Heather Polinsky
Shifting Mindsets for Better Health ProducerDr. Heather Polinsky is the Director of the School of Broadcast and Cinematic Arts at Central Michigan University. Before pursuing academia, Dr. Polinsky worked as an audio engineer at SoundTrax Recording Studios in Raleigh, North Carolina.
After the studio hit hard economic times, she pursued her master’s degree researching the economic realities of the media business and further studied media economics and policy in doctoral education.
Dr. Polinsky continues to produce audio projects and research media business trends, economics and policy.
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Many children experience Adverse Childhood Experiences or ACEs due to outside pressures on the family and inner family dynamics.
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Having a parent or guardian who make a child feel safe and secure helps them face adversities in life. Today’s episode of Shifting Mindsets for Better Health explores how parents have the power to help children during adversity.
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Children learn from an early age how to deal with stress from their environment and caregivers. In today's episode of Shifting Mindsets for Better Health, we examine how to cultivate resilience to mitigate the effects of toxic stress and trauma caused by adverse childhood experiences.
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Childhood toxic stress and trauma can change your body and pass down through generations. In this episode of Shifting Mindsets for Better Health, we examine how Adverse Childhood Experiences cause a transgenerational cycle and why we need to break this cycle.
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We can feel the effects of stress on our bodies because we also experience calm. But what happens if we only experience stress. In this episode of Shifting Mindsets for Better Health, we examine the effects that Adverse Childhood Experiences can have on our brain and body.
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We’ve all experienced kids with bad behavior who receive labels such as problem, troubled, or delinquent children. These kids could be experiencing toxic stress and trauma. In this episode of Shifting Mindsets for Better Health, we look at the effects toxic stress can have on behavior in children.
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Adverse childhood experiences, or ACEs, can lead to chronic physical and mental health issues in adulthood. The more ACEs experienced leads to a higher probability of facing health challenges as an adult. Today's episode of Shifting Mindsets explores the ACE score and its implications.
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What we experience as children leaves a lasting impression on the rest of our lives. Unfortunately, many children experience adverse childhood experiences or ACEs that lead to many chronic diseases and early death. For the next couple of months, Shifting mindsets will explore ACEs. This episode will explain what ACEs are.
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In March 2020, most of us lost connecting with people in person because of the Pandemic. This lasted longer than anyone imagined. In this episode of Shifting Mindsets for Better Health, we examine the effects of virtual connections on children.
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We are seeing a rise in child abuse in emergency rooms in Michigan. In this episode of Shifting Mindsets for Better Health, we examine what might be causing severe injuries in children and how we can work toward preventing child abuse.