This week we’re joined by Mara James, founder of the Extraordinary Lives Foundation for a conversation on improving children's mental health and wellness, and supporting families through healing journeys.

Picture a crowd of children filling Angels Stadium in Anaheim three times over... that's the number of kids in Orange County suffering from mental health symptoms right now. In this show we're joined by Dr. Lorry Leigh Belhumeur, a licensed psychologist and the CEO of Western Youth Services. Dr. Leigh Belhumeur shares how exposure to toxic stress can impact brain development in children, 4 categories of "buffering" to build resilience, and how to navigate the return to school and life activities as California reopens.

Every person deserves to have the best chance to have the healthiest baby possible, but issues like poverty, lack of health insurance, and other barriers to care can make that difficult. This week we're talking with Dave Lugo from MOMS Orange County about the issues mom's face in pre and post-natal care, how we can all listen well to the mothers around us, how the pandemic changed the pregnancy and birth experiences, and much more.