Category: Trauma

Posted in: Mental Relationships Show Guests Therapy Trauma

Sex & Intimacy in the Orthodox Jewish Community: What’s working, What’s not working & What needs to change (Talli Rosenbaum)

Contribute $2

Talli Rosenbaum, an individual, couples and certified sex therapist, who deals mainly with human relationships, and in particular, intimate relationships, joins us in this eye opening episode that confronts a controversial topic that needs exploration. Suppressed and overt traumas of all kinds can be often be triggered and revealed in intimate and personal sexual situations. Even more, one’s first sexual experience in of itself, can be perceived as a traumatic event, if conversation, mutual expectations, assumptions and desires are not properly addressed in advance.

Posted in: Coping Mindset Relationships Show Guests Trauma

Braiding Love, Respect & Trust Into Relationships (Aliza Bulow)

Contribute $2

Aliza Bulow, a returning guest, shares the path that led to her conversion to Judaism with us, an in depth conversation about finding belonging in our community, and her love, respect and trust she shares with her husband, despite his late in life rejection of their religion. Aliza previously shared her journey through her son’s depression and eventual suicide in two previous episodes.

Posted in: Anxiety Coping Healing Health Mental Mindset Relationships Show Guests Trauma

Breaking Free of Child Anxiety and OCD (Dr. Eli Lebowitz)

Contribute $2

Children with OCD and anxiety need their parents to understand that they feel terrified. They need their parents to express confidence in their ability to face their fears. What they don’t need is for their parents to do everything for them when they’re afraid because over time, they will need to learn how to deal with their fears when their parents aren’t around. Dr. Lebowitz’s book, Breaking Free of Child Anxiety and OCD: A Scientifically Proven Program for Parents, provides a roadmap for how parents can successfully guide their children to overcome their fears.

Posted in: Anxiety Coping Health Mental Relationships Show Guests Trauma

Living with Infertility Miscarriage & Chronic Bleeding PART 2 (Alana Shlagbaum)

Contribute $2

In part 2 of our talk with Alana Shlagbaum, who is not a therapist, doctor or any kind of health expert but a preschool teacher from New Jersey, Matana shares her own personal story with Alana, of how miscarriage and living with chronic bleeding prevented her from becoming pregnant.

Posted in: Anxiety Coping Health Mental Relationships Show Guests Trauma

Living with Infertility Miscarriage & Chronic Bleeding (Alana Shlagbaum)

Contribute $2

Our guest today is not a therapist, doctor or any kind of health expert but a preschool teacher from New Jersey. She talks about our personal experiences with infertility, miscarriage, and living with chronic bleeding conditions. Alana struggled for years without having anyone who understood what she was going through, so she is here to offer that support she never had to others.