Podcast appearances and mentions of cindy thompson

Join us for the kickoff the new season of Beyond the Frontline with Donna Hoffmeyer! In this episode, Donna sits down with Cindy Thompson, Executive Director of Coming Home Well, to discuss the journey of the organization, the transition from radio to podcasting, and the exciting new developments for 2024. Cindy shares her passion for supporting Veterans and first responders, and Donna reflects on her own growth as a podcaster. Don't miss this inspiring conversation about change, growth, and the power of community.

In this episode of The FoundHer Series, host Carrie Scollon interviews Cindy Thompson about resilience and how it plays a crucial role in overcoming life's challenges. Cindy is the host of A Resilience Project Podcast, a registered clinical counsellor, and a certified life coach. She defines resilience as the ability to bounce back after difficulties, much like a marshmallow returning to its shape. Cindy emphasizes the importance of recognizing the strength we already possess, often discovered in hindsight after navigating tough times. She shares the significance of building resilience through using daily resilience practices, trying new things, and rewiring our brains by looking for the good. Carrie and Cindy discuss practical ways to foster resilience: - using the power of community support and the concept of "radical interdependence" - the role of self-compassion - getting out of your comfort zone - a wonderful visual of the situation of comparing yourself to others.

Send us a Text Message.“You're not focused enough unless you're mourning some of the things you're saying no to." When Cindy first read these poignant words from James Clear, it felt like they were written just for her. For 30 years, Cindy has helped folks grow, heal, and reach for their potential as a clinical counsellor, executive coach and host of A Resilience Project. Yet counsellors and coaches are humans, too—and we ALL can easily overextend ourselves (even with the activities we love most).In this special episode, Cindy shares what she has discovered in gauging her capacity and stewarding her energy while preventing burn out. Joined by retired fire chief, fellow podcaster and executive coach, Arjuna George, the tables have turned as Arjuna interviews Cindy for this insightful and rich conversation.Check out Arjuna's podcast, Beneath the Helmet, and his website: silverarrowco.com. 

In this compelling episode of A Resilience Project podcast, Cindy Thompson engages in a rich conversation with her daughter, Breanna Thompson, a counselor, and Claire Miller, a youth pastor and social worker both serving as missionaries in Nairobi, Kenya. This episode delves into their experiences of living and working in a foreign culture, offering profound insights and wisdom.Breanna's journey, starting as a teacher at an international school seven years ago, and now completing her master's degree in counseling psychology, is a testament to adaptability and personal growth. The discussion, touches on the challenges faced by missionary workers who uproot themselves to serve in unfamiliar and sometimes perilous locations.The conversation highlights key themes such as mindset, community, effective communication, and the importance of finding normalcy in new environments. Breanna and Claire offer powerful resilience practices applicable not only to missionary work but also in navigating cross cultural experiences, relationships, and everyday challenges.In a world of inevitable adversity, this podcast emphasizes that resilience is not just a trait but a practiced art. Tune in to gain valuable perspectives on cultural adaptation, personal growth, and the resilience needed to thrive in any environment.

In this poignant episode of A Resilience Project, Cindy Thompson welcomes Debbie McCulloch, a retired pharmacist and host of the podcast "Older & Bolder."   Drawing from personal tragedy, Debbie discusses the traumatic loss of her youngest sister to homicide, an unsolved case that continues to haunt her family.Delving into the lasting impact of traumatic loss on co-victims and shedding light on the emotional toll they face, Debbie shares the unique perspective of those left to grieve.   Adding to the complicated grief of losing her sister, Debbie reflects on the subsequent loss of several members of her immediate family and becoming a widow last year.Through the lens of her podcast, Older and Bolder, Debbie explores the experiences of women over 50 who embody fearlessness, fabulosity, and resilience. Debbie's uplifting conversation offers hope for those grappling with grief, emphasizing the strength in recognizing and celebrating the good in the world. Join Debbie as she guides us through a conversation filled with courage, resilience, and the beauty of embracing the later years with grace.Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/older-bolder/id1674808395 

Does your church space sit empty during most of the week? Do you dream about it being used for the common good but don't know how to begin? Listen to Beth Estock's conversation with Cindy Thompson, Executive Director of Boundless Impact – a nonprofit that equips faith communities to build bridges into their community through creating pathways for equitable economic empowerment. Click here for more information on ImagineHub. https://www.boundlessimpact.org/imaginehub Here are some of Cindy's favorite book suggestions: • Doing the Math of Mission by Rev. Dr. Gil Rendle • Creative Confidence by Tom & David Kelley • Jesus on Main Street by Dave Kresta • Recovering Abundance by Rev. Andy Stanton-Henry • Flood Gates by Rev. Sue Nilson Kibbey • Faith-Rooted Organizing by Rev. Dr. Alexia Salvatierra and Peter Heltzel

Have you noticed how easy it is to focus on the adversities or inconveniences in your day?  If you are someone who feels like the world is against you, or that nothing ever seems to go your way you are not alone. In a world saturated with negative news and overwhelming events, it is easy to succumb to a mindset that constantly anticipates risks and dangers.  Join Cindy Thompson as she delves into the “What is Going Well” practice, inspired by Dr. Martin Seligman's positive psychology.  In addition to a strong Gratitude practice, it's a conscious effort to override our inherent bias toward negativity.  Learn about confirmation bias and how our focus determines our reality. Cindy shares personal stories and practical examples, from overcoming physical setbacks to finding unexpected blessings in challenging situations. Mindset can be the key to unlocking joy, peace and wellbeing at any age.Just as a sculptor reveals the hidden image within the wood or stone, Cindy empowers you to uncover What is Going well even in the darkest days. Get ready to unleash your inner sculptor! Website: Thompson Leadership Coaching

Why is finding our purpose in life so important to our wellbeing? If we are not clear on what fulfills us, we might find ourselves wandering through life feeling empty and unmotivated.  Once we click into our purpose and meaning, we discover what truly fills our cup.In this episode, Cindy Thompson, host of A Resilience Project is the guest of Peter McCully on the PQB Beat podcast.Drawing on her own life lessons and professional insights, Cindy delves into the heart and soul of “A Resilience Project”. What began with a spark in 2020 ignited her desire to create a space where people from all walks of life can find solace, inspiration, and practical tools to navigate life's obstacles.Through captivating anecdotes and heartfelt conversations, Cindy reveals the power of sharing stories, creating connections, and embracing the strength within us.  You will hear the backstory to how the podcast was started, and a meaningful journey that will inspire you to embrace your own resilience, overcome obstacles and thrive in the face of adversity

Welcome to this edition of Aphasia Access Conversations, a series of conversations about topics in aphasia that focus on the LPAA model. My name is Janet Patterson, and I am Research Speech-Language Pathologist at the VA Northern California Health Care System in Martinez CA. These Show Notes follow the conversation between Dr. Chaleece Sandberg and myself, but are not an exact transcript of the conversation. Dr. Chaleece Sandberg is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders in the College of Health and Human Development at Penn State University.  She directs the Semantics, Aphasia, and Neural Dynamics Laboratory (SANDLab), which focuses on finding ways of optimizing language therapy for adult language disorders, with a primary interest in aphasia. Specifically, work in the SANDLab explores the neuroplastic processes that take place during successful therapy and how to enhance these processes. Additionally, SandLab work explores how cortical reorganization due to aging affects the way we interpret the cortical reorganization that results from language therapy.     In today's episode you will hear about: the importance of impairment-based treatment in a person-centered approach to aphasia therapy, the role of linguistic complexity in selecting treatment stimuli and supporting generalization, how speech-language pathologists can add aspects of counseling to treatment activities. Share Dr. Janet Patterson: Welcome to this edition of Aphasia Access Conversations, a series of conversations about community aphasia programs that follow the LPAA model. My name is Janet Patterson, and I am a Research Speech-Language Pathologist at the VA Northern California Health Care System in Martinez, California. Today, I am delighted to be speaking with my friend and research colleague, Dr. Chaleece Sandberg. Dr. Sandberg is associate professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders in the College of Health and Human Development at Penn State University. At Penn State, she directs the SANDLab, that is the Semantics, Aphasia and Neural Dynamics Laboratory. Efforts in the SANDLab are aimed at finding ways of optimizing language therapy for adults with language disorders, with a primary interest in aphasia. Specifically, the lab explores the neuroplastic processes that take place during successful therapy and how to enhance these processes. Additionally, the lab work explores how cortical reorganization due to aging affects the way we interpret the cortical reorganization that results from language therapy.   In 2022, Chaleece was named a Distinguished Scholar USA by the Tavistock Trust for Aphasia, UK. The Tavistock Trust aims to help improve the quality of life for those with aphasia, their families, and care partners by addressing research capacity related to quality-of-life issues in aphasia. Congratulations on this well-deserved honor, Chaleece.   Aphasia Access collaborates with the Tavistock Trust for Aphasia in selecting the awardees and is pleased to have the opportunity to discuss their work and the influence of the Tavistock award.   Welcome Chaleece, to Aphasia Access Conversations,   Dr. Chaleece Sandberg: Thank you so much for such a lovely introduction. I'm so glad to be here doing this with you and I'm so thankful to the Tavistock Trust for this recognition.   Janet: Chaleece, as we said, you were named a Tavistock Trust Distinguished Scholar USA for 2022 and join a talented and dedicated group of individuals. How has the Tavistock award influenced your work, both your clinical and your research efforts in aphasia.   Chaleece: So, first of all, I am so incredibly honored to be recognized as belonging to such an amazing group of scholars. These are definitely people that I admire, and I look up to and I want to be more like, and so receiving this award is not only supporting my ability to push some ideas forward that I've been having, but it's also giving me more confidence to go all in and make quality of life, an even larger focus in my teaching and research.   Janet: That is terrific to hear, because I think quality of life is so very important for all of us. We sometimes forget that idea when we get focused on our treatment or specific treatment protocol. In preparing for this interview Chaleece, I read several of your publications, including your work in treatment for lexical retrieval, and the Theory of Complexity. Would you briefly describe this theory and your work in this area?   Chaleece: I'd love to. The Complexity Account of Treatment Efficacy was introduced by Cindy Thompson, who is actually my research grandma, Lewis Shapiro and Swathi Kiran, who was my Ph.D. mentor. What they were finding was that while they were doing the Treatment of Underlying Forms, which is a treatment that supports sentence processing, when you train more complex sentence structures, like object class, something like, “It was the porcupine who the beaver hit”, right, you're going to get generalization to not only other object clefts, but simpler structures, like WH questions, so something like, “Who did the beaver hit?” Using this logic, Swathi started exploring the effects of semantically based therapies for word retrieval and found that training atypical words in a category promotes generalization to typical words in that category. The idea is that you're basically training this wider breadth of information that applies to more items. In the case of typicality, you're training semantic features that are really characteristic of these atypical items, like that “a penguin doesn't fly but swims”, and that you're also training these really typical features that apply to everything in that category, like, “a penguin lays eggs like most other birds”.   In my work, I've extended this logic to training abstract words. Now with abstract words the mechanism of generalization is slightly different. Rather than words sharing semantic features, they share associations. So, we train words in thematic categories, like “hospital” and “courthouse”, where there are these strong associative links between abstract words like “diagnosis”, and concrete words like “doctor”. The reason that it's more beneficial to train abstract words rather than concrete words is because they have a wider range of these associative links, so they can activate more concepts when you get that spreading activation within the semantic system. We've started calling it Abstract Semantic Associative Network Training for that reason, or it's AbSANT for short.   Janet: I think that is so fascinating. It makes sense because you're looking at a way to optimize therapy, which is what the SANDLab is all about. How can we, from a theoretical perspective and with data to support what we're doing, how can we be as efficient as possible in achieving the outcome that we would like to have for a person with aphasia? I think it's a perfect example of theoretically based treatment.   That leads me though, to the next question to say, I love your research. And I love that it's taken however many years and starting with grandma, Cindy and then Swathi, and now you. That's a lot of effort and a lot of work that clinicians don't have. The theory is so powerful, so I'd like to ask you, what are your thoughts on actions that clinicians might take to easily incorporate these treatment principles, or this treatment, into their clinical activities.   Chaleece: I've tried to really consider clinicians and keep clinicians in mind when I've been thinking about AbSANT. One thing that I've done is, I've made absent available for free on my lab website (SANDLab). There's also a tutorial published in Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups. And the idea is that that's kind of an easy to go to for clinicians. And even though we've only actually used a couple of categories in our research, so we focused on courthouse and hospital, we actually did norming on I think it's 17 categories, thematic categories, like football and holidays. And all of those words are available on the website, I also don't see why you can't create your own categories that are going to be personally relevant for your client.   One of our AbSANT clients that we had in our research study, after they were done, the husband wanted to continue to work with his wife on words for the holidays, actually. And so we talked about it, and he came up with some words in the category Christmas, that would be good targets, and they went off and used it. And it helped. They were very happy.   Janet: Kudos to you, Chaleece, for doing it like this. What you just described, about a person sitting in therapy and using your words and what you had created, and then going off and creating their own with your assistance, that is exactly what I think should be happening, as we think about therapy. That feeds quality of life, that feeds a person's ability to move back into whatever they want their life to be. Kudos to you for making this freely available to clinicians. They don't have to go digging into research papers or into journals to find and to piece together your work, it's there on your website. By the way, the link to your lab and this information will appear in the Show Notes that accompany this recording. So, thank you for that. I appreciate it. And I know clinicians will as well,   Chaleece: I understand being pressed for time, and I did want to make this as easy and accessible as I could   Janet: Chaleece, at the heart of your work in aphasia, as we just mentioned a few minutes ago has been optimizing treatment. One of your research interests supporting this direction, has been examining the neurological mechanisms that underlie behavioral change following treatment. Conducting research on this topic is challenging for many, many reasons. Yet, I think it's very important to aphasiology as we seek to understand the elements of a treatment protocol, and how the brain changes in response to stimulation. So, with that large question and that large research area, what have you learned from your work in this area?   Chaleece: You are right, it is a very challenging area to work in. One thing that is heartening is that my work seems to agree with some of the heavy hitters out there who are doing this work on a much larger scale. I think that in order to really get at the root of these questions, we do need these really large-scale studies across different sites that are going to be able to gather enough data so that we understand fully what's happening. But basically, it seems like no matter how chronic the person is, there is neuroplasticity related to treatment gains. We still don't really have a definitive answer regarding things like which hemisphere is better? Or is increased or decreased activation better? But it's looking like the answer is actually going to be quite nuanced and related to individual variability, which again, speaks to this idea that the more data the better. Luckily, there is a working group in the Collaboration of Aphasia Trialists, or CATS, that's working on this question. I am a part of that group and very honored to be a part of that group and contributing to this work. I do have some results from a pilot study that I did as a doc student. We found that left inferior frontal gyrus pars triangularis, so basically, Broca's Area appeared to be especially important for the AbSANT outcomes. We also found that when we saw generalization from the abstract to the concrete words, that areas that are normally responsible for concrete word retrieval, were being activated after therapy more so than they were before therapy. That's some nice evidence that generalization is actually affecting areas of the brain that are responsible for those items that are being generalized to. I have yet to analyze the data from my current study but stay tuned.   Janet: Oh, we will. I think that there's a large body of data, as you said, from other people who've done larger studies, and lots of people have been focused on this question for a while, and you are as well. It's a bit daunting for clinicians, again, to think about how to wrap your head around the idea and the evidence. We all believe that the brain is changing, but to wrap your head around the evidence that says, “Well, how is this happening?” and, “What can I do that will facilitate it happening a little bit more quickly or a little bit more thoroughly?” So, I realize I'm asking you a speculative question that's sort of out there, but I'm going to ask it anyway. What are some of the ideas from your work that clinicians may find useful to think about on Monday morning, when they walk in to interact with their clients who have aphasia, and their family members and care partners.   Chaleece: I think one of the things that I really would like to underline is don't be afraid to challenge your clients. We actually learn better when we're challenged, and learning is what's going to cause those changes in the brain. Probably the most important thing that I would like for clinicians to take away from my AbSANT work is that it's worthwhile and not impossible to work on abstract word retrieval using a semantically based approach. Abstract words are so important for natural conversation. Training them seems to really help support retrieval of concrete words as well, and so you get more bang for your buck. I found that people, especially those with a little bit milder aphasia who are up for the challenge, really enjoy the metalinguistic discussion, and the chance to defend these really strong opinions that people have about the personal meanings of abstract words. And, again, the most important thing in terms of l the neural imaging in the neuroplasticity is that the brain always has the ability to change. I realize that our clients are later in life, they've had a stroke, maybe they're in the chronic phase of recovery, and they can still show neuroplastic changes. One of my highest achievers, in my study, when I was a doctoral student, both behaviorally and neurophysiologically, one of the people who showed the most neurological changes was 20 years post stroke.   Janet: That's amazing. When you talk about abstract language, it makes me think that so much of what we do, or at least as I look back on a lot of the treatments that we do, single words or visual nouns or concrete nouns, very simple, sometimes we say functional words. But then you step aside and listen to people talk and so much of what people's conversation contains is nonliteral words and abstract words. We don't talk like the words that we're using in therapy, and it makes perfect sense then, the way you're approaching this challenge of aphasia, to try to make your work more like what people with aphasia are going to experience during conversation. It's a big problem and a big challenge, but I think you're up to it, and I'm looking forward to seeing some of more of your work on AbSANT. Especially since it's such a challenging area of work. I appreciate you giving us specific suggestions of things that we might do Monday morning when we see our patients. So, this is not just a conversation and it's not just another academic lecture in how we think about treatment, but it has some very important real world applications for us. Thanks so much for that piece.   I'd like to switch for a few minutes, Chaleece, and talk to you about your interest and work in bilingual aphasia. How did you become interested in this line of work? And more importantly, what have you learned from your work in this area.   Chaleece: So, I've always been interested in learning other languages. I have actually attempted to learn a few languages and have not been that successful. But one thing that I realized while trying to learn these other languages is that I was really intrigued by the way languages work. As you're learning another language, you start to really kind of put the pieces together and see kind of under the hood of what's actually happening. And so, I got my undergraduate degree in linguistics, and I think that this kind of fascination with how languages work also partly fueled my interest in aphasia in the first place. I remember sitting in my language in the brain class, and a light bulb went off, I was like, “Oh, my gosh, this is exactly what I want to study!” This idea that this full language system that was completely developed, all of a sudden can get destroyed by damage to particular areas. And so, you know, that kind of set the stage for me wanting to study aphasia. And then when I got into Swathi's lab and she was doing bilingual research, I was so excited. I was like, “Oh, I am totally on board with this”. So, I volunteered for all the bilingual studies that I could, actually not speaking any other languages myself, but realized that I can still research other languages, even if I don't speak them. That was kind of an “aha” moment for me, which was very nice.   During my Ph.D., I got to know Theresa Gray, who was a fellow doc student, and she and I became really good friends. After graduation, we immediately began a collaboration. This was good news for me because I had gotten a job at Penn State, and we're in Central PA and there is not a huge bilingual population there. But there is an excellent center for language science at Penn State started by Judy Cole, Janet van Hell and Carol Miller. That has really helped to support my efforts in understanding bilingualism in general, and bilingual aphasia. So, the work that Teresa and I have done together has actually been really focused on getting culturally and linguistically appropriate materials out to bilingual clinicians. That was where we saw that we could do kind of the most good in this area.   But along the way, we found some really interesting patterns related to cross language generalization and language dominance and cognitive control. We've also had some really interesting insights from our students who've been working on these projects who have just made comments about the adequacy of the assessments that we're using. And so we're really starting to think about how that's going to affect what we know about people's languages that they speak as we're trying to figure out, you know, what's going on, after a stroke with these different languages. And it also just kind of brings to the surface, that there are so many limiting factors for individuals who don't speak English as their first language or don't speak English at all. There's such an enormous service disparity, at least in the United States, and work in aphasia research has been so English centric, that it's created these major barriers to having adequate services. But luckily, we're starting to kind of get on the ball a little bit, this field is receiving a lot more attention. There are some really great researchers on the case. I've been to some recent conferences where there have been a lot of great presentations. The Saffran Conference was dedicated to this idea, there was a great workshop by Jose Centeno. At the Academy of Aphasia, there were some really great presentations there on this topic. So I feel like we're, we're moving forward in trying to close the gap in services for people who are bilingual.   JANET: I agree with you on that. And many times, it's also on the clinician. Clinicians might be bilingual themselves, but they might not be. How can you best support the clinicians who does not share a language with the client or the family members yet still has to serve that individual? It's, again, another challenging area that you've undertaken the study. You are busy, I bet.   So in addition to everything you've been doing over all these years, I mean, the complexity and absent and bilingualism, you also have now added something to your area of interest. I'd like you to talk for a little bit about that, if you would, and that is your interest in counseling persons with aphasia. How did you become interested in that area of research? And I ask, because it just seems that there might be a story of a professional journey here. I love to tell stories and hear them, so I think this is a story that wants to telling.   Chaleece: All right, well, yeah, twist my arm.   Janet: Good, I was supposed to be twisting your arm, because I want to hear your story.   Chaleece: So, my husband and I, when we first got to Penn State, we became friends with a couple of people who are over in counselor education. The more we got to know each other and talk more about our work, the more we realized that we were missing a lot of information in each of our fields. I never had any training and counseling, and my friends, who were counselors, hadn't really heard of aphasia. One of these friends, you know, after we had started talking about aphasia, actually, her brother had a stroke and had aphasia and so this became a very personal topic for her. She's a rehabilitation counselor and I was so shocked to learn that this was not something that she had been taught in her training, not something that she had really come across. So, we decided to start lecturing in each other's classes, and start exposing each other's students to these ideas that we felt we had missed out on in our training. We also started digging into the literature, because we wanted to see exactly what was out there, like were we crazy and thinking that this was like missing information from each of our fields. And we weren't crazy, we weren't alone. There's a whole slew of professionals in mental health that don't know about aphasia and SLPs, on the whole appear to not feel adequately prepared to do any sort of counseling. So, we decided that we wanted to write a couple of papers to help practicing clinicians to provide counseling and for SLPs, to kind of understand more about counseling skills, and for counseling students to understand more about aphasia and things that they could do to help people with aphasia, and kind of bring more awareness to the issue. We also applied for some internal funding to start an interprofessional education project, aimed at better preparing our counseling students to work with people with aphasia and our SLP students to provide basic counseling. We're starting this in terms of a one off.  We take one counseling student and one SLP student.  We need to have them work together with a person who has aphasia, who's expressed some desire for counseling. Every semester we rotate out and have a new group. This has been such a rewarding experience. I've learned so much from my colleagues, the way that I teach my pastor students, the way that I run my research experiments, the way that I mentor students in my lab, all of that has changed so much, I kind of feel like my eyes have been open to this, this whole issue. In turn, I feel like I'm helping my students to be much more mindful in the way that they approach clinical practice and research to like, truly put quality of life first.   Janet: I think that's exactly right, and the way we should be thinking, and I agree with everything you said about counseling. We have a little project where we've been looking at motivation, which is different, I realize, but it strikes me that when you think about how we counsel and bring that into our treatment, and also think about motivation, or patient engagement and bring it into treatment, there's so much more that helps us facilitate behavioral change in a patient than just a specific treatment protocol that we're delivering. Because if we haven't got someone who we can empathize with or we can connect with or who's interested in change or understands why we're doing what we're doing, it's going to be a very long road, if we're only focused on the impairment based or the specific treatment protocol. So, I think it's great that you're exposing your students to different professions and really thinking about counseling. It's a great idea.   So that's a big journey that you've undertaken, and I'm sure it's not stopping here. It's an interesting journey. It's more exciting as I hear you talk about it; I hear the excitement in your voice and the passion in your voice. It's almost like you want to do everything, but of course, you have to go to sleep, and you know, there are limitations.   Chaleece: Right, right. Yeah, all of those things, right?   Janet: Yeah. Oh, exactly, exactly. But I will bet that you have a lot of new ideas out there and you are considering some next steps, both in clinical research and clinical activities. I heard this story of starting from a linguistic basis and maybe focused impairment, and now you're completely coming around, I don't think it's full circle, I think it's more like full spiral. You're still thinking about complexity and AbSANT, but you've got other pieces that I think will make a rich program. What are your new ideas that are percolating in that brain of yours that you'd like to see move forward?   Chaleece: So, I've applied for sabbatical? I haven't heard back yet whether or not I've received it, but I'm hoping that I can spend the next year focusing my efforts, specifically on what I see as being health disparities. It is related to both bilingualism and mental health and aphasia. So one of the things that I'm really interested in is, is expanding our IP program for counseling and SLP students. I'm also hoping to work with Jose Centeno to work to address service disparities in bilingualism. I know that that's a really big topic of interest for him and our interests seem aligned on there. I'm excited to learn more from him. I'm planning to meet with Amy Dietz and work with her to think more about some of these holistic approaches to aphasia rehabilitation. I've really enjoyed hearing about her yoga program that that she's been doing. I've always had this kind of nagging thought this was something that she and I kind of talked about and really connected on, it kind of goes back to interprofessional practice. It's this idea that we tend to ignore all of these other things that we don't see as being language related, right? We don't think about diet and exercise and sleep on cognitive outcomes. But there's so much research out there showing how these things can affect your thinking. So they must be affecting the rehabilitation outcomes in people with aphasia.   I have been interested in the role of exercise in aphasia rehabilitation, we I'm part of an am CDs writing group, and we did a review looking at the effects of exercise and aphasia. There's just a huge gap in the literature. So it's definitely an area that we should be focused on. I don't currently have an exercise research project going but, in the meantime, I have actually partnered with Francine Cohen at Temple to establish Aphasia Cycling Club. This thought had been in the back of my mind for a long time, my husband and I are avid cyclists. And I thought, you know, if people with aphasia could find this much joy in in cycling, and if they could do it together, like that would be great. But then I hesitated because I thought, you know, would they actually be interested? Is this something that anybody wants to do? Am I just a freak, because I like cycling, and I think everybody else should. But I decided to go ahead and reach out through the ARCH network, and I got a surprisingly positive amount of responses back that people were really jazzed about this. Frannie was one of those people that got back right away and said, “I am an avid cyclist, and I would love to do this.” So, I got really excited about it. I got pushed a little bit in the direction by Deb Myerson and Steve Zuckerman, because I don't know if people are aware, but they did this stroke across America campaign where they rode from Northern California all the way to Boston, to spread awareness for aphasia, they have stops along the way. I recommend looking it up because it's a very inspiring journey that they took. These things got me thinking that this could work. We've started meeting with some physical therapists and adaptive sports people in Philadelphia and in Hershey so far, to try and get this going. We're hoping to try and get some people in Pittsburgh as well. We're super excited about where this could go. If anybody listening to this has any suggestions, please contact me. I'm happy to receive any sort of feedback and suggestions that people have to offer.   Janet: What a terrific idea! Francine is such an enthusiastic person and. I think with the two of you leading this, it's just going to grow greatly, I think sometimes as we talked earlier, we get so focused on the language, we forget the people with aphasia would like to do other things. Or maybe they did other things before they had their strokes, and perhaps they have some physical challenges right now, so we tend not to think about bicycling. I think it's awesome. A Bicycle Club. That's wonderful.   Chaleece: I hope it works out. I hope that it provides people with as much joy as it's provided me,   Janet: I bet it will. I can see you doing something like, even if there's someone who has aphasia, who simply cannot end up riding, but if you have riders, and you take videos, and you involve the people who cannot ride with you in that manner, well, that also achieves a quality of life goal. I think.   Chaleece: That's a great idea.   Janet: Good. I hope it works out. I think of that because we have an friend who's an avid bicyclist, and he always straps on his head camera and will post his videos all the time about places he goes. Your cycling group, your aphasia cycling club, can do the same thing. What a great idea, I look forward to seeing it actually happen and seeing the videos that you make and the work that you do.   Chaleece, as we bring this conversation to a close, I would like to ask you to reflect on your interest in aphasia, your work with persons with aphasia and their family members and care partners, and in particular, your amazing journey from starting as a linguist to developing a bicycle club for people with aphasia. And I'm wondering if you have any pearls of wisdom, you might share with our listeners, or what I sometimes like to call Monday morning practices. And by that I mean ideas that clinicians can incorporate into their busy practices quickly and easily to perhaps change their thinking or change how they engage with clients.   Chaleece: In reflecting on my journey, I really maybe just to encourage other researchers to think about, so I started out really kind of focused in this kind of an impairment based mode, and gradually moved over to this person centered care, but I haven't discarded the idea of impairments based treatment, right? The idea is that you just kind of, house that in, you know, you fold it in to your person-centered care to the life participation. From my own research, the things that kind of float to the surface for me are, first that the brain can change long after the chronic stage has started. This, this idea of a plateau, I know that I feel like I'm preaching to the choir, probably about this idea, but it's still kind of amazing to me, how many people still feel like this is there's a plateau, right.   The other is not to be afraid to work on challenging tasks, like digging into the meanings of abstract words. With supportive conversation I found that this can be very rewarding, even for people who have very limited verbal output. In terms of I don't know, Monday morning practices like something easy to incorporate. I feel like I'll my pearls are kind of borrowed. There's a great one that I borrowed recently from Linda Worrall's amazing presentation as IARC. She suggested a way to form a simple habit was to just ask two questions at every treatment session. This could be a small change just to form better counseling habits as SLPs. She suggested at the beginning of the session to ask, “How are you feeling?”, which is a very different question from “How are you doing?” It allows people to open up a little bit more and actually talk about how they're feeling. Then at the end to ask, “What is the best thing that you're going to do today?” I started doing this as soon as she mentioned, I'm like, I'm going to do this. And I did it. I started doing it with all of my clinical research sessions that I do. It's really helped me to form better relationships faster with my research clients. I feel like they are telling me more about themselves. They really open up at the beginning of the session telling me how they're feeling, and that actually helps me to gauge how I go about this. Yes, for treatment research, you have a protocol, right? But the way you go about these treatment steps, you know, you can frame them in different ways, right? If I have a client who's feeling very anxious, I can say before each thing that we do that's challenging, I can say, “Okay, take a deep breath. All right. Now let's do this. This piece of the puzzle.” That seems to really, really help, It helps me to know where my clients are at to begin with, and asking “What they're doing? What's the best thing that you're doing today?” It's just so much fun to hear people get really excited about what they're doing. Sometimes they might say, “Well, nothing today, but tomorrow, I've got this great thing planned.” It's a really nice way to end the session on a really positive note,   Janet:  Borrowed or not, those are excellent pearls, and they are simple things that we can do. I do remember Linda Worrall's talk that you were referring to. It makes so much sense. We have these grandiose ideas, but you have to start with a couple of small things and how can you change your behavior tomorrow, very small, but that will pay great dividends. It sounds like those changes have paid great dividends for you already in your research sessions.   Today's conversation for me, has been exciting and interesting and thought provoking and would like to thank my guest, Dr. Chaleece Sandberg for sharing ideas, results, outcomes and thoughts from her clinical research journey in aphasia. Chaleece I greatly appreciate your taking the time to speak with me today, and again, congratulations on receiving a Tavistock Scholar Award.   Chaleece: Thank you so much. This was delightful. I   Janet: would also like to thank our listeners for supporting Aphasia Access Conversations by listening to our podcasts and learning from all of the guests that we've had over the years.   For references and resources mentioned in today's show, please see our Show Notes. They are available on our website, www.aphasiaaccess.org. There, you can also become a member of our organization, browse our growing library of materials, and find out about the Aphasia Access Academy. If you have an idea for a future podcast episode, please email us at info at aphasia access.org   For Aphasia Access Conversations, I am Janet Patterson and I thank you again for your ongoing support of aphasia Access   References Kiran, Swathi, and Cynthia K. Thompson. “The Role of Semantic Complexity in Treatment of Naming Deficits: Training Semantic Categories in Fluent Aphasia by Controlling Exemplar Typicality.” Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 46, no. 3 (June 2003): 608–22. https://doi.org/10.1044/1092-4388(2003/048   Mayer, J., Sandberg, C., Mozeiko, J., Madden, E. & Murray, L. (2021). Cognitive and linguistic benefits of aerobic exercise: A state-of-the-art systematic review of the stroke literature. Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences, 2. https://doi.org/10.3389/fresc.2021.785312   Sandberg, C. (2022). Tutorial for Abstract Semantic Associative Network Training (AbSANT): Theoretical rationale, step-by-step protocol, and material resources. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups: 7, 35–44. https://doi.org/10.1044/2021_PERSP-21-00176   Sandberg, C. W., Bohland, J. W., & Kiran, S. (2015). Changes in Functional Connectivity Related to Direct Training and Generalization Effects of a Word Finding Treatment in Chronic Aphasia. Brain and Language, 150, 103–116.   Sandberg, C. W., Nadermann, K., Parker, L., Kubat, A. M., & Conyers, L. M. (2021) Counseling in Aphasia: Information and Strategies for Speech-Language Pathologists. American Journal of Speech Language Pathology, 30(6), 2337-2349.   Thompson, C. K., Shapiro, L. P., Kiran, S., & Sobecks, J. (2003). The role of syntactic complexity in treatment of sentence deficits in agrammatic aphasia: The complexity account of treatment efficacy (CATE). Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 46(3), 591–607. https://doi.org/10.1044/1092-4388(2003/047)   Worrall, L. (2022). The why and how of integrating mental health care into aphasia services. Presentation to the International Aphasia Rehabilitation Conference. Philadelphia PA, June.     URLs AbSANT    Abstract Semantic Associative Network Training. SANDLab. https://sites.psu.edu/sandlab/projects/absant/   Academy of Aphasia https://www2.academyofaphasia.org/about/   ANCDS    Academy of Neurologic Communication Disorders and Sciences. www.ancds.org   ARCH Network    Aphasia Resource Collaboration Hub  https://aphasiaresource.org   Collaboration of Aphasia Trialists https://www.aphasiatrials.org/   Eleanor M. Saffran Conference https://www.saffrancenter.com/conferences   Stroke Across America https://www.stroke.org/en/stroke-connection/stroke-onward/stroke-across-america

How many of you make new year's resolutions?  If you do, how successful are you at keeping that commitment to yourself?  According to statistics 9-12% of people keep their new year's resolutions, while one out of four people will quit their new year's resolution before the end of January.  If you believe you are one of those statistics, you are not alone.  This week we are diving into why change can feel hard, what might prevent you from sticking to your goal, and the resilience practices that support you in creating the change you desire.  As you dive into a new year with a renewed sense of optimism and hope, it is a great time to set goals.  In this episode Cindy Thompson, executive coach and host of A Resilience Project, shares 4 key ingredients that will help you realize your goals and create a system for sustainable change.  Whether you are setting a short-term goal or one that you have dreamed about for years, the time is right to explore habits and beliefs that are holding you back.  

Cindy Thompson, retired fire captain and paramedic, dramatically improved her health and fitness through plant-based nutrition, losing 60 pounds and becoming an adult-onset athlete. She started a second career with her company, Trimazing Health & Lifestyle Coaching, to help others reach their own health and wellness goals, incorporating zero-waste and sustainable practices throughout her programs. Cindy is a Food for Life Instructor with the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, Harvard Medical School Culinary Coach, Fit to Thrive Firefighter Coach, and Main Street Vegan Master Lifestyle Coach and Educator. Cindy wants YOU to be Trimazing, that is, three times BETTER than AMAZING! Go to https://trimazing.com/halloween-2022/ for: All of today's recipes A copy of the FREE Trimazing! eCookbook, Un-Seafood: 20 Plant-Based Recipes with a Taste of the Sea The Trimazing! Zero Waste Starter Guide 15% off Trimazing! Coaching Services Upcoming Trimazing! cooking classes [Trī-māz-ing] : three times better than amazing Cindy wants you to be Trimazing—three times better than amazing! After improving her health and fitness through plant-based nutrition, losing 60 pounds, and becoming an adult-onset athlete, she retired from her 20-year firefighting career to help people just like you. She works with people and organizations so they can reach their health and wellness goals. Shortly after her father died from blood cancer in 2008, blood and other cancers were designated as presumptive illnesses for professional firefighters in her state, prompting Cindy to research how to reduce her personal cancer risk. She discovered that a whole food, plant-based vegan diet that eliminated the consumption of animal products could be key to her health and cancer prevention. Without going on a diet and just putting better fuel (food) into her body, Cindy dropped 60 pounds, 7 uniform pants sizes, 3 uniform shirt sizes, and dropped her cholesterol and blood pressure readings in one year. Beyond looking better, her fitness level soared, and gave her new energy she could not contain. At the age of 38, Cindy became an adult-onset athlete, competing and medaling in marathons, triathlons, open water swim races, and endurance events! Best of all, she's been able to maintain this without dieting or feeling deprived! Her fire department was so impressed by her transformation that they put her in charge of the newly formed Wellness Fitness Initiative, a collaborative program between the International Association of Firefighters and International Association of Fire Chiefs. Cindy is a decorated Fire Captain and paramedic, awarded Firefighter of the Year and Oregon State Paramedic of the Year. As part of the prestigious Executive Fire Officer Program at the U.S. Fire Academy, Cindy published original research on firefighter and public safety. Now that she's retired from the fire service, Cindy shares her knowledge, experience, and infectious enthusiasm for food, health, and fitness as a certified Health Coach, Master Vegan Lifestyle Coach and Educator, Fitness Nutrition Specialist, and Fit2Thrive Firefighter Fitness Trainer through her business, Trimazing! Health & Lifestyle Coaching. She is a Food for Life Instructor with the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, Rouxbe Plant-Based Professional, and Harvard Medical School Culinary Coach, teaching people how to prepare delicious, satisfying, and health-promoting meals. Our health and wellness are closely tied to the health of our environment. Cindy incorporates zero-waste and sustainable practices throughout her programs. You'll see it IS easy being green! For more information: https://trimazing.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/trimazing Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/trimazingvlc/

We are "fired up" to welcome a plantstrong firefighting sister, Cindy Thompson, to the PLANTSTRONG podcast.  I was so moved by Cindy's background of why she chose firefighting as a career, but it's her journey to plants that makes her a true hero in my book. In this male-dominated, meat-loving profession, she boldly took agency over her own health and, along the way, inspired others (including those macho male firefighters) to take a second look at their own plates and take the plantstrong journey with her. Today, even though she's retired from firefighting, she is still extinguishing the flames of disease and illness as a health and lifestyle coach, and, among many other credentials, is a licensed Food for Life Instructor for the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. Her business is called Tri-Mazing because, yes, she does triathlons for fun now, but when you are making food and lifestyle changes to benefit the health of the planet, the animals, and yourself, you are **Three Times Amazing**!  And, we get a bonus surprise today because she whips up an amazing queso dip and shares that recipe with us today!  Enjoy! Episode Resources Watch the Full Episode on YouTube Get Cindy's Recipes and Resources from Today's Episode
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Sit down with our host Cindy as she shares her birthday reflections. Why do we struggle with aging?  How can we feel more resilient as we move through all the beautiful milestones of life? Sit down with our host Cindy Thompson as she reflects on some of these questions herself.  Giving us a glimpse into what she has been wrestling with and some of the discoveries she has been making along the way.Packed with insights from her journey so far, she invites the listener to consider the value of investing our time, rather than “spending” our time, how our values can be our guide, and the importance of having cheerleaders along the way.  This episode will inspire you to celebrate exactly where you are, how far you have come, and the many ways in which you can adjust your course to create beautiful stories for the future. Website: thompsonleadershipcoaching.comT-Shirt Fundraiser for Ukraine:  https://www.bonfire.com/store/a-resilience-project-podcast---fundraiser/

I had the wonderful opportunity to chat with Cindy Thompson on her podcast, A Resilience Project, to chat about how to raise happy, confident and resilient kids. Join us to find out why it is important for our kids to experience challenges and failure, some of the signs of stress to watch for and when to reach out for help. Children, teens, and families need people like us. But only when we are at our best. Are you a mental health professional, educator, or parent who wants to deep dive further with me? Check out these links to follow me or see other opportunities to learn more: Professional Development Training Opportunities: https://bit.ly/AnxietyMasteryTraining Professional Consultation Group: https://bit.ly/consultationgroup Parent Training: https://bit.ly/AnxietyParentTraining Follow me: Website: https://drcarolinebuzanko.com/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-caroline-buzanko/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrCarolineBuzanko Facebook Groups For Parents: https://bit.ly/superparentsofanxiouskids For Professionals: https://www.facebook.com/groups/kliprofessionals

Hear from Professional Coach and host of A Resilience Project podcast, Cindy Thompson, as she gives concrete tips on building resilience whether you're just graduating, changing careers or just emerging out of post-covid work from home. We also discuss how Cindy came to coaching, the benefits of receiving coaching, her favorite episodes of A Resilience Project's podcasts. This is a special episode to celebrate International Coaching Week May 16-22, 2022 and promote the fabulous coaches who offer discounted services to University of Alberta Alumni. Did you know you can apply for a professional development grant to pay for services provided by coaches? See links below. https://coachingfederation.org/events/international-coaching-week https://www.ualberta.ca/alumni/career-support/career-services/alumni-career-and-executive-coaching.html https://www.ualberta.ca/alumni/career-support/career-services/professional-development-grants/index.html https://www.aresilienceproject.com/ WTJ is sponsored by TD Insurance. Got a question? Email us at: wtj@ualberta.ca What the Job? is a University of Alberta Alumni Association podcast Hosted by: Matt Rea Produced by: Matt Rea and Jennifer Jenkins Music: Cottages by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

This week Stacey tells us about Carol Ege, a Michigan woman serving life in prison for stabbing Cindy Thompson in Oakland County, in Feb, 1984. Sources:https://murderpedia.org/female.E/e/ege-carol.htmhttps://www.themidwestcrimefiles.com/post/the-epitome-of-evilhttps://youtu.be/Aik84Zx7Bg0Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/ISGDpodcast)

The Fabulous Health show helps you on your quest for optimal health and vitality as you age gracefully. You will learn daily actions that will help you on your journey to Fabulous Health. In this episode we are joined by Cindy Thompson. Cindy was a firefighter who adopted a whole food pant based diet and lost 60 pounds. Not only did her workmates follow suit and improve their own health, Cindy then felt so good she went on to become a triathlete and vegan health coach. She is a Food for Life Instructor with the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, Rouxbe Plant-Based Professional, and Harvard Medical School Culinary Coach and she has a fabulous website https://trimazing.com/ Events: https://trimazing.com/events/ Use discount code: FabHealth for $5 off Zoom class, Foods for a Healthy Heart, January 22 or February 17, 2022. Watch Cindy on Chef AJ Live making Un-Seafood and get a copy of the eCookbook Un-Seafood: 20 Plant-Based Recipes with a Taste of the Sea: https://trimazing.com/chefaj/I go LIVE every Monday at 10am Central on FB, Linked In and Youtube.Find the audio podcasts at fabuloushealth.net where you can subscribe on all your favorite podcast platforms so you don't miss any episodes.I love to read your comments. Tell me what you think. Ask me questions. I'm all ears.Thanks for watching.CONNECT WITH MEhttps://fabuloushealth.netFB https://facebook.com/terri.chrisman.10IG https://instagram.com/fabuloushealthtlcSign up for my monthly newsletter packed with great resources, recipes, videos and more. https://fabuloushealth.net/landing/newsletter-sign-upFREEBIES "5 Proven Ways to Lose Weight" Cheat Sheethttps://fabuloushealth.net/landing/5-ways-to-lose-weight"Support Your immunity " PDFhttps://fabuloushealth.net/landing/immunity-landing-pageTAKE IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL Join my online course "The Quick Road To Fabulous Weight Loss"https://fabuloushealth.net/page/qrtfUse the code PODCAST for a sweet discount. (Discount subject to change depending on when the code is used)MY FAVORITE THINGSFind out what I love and use on a daily basishttps://fabuloushealth.net/page/favorite-thingsMy Amazon Storehttps://fabuloushealth.net/page/amazon-store-pageDisclaimer: This podcast does not give medical advice in any form. Do not use any information in this podcast as a substitute for qualified medical advice. Please see your primary health care professional before undertaking any dietary changes or taking any supplements. Information in this podcast is NOT intended to diagnose or treat any disease.

What possibilities might you unleash with a shift in mindset? How do you stay the course while pursuing your goals? Why is it important to let go of comparison?  Welcome aboard the latest episode! Sail away with Cindy as she shares insights and life lessons learned at sea, combined with 30+ years of supporting clients as they navigate their own journeys.You'll learn more about the possibilities that can emerge when approaching life with open hands, a flexible mindset, and the courage to move out of your comfort zone. By the end of the episode, you'll walk away with new tools and strategies for facing the rough seas of life and finding a safe harbour. 

Lyrically speaking goes behind the lyrics of songs from some of your favourite gospel artists. Lady T challenges each guest to see if they know the words to any of their songs followed by a freestyle. This is a show with insight, wisdom and plenty of laughter. This episode features award winning Ghanaian gospel artist, Joe Mettle. He is the first Gospel musician to win VGMA Artist of the year in his Genre on April 8, 2017. He has won many awards in Ghana and many other countries. He has been recognized as one of the most successful musicians over the decade. His award for Artiste of the Year was considered historical as he was the first Gospel artiste to win in this category since the conception of these awards. Joe has also won over 10 local and international awards. He has won several awards at Africa Gospel Music Awards, Gospel industry Awards, African Gospel Awards (UK), CCML Ghana Gospel Awards, Bass Awards and RIGA Awards (South Africa). During his early days of singing, he worked as a backing vocalist for some Ghanaian Gospel greats including Cindy Thompson, late Danny Nettey, and Reverend Tom Bright Davies. Joe Mettle was the lead singer for the indigenous multicultural music group, Soul Winners. He has five albums to his credit. They are "My Gratitude" (2011), "Sound of Praise" (2013),"The Encounter" (2015),"God of Miracles" (2017) and "Wind Of Revival" (2019). Follow HFP Music City: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hfpmusiccity_/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/HFPmusic Follow Lady T: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ladytofficial_/

In this episode Cindy Thompson is speaking with Kim Wilkinson, a mother and a Grief Recovery Specialist.  Losing her 22 yr old son Tristan to a drug Overdose in November 2019, Kim would suggest it is through this journey that she discovered healing, recovery and transformation. With a passion for learning, Kim shares her experience with personal and family Mental Health challenges, PTSD, Addictions and Trauma. Suggesting it was Tristan's purpose to help her find HER Purpose, Kim is now working with others in their passage from SUFFERING to EMPOWERMENT.Kim's approach with her clients is one of compassion, non-judgement and patience. She has discovered first-hand how specific tools and techniques bring healing and recovery as well as abundance and success in all areas of life.This episode is dedicated to Tristan and those parents who are grieving the loss a child to drug overdose. Website: https://www.griefrecoverymethod.com/grms/kim-wilkinson

In this episode Cindy Thompson is speaking with Shannon Bergstrom about her long-standing pattern of perfectionism, people pleasing and other idealistic expectations that did not serve her well.  Responding intuitively as a pre-teen following the death of her younger sister, Shannon found a way to keep the peace and internalize her feelings.A proud educator, wife and mother, Shannon experienced two significant episodes of burnout before connecting the dots between childhood trauma and the complicated manifestation of stress in her body.   Find out what she has discovered by listening to her body, and the role boundaries have played in her resilience practice!To those of you who have been seeking approval from external validation, this episode is for you!

Yes, Carol Ege wanted Cindy Thompson dead. But did she actually do it? Producer and Sound Designer - Danelle Cloutier https://www.instagram.com/danellecloutierCheck out us out on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/criminallylistedIntro and Outro Music: Scary Theme by Eitan Epstein MusicMain Song: Abandoned Hospital SPMusicGroupSources: https://pastebin.com/ZJLEu0Sy

In this episode I reflect on some of the pivotal moments of growth and resilience in the course of my life and career.  As with 20/20 vision, looking through the rear-view mirror these learnings become much clearer.  Sharing some of the vulnerable, beautiful and courageous experiences that have stood out for me, I can now honour that each of these challenges have contributed to who I am today.Offering strategies for shifting our lens from one of negativity to that of curiosity and possibility, the invitation is to see some of these ideas may be worth experimenting with. https://www.facebook.com/AResilienceProject/ https://www.instagram.com/aresilienceproject/http://linkedin.com/in/cindy-thompson-7bb14743

Rev. Kim Ingram talks with Deborah Daniels and Cindy Thompson, active lay leaders in Western North Carolina Conference about the ways they have been involved with ministries of reconciliation, specifically related to racial reconciliation. Cindy and Deborah reflect on their experiences and highlight ways leaders and churches can participate in reconciliation in their congregations and communities.  Resources: Mt. Tabor UMC Response to Racial Injustice: Racial Injustice | church (mttaborumc.org) Racial Healing Workshop: Racial Healing and the Gospel of Reconciliation: A Workshop on the Ministry of Reconciliation (wnccumc.org) Brene’ Brown podcasts: Podcasts | Brené Brown (brenebrown.com) David Brubaker Pandemic, Racial Reckoning, Political Violence, and Congregations — Congregational Consulting Group Churches in predominantly Black communities can play a key role in vaccinating against COVID-19 | Faith and Leadership

Anxiety begs us to change our environments so we can avoid the things we're anxious about. And the relief payoff when we do it is huge. No wonder it's just easier to keep moving things around so we can cope. But at what point does this just perpetuate the problem? As caregivers, we're having to assess and make moment to moment decisions about when to make things easier for our kids and when to help them face the challenge, even when it's hard. When we decide to make things easier for them, it often comes with this niggling background thought of "if I keep doing this, how will they ever learn to manage it?". The truth is, anxious kids need some purposeful accommodations but they also need to learn to face things by going through it. We're going to talk about that fine line and how to know where it sits for your kiddo.Skill-building is key. When you have the tools and you have opportunities to try them out, you start believing in yourself and your ability to face and manage hard situations. As parents you are in a prime position to teach your kids these skills for life. I've built a family-based course with this in mind, so if it's helpful to have someone guide you through the skill-building process and see results for your whole family, give this a try. I want you to walk away with hope that this can and will get better if you dedicate the time and energy into skill building, so I've invited a fellow mom to the conversation who has walked the walk, and has seen amazing outcomes for her now grown kids. Cindy Thompson is holding a light at the end of our tunnels, so don't stop the journey. It can get much better, we promise.Here's a link to my online course for families called "CBT for the Family: Tools for life". It's a 9 week course designed to build your anxiety-reduction tool kit and you can do it at your own pace from the comfort of your own home. https://www.my.thrive-life.ca/cbtforthefamily-courseIf you'd like access to the free worksheet that helps you break down anxiety-provoking problems into manageable steps, sign up here and we'll email it to you: https://www.my.thrive-life.ca/parenting-in-the-trenchesIf your child's anxiety presents in the form of anger, check out this talk I did with FamilySmart - you may find this conversation helpful for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk7b45uMxn0If you'd like to hear more from our guest, Cindy Thompson, she has her own podcast on resilience that I'd highly recommend checking out: https://www.aresilienceproject.com/

Episode DescriptionThis week's episode goes into the murder of Cindy Thompson, by her boyfriend's jealous girlfriend Carol Ege. Written Sources: Murderpedia - Carol EgeMen wrongly convicted or arrested on bite evidenceForensic bitemark identification: weak foundations, exaggerated claimsCarol Ege Blogspot Post Video Source: Betrayed Season 4 Episode 4 via Amazon PrimeFind ABCrimes:Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/abcrimespodcast/Email- abcrimes@gmail.com

With over 30 years in a field where listening becomes a sacred gift of time and presence, starting a podcast feels like a natural extension of what I love most – listening to stories.With a desire to reach beyond the microphone, this podcast sheds a little light on my life, my experiences and key events that helped to shape who I am today.   Given that we all have had to adjust our expectations for Christmas this year, I also wanted to share a few ideas that may promote a sense of resilience for you personally.  Whether you are able to be with a loved one, roommate or friend, know that you are not alone.  We are all here, and connected through our human experiences and sending you love.

Bead & Reel's Sica Schmitz discusses connecting brands, bloggers, and shoppers to create a more compassionate world; and Cindy Thompson, VLCE, wastes not and lives really well.

Episode 58: On this episode, long time Paranormal Investigator, author, and radio host Ted VanSon joins me to talk about his many years of investigating the paranormal. Ted calls himself a skeptical believer and never believes that a location is haunted, before doing a thorough investigation. Ted has been investigating the paranormal for over 30 years, and in his books, he has written about using simple things around the house to help in paranormal investigating. Ted also talks about his work with Jason Hawes, Steve Gonsalves and Dave Tango on an episode of Ghost Nation he recently was a guest on. The episode was filmed in an upper state New York residence, where they captured a very interesting apparition on camera. You can catch Ted's radio/podcast show at, paratalkradio.com, every Monday night at 8PM EDT, with his co-host Cindy Thompson. Music by: Sergey Cheremisinov

What is your name? “It’s what you invest in the name that makes the brand relevant” Names trigger emotions, they evoke memories and they inspire actions. Out of the billions of people on earth, everyone has a name.  In West Africa, names are so important to the extent that names they give to children always have a meaning associated with it. It’s the meanings that define the names and consequently impact the lives of the bearers.   Examples from Ghana; a third-born male child of the Akan Tribe has the name ‘Mensah’. ‘Enyonam, from the Ewes means ‘God has been good to me’. Names make people feel special. Names help in easy identification and differentiation purposes. It’s in the same way brand names impact the market and its users. The significance of names cannot be overemphasized; names have played vital roles since the first being occupied the surface of the earth. History books have been filled with a significant number of names that cannot be forgotten by virtue of the various roles they played. It is by those names that we can refer to their deeds; good or bad. How then do you choose a name that can resonate with your personality, product, service, and market? I have identified three ways brand names can be crafted to help make it memorable, impactful, and identifiable.  “A good name is to be chosen rather…” – Proverbs 22:1 Before we delve into that, here are some ideas to guide you to pick a brand name, then you can decide to fit it into any of these three ways. Pick a name that describes what you do. An example would be Salad Masters (Into Salads).  Pick a name that doesn’t relate to what you do; it could be something you create. An example is Google (Has nothing to do with their products and services, the name was made up) Pick any of your names or all of your names. An example Tyler Perry Studios Pick a name that triggers emotion and connections. An example Cravings Cafe. (This may want you to crave for food) Pick a name that defines your niche. An example is ToddlerCare Pick a name and play with the spellings and enunciation. An example is SQIN Care, that’s Skin Care.  Pick a name in another language or a translation in another language. An example is Tonaton(In Ghana it’s a Twi phrase that means, buy and sell. The ideas are endless, don’t be stack, permit yourself to daydream and craft your unique brand name. Now, how to choose your Brand names, using my rule of three (3) Firstly, go for one name: Going for one name will imply either you have a unique name or you are willing to sacrifice to put in more work to make the brand name stand out and relevant. ‘One name brand name’ doesn’t come cheap. Here are some global examples of ‘one name brand name’ starring from musicians, authors, thought leaders, religious leaders, products, and services. Example: Oprah, Ronaldo, Otabil, Messi, Sarkodie, Shattawale, Obrafour, Stonebwoy, Manifest, Sinach, Oyadepo, Beethoven, Shakespeare, Jesus, Mohammed, Pele, Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Toyota, Honda. Hyundai, Mitsubishi, Quartz, Zoom, etc Secondly, you go for two names. A two-name brand name also demands a level of commitment and hard work to make the name count. In using two-names, the names can be rhymed easily, they can complement each other or they can be simply unrelated. Any option you choose will be fine. The caveat is not to make its pronunciation a mouth full. 🙂 Let’s look at some global examples from all sorts of products, services, and individuals. Example: Michael Jackson, Jesse Jackson, Seth Godin, Peter Drucker, Harry Porter, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Tom Cruise, Tony Robbins, Fred Hammond, Joe Mettle, Cece Twum, Billy Graham, Bob Marley, Amakye Dede, Cindy Thompson, Kwame Eugene, Black Secret, Victoria Secret, Eastwood Anaba, Counselor Lutherodt, etc Thirdly, you go for three names or initials or mixed. Anything more than three(3) should be kept as initials at best. The truth is that people wouldn’t want to mention long brand names, it’s either they create a short version of it, which may affect the brand or they resort to initials or acronyms. It’s best to keep your brand name as simple as possible.  Sometimes the middle or first names can be made initials, then the other name or names follows. Here are some examples of three names and initial-brand names that you can pick cues from. Three names or initials: T.D. Jakes, J.J. Rawlings, BMW, John C. Maxwell, KOD, KKD, KSM, BKC, MOG, IPMC, ICGC, KICC, PIWC, World Trade Center, Dag Heard Mills, Bernard Kelvin Clive, etc Lastly, remember that the internet and social media also plays a critical role in creating your brand names. Ensure that your selected name would be available across the major social media platforms and that a domain name can be acquired without conflicts. Check all that out and additionally, register the name as a company or trademark your brand where necessary. In the end, it’s what you invest in the name that makes the brand relevant. So choose your brand name carefully and work on the things that will make the name stick and tick. Recommended Resources DOWNLOAD the eBook Digital Disruption: Personal Brands that will Crush it after the Pandemic Branding Books by Bernard Kelvin Clive Branding Courses

Commuters were trapped on Wellington's roads last night, after a slip on State Highway 2 caused the network to seize up. One motorist, Cindy Thompson, told RNZ it was the worst traffic she had ever experienced. So, what happened? The NZTA's Mark Owen speaks to Susie Ferguson.

Update Program from 06/17/2020 with Northern Commissioner of Vernon County Cindy Thompson as they discuss the importance of the US Census and more.

Meet Our Guest: Cindy wants you to be Trimazing—three times better than amazing! After improving her health and fitness through plant-based nutrition, losing 60 pounds and becoming an adult-onset athlete, she retired from her 20-year firefighting career to help people just like you. She works with people and organizations so they can reach their health and wellness goals. Our health and wellness is closely tied to the health of our environment. Cindy incorporates zero-waste and sustainable practices throughout her programs. You'll see it IS easy being green! Cindy Thompson is a certified Health Coach, Vegan Lifestyle Coach and Educator, Fitness Nutrition Specialist, and Firefighter Peer Fitness Trainer. She is a Food for Life Instructor with the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine and Rouxbe Plant-Based Professional, teaching people how to prepare delicious, satisfying, and health-promoting meals. You can find Cindy at Trimazing! Health & Lifestyle Coaching Additional info about classes/COVID-19 response: https://trimazing.com/events/ Subscribe to Pivot! A Vegan Business Interview Series on Soundwise

Your healthy heart comes into focus as Dr. Joel Kahn joins “The Weight Loss Champion” Chuck Carroll on The Exam Room™.   The pair explore everything from helping protect your heart during the coronavirus pandemic using nutrition to the role Lipoprotein(a), which Dr. Kahn refers to as the heart’s quiet killer.   Chuck also chats with former Seattle area firefighter Cindy Thompson who shed an amazing 60 pounds after adopting a plant-based diet and has kept it off for 10 years! But losing weight wasn’t her only motivation for change. There was something far more powerful driving the cheese addict to give up meat and dairy.   The one thing she wasn’t expecting on her journey? For her entire firehouse to take the plant-based plunge with her!   Today, Cindy is still changing lives as a Food For Life instructor and teaching the online course Cooking to Combat COVID-19.   Schedule a telemedicine appointment with doctors and dietitians at Barnard Medical Center. Available to residents of the District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia, Arizona, California, Colorado, New York, Missouri, and Massachusetts.   — — — Chuck Carroll Twitter: @ChuckCarrollWLC IG: @ChuckCarrollWLC Facebook: https://wghtloss.cc/ChuckFacebook — — — Physicians Committee Twitter: @PCRM IG: @PhysiciansCommittee Facebook: https://wghtloss.cc/PCRMFacebook — — — Dr. Joel Kahn Twitter: @DrJKahn Web: https://www.drjoelkahn.com/ — — — Cindy Thompson Class Schedule: https://trimazing.com/events/   Twitter: @TrimazingVLC IG: @TrimazingVLC — — — Barnard Medical Center Telemedicine Schedule Appointment: https://bit.ly/BMCtelemed — — — COVID-19 Resources PCRM: https://bit.ly/PCRMcovid CDC: https://bit.ly/33DXgyF WHO: https://bit.ly/33BSeTo COVID-19 Global Map: https://bit.ly/CVID19map   Share the Show   Please subscribe and give the show a 5-star rating on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or many other podcast providers. Don’t forget to share it with a friend for inspiration!  

Cindy Thompson makes the case for her bid for the fourth congressional district.   State Auditor John Dougall and Josh Daniels host.

Guest Cindy Thompson talks US Census Information and more.

Cindy Thompson joins us to share about her book about dementia care stories. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/caring-conversations/message

Cindy Thompson joins us to share about her book about dementia care stories. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/caring-conversations/message

When a veteran hears “Thank you for your service” some of us freeze, some of us respond, and some just walk away. So what do we think about a documentary titled Thank You For Your Service (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2352196)? On Feb 20, the Stonefield theater will hold a screening of TYFYS with a panel discussion after. We speak with Cindy Thompson, Chad Layman of the Fine Earth Adventure Race, and Carrie Ann Alford of the Virginia Department of Veteran Services about the upcoming screening and why you should go see it.

Here in Charlottesville we have a new thing, and it’s called Reboot Recovery. This is a group program to help treat any veteran (or civilian) who has experienced trauma, and there are more than 100 locations worldwide. The most impressive stat? Out of 2700 graduates, there are zero suicides. That’s the number so many veteran orgs want to see, and we speak with Cindy Thompson and James McLeod about how Reboot is able to accomplish this. If you know a veteran, you have to listen to this one!

To get live links to the music we play and resources we offer, visit This show includes the following songs: Linda Debella - Big Bang Mahogany Dannie - Leap Cindy Thompson - Silver Alert Brianne Chasanoff - Breathe Pamela Jane Gerrand - Shine Maggie Seligman - Can't Find You Exit 22 - Dangerously Sweet Kym Gouchie - Sister Rain Anne E. DeChant - Pop The Star For Music Biz Resources Visit Visit our Sponsor Savannah Philyaw at: Visit our Sponsor Helen Sanderson-White at: Visit our Sponsor Briana Tyson at:

To get live links to the music we play and resources we offer, visit This show includes the following songs: Linda Debella - Big Bang Mahogany Dannie - Leap Cindy Thompson - Silver Alert Brianne Chasanoff - Breathe Pamela Jane Gerrand - Shine Maggie Seligman - Can't Find You Exit 22 - Dangerously Sweet Kym Gouchie - Sister Rain Anne E. DeChant - Pop The Star For Music Biz Resources Visit Visit our Sponsor Savannah Philyaw at: Visit our Sponsor Helen Sanderson-White at: Visit our Sponsor Briana Tyson at:

To get live links to the music we play and resources we offer, visit This show includes the following songs: Linda Debella - Big Bang Mahogany Dannie - Leap Cindy Thompson - Silver Alert Brianne Chasanoff - Breathe Pamela Jane Gerrand - Shine Maggie Seligman - Can't Find You Exit 22 - Dangerously Sweet Kym Gouchie - Sister Rain Anne E. DeChant - Pop The Star For Music Biz Resources Visit Visit our Sponsor Savannah Philyaw at: Visit our Sponsor Helen Sanderson-White at: Visit our Sponsor Briana Tyson at:

The Survival Medicine Hour with Dr. Bones and Nurse Amy from www.DoomandBloom.net, presents an interview with the co-organizer of Life Changes.Be Ready! Preparedness and Gun Expo in Lakeland Florida November 2 and 3, 2013. We also talk about our recent adventures traveling from the NPS Expo in Atlanta and our Meet and Greet sponsered by Tom Martin from the American Prepper Network.com or APN. Thanks for listening and see you next week!