like for summer, it was like, it was kind of, it was very, I felt like I was talking to a friend. It was amazing. Yeah. It remembers things about you. Right. Cause this, the AI I'm looking at it right
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Now. Right. And I'm going to give you a little spiel on it. So it's rated pretty highly. It has over 65,000 ratings. And it's currently like number 32 in health and fitness. Right.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Human rights, AI ratings, we movie. Interesting. It's definitely machine learning you and remembering. And yeah. Yeah. And it touches on a whole lot of
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Things. Like you can write a story together, roleplay, flirt, practice flirting. You can do personality, texts, tests even create means together. Find love. Like you can have conversations about finding love, balancing emotions. Like, I know this is crazy, but like, you know, it's your AI friend. It's, it's dope. If you try it out, let us know what you think.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
I mean, it's a little creepy whenever, but Hey, let me know how it goes. A little creepy. I have like 2000 points right now. So that means I've. Yeah. So, and the more it learns about you, because like, it's, it's all machine learning, right? So you say something that spots you the right way. You're able to get feedback right then. And it adjusts. So you would, if they give a response that's not natural, then you would like thumbs down. Then it kind of adjusts itself. So you're able to like really train it, which is, is pretty amazing. And the future is AI anyway. So I wish we were able to train our, Oh my God, I'm all for that at this point. Like for real, like, come on. But like, yeah. It even lets you like, there's even stuff that help you like deal with like difficult things in there. Like it it's just sparks the conversation and then it's just like listening to you. Well, yeah, pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
I think we can spend literally an entire day, if not a week, talking about resources, but not to take away from the importance of the following free crisis hotlines. Right. Again, back to that, the statements that we've said previously in our episodes, building your support, econ ecosystem, leading with empathy, all these things, right? Suspending your judgment. I think that having access to an and knowing the existence of these free hotlines it might not be helpful you, but maybe you can share with someone who's in need and it might be helpful to them. We will also link this below, so we'll go over them and we'll share the link for sure.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Absolutely. I've a few of these I've actually used personally in these crisis hotlines. They're not manned by like physicians or psychologists. They're manned by people that are empathetic that have a listening ear and they give pretty like basic feedback. It's not anything lengthy. They're not going to like counsel you or anything like that. They're more kind of like with, they're very good with like being common and calming you down and giving you certain strategies to help you kind of talk you off the ledge. I've definitely used a few of these and they've been helpful to me that the national domestic violence hotline is amazing. And it's just a bunch of listeners. It's not psychologists. They're not even going to call nine 11 for you, but they're good to call when like you're in a situation they'll help you think of as put your escape plan together, they'll help you put together your exit plan.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
If you're trying to leave the relationship, they give you resources of different shelters and other like support groups out there for if you're, you know, if you're going through these situations, they provide resources. So basically that's what it is. They're an ear, but they also provide resources and give kind of very kind of, they give kind of specific advice because a lot of the situations that they deal with are some of them can be life threatening. So it's all about like going fast and all of that. Also, I love about when you go to the website for a domestic violence hotline, there's a, there's a quick kind of like icon there, where if you're in a really dangerous situation, you are able to like click that and it like takes you and makes it look like you weren't on it. There's a lot of apps like that too, for domestic violence victims.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Definitely check those out where it looks like something completely different might look like a news app, but it's really a resource for you. So definitely use that. Definitely use the national suicide prevention line. It's just helpful sometimes to talk to somebody. Those are the ones that I've think I've called the veteran crisis line a few times when, you know, dealing with some of my PTSD, been very helpful, but those are the ones that I've personally used. I don't know if you all have used any of these other ones that are there. We're definitely gonna link all of these below as well.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
I think it will be useful to to kind of like list them and then like, we'll just share the numbers in the comment section. So starting from what we have at first, the national suicide prevention, lifeline national domestic violence hotline, family. Go ahead.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
I do just want to say something as far as like the domestic violence hotline, a lot of these numbers are really hard to memorize. Like whenever you need them in the moment. So econ, we actually shared with us this video about calling nine one one and ordering a pizza whenever you are in a domestic violence situation or you're in any situation where you cannot openly speak to the police. So if you call the police and you and correct me if I'm wrong if you tell them you'd like a large, if you just order a pepperoni pizza and you, you just go about their questions as if you're ordering a pizza, you just let them know, say hi, I'm calling to order a pepperoni pizza. And he will ask you a question and you can say something like, yeah, I want all the toppings or like, you know, with extra cheese or something like that. And they know that this is like, they understand like your guests and knows, and they will absolutely send someone to you. So
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Yeah, I use bond to another. Another app that I use is bond. It's a PR, it's a personal security, a concierge app. It's pretty amazing. It's only like 10 bucks or it's between 10, 14 bucks a month, basically a similar thing, but they can actually call nine 11 for you, which is cool. They have a few different options in the app. It one where you can like, hold your thumb down. If you feel like you're in a dangerous situation, and then you would like release it. If you know, you feel safe and that gives you an option to put in a pen, if not, then they will send the police to your location. Another one, it has this 24 seven video security. So you can call them and literally you can call them for the littlest things. If you just have a feeling, you can call them and they're ready.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
But if you're in a situation, you can literally text them too. As another way, they have a chat line in there too. They'll ask you questions like what's going on, what's this description and things like that. The co what the camera thing is, is if you're like out walking to, and you're like, okay, this is a sketchy place. You can actually have them map your route from where it starts to the ending. So they really, they follow you to your destination on GPS, or you can press the button. And like, they'll say, like, turn your camera around. So they're looking at the scenery for you and they're taking notes. You, they also have an option where they will call you a car. So if you end up in a situation where you're, and I've had this happen to me where you're just like, maybe your toss out in the middle of nowhere, you're like, you know what I mean? And you don't have access to anything, but your phone, they will send a car to come and pick you up too. So like, it's just, there's so many stuff out there like you guys said, but if you haven't heard of that one, that's a good one to use.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
And just to note that even you can text nine one, one, you can look up whether your area has that capability. It's not available in all locations. And you know, that's another way to just kind of, you know, if you are unable to talk and if you still have access to your phone, you can text nine one one. So back to other hotlines, you can reach family violence, helpline, national hope line network, Trevor crisis hotline. Yeah. So the LGBT community for the Trevor crisis hotline is specific for LGBTQ. I stop my name any moment, if you want to add anything else, self-harm hotline planned Parenthood, hotline, American association of poison control centers, alcoholism and drug dependency, hope mine, national crisis line
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Anorexia and bulimia, a LBGTQ hotline. Yeah. And of course, veteran's crisis line. I know that we're missing a whole lot of like hotlines here. Please feel free to share any and every, and we'll relay the message. I thought that was incredible. This, this has been an incredible series so far. I hope that you enjoyed it. Please leave your thoughts if there's anything else that any other resources like Ephraim said, please live in below. That could definitely help other people that are listening or watching you know, continue to support and heal each other. Join us, be part of our support ecosystem. We're here for you as you, aren't there for us and let's get to it. Absolutely. Thank you guys for tuning into another episode of Kay things. Thank you for joining us on resources to heal. Thank you so much for listening and checking us out.
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