Native America Calling: Mental health experts point to personal connections to maintain winter mental health

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Native America Calling: Mental health experts point to personal connections to maintain winter mental health

Wednesday, December 10, 2025

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Mental health experts point to personal connections to maintain winter mental health

December is a traditional time for feasts, family, and giving.

But the financial and time burdens of the holiday-heavy month, combined with the change of seasons and other factors, also make it a time ripe for breaks in a person’s mental health.

Tune into Native America Calling to find out how connections — with other people, cultural traditions, or spiritual foundations — can be a way to mitigate the added stresses of December — or any time.

Guests on Native America Calling

Dr. Pamela End of Horn (Oglala Lakota), national suicide prevention consultant for the Indian Health Service

Kristin Mitchell (Diné), assistant project director for Project AWARE Wildcats (PAWS), a joint initiative of the Center for Indigenous Health at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland and the Chinle Unified School District in Arizona

Dr. Jessica Saniguq Ullrich (Nome Eskimo Community and Native Village of Wales), assistant professor at the Institute for Research and Education to Advance Community Health (IREACH) at Washington State University