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IN THIS EPISODE
Is Your Phone Controlling Your Attention?
- How constant notifications and excessive screen time can increase stress, disrupt focus, and affect sleep and relationships.
- A simple strategy to interrupt mindless scrolling—and why keeping your phone out of sight can make a surprising difference.
- Why building real-life relationships and spending more time present can be more rewarding than endlessly scrolling through social media.
IN THIS EPISODE
A Safe Place for Children Who Need to Be Heard
- How the Dolphin House provides a safe, trauma-informed environment for children experiencing sexual and physical abuse across six Western Colorado counties.
- What happens behind the scenes—from forensic interviews and victim advocacy to medical exams—and how multiple professionals work together to protect children.
- How Montrose residents can become "upstanders" by learning how to recognize, report, and respond to suspected child abuse while supporting the Dolphin House through donations and community involvement.
The Story: Being Present Matters
Sometimes the most important thing we can do is simply pay attention.
That may sound like a small thing, but this week's two WKRP Montrose conversations show just how powerful it can be.
In Part 1 of Emily Bowman's Break the Stress Cycle series, the licensed professional counselor and certified addiction specialist takes a closer look at something nearly all of us carry with us every day: our phones.
Constant notifications, endless scrolling, and the pressure to always be connected can quietly affect our stress levels, focus, sleep, and relationships. Emily shares practical ways to take back control of our attention—including keeping your phone out of sight, interrupting automatic scrolling, and making more room for real-life connection.
Then, WKRP turns its attention to an organization doing some of the most important work in Western Colorado.
Dennis and Rob sit down with Michelle Gottlieb, Executive Director of the Dolphin House Child Advocacy Center. Serving children and families across Montrose, Delta, Ouray, San Miguel, Gunnison, and Hinsdale counties, the Dolphin House provides a safe and welcoming environment for children who have experienced abuse.
Michelle explains how the organization brings together forensic interviewers, victim advocates, medical professionals, law enforcement, and child welfare partners so children don't have to navigate an incredibly difficult experience alone.
But the episode also makes something clear: protecting children isn't only the responsibility of professionals.
It takes a community.
The Dolphin House depends on local support through donations, volunteering, the Montrose Giving Club, school supply drives, and people willing to become upstanders—individuals who recognize that something may be wrong and choose to take action rather than look away.
In a week where one episode asks us to put down our phones and the other asks us to pay closer attention to the people around us, the connection is hard to miss.
Being present is a choice.
Sometimes it means putting your phone away and having a conversation with someone sitting across from you. Sometimes it means noticing that a child may need help and knowing what to do next. And sometimes it simply means getting involved in the community instead of watching from the sidelines.
The one thing listeners will take away: Real connection requires attention. Put down the phone. Look up. Listen. And when your community needs you, be willing to show up.
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