Welcome to Women on Whatever episode 7! This week we talk about back to school and all of our feelings about it! Listen to us chat about our goals for the term (academic & Kristen’s goal of going to a party every weekend 🙊), balancing school with our regular lives, AND our advice to all the baby freshman coming to university this fall! Ellie’s tidbit of the week is silly and it involves personalized shirts… you just have to listen to this episode! We also loveeee to get deep on this pod so we share about our own mental health struggles and how we plan on taking care of ourselves throughout this term! University is f**king hard, we get it! YOU ARE NEVER ALONE, here are some resources! Ok, bye we love you!! Say it back!! 🤍

Some resources to help with students (or anyone) in crisis:

- National Alliance on Mental Illness: call 1-800-950-NAMI (6264), Text “HelpLine” to 62640 or email helpline@nami.org

- British Columbia students: 310-Mental Health, call 310-6789 - Here2talk (Canada-wide) 1-877-857-3397 or via App

- Kids Help Phone, Text “CONNECT” to 686868 (also serving adults :)) - Youthspace.ca (NEED2 Suicide Prevention, Education, and Support) Youth text (6pm-12am PT): 778-783-0177, Youth chat (6pm-12am PT): www.youthspace.ca

- Canadian Crisis Hotline: 1 (888) 353-2273 - Big White Wall Canada (anonymous peer support accessible anytime, anywhere): www.bigwhitewall.ca

Welcome to Women on Whatever episode 6! This week we delve into Ellie's favourite topic: SLEEP! We talk all about our own sleep issues, dreams, and hypnosis! (do you guys wanna hear us get hypnotized in a future episode??) we also cover capitalism and how it has affected sleep schedules, what animals we would be, and kristen's nightmares about shoes 👠 this episode is so silly and has such a relaxing vibe; you should listen to it when you fall asleep tonight ;)) Ok love you! Say it back! Bye!

Welcome to Women on Whatever episode 5! This week we talk all about periods and everything period related! We cover first periods, PCOS, period shame and Ellie shares a personal horror story involving a diva cup... We are all working to power through our period shame and we invite you all (regardless of gender) to do the same; periods are cool! Ok bye love you!! Say it back!!