This is a follow up episode to the previous episode on Friendship Matters, where we talk about what are all the necessary skills or areas that we need to strengthen or to increase awareness around to be able to deepen our current relationships with our friends, romantic relationships or at home. I talk about the importance of mindset and the awareness of our thoughts when we are making the effort to make new friends or deepen the connection, about the need to have a vison and awareness of what w...
Sep 21, 2024•31 min•Season 1Ep. 112
his is extremely helpful conversations with friendship experts, if you are curious or interested in making new friends, or deepening your connections with existing friends! My guest, Karen Riddell is a public speaker and Psychology Today blogger on the topic of friendships and the Author of the book, “Friendship Matters”. We had a fascinating and helpful conversation on WHY friendship matters, the multitude of physical, emotional and professional benefits that having friends has, the scientific ...
Aug 19, 2024•44 min•Season 1Ep. 111
Dr. Uma Naidoo is a Harvard trained board-certified Psychiatrist and professional chef and nutritional specialist who is considered a Nutritional Psychiatry Pioneer and the author of "This Is Your Brain On Food" and of her latest book "Calm Your Mind with Food" . We spoke about her journey into incorporating nutrition as a fundamental foundation of mental health and her psychiatry practice, how many physicians are unaware of the role that nutrition plays and how that is changing with over 20% of...
Jul 18, 2024•45 min•Season 1Ep. 110
This is a helpful and inspirational episode with Leanne Townsend, a Family Lawyer, who felt that she was stuck on a hamster wheel and decided to prioritize her health and wellbeing attaining amazing results, not just in weight loss but in every area of her life, including love. We talked about her health journey, what helped her and how it is never the right time to prioritize ourselves and our health, but when we decide to do so, and focus on planting and watering our own garden, doing the work...
Jun 18, 2024•47 min•Season 1Ep. 107
This is a solo episode that you and everyone you know will find extremely helpful. I talk about the importance of getting "Curious, Not Furious" , a term I first heard from one of my guest in this podcast, Johanna Lynn, and I wanted to use it when it refers to dealing with our angry emotions. I talk about why feeling anger is a positive thing, I explain how we learned to deal with anger and we explore all the reasons why it is important to get Curios and not Furious. I then explain all the diffe...
Apr 10, 2024•55 min•Season 1Ep. 106
It there is anything that you want to work on, heal from, or dimmish an anxiety without having to talk about it or “go through it” or “feel it to heal it” this is the episode for you. On this episode, I had an in-depth conversation about his background, the difference between Clinical Hypnotherapy and the Solution-Focused Clinical Hypnotherapy he practices today, and how and why it works to re-program your subconscious mind by quieting down the judgmental pre-frontal cortex without having to go ...
Feb 29, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 106
If you have heard many of this podcasts previous episodes on coaching, CBT, 6 on EMDR, IFS, Hypnosis and more, you know that the key to healing, or one of the first steps of a healing journey, it gaining an awareness of what happened to us, or the origin of our fears, anxieties, or symptoms. On this episode, I was super excited to introduce you to a new therapy modality for me and for this podcast, Inherited Trauma and Family Constellations, that provides us with clues or a deep dive into where ...
Jan 12, 2024•49 min•Season 1Ep. 105
In the last few episodes of the HealIN Podcast, we start to understand the relationship with how our life experiences and traumas can affect our physical health, and in this episode, we expand the conversation to how nutrition and mindfulness can affect it too. I had a great conversation with Dr. Basma Faris who was my OBGYN here in NYC and we talked about her journey to include a nutritional lense into her OBGYN practice, and why there is sadly so little emphasis on the importance of nutrition ...
Jan 03, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 104
In this episode, we talked about her journey into incorporating the effects of trauma and mental health into her pediatrics practice and her passion for treating the whole person holistically. She explained how so many headaches, and tummy aches are caused by emotional and mental health issues, and we had a comprehensive discussion on how she treats them. We discussed the biggest factor affecting children and teens these days and what to do about it, and why it was important for her as a pediatr...
Nov 21, 2023•53 min•Season 1Ep. 103
This is a fascinating discussion with clinical Cardiologist, Dr. Jonathan Fisher, in which he shares the struggles that arise from the rigorous medical school education and practice and shares with us how getting support and working with positive psychology, mindfulness, compassion, and many other practices, especially mindset work - using the awareness of our thoughts and how they affect our feelings and actions - helped him to to become more present, productive, and fulfilled physician and per...
Jun 27, 2023•50 min•Season 1Ep. 102
I had an educational and fascinating discussion with Dr. Arielle Schwartz about her journey into the amazing work that she is doing today, which included the trauma experienced as a result of being the child of a healthy divorce, and how living in two households impacted her psychologically and psychologically. She explained how we store trauma in the connective tissues, the fascia, how this affects our bodies, and how this leads to headaches, migraines and chronic pain. She shared the why and h...
Jun 05, 2023•55 min•Season 1Ep. 101
Episode 100th is celebrated by having a very special guest for me, one of my most active and favorite clients, my beloved husband of 10 years, Dr. Paul Haser. We talked about his path into self growth, why it is hard for medical professionals to get support, all the areas where coaching has been very valuable to him, and all the key take-aways! We also shared some insights and wisdom on why I and anyone who knows him, considers him an amazing husband, father, friend and doctor.
May 22, 2023•43 min•Season 1Ep. 100
I had an amazing conversation with Dr. Aimie Apigian, who is a physician turned trauma expert and who explained, at a deeper physiological level, what happens to our bodies when we experience trauma and share with us what I consider is a complete and comprehensive (mind and body) approach to healing trauma. We talked about her journey from medicine to trauma healing, we discussed what trauma is, the differences between a stress response and a trauma response, how experiencing trauma affects our ...
May 09, 2023•47 min•Season 1Ep. 99
I had a fascinating conversation with Performance Coach and expert in Polyvagal Theory about what happens to our bodies and our nervous system on "game day" and how Polyvagal Theory can significantly help for us to help our bodies find our homeostasis "game zone" so that we can be at ease, be in stillness and in the present moment and "show up" to our kids and at work the way we want to show up! We had a conversation about his program called the PlayZone, how it works and how it can be applied t...
Apr 24, 2023•54 min•Season 1Ep. 98
I had a heartfelt conversation with Kaity, a Somatic Yoga Therapist and the Founder of Her Temple Healing, were we shared our personal experiences with yoga in general and with Somatic Yoga Therapy, after I experienced it first hand with her. We discussed what yoga and what somatics is, how it works and the 4 fundamentals of it and how they worked for me. It is a transformative healing practice that I hope you get curious about. To learn more about Kaity, please find her at www.hertemplehealing....
Apr 10, 2023•56 min•Season 1Ep. 97
This is the first episode on a new series on how to heal trauma from our bodies. I had a very informative conversation with Dr. Kim Di'Re, an experience and reputable Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, who explained to us in detail, why and how we retain trauma in our bodies, our anatomic nervous system activation and the cycle of a trauma response, e.g. what happens in our nervous system when we get triggered, and most importantly, the many techniques available, that we can practice, to slowly ...
Mar 25, 2023•54 min•Season 1Ep. 96
This is a continuation of episode #94 explaining why you are not broken, but that it is extremely rare for anyone to escape childhood without forming any kind or limiting or negative thoughts or beliefs that are affecting our minds and our nervous system today and driving all we do or don't do. This is an explanation of what trauma is, what all the different types of trauma are and a case of why increasing awareness and working around it will change your life.
Mar 11, 2023•30 min•Season 1Ep. 95
I am super excited about this episode as it was requested by many to be shared with anyone that you know who is convinced that they don't need any help or any support at all. They may be right! I share the times when you can work on yourself on your own, and when is the time that I personally and professionally believe that you can significantly profit from investing time and resources into getting support and why! You are not alone, I have been there too, before. I hope you find this episode he...
Mar 11, 2023•32 min•Season 1Ep. 94
I had the immense pleasure of speaking with Emiliya Zhivotovskaya about her journey of loss and how intuitive principles of resilience and positive psychology helped her heal and thrive through all her challenges by reframing and finding meaning from all her life experiences into thriving and post traumatic growth that drove her to study Positive Psychology and many other modalities and founding the Flourishing Center that has now trained over 1,600 coaches in over 53 countries and continue on a...
Sep 16, 2022•57 min•Season 1Ep. 93
We continued our conversation from episode 91 on Mindfulness and discuss how she incorporates CBT, (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy), that is also practiced by most Certified coaches, as well as ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) skills in identifying our core values, with also looking deeply to our old wounds with EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) when is applicable. And when this also incorporates a Mindfulness practice it can be very powerful and take healing to the next ...
Aug 12, 2022•40 min•Season 1Ep. 92
I had a heartfelt and important discussion with Dr. Michelle Maidenberg about Mindfulness, what it is, how it works and how it differs from other more cognitive therapeutic modalities. We discussed why it is hard to achieve and our propensity to avoid paying attention and feeling to our thoughts and feelings, which she discussed at length on her Ted Talk: Circumventing Emotional Avoidance. She shared it’s evidence based validity, its tremendous benefits to our brain and to cope with anxiety and ...
Apr 29, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 91
If you want to reduce conflict, improve the outcomes of your divorce, and learn how coaching can significantly help you, this is the episode for you! This is a new and exciting episode for me, as I interview one of my very first divorce clients, Melissa Kalil, who profited from coaching so much that she decided to become a coach herself! She wanted to share her coaching experience with you, to let you know that you are not alone in this, and to share with you detailed examples of how coaching he...
Mar 05, 2022•43 min•Season 1Ep. 90
If you want to have or to significantly improve your marriages or long term romantic relationships this is the episode for you. I share with you what research, as well as my own personal experience has shown me to be the most important aspects of having and growing a happy passionate marriage. I talk about why these components are important and how I work as a coach to help you decrease or eradicate criticism and negativity in your marriage as well as increase awareness of our childhood wounds a...
Feb 11, 2022•46 min•Season 1Ep. 89
Our weight and appearance comes up a lot with my male and female clients as they want to start dating after divorce. On this episode, I explain why research shows that most diets do not work and why working with a coach or Cognitive Behavioral therapist would be extremely beneficial for your weight loss goals or to feel better about your appearance. I explain why what we think about our weight or appearance directly affects how we feel and therefore what we do and don't do, that then perpetuates...
Jan 21, 2022•22 min•Season 1Ep. 88
While I have an education in business and over 24 years of business entrepreneurship experience that I use in my coaching, the business coaching that I do is mostly focused on creating the awareness of how our negative thoughts and beliefs affect what we do, or avoid doing as we start and even continue to grow our businesses. On this episode, I talk about how this works, and give many examples that you could relate to as you too, try to start or to grow your legal, counseling, coaching. medical ...
Jan 13, 2022•21 min•Season 1Ep. 87
Do you want to understand why suffering is optional? In this episode, I talk about the fundamentals of coaching and the importance of building awareness of our thoughts and beliefs because it is in this awareness that we can decrease our suffering and conflict/actions or increase our peace and happiness. I give a lot of examples of how this works and how it determines the results we have in our lives, because my goal is to help you feel better, do better and be better! For any feedback or commen...
Dec 17, 2021•25 min•Season 1Ep. 86
In this episode, I recap what coaching is, and I talk about the difference between traditional talk therapy, coaching, and deeper healing modalities like EMDR, IFS, Somatic Experience, and more. I talk about trauma, the fact that very few of us had a perfect childhood, and what the ACE (Adverse Childhood Experiences) Study considers as trauma, and most importantly, when you would profit from deeper healing modalities and when you can profit from using both. My goal is to inspire you to heal, to ...
Oct 09, 2021•19 min•Season 1Ep. 85
In this solo episode, I share my journey into life coaching, what a coach is, what it is not, and all the different skills that trained and certified coaches use to help you feel better, do better and be better. It also explains the difference between coaching and therapy. If you want to feel better and do better, this is the episode for you!
Sep 27, 2021•39 min•Season 1Ep. 84
In this episode, I speak with psychologist and "Divorce Doctor" to learn and understand how Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Somatic Experiencing work to help people heal specifically after divorce and how both modalities can be integrated to achieve even greater healing results. We also learned about her online course "The Ultimate Divorce Kit", and gained great tips on how to we can "stay on our own lane" and be better parents for our children during and after divorce.
Aug 21, 2021•44 min•Season 1Ep. 83
In this episode, I have one of the most valuable conversations because it is information that we can all relate to and immediately bring awareness on why we do the things we do or feel the way we do. I have the pleasure of having an in-depth discussion with licensed psychotherapist and clinical supervisor Christy O'Shoney, about attachment styles, about the research behind them, about what they are and what causes them and how they get manifested in our adult lives. We also discuss the way we ca...
Aug 13, 2021•57 min•Season 1Ep. 82
