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00:25Hello, everyone. Welcome to another episode of the Constitutionalist Politics Podcast.
00:34Joining me today is Terry Brinston.
00:38We met at Miss Liz Tea Time.
00:45Her basically farewell, her leaving her podcast behind at least for a while.
00:52A lot of Miss Liz's guests, we all came together for kind of a farewell episode, and Terry and I met each other there.
01:05So, figured we'd have a discussion, too.
01:09Welcome to the show.
01:12I cannot talk today.
01:15Welcome to the show, Terry.
01:17Thank you so much for having me.
01:20I look forward to speaking with you today.
01:23And you're associated with my school nurse program and nursing health, healthness.
01:33I can't talk.
01:35Nursing Wellness Group Foundation.
01:40Yes?
01:41Nurturing Wellness Group Foundation.
01:44What did I say?
01:45Nursing.
01:46Nursing.
01:47We probably should stop this, throw it all out, and start over again.
01:56But I'm not going to do that.
01:59It's like I say to my audience, you know, you get what you get with me.
02:06I'm not here hiding anything.
02:10Warts and all.
02:11Here it is.
02:14And I appreciate it.
02:16Yeah.
02:18So, first, I guess, the proverbial background information, right?
02:25Where were you born and raised and all that kind of stuff?
02:28Where are you now?
02:30Okay.
02:31All right.
02:31So, I grew up in Michigan.
02:33So, I've been here all my life.
02:35So, I am, grew up in Inkster, Michigan, and I went to Robichaud High School in Dearborn Heights.
02:44And so, that's been my upbringing and my, you know, my roots are from there.
02:52I live, I currently live in Romulus, Romulus, Michigan, and definitely love my community.
03:00And so, I've been working as a nurse and a teacher for over 26 years.
03:09So, I'm a pediatric nurse.
03:12And I know people when I see I'm a nurse and a teacher, pediatric nurse.
03:15So, I work with young people in a high school setting, and I help them to get connected to the medical field.
03:22So, I teach them introduction to the medical field and basic information that they need.
03:28So, we're trying to build up our healthcare system because I need to retire soon.
03:33And so, I get us some, you know, get us some retirement, get some people working.
03:41And I've also, I'm a pediatric nurse, like I said, and a business owner.
03:47I'm busy.
03:48I get really bored real quick.
03:49So, I got a lot going on.
03:51And so, I'm the CEO of the Nurturing Wellness Group Foundation, which is a nonprofit.
03:56We work with young people, young adults, who are struggling with thriving.
04:04We also work with schools, and we help them to connect them to different resources, mental health resources, so that they can be productive citizens.
04:13And so, and I also work for schools, and I help them to get their policies and procedures.
04:20So, I'm so busy.
04:22But one of the things I do is that youth are in the center of my mission.
04:26And everything that I do has a direct impact to helping young people to thrive, to making sure that they have a safe environment in our school systems.
04:37And so, that's who I am.
04:39That sounds good.
04:41And for those who don't know, Romulus is where Metro, Detroit Metro Airport is.
04:49There is a city airport in the Detroit city limits, but the main airport is actually downriver.
04:59In my backyard.
05:01Yeah.
05:01You enjoy all that plane noise going on all the time?
05:06I don't hear the plane noise.
05:09They don't fly over my house, thank goodness.
05:12But, yeah, it's very convenient.
05:15So, if you ever travel or leave out, you know, everybody calls me to pick them up at the airport, and, you know, they'll park their car at my house.
05:22So, that makes it fun.
05:23I get to see people when they're leaving and coming back.
05:25So, yeah, what noise you would normally get there, you've kind of acclimated to it, and you don't even really pay any attention to it.
05:37No, they don't fly over my house.
05:40They come in from another direction.
05:42So, they don't really, when we hear a plane flying over, it's very, it's not a normal occurrence.
05:50When I lived in Inkster, we heard it all the time, but I don't hear anything.
05:57You were on one of the main runway, kind of main paths, flies right over Inkster, yes.
06:05That was not good, but, yeah, where I'm at now, I don't, I'm closer to the airport, but I don't hear anything.
06:11Yeah, I often hear that a lot of people who, like, railroad tracks, always from me, I hear trains every once in a while, but not very much, but, you know, people with, like, apartments right on the tracks, a lot of times they'll say,
06:30I never pay any attention to them, never hear them, it's like, their hearing has adjusted to the point where it, like, weeds that out.
06:43Absolutely, yeah, that's funny you say that, because working in the school system, I never hear the bells, you know, and it's like, the kids get up, and they're, like, on their way out the class, and they're like, I'm like, where are you going?
06:55They're like, Ms. Princeton, the bell just rang, so I was like, so I know exactly what you're talking about.
07:00Yeah, that's the same kind of thing, right? Selective hearing, I guess.
07:06There you go.
07:08Yeah, and I keep wanting to change the nurturing to nourishing.
07:16Nourishing.
07:19That's where the hang-up with me is right now, it's like, no, you don't have anything to do with the lunch program.
07:29No.
07:30That kids, you almost always are complaining about.
07:37All the time.
07:39All the time.
07:39Yeah.
07:40I did a show, I don't remember the guest's name now offhand, but we did go into that, it's like,
07:53a pizza burger thing every day isn't good, but like when Michelle Obama give her an A-plus for intention,
08:05but in results, she gets an F, because kids were just, if they're throwing it out every day,
08:14and they're getting nothing whatsoever in them because they refuse to eat what you insist they got to eat,
08:21that's not good either, right?
08:26So that's funny you say that, because I've been working in education for a while, and I've seen that transition.
08:36And now, no lie, during that time, I can't remember the name of the program that she implemented,
08:43but during that time when Michelle Obama implemented the program where we had to really look at the nutritional impact
08:51and the vending machines and all of that stuff, I promise you, we saw a difference, a difference in the weight
09:00and the energy level of our students.
09:02We, at me as a teacher, I saw the difference, and you know, they're not, they drank more water
09:11because the vending machines had, you know, it didn't have pop or anything like that in it,
09:17but it did have a lot of water in it, and so healthier choices as far as their snacks,
09:24so I did see a difference in the energy level and the weight, I can't say that, yeah.
09:31And now we're, now we're back to everybody needs a Zen pick because everybody's obese again.
09:38You know, we can't win for losing.
09:41Right.
09:43Everything seems to cycle, it's that pendulum swing, we go way overboard one way,
09:49then we go way overboard back the other way, and it's...
09:54You can't win for, yeah, it's always something, and just hold your breath,
09:58it'll come right back around again.
10:01Right.
10:01You know, we tried something different, and now we're doing something else.
10:04Yeah, it's a, it becomes a little discouraging, absolutely, but yeah.
10:10Yeah, and the biggest problem with different programs are,
10:15is that when you try to make everything a one-size-fits-all,
10:20in a Martin Luther King Jr. content of character individualism society, it doesn't work.
10:30Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, everything is, everything is not for everybody, you know, you definitely have to look and see what,
10:38what works for that particular community or what works for that particular school.
10:43That's what I do with my school nurse, is we go into the school system and we look at their population,
10:51we look and see what types of medical issues are the children dealing with,
10:57and then we provide a, we call it a care plan for the school to kind of help to make sure that they are compliant
11:05with state and federal requirements for the school.
11:10So, for example, you know, what percentage of schools do you think have school nurses?
11:17What do you think?
11:17I would hope almost all of them would, but yeah, probably very few.
11:23Yeah, probably like about 35% of schools have school nurses.
11:28And so a lot of people, I talk to a lot of parents and they're like, you know,
11:31who, who sees your child when they get sick?
11:34And they'll say, oh, the nurse and no, we'll find out if your school has a nurse.
11:39A lot of times that, that role is being delegated to the secretary and our secretaries are being
11:47worked just so hard, you know, now some schools, you know, they have like a part-time nurse or maybe
11:55they may have a, you know, a nurse that comes over and reviews their, you know, their charts and
12:02different things like that. But some schools, they don't have anything, right? And so what we do
12:07is we go into the school systems and we help them to make sure that they have the right policies
12:14in place. We make sure that they have the right training for their staff. And we also see if they
12:23need medical support because you have a lot of kids, there's, you know, these kids get sick.
12:28You know, we, we don't, we didn't get this sick. I don't remember, you know, being in public school
12:33and, you know, being sick all the time. You know, kids are, their bones are breaking. We see so many,
12:39so many fractures and asthma and diabetes and allergic reactions. And so these young people are,
12:47are doing what they tell.
12:48to our diets again, always processed foods. I'm, I'm, I'm a big believer in everything in
12:57moderation, but the problem is, is they're, you know, eating McDonald's every day. That's not
13:04healthy, obviously.
13:07Absolutely. You know, that used to be a luxury for us. You know, now it's a luxury because it's so darn
13:12expensive, but you know, we are not eating right. And we're, you know, we have a lot of, a lot of our
13:19kids are just dealing with so many medical issues. And then they're in our, in school from what,
13:26seven o'clock until three things happen. They have asthma attacks. They have allergic reactions.
13:34They may be dealing with, you know, the first time a child really recognizes that they have,
13:40or the parent recognizes that they have some type of disorder. They're usually at school,
13:44you know, and so we have to get that support. And so what we do with my school nurse is we provide
13:51that support for schools who don't have school nurses. So we bridge that gap. And sometimes they
13:56may want to subcontract us to come in and be a nurse, or sometimes they just may want us to provide
14:03the training and, you know, make sure that they're compliant with state and federal laws so that they
14:09don't get in trouble. Right. So that's what I do with that, with that company.
14:14Well, we, you briefly mentioned mental health before, and that's kind of really the road I want
14:22to go down now. It's like, I was talking with someone else earlier today, right? These,
14:28they're just, you know, so how about socializing with people? They're so self-isolated, it seems,
14:41even now way outside of the Wuhan hysteria, where obviously during the lockdown phases,
14:50even when they don't have to be locked down, they almost self-isolate, and that's not healthy.
14:58No, it's not. And this is a major problem. And I don't think it's a new problem. I just think
15:06we've started to shine the light on it. This definitely has escalated and gotten worse because
15:14of COVID. But it was a problem. We really never addressed our mental health. And I think that
15:24was one benefit of COVID that it did shine a light on this issue. And so people are really paying
15:30attention to that. And the phone usage in our school system is horrible. You're right. Kids are,
15:38they're addicted to their phones. And they believe that they can multitask, and they can't,
15:45you know, but they believe that they can. And so it is a major problem. And I truly believe, and to
15:53further address that issue is our schools are, a lot of our schools don't have the resource to support
16:02the mental health of our young people, right? So we don't have enough counselors, we don't have enough
16:08social workers, you know, and, and so it really, it really is a horrible issue. And that's another
16:16thing what we do through the Nurturing Wellness Group Foundation, we subcontract counselors and,
16:22and social workers, and we, everything that's dealing with medical connection, like a wraparound
16:29support services for our youth. But first, we get in there to seek what they need, because some schools
16:34may not need it. And because we know that it's not one size fits all. So we go in there and we
16:39evaluate and see do you know, would your will your kids benefit from having mental health support
16:46through counselors and setting policies in place? We look at, okay, you know, we look at these test
16:53scores. It's like, okay, well, one thing we can do is ban the phones in the school, you know, make them
16:59turn them off, you know, while you're sitting in class, let's turn our phones off. And so, you know,
17:03for a while there, you know, we couldn't say teachers couldn't, could not take the phones
17:09from the students, you know, the, you know, they had to have their phones. But, you know,
17:14that to me, is the lazy parenting, right? If way back when we used to, if we were sick, or whatever,
17:26if there was a deal where you needed something for whatever reason, a parent could call into the
17:35school and the school could send someone to the school room and, right? There isn't a need to have
17:43these literally chained around their neck 24-7. If they're sick, they go to the office. They used to
17:52be these things called pay phones, right? And we all managed to seem to work okay without that
18:02tether 24-7 before. But the technology has become like a crutch.
18:11Oh, absolutely. I definitely agree with you 100%. We are the fast food generation. We want everything
18:19right now, right? And so, with that said, you know, we, you know, we got to have things
18:25instantaneously. And so, you know, when I want my son, or I want my daughter, it's much easier for me to
18:32send them a text, because I know they got their phone on their lap, regardless of they're in the
18:36classroom. I just think that, you know, we, it's, you know, I don't want to throw it on all
18:44just parents. I just think our society has embraced this quick, fast fix, and we just
18:52gravitate to it, you know. I don't think we really realize the impact that it has having that phone,
19:02you know. It's like, I can't tell you how many times I'm repeating myself, or I just said something,
19:08and someone will raise their head and say, ask me this, the exact question that I just answered.
19:14And it's like, it's because you're distracted, you know. And so, it's, it's a big, it's a big
19:20issue, and it needs to be addressed. And, you know, even with AI coming on the scene as well,
19:28you know. It's going to get worse, yeah. It's going to get worse, because, you know, although there's
19:32many, many benefits for AI, and I talk to my friends about this all the time,
19:38yes, you know, it's very beneficial for people like you. You know, you've lived your life,
19:45you have experiences, and you, you know, you can put your questions in there with some life
19:51experiences connected to it. But can you imagine if you haven't had any life experiences, and so,
19:58you have, you know, I don't know, it's, it's a crutch too. That's, that's something that I,
20:04that I, that I, that's my soapbox. Yeah. No, they have no life experience. There is no
20:11wisdom whatsoever having come with the age, because they haven't aged really at all yet. And
20:19they're so bombarded by everything with it. And like I used to say, as a former IT guy, so I've seen
20:30this abuse get worse and worse. And now not only is it that no, no more than I can't get my thought
20:42together. Oh, get my mouth to get it out. The brain and the mouth aren't cooperating today. But
20:49never before in the course of human history, have we had access to so much truth and fact. But at the
21:00same time, never before in human history, have we had so much access to delusion and what people
21:11prefer they feed themselves to feed their delusion rather than be truth seekers. And that becomes a
21:22problem. This my truth idiocy. No, facts are facts. Evidence is evidence. Reality is reality. Delusion is a
21:34mental health problem. Good point. Good point. Everybody has their own truth. So if everybody
21:44has their own truth, then what's true? Yeah, we're in that we're in that time. And that is definitely a
21:54challenge. I'm sure, especially with the young adults that I that my company works with. Because,
22:03you know, when everybody has their truth, it's very difficult to set boundaries. It's very difficult
22:10to understand what integrity is. Because integrity is what I think it is. You know, it's not doing the
22:19right thing when no one is watching and being a person of your word, you know. And so it definitely
22:26is a struggle, I'm sure, is a struggle, I'm sure, for the parents out there, because we have so many
22:31blurred lines in our society. We've almost, like I say, pendulum swings, right? Like, in the 60s,
22:41we had the hippie, if it feels good, do it. That was kind of almost a my truth time, too. But that gave
22:50way to the Jesus resolution, because then people say, well, if everything is relative,
22:58there are no values and principles. Everybody's questions on morality is fluid. There's no basis
23:08in any commonality of morality, it seems, again, now. Again, we're back to if it feels good,
23:17hey, it's my truth, to heck with reality. Right. And, you know, that's very interesting
23:26that you said that, because one of the projects a few of my students, young people that I work with,
23:32they came up with is the impact of decentralization, you know, that we're so desensitized
23:40by these images and, you know, by, you know, war and hunger and shootings and different things like
23:50that. Again, because 24-7, it's right there at the fingertips. Yeah, it's not just the nightly news
23:59seeing it anymore, right? Right, absolutely. And it has a major impact. I mean, people don't realize
24:05that it actually restructures your brain, you know, there's some restructuring going down, you know,
24:12going, happening to your brain and your ability to truly, your fight and flight response. So there's
24:19some, you know, it plays a major part in how our society is developing and our brain health.
24:29And we just think, well, you know, we see these things, you know, you think about like, even,
24:34you know, school shootings, you know, when school shootings, you first started to see it in the news,
24:41and everybody would just, you know, just ruin your day. And you're just, everybody's upset. Now it's
24:46like, oh, there was another school shooting, you know, it's on the 20th page in the newspaper,
24:52no longer on the first page, you know, and we may hear a little, see the little ribbon at the,
24:57at the bottom of the news saying that this shooting occurred, you know, it's, and this is our society
25:03becoming desensitized to these major issues in our community. Yeah. So, and this is one of the
25:10things, yeah, that I'm going to go back to lazy parenting again, too. Allowing these kids to be
25:17consumed in these first person player video games with theft and death and destruction. And right,
25:26again, the desensitization of any commonality of acceptance of norms of, like, I talk about
25:38Penn of Penn and Teller, you know, the magician comedian group team. He's a famous devout atheist.
25:47And a lot of atheists generally are anti-religious, even though I dare say it takes more of a belief
25:58that everything somehow miraculously came out of nothing than it does that there is a creator to
26:07things. So I dare say, sorry, you're, it's a faith. Your atheism is every bit of faith as any other
26:16religion, but he isn't one of those anti-religious types. And he understands and says, I don't care
26:25where the law comes down from, whether it be morality from the Bible. No, it's just being a good
26:35citizen, a member of society that I don't get to steal your stuff. You don't get to steal my stuff.
26:44Right? I don't get to murder whomever I choose. And if somebody so chooses, they don't just get to
26:52decide, they get to murder me. These are good things, regardless of the how and the where we
27:00derive them as to a structured, workable society. And we're losing a lot of that.
27:09Well, I mean, to your point, it's because there's no foundation to where those things come from.
27:20You know, me, I'm a Christian. And so I believe that those foundational things have to come from
27:28somewhere. You know, it can't, we can't pick and choose, you know, what's good and what's bad.
27:34And then that becomes, okay, it's my opinion. It's what I feel that's right or wrong. And so that
27:41that's one of the things that I love to teach my young people is that you have to have integrity.
27:48You know, if you have a belief system, if you believe in Christ, if you believe in God and the
27:53Bible, then that's the foundation of your good. You know, it's not based on what the world says is
27:59good. It's based on what God says is good. And so, you know, and that, and that's, I don't know if we
28:05want to go there, but, you know, that's one of the things that, you know, as, as what's good,
28:12you know, what are we measuring ourself to?
28:16Yeah. And that's, I think, why atheism has become more and more attractive again with the,
28:23if it feels good society and my own truth. And I don't want anyone or anything to potentially be
28:32my boss, right? They are their own God and whatever they want to go, goes.
28:41Right, right. And yeah. And when we, as a society,
28:44don't know where the good is or the foundation is, you know, it's just like, you know, we're
28:52building our house on sinking sand. It's not going to sustain when we do that. And so we have to have
28:59a foundation. And, and that's one of the things that we do with our nurturing wellness group
29:05foundation is we deal with that setting that foundation, helping them understand, well, what is
29:13your core? What is your foundation? It cannot be whatever feels good because it's not.
29:21And that can vary from one minute to the next.
29:24Absolutely. Right. When the wind blows, this is what I'm doing. And when the wind stops,
29:30this is what I'm doing. And so, you know, that's not sustainable. And this is why, you know, our,
29:35you know, I mean, yeah, I enjoy playing video games, but to what end?
29:41As a temporary escape, because we do all need occasional breaks from reality. That's great. But
29:50you touched on the key word there, sustainable. We are going to completely destroy everything
29:59and on this planet. But yet at the same time, in a way, it's off the deep end. The other hand,
30:08other way that there is planet worship and survival of the planet that's been here long before we were
30:19here and we'll be here long after we're gone. But somehow putting Bambi and Thumper over human life,
30:28there's no valuing there. It's like with forest management and the refusal to do it.
30:39I was on a show just the other day. You know what upsets Bambi and Thumper more than you going in and
30:48clearing a little brush and creating fire breaks so we can have less acreage burning?
30:55It's being burnt to a crisp by a fire. You allowed to happen because you didn't want to upset Bambi,
31:04but instead you killed him. Way to go, climate worshiper. So, you know, it's again my truth,
31:16but I feel so good about that I'm protecting Bambi and Thumper, but the reality if you use logic and reason
31:26and thought rather than feelings, you recognize I'm really putting them in more harm's way than I am
31:35in protecting them. But it's again that instant gratification, but my feelings thing.
31:43Mm hmm. Yeah, I hear you. Definitely. That's definitely not my area of expertise.
31:49But I do say that, you know, we do have things in place. There's best practice. There's things that
31:59has been tested and proven. And, you know, sometimes we just, I don't know, we ignore good common sense,
32:06you know. And so, and, you know, you know, everything, you know, there's, there's, there's
32:13always a better way of doing things. And, you know, and that's one thing that I do when I work with
32:18schools that it's like, okay, I'm not reinventing the wheel. We know what works and we know what
32:24doesn't work. You know, what's the, the definition of insanity of doing the same thing over and over and
32:30expecting a better, you know, um, so, you know, there's, there's resources, there's, you know,
32:37studies, there's things that we know as a society and as a community, but we sometimes out of whatever,
32:46we don't, we ignore those things.
32:49In the name of wanting to avoid abuse, we ignore the spare the rod, spoil the child,
33:01lifelong human nature understanding. You can't discipline a child, it seems anymore in school
33:10for any reason. And we have so many people out of control because of it, because they have no
33:18boundaries because unfortunately it is indeed true. Some people go overboard the other way and get
33:27abusive. Right. Right.
33:30So there's not always really a 100% right or wrong. We're human. We're going to make mistakes, but
33:40it bothers me when there are some who just refuse to want to bother to try. It's like, yeah, whatever.
33:49Yeah. As long as I show up and collect my paycheck, whatever.
33:55Yeah. Yeah. You know, I think that sometimes the reality of the problems becomes so humongous
34:05that it's very, it's very, you know, consuming to think that, oh, this problem is so big. I don't even,
34:14you know, I don't even want to attempt to address it, but, you know, if we really recognize that the,
34:20you know, how do you eat, you know, what is it? An elephant eating a, how do you eat an elephant?
34:26One bite at a time, you know, and, and I think with that, our society has really lost their,
34:36we don't have resilience. You know, it's very difficult for us to bounce back when we
34:42have a struggle or we fail. You know, we want that instant gratification and not, we've lost our
34:48ability to really have that no quit in us. You know what I'm saying? You know, we just,
34:56we just like, oh, it didn't work. So, Hey, you know, let's go on to something different. You know,
35:01we, we've lost that as a society and that's, you know, and, you know, and, and that's why I hate to,
35:07you know, blame the parents because we've lost it because we've made very bad decisions.
35:14Yeah. We're at that, we're at that state right now where it's like, okay, we need to start making
35:20better decisions and how do you make a better decision is to be grounded in a better foundation.
35:28And the bottom line to me is that we continue. And that's where our Christian faith helps and
35:35comes in. We are to want to be our brother's keeper. We are to care for one another. And we
35:43seemingly go on from far too many people saying, if at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
35:51Because I care and I want to make a difference to, if at first you don't succeed, give up.
36:01Absolutely. Absolutely. I agree with that. And, you know, and that's, that's part of that.
36:07You know, when you really look, when we really, you know, settle down and look at society,
36:14there's a lot of great people in this world, but we never really focus on it. You know, we,
36:20Oh, the bad, the bad apples get all the pressure, get all of the play. And so when you think about
36:27there's so much harm that, you know, happens when we don't showcase the good people in our society,
36:36you know what I'm saying? You know, giving and, and caring and, you know, um, and so it really,
36:43this is what, this is what we need to do as parents. If I, if I can give any advice for our parents
36:49is we need to show our children how to be citizens. You know, we need to care. We need to
36:58take them to, um, to, you know, food pantries. We need them to volunteer. We need them to
37:05see a world other than their own so that they can have more gratitude for the things that they have.
37:12Um, you know, having, Oh, and there's a major lack of that. And then this a nation of abundance
37:19that we've said at several, uh, what do I get? And why didn't I get it yesterday? Right. I don't want
37:27it now. Why didn't I get it yesterday rather than any graciousness, any gratefulness for the abundance
37:35we've got. No, it's I demand and expect and entitled to more. Yeah. Absolutely. And that,
37:45and that's, I think I, you know, this is my opinion, but I think that if we, as a society,
37:53not only as parents, but, you know, neighbors, um, people in our community, you know, when you
38:00see, I give an example, my neighbor is just amazing. Our, my husband and I, we work a lot.
38:08And so a lot of times we're not home on trash day. And, but when we pull in our driveway,
38:13our trash can is in by our house, you know, he, he recognizes, you know, our schedule and,
38:18you know, he'll come and, and help us, you know, with the, with the yard, we have.
38:23And that's such a little thing, but, and that's part of the problem here is too. We're so used to
38:32the grandiose. We lose sight of all those little things that can make such a big difference. Now,
38:41you being in Michigan also like me, so you're, you're used to Windsor, Ontario, Canada. So I know
38:49you probably remember the artist and Murray, the singer, right? Do you remember her song? We could
38:57all use a little good news today. I think it's time. If you've never heard that song, maybe go to
39:08YouTube after this and look up and Murray could use a little good news because indeed we are so
39:15busy dwelling on negatives that it's poisoning our minds, hearts, and souls.
39:25Yes, absolutely. Absolutely. I think that, that self-care, um, we're, we're all seeking
39:33that self-care, those manicures and going for a walk and eating well, you need to add being kind,
39:41having a spirit of gratitude, um, doing something for your neighbor, volunteering, being, being a
39:48neighbor, um, getting, you know, it amazes me when I grew up and I'm sure you're the same way. I knew
39:54everybody on my street, you know, I knew, you know, and they, they used to tell me to stop running or
39:59stop, you know, they would, they could, they could chastise me as much as my parents did, you know, but now
40:05it's like, you, you know, you ask people, you know, where do you live or who lives on your street? And
40:10it's like, they have no idea, you know, that's it. Because we're all again, isolated in our own
40:17little kingdoms and seefdoms. And yeah, it's, it's a shame. It happened, it happened before the cell phone,
40:26you know what I'm saying? But it, it definitely escalated after that. And so I think the, the,
40:31it's so easy to, you know, to blame parents. Um, but it's, the problem is so much bigger.
40:40Yeah. And you don't have to be religious, even though this is obviously a Christian based show,
40:46you don't like Penn, you don't have to be religious to understand the concept of karma,
40:55right? If you wonder why you're always getting negative back, look yourself in the mirror. Are
41:04you putting good out in the world? You put out good, you'll get some good back. But if you're
41:11negative Nelly all the time, why are you surprised that you're so down in the dumps all the time? Because
41:20you're negative and you're surrounded by other like negative people.
41:28Right. You know, one truth with that, uh, we did, I did an exercise with some of the kids that I work
41:35with and, uh, I had them to write down, think about one person that they're just so grateful for,
41:44you know, it could be anything, maybe, you know, they did something for you or they just played a major
41:49role or they were just nice to you. And I had them to kind of write down what they did and,
41:55you know, who that person was and let them, you know, spend a lot of time on just really
42:00getting connected with what this person did for them. And then I said, okay, you got your person,
42:04you wrote it down. And I said, okay, call that person and read that letter, you know, read what
42:09you wrote. And, um, you know, then afterward we kind of, before we did it, I asked them, well,
42:15you know, and I got this idea from one of, uh, like a show. I can't remember the, the project that
42:21I was watching, so I don't want to take all the credit for it, but anyway, and so they, I, we,
42:27we measured their mood before they did it, the activity. And then we measured their mood after they
42:33made that phone call. And so we think as a society, we think that doing good is only going
42:40to benefit the other person. And it doesn't, it benefits you, um, you know, doing good and serving
42:46other people, you know, and like you were saying, if you're being negative all the time and your
42:51negative is coming towards you for your own mental health, right? Yeah. You are going to get back what
43:00you're projecting. And if you want positive for yourself, put some positive out there. All right.
43:08Well, uh, I like to joke all the time too, right? Things are always so serious. We gotta keep a sense
43:15of humor. So I'm joking here. You are such a horrible guest. I don't know why anyone would want
43:22to get a hold of you, but it's a joke, people. It's a joke. Just quiet. Can we lighten up please?
43:32But indeed, do you have a website where people can reach out to you?
43:37Sure. You can reach me at myschoolnurse.co. And that is for my business where I work with schools.
43:46Um, you can also reach me at terrybrinston.co.com. I'm sorry, terrybrinston.com.
43:58And that's my personal website. I'm a speaker. I, I'm an author. And so I like to, you know,
44:05speak at different companies. I was going to wrap it up. That's usually the wrap up question, but yeah.
44:10Yeah. Let's at least mention a couple of your books. Oh yeah. Well, you know what? I've written
44:19several books, but one of the books that I would like to highlight is Grateful for the Journey,
44:23Surviving COVID-19. Um, I was a victim of COVID-19. And so, um, I wrote a, actually, I'll just really
44:34quick. I'll tell you this quick story. I, um, was on a ventilator and I was in the hospital for a month.
44:41And so I lost a lot of my memory. And so when I came home, um, of course I was, you know, struggling
44:49with figuring out my life and I, my counselor had me to journal and through that process, um,
44:57um, my husband told me to have it published. And so this is the publication of me rediscovering
45:04myself. Yeah. So you were definitely one of the ones who really got hit by like, I had Wuhan,
45:12the Wuhan hysteria four different times. Ivermectin, HCQS, even though I have immune problems,
45:22they got me over it in like a couple of weeks time. Whereas like others with healthy bodies,
45:29Ivermectin, and they were over it in like three, four days, took me a couple of weeks, but,
45:34but I do know others indeed. And with the, like with the jabs, the side effects, I know someone who
45:44has myocarditis now, never had any issues before, has that now. I do know,
45:52Lisa Ewald of a fellow nurse here in the down river area had, uh, had asthma issues. So she had
46:04the comorbidity thing. And indeed, when it hit her, it hit her hard and it killed her. It wasn't
46:13really the disease. It was the complications, the asthma complicate that the Wuhan complicating
46:21the asthma to a point where she literally drowned in her own fluids, you know? And I, I know another
46:29person, William Hartman also, he started on Ivermectin, was getting better. The hospital said,
46:37nope, we refuse to give that. We have to give whatever else, not even going to mention the
46:43drug. They put them on that, continued decline, on ventilator, died. Whereas other medications were
46:53working for him, because even though we all share a lot of similar DNA, each patient can react
47:03differently to different things, different medications, right? It's why there are so many different
47:11cold for a very simple analogy concept, right? So many varieties of those medications, what may work
47:21for one isn't guaranteed to work for the other, right?
47:23Absolutely. Absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah, it was, yeah, we have just, my heart goes out to all the people
47:33who lost loved ones during that time. I got COVID in the very beginning, like in, in May. No, I'm sorry,
47:42in March, at the very beginning. So anyway, so yeah, check out my book. You can read me,
47:48terrybrinston.com. Yeah, they can live it, live it all how you lived it through your book. That's
47:57the wonders of books. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. All right. Well, thank you so much for having me.
48:05I appreciate it. Thank you, Terry, for coming by. Like I say, I never script shows, and I never quite
48:14imagined we'd go all the areas we did. But I'm just that guy. Whatever rabbit hole opens,
48:23hey, dive head first. Absolutely. I love it. I love it. So I enjoyed myself. All right. Take care. God
48:33bless, Terry. As well. Take care. Bye bye, guys. Thank you for having tuned in for
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