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Jennifer Bashant — positive psychology
Jennifer Bashant of Guilderland, who has worked in a mental-health clinic, in a county jail, as a school social worker, and as a research scientist for the state’s Office of Mental Health, now runs a business called Building Better Futures. She combines her expertise from academic degrees with a hands-on approach to help teachers, parents, and businesses navigate challenges. During the pandemic, her focus has shifted to schools, supporting people through stressful times — teaching positive psychology resilience, and being trauma informed. People, often unknowingly, create narratives about themselves, sometimes listening to a too-often critical inner voice. “You can write a restraining order for that voice,” says Bashant, which creates a new neural pathway in the brain. For everyone struggling through the pandemic, Bashant says, “Don’t be hard on yourself. Feel your feelings … Don’t compare what you’re doing now with what you did a year ago … Do the best you can.”
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Daughter and mother coach dragon-boat paddlers
31:33Anna Judge and Louisa Matthew realize they live in an ageist and sexist society — but, with generous spirits, they are paddling against the current. The mother-daughter duo together coach a crew of dragon boat paddlers. Matthew, the mother, is an art professor at Union College. Judge, her daughter, is a certified personal trainer who led her mother into the sport. “A dragon boat is a 40-foot long, very narrow racing boat,” explains Matthew in this week’s Enterprise podcast. “That became standardized in the 20th Century but it’s based on a thousands-year-old Chinese tradition of racing the big rivers in China.” A dragon boat has 20 paddlers, two to a seat, with a person in the stern who steers and a person in the bow signaling directions, traditionally by drumming. “It’s the national sport of China,” said Judge “so it’s quite big in Asia and has subsequently spread to Australia, New Zealand, and Europe.” It came to the United States through Canada, she said, citing the work of a doctor in British Columbia who changed prevailing medical opinion on exercise for breast-cancer survivors.
Angelica Sofia Parker and Elca Hubbard prepare for a pageant while supporting each other
27:03https://altamontenterprise.com/07242023/angelica-sofia-parker-and-elca-hubbard-prepare-pageant-while-supporting-each-other
