We are talking about the mental wellbeing of our children and teens.

These years of forming identity, re-modeling the brain, and flying further from the nest are already a big challenge. Add three calendar years of isolation, disrupted schedules and rites of passage, missed friendships and opportunities. Then stir in what Dr. Joyce Ann Mercer calls the “triple pandemic of Covid-19, racial reckoning, and climate crisis.” The result is a toxic stew of anxiety, depression, lethargy, behavioral outbursts, health issues, self harm, and the highest rates of contemplating suicide among teens in many years.

How do we help our children with mental wellbeing?

Have a listen to Dr. Joyce Ann Mercer of Yale Divinity School. In this final segment of our conversation, she and Eileen Campbell-Reed explore the question:

How do we need to be paying attention to our children and youth who are suffering in their mental wellbeing in the wake of the multiple pandemics. More on Mental Wellbeing, here.

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