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Episode # 48 Supporting Teenage Girls' Mental Health and Building Strong Parent-Teen Relationships

Join me, Alida Hernandez, as I discuss the crucial topic of teenage girls' mental health with Dr. Cheryl Green, author of "Heal Your Daughter." Over half of high school girls face depression, and nearly one-third grapple with persistent suicidal thoughts. Together, we explore the impact of the pandemic and societal changes on this issue.

It's never too late to rebuild relationships and initiate the healing process for our children. We stress the significance of communication, urging parents to share their own feelings of guilt and shame as a crucial step toward understanding and healing. We share inspiring stories of parents going to great lengths to protect their children and recommend resources like the movie "Sound of Freedom" and Dr. Green's book. Tune in and let's collaboratively support the mental health of our youth.

About the Author
Dr. Cheryl L. Green is a lifestyle psychiatrist based in Southern California. Her passion is inspiring others to achieve vibrant physical and mental health. She can be found online on her website, www.CherylLGreenMD.com.

Heal Your Daughter: How Lifestyle Psychiatry Can Save Her from Depression, Cutting, and Suicidal Thoughts
Publisher: BookBaby Press
Release Date: April 21, 2023   
ISBN-10: ‎ 1667871242
ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1667871240
Available from Amazon.com, https://amzn.to/3QZKLIb

The Heal Your Daughter Workbook: Six Weeks to Feeling Good with Lifestyle Psychiatry
Publisher: BookBaby Press
Release Date: April 21, 2023
ISBN-10: ‎ 1667871269
ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1667871264
Available from Amazon.com, BN.com and other retailers
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Speaker 1:

Hi, welcome to Rebooted Mindset, formally Rebooted the Podcast. I'm your host, elita Hernandez. Come join me every Wednesday and Sunday afternoon at 2.30 pm Eastern time to hear real-life conversations with experts around the world on how we can heal our body, mind, soul and spirit. So let's get talking. Hi, everybody, I'm back again Elita Hernandez here, rebooted the Podcast with another exciting and special guest, of course for you. We got to learn more stuff every week than you come and see my show. So today I am honored to have a doctor. Oh, I got the wrong one, cheryl. I am so sorry I wasn't ready, no worries, cheryl Green and she has wrote an incredible book, heal your Daughter, and we'll go into depth about that. It's very exciting psychiatry and helping out teenage youth right now that we're going through a really bad time right now with the youth. So I think this book comes out at an appropriate time.

Speaker 2:

Well, great, yeah, thank you so much. Yeah, and the book actually, before that big CDC report came out, the YRBS that showed those horrifying statistics which I'm sure you'll want to delve into. But yeah, I mean, if your daughter is in high school and depressed, she is not the only one. You are not the only parent struggling with this issue.

Speaker 1:

And I don't know, in your research have you found as it has increased since the pandemic, Since 2020?

Speaker 2:

Absolutely.

Speaker 1:

And the changes of socialization, changes the school, all that stuff has affected the kids and people are really not talking about that. They really don't talk about it too much. They give you statistics, but then it just flies away in the air. Right, the amount of suicide has increased and not just in teens, of course, and other people too, because I think it's increased overall in humanity since 2020.

Speaker 2:

And the biggest bump, though, has been teenage girls, high school girls. That's been the biggest increase.

Speaker 1:

So is there a pattern in the teenage girls? Is there something in particular that's causing this?

Speaker 2:

Well, nobody can do a randomized, controlled experiment on Y, which?

Speaker 2:

would be so another goal to do that. But we do know factors that correlate with it and we do know, actually, that teens have had an issue with suicide rising ever since, like about 2013, 2014,. But then the pandemic made it through the roof for teen girls. Teen boys stayed about the same, but teen girls rocketed into the stratosphere in terms of their suicidal thoughts and suicidal thoughts with a plan in the pandemic years. So we have the stats at 57% depressed within the past year.

Speaker 2:

This is for high school girls, so close to 60% depressed or hopeless. We have 30% having suicidal thoughts, persistent suicidal thoughts in the last one year. We have 24%, so nearly a quarter with persistent suicidal thoughts with the plan, meaning they meet criteria to be admitted to the inpatient unit. When that happens, when your teen has suicidal thoughts with a plan, that's the point where you have to admit them to the inpatient unit. Then we have 13% of girls making a suicide attempt. So it is a crisis we can't underestimate what it would look like to treat adequately by the current model all of those girls would be. Every high school would have its own inpatient unit to treat that quarter of the girls who are suicidal with a plan, and obviously that's never going to happen.

Speaker 1:

No, it's way too much, that's intense.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, and even then inpatient hospitalization is one week, you know, one week for stabilization, and then you have to follow it up, and then that follow up tends to be, you know, just a weekly visit. And so, you know, into this crisis, I think you know parents will have our caregivers, of whatever kind they may be, have to kind of step up. They kind of have to step up and these days it's often not the parent, it's the grandparent, it's an aunt, it's it's an adoptive parent, it's someone other than the biological parent. Because, as you know, you know, much as this is a crisis now, we've had a drug problem going back decades. So this generation of parents is struggling to with their own issues of, you know, addiction, that kind of thing.

Speaker 2:

So I'm not sure they're so well equipped necessarily in all cases to take care of their kids. Not equipped, you know, in terms of their addiction status, not equipped economically. That's a huge one. I mean that is so huge. How can you parent when you're holding down three jobs? You know what's going to happen to your kid. Can you even keep the kids safe from basic crying? And we know from the YRBS that one in 10 teen high school girls was raped. So I mean that's astonishing right there. So we can tell why at least a tenth of those girls are depressed.

Speaker 1:

Well, it's right there.

Speaker 1:

And then if they don't have their biological mother, okay, or father, especially mother, because you need your mother for that. You know that hugging that connection that they miss. So if they have something happen dramatically like that, like a rape or anything like that, who are they going to go to? Right, they're embarrassed, they're scared, there's no place for them in the school to go to either. There's no crisis, because you imagine, I mean, we really do need it, I think we really do need some kind of crisis management at every school, but that's not going to happen because they're not going to fund it. It's going to have to be privately. The only way it could happen is if it privately happens.

Speaker 1:

And but it's just really sad because I had a conversation yesterday with a person who looks at different, how children learn, right and how different the structure, right. So we have a Western we live in a city, you know versus traditional learning from other countries. So I'm just thinking about that, how that correlates, because, again, what you said who's taking care of the child? Who's raising it? What are the conditions? Right, and I really didn't think about it. It's true we went through a decade of an epidemic of oxys, right Of all the pills, but before we knew it was addicting, right? So now all those people who are probably in their 40s, I want to say I think around there and that in that generation, right, that had been a fight.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, their kids are teens and their kids are teens. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, yeah, don't underestimate the power of that grandmother. I've seen a whole generation of kids raised by their grandparents and generally you know what those kids do very well.

Speaker 1:

Of course, yeah.

Speaker 2:

Grandma is doing a great job. I mean, you know, in my opinion? Yeah, I was raised with both.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I was raised, I had. I mean, I was raised with my parents, but my grandparents were very involved in my upbringing, so it makes such I was blessed to have both grandmothers on both sides and they really taught me a lot.

Speaker 2:

They taught me a lot.

Speaker 1:

Wonderful yeah.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, they teach the old stuff. Of course then the quote generation gap, you know, is large already between you know the kid and the parent, let alone that generation gap between you know them and the grandmother. But you know there's something very healing about that. Even though grandma may not be cool, you know. That can be so healing. That can be exactly what the doctor ordered. And you know I see so many parents and grandparents and other caregivers wanting to step up. They just don't know how, they just don't know what kinds of things they can do at home to protect and to heal their daughter. So lifestyle psychiatry doesn't come in to replace psychiatry at all, but it comes in the component that parents or grandparents can do at home. It comes in very powerfully at that level and I think that is the level where I've seen most kids get well. Of course I work in an intensive outpatient setting where the parents or grandparents are part of that.

Speaker 2:

It's a three hour three times a week but the parents are powerfully present. In one hour they learn the coping skills, they learn the life skills right along with their kid and that is so helpful over eight to 10 weeks that really helps. But there's no, you know, most people don't live in an area where they have intensive outpatient programs for teens. That's more of a specialty university thing and I'm a part of a university setting out there and most of the world those programs don't exist. So you know, but you can do it at home, you can replicate that. So I gave some of the secrets how to replicate that really basic great healing program, how to have your kid eat so they're not depressed because they are nutritionally, you know, not not repleted. You know that's very common.

Speaker 2:

That experiment was done in World War II, that if just by giving kids a cruddy diet or they did it on young men you can make them depressed, you can make them have bipolar symptoms, you can make them cut, you can make them aggressive on one another, be irritable, angry, and then you give them a good diet for six months. So that was six months. They became, they fell apart. You give them a good diet, good wholesome nutrition, for six months they normalized, they rebounded with nothing else, no psychotherapy, no psych meds, just like the nutrition Healed those men and brought them back up to normal. You know so that's powerful. And these days you got to worry about detox because things like lead, we know, can cause depression. Other contaminants in the environment can cause depression and, for that matter, physical illnesses, we know that. You know, in the general area of detox, substances that can cause psychosis, let alone depression, like marijuana wax pen.

Speaker 2:

Now, the cannabis wax pen is not regular cannabis, it's not. See, that is a mistake that kids make. The cannabis wax pen or the cannabis edibles are a tenfold concentrated form of THC, the tetrahydro-canabidiol. That's the waste product of the cannabidiol industry. Frankly, that's what that is. They are consuming. You know, when you extract the cannabidiol, what's left? Well, that's what's left is THC and a bunch of you know whatever else is in there pesticides, whatever, what other thing is in there that gets boiled down into the wax which kids then import directly into their brain. So it's don't think that cannabis wax pen or cannabis edibles are the same as plain old, you know it's not the same thing On the inpatient unit.

Speaker 2:

when I'm in there about about once a month, I cover the inpatient unit. It used to be my job now it's now. I just do it once a weekend. As many as half the kids are there and they're psychotic because of their wax pen use. You know there can be no family history of psychosis, nothing. But they've just been running through the cartridges or using edibles and they've gone batty yeah.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, first you think, oh, this is relaxing, this is self-medicating. But there's a rebound from that period of relaxation. There is a rebound where at first it relaxes you a little bit, but then you have a rebound up to a point where the rebound is paranoia and you're sure that, like the FBI, is after you or something.

Speaker 2:

You know somebody's putting food and poison in your food. You know these kids come in out of their mind bonkers and it's because they've been using too much cannabis wax pen. Eventually it catches up to them and I'm not sure if it's what's in there. I mean, that's the thing we can never be sure, what is in there Exactly.

Speaker 1:

What is in that cartridge Unless?

Speaker 2:

you make it yourself.

Speaker 1:

Unless you make it yourself, you don't know.

Speaker 2:

Right, yeah, and so. I suspect some of those that are going bonkers. It's not even the cannabis and the cannabis that's making them go bonkers.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2:

It could be some other contaminant in there.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I know some of the stuff must be very strong, because I've seen people outside of the cannabis store you know the Spencerie and I'm like looking at them and they're like high as a kite, like I thought it was regulated. How much THC? How can that person be so high? You know what I mean. It wasn't even functioning. It was just like just kind of standing there. I'm like what is he on? But people don't realize. You know they're making it legal in a lot of places just very shortly on that topic, but you know it is addicting. People think, oh, it's legal. It's the same way with alcohol. Alcohol is legal, but alcohol is very damaging.

Speaker 2:

So alcohol is damaging, yes, over time. Oh, honestly, I never see kids on the inpatient unit who are there because of alcohol. I just don't see it. I see them there because of the wax pen.

Speaker 1:

So if I had to one now, because it's so readily available now too.

Speaker 2:

Right, my concern, amater, I would say, you know, cannabis wax pen is up here, where the edibles and then alcohol is somewhere in the range, but we've always had alcohol. We've not seen these rates of psychosis on the inpatient units.

Speaker 1:

Wow See, and nobody's talking about this.

Speaker 2:

Yeah. So as a parent, it might be wise to ration those $20 bills you give to your kid, because if they just take that $20 bill and cash it in for a cartridge, that's a problem and the thing is isn't.

Speaker 1:

How are they getting it? First of all, you have to be 21 years old, I think.

Speaker 2:

Well, they can get it from their friends who are 21.

Speaker 1:

Exactly.

Speaker 2:

And then there's a fee for the middleman, I imagine. But almost any park, almost any boarding area, there are people who will say hello, you know, do you want anything? And they don't even necessarily look nefarious, but what they're selling can be very harmful.

Speaker 1:

So from your book that you have, is it more for the teenage girl, or is it a parent guide, or how would you?

Speaker 2:

No, no, it's for the caregivers. It's definitely for the caregivers to ingest. How are they can ingest it? Reading it or hearing it? I gave a recorded version or just having it on your phone in an ebook form. This is kind of the stuff you as a parent can do. So that book is for the caregivers Now, if they want to work with their teen directly and their teen, the relationship is such that they can work directly with that teen. There is also a workbook version of it where you can go kind of step by step through each of these things and enlist the teen's help like hey, let's go to the grocery store, let's pick out whatever is good that you'll eat. Let's pick it out together. Let's decontaminate your room, let's go for a walk, because exercise and good sleep they're part of it too.

Speaker 2:

Emotional connectedness that's huge. That's probably, as I said once before, the last two chapters of the book the emotional and social connectedness and the stress reduction. Those two are the main meat of the book and I saved them for last because they're kind of the hardest things to do but they're probably the most powerful. So those are in there too. How to get your kid connected, but to safe peers who aren't going to just take your kid down a spiral, how to regulate the kid's social media intake Because that can. The dark web and going on accessing it through TORN, going right down the rabbit hole. There I have seen on the inpatient unit little kids traumatized because somehow somebody left them in front of a TOR browser and they just went right down there. They were seeing all kinds of sacrifice stuff and all kinds of darkness and traumatized so much so they had to be admitted.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, totally traumatizing stuff you can see there.

Speaker 1:

You have to be careful. You have to be careful for their safety because you've heard so much, there's a lot of human trafficking going on. There's a lot of things. I mean I look in the news not in the regular news but I read, like different counties, like where I live, to see if there's any missing children, because I'm always putting ads like missing child, missing alert. And a friend of mine, her niece, was gone and thank God she was recovered, but she was gone for a little while too. But so parents have to be careful with that, because the kids are on these things 24, seven and who knows who's talking to them, who knows where they're going, like you said. You know, and this affects them Because we didn't have this, like I didn't have this when I was a little girl, right?

Speaker 1:

So I didn't grow up in the era of phones. I grew up in the 70s and the 80s when we didn't have cell phones. So you know, we actually interacted, we talked, we went to the park, right. We spent time outside with friends. If we were depressed we would go outside. You know, it was a different of a different interactions to get rid of the depression.

Speaker 1:

So, or anything you know.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, yeah, and in some cultures you know some of my patients they're still doing that. They're hanging out with their cousins or they're heading to the res. You know they're interacting with their larger family or their tribe or their community. A lot of kids are doing that and it's the best thing for them. It is the most healthy thing getting them away from that little control mechanism.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, and then what I've seen also is I had a parent talk to me and she was planning a party and for her daughter for her 16th birthday, and I asked them well, what is your daughter like? She goes, I don't know, she doesn't talk to me and I'm like, what? Like I've seen that I've heard other parents tell me this before that I have a teenage girl, 15, 16 years old, and they are just really just internally, just quiet, not communicating with the parents. I guess those are signs I would say those are little signs to be kind of concerned if your daughter's not talking to you, like, why are you not communicating?

Speaker 1:

You know, I mean, and why doesn't a parent know? Like why doesn't a parent know what color she likes or what she? I mean, I don't know, I have two boys. They're in their 20s, so mid 20s, but you know I know what they like, like I'm always I was involved in their life, like you know, constantly. I think we've lost like again, we talked about this. I think it's the where the parents are, where they're what kind of psychological or emotional or whatever issues they're going through that has affected their children.

Speaker 2:

So now it's a spiral down, multi-generational trauma, intergenerational trauma that's carried down. Yeah, absolutely, that's a critical factor. So I would say for any of this to work it begins with the brass tacks of reforming and reconnecting with that kid. No matter what, make that the number one. Reconnecting with that kid by hooker, by crook, whatever it takes to do that. And it can begin with just spending time, just spending time silently and just sitting there.

Speaker 2:

Often there is resentment toward the parent for not having been there at a certain time in their life and that's hard to recover from that. I see a lot of that. I see the most of that toward missing dads. Even if dad has been gone because he's had, you know, a medical career. He's been in training, he's been busy, wanted to make a lot of money for the family, so he's been gone, he's still been gone. Or what if it's mom going on that medical path to make a lot of money for those daughters and she's been gone? That is also devastating to these kids. Often they have no desire for any relationship. They don't forgive, they can't forgive. It's like unforgivable how could you not have been there?

Speaker 1:

Right, they shut down, they shut down.

Speaker 1:

Like actually they shut down, they build a wall. And then, because I've seen it, when my son was a little upset with me for a little while and I was like what's going on, he was just really just the wall, you know, and you know we rekindled. Everything's good now, but you know, I could see that. You know, when the emotions shut down because they don't know how to deal with what's going on in here, right, they don't know what that feeling is. Why am I upset of my mother or my father? You know I should love them, right? So they're probably going through all this stuff in their head and again, I think I don't know. I personally like again, technology is great, but it affects those children out there because there's so much information, like you said, they go to a path on their phone and it could bring stuff to depression because AI brings the stuff up on your phone. I was searching something the other day and now every day I got the same thing coming up on my phone, right?

Speaker 2:

Yeah, to get away from that. But about the parent bond, the critical thing is just to say, yeah, I wasn't there and I'm sorry. I am sorry. I acknowledged I wasn't there and I should have been there and I needed to be there and I am so sorry I might have screwed you up and I'm so sorry, but I'm here now. I'm here now and I will be here from now on. I'm here now for you. I wanna make amends, I wanna rebuild a relationship and I wanna relationship with you from this day forward, forever.

Speaker 2:

That's the most compelling thing someone who has been gone can say. And I've seen so many parents in that vote and they do have a lot of sorrow. I mean, I've seen grown men weeping that they don't have a better relationship with their teenage son and it's like, okay, well, they're gone. It was too late in some cases, but hopefully. I have also seen Parents and kids write what's called love letters to each other and we call them love letters, but they begin I'm angry at you because I hate you, because.

Speaker 2:

And they get through all of these other emotions until finally the last one is what I love about you is and they can begin to open that door after they've gotten out all of the gunk. It's like an emotional detox that those letters enable. And also it's two ways the parent writes one, responds to the quote love letter that the child gives, responds truthfully from the heart, writes his or her own, that the parent writes a letter, and it goes back and forth, and back and forth. Until all of those old emotions they can't be healed, until they can be brought to life.

Speaker 2:

If they remain buried, they ain't going anywhere.

Speaker 1:

Right, you have to release it.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, it's like the metaphorical soda bottle that's shaken up. You know, those emotions are in there, causing what, causing stress pressure pressure.

Speaker 2:

But how do you let it out? You let it out little by little in these little letters and then, once the explosive core of it is dispatched, once it's had as many explosions, you'd be surprised, because I think I've almost never. I say almost never because I have had a couple of really difficult situations where there isn't that fundamental love. The parent really does love that kid, the kid really does love that parent. And if you get down beneath all the crud, that is there and that is a basis on which to build. But you can only get there until after you talk about the more superficial stuff, which is the stuff either the anger and resentment.

Speaker 1:

Right the healing has to begin. The anger and resentment, right the healing. The healing has to begin once you release, so that healing, that bond, because I think every child wants to be loved by their parent regardless and I think that you know I had my things with my mother when I was younger. Right, some resentments, some things, and that kept me for a while Like my relationship wasn't as close, and I realized that as I got older, especially now I care for her. She's 85. She's still around.

Speaker 1:

I'm the only daughter and so I've learned that a long time ago I forgave my mother. I said I forgive you, you're just human. You're human like me. You make mistakes. You didn't know anything. You did the best you could. You know, and it's not right for me to hold that it because of you. I'm like this. No, I have my choice, I make my choice. You didn't make the choice for me, I made the choice. So I've learned that you know we have to be responsible for our choices. But this is a this is amazing book. I think it's going to be really good for people out there. I hope that parents out there, everybody who's listening to the podcast, please get the book here. I'll have all the information and the links and where you can get it, so you can help your teenage child, if you have one, and and yourself too, because you know the healing starts with with you, as well as the parents.

Speaker 2:

So oh, thanks so much, alita, for mentioning the book. I really think you know, these days, putting out books it does not make your money, it does not, it does not. This information is out there. So so, parents, it was really. You know, it's to answer the question of my own patients. Like the parents would say I want to, I want to heal my kid, I don't know how. So, anyway, this was my attempt to say here's how you can, here's how you can begin.

Speaker 1:

No it's beautiful.

Speaker 1:

It's beautiful. What you said about the love letter really touched me because, honestly, that's what you have to do. And and I kind of did that, like I broke down one time and told my son I'm very sorry, I was very, I was very hurt myself, like I could feel the guilt I had a lot of guilt, you know first to something and I broke down and I let it out and I said I'm so sorry I wasn't there. You know I was going through my own thing and you know I just kind of did my confession right and I feel now that relationship has healed because of that.

Speaker 2:

Great.

Speaker 1:

Because my son did understand. He didn't know what was going on with me. You know, like why did my? Why is mom gone for a little while? What happened to mom? No-transcript.

Speaker 1:

So we have to get over our as a parent. We have to get over our own shame and our own guilt. Okay, because it's not, our child weren't asked to be born. We asked. We wanted them to be born, right, we wanted them. We wanted to have a life and bring a life to this world. So now we have to be responsible for that life and we're not perfect. I know and I'm still learning. I'm still going through my learning. At 58 years old, I'm still learning, right, we'll learn till the day you die.

Speaker 2:

So you know there are some exceptions because you know if the parent's unsafe, if the parent had sold the kid out into sex slavery or something like that, there are exceptions to this.

Speaker 2:

If the parent had addicted the kid to drugs, sold them out, all of that. I see that kind of a lot. I think the county I work in, san Bernardino County, has the most of that human trafficking. And I just want to put a plug in for the movie the Sound of Freedom. The Sound of Freedom actually exposes a lot, not all it was actually. I think it was very mild.

Speaker 1:

It was very mild. It was very mild, yeah, compared to the first one.

Speaker 2:

It was very mild because you know, many of my patients have been stolen into that world right out from under their parents' noses, multiple times by the same people and it takes some very deep digging. It takes very concerned and heroic parents to get that kid back. I've heard stories that are absolutely incredible about the lengths to which parents will go to get those kids back. I mean asking you know, not only police forces for help, but ex-military for help, ex-males for help, all kinds of people.

Speaker 1:

We have to hear those stories Like. I need to get some of those stories on here because people need to see like people are talking just stupid things on the internet, that it's a conspiracy theory, that's not happening. What is wrong with?

Speaker 2:

this oh, it's happening. Let me tell you it's happening in your backyard?

Speaker 2:

It's happening in your neighbor. I'll tell you one of the most moving stories I heard, and I'll just tell it to you, and I don't know all the details, but was a mom whose daughter was stolen. She was very youthful, she pretended to be a child herself and she went down the rabbit hole into that world, sacrificing everything, exposing herself, making her own self vulnerable to all of those people, in order to locate and grab her daughter. So she actually replicated exactly what her daughter went through to land in the same spot so she could retrieve her daughter and pull her out. That's the most heroic daughter story.

Speaker 1:

A mother will go anywhere to find their child. I believe that that's what sometimes I mean she was really, I thought, a unique hero.

Speaker 2:

I hope someone makes a movie about that lady someday. But wow, wow, that's incredible.

Speaker 1:

I hate to cut this short. I have another interview that I have to do, but this was an awesome conversation and we'll throw in again, just to throw in. Don't forget to see Sound of Freedom, because it's incredible. You have to see it. It's real, it's real life and protect your children out there and especially with Cheryl's book here. That's amazing and help your kids out there, reconnect with your children.

Speaker 2:

Great. I'll say the name of it Heal your Daughter. The book is Heal your Daughter how Lifestyle Psychiatry Can Save Her from Depression, cutting and Suicidal Thoughts. It's the part parents can do at home and it's available on all the big usual sites. It's on Amazon, barnes, noble, online. It's in most the bookstores. You can also get it at bookbabycom. So it's on multiple sites.

Speaker 1:

If you don't like Amazon, you can get it from bookbabycom and I'll put all the information there, so they'll have all the information in this podcast so they can get to you.

Speaker 2:

Well, thanks, Alita, thank you so much. Pleasure talking with you.

Speaker 1:

All right, have an awesome day. Oh, thank you. I'm impressed by your story.

Speaker 2:

Thank you, thank you.

Speaker 1:

Have an awesome day and a weekend, you too. Bye, alita, bye. Come celebrate your event and create new memories at Studio 33 right here in Fort Lauderdale, off the exit 32 commercial boulevard. Call us today so you can schedule an appointment and see the location as an intimate setting for your private event. Call us at 954-530-7193. Again, 954-530-7193. Also, our website is studio33f. As in frankllcom. You can find us on all social media at Studio 33 FLL as well. Again, call us today for your appointment and come see our venue. We are filling up fast.

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Alida Hernandez

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