On this week's show, we have the honor of talking with our dear friend Erin Brady. Erin joins us to talk about her and her husband’s journey with infertility, and how it has impacted her health, relationship, and sense of homeostasis. This is such an important topic that so many folks deal with, yet do not talk about nearly enough. We are so grateful to Erin for opening up to us about how this experience has impacted her life and how she has found ways to see her way through it. She is an inspir...
Sep 23, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 73
On this week’s show, we discuss the 20 year anniversary of 9/11. A top the North Tower of the World Trade Center was Windows on The World, a New York City landmark restaurant with a beautiful and diverse staff. We wanted to pay homage to the employees who lost their lives there on 9/11, and also talk about some of the incredible things that surviving employees created after losing their coworkers and friends. We are sending love and support to everyone on this day of remembrance. Heritage Radio ...
Sep 11, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 72
On this week's show, we welcome the lovely Sheila Dee. In 2017 Sheila lost her sister Stephanie suddenly, and she joins us today to unpack her complicated grief surrounding this tragic loss. Sheila talks so candidly and honestly about her grieving process, and also about the beautiful and rich memories that she has surrounding cooking and eating with her sister. Thank you so much, Sheila, and we w encourage you all to take a listen to her music at www.SheilaDeeMusic.com and facebook.com/sheilade...
Aug 27, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 71
Today is a special day, folks, as we welcome our sweet friend Tovah Shanok . Tovah joins us from her home in Germany to talk about the many different grief experiences she had endured over the past decade-plus. Tovah is a remarkable and very accomplished chef, and it was incredible to hear her talk about trying to grapple with loss while also working in kitchens. Her experiences at the intersection of food and grief are incredibly prolific, and it was an honor to have her join us. Please enjoy o...
Aug 19, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 70
This week we talk about taking a break. We recently had the opportunity to travel together, and we thought it could be an interesting topic to explore. How/when/if you take a break or vacation during these very trying and scary times. How can we take time for ourselves when it feels impossible? We attempt to unpack these questions and more with our first episode back from break. We missed you, and are so happy to be back. Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. ...
Aug 18, 2021•47 min•Ep. 69
We are so honored to welcome back our dear friend, Kathie Bodily, for this week's show. Since we last spoke with Kathie she has been boldly fighting pancreatic and lung cancer, and she joins us to talk about the nuances in the battle she’s been in for the past year and nine months. Kathie is our patron saint, and the most beautiful, intuitive, brave, and wise human that we know, and we can’t thank her enough for joining us again to help listeners feel seen and connected. We love you, Kath! If yo...
Jul 15, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 68
This week we welcome the talented and charming Edy Massiah, chef and owner of Edy’s Grocer in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Edy talks with us about his early life as a boy in Lebanon, and his love for Lebanese cuisine which he pays beautiful homage to at the grocer. We talk about the loss of identity, loss of family members, and so much more. This was such a wonderful interview, and we hope to see you all at Edy’s Grocer real soon for some delicious food! Celebrate HRN’s new look and invest in the futur...
Jul 08, 2021•47 min•Ep. 67
On this week's show we welcome Reid Peterson. Reid has a Master's Degree in Transpersonal Psychology, and was trained by Dr. Alan Wolfelt from the Center for Loss & Life Transition. Reid works as a Grief companion, and has also launched the Grief Refuge App and podcast . After the passing of his stepfather in 2016, Reid spent time in local support groups. This influenced him to create a means of grief support on a larger, more broadly reaching scale. We loved our talk with Reid. His gentle d...
Jul 02, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 66
On this week's show, we welcome Aimee Lee Ball. Aimee is a Journalist, co-author of four books, and co-founder of Eat, Darling, Eat , a beautiful blog about the relationships between mothers and daughters and how they intersect with food. We had such a rich conversation with Aimee, and as a mother and daughter team, we found it particaularly interesting to speak with someone who has dedicated so much time to exploring this deeply sacred and often complicated relationship. Please head to eatdarli...
Jun 25, 2021•58 min•Ep. 65
On this week's episode we welcome the wonderful Africa Yoon. Africa is known for her monumental running feats from New York to Chicago and Milan to Cannes. She is also a writer, and her new book the “The Korean: Single and Obese: Then Kimchi Changed Everything!”, details how she lost 110lbs eating Korean and vegan food in one year. Africa so alive and engaged, and it was an incredible gift to get to spend an hour getting to know her, and to hear about her fascinating and unique life story. We lo...
Jun 17, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 64
Today we welcome back our friend, writer and film critic Susannah Gruder. We absolutely loved our last chat with Susannah, and couldn’t wait to have her back. Sue has selected two wonderful and complex films that both came out in 2020, “Nomadland”, a film based on the 2017 non-fiction book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder. The film is written, produced, directed, and edited by Chloé Zhao, and stars Frances McDormand. It is a beautifully told story of a w...
Jun 10, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 63
On today’s very special episode we have the pleasure of welcoming the lovely and talented Gina Hamadey. Gina is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in O, The Oprah Magazine, Food & Wine, Rachael Ray Every Day, Women's Health, and other publications, and has just released her new book, “I Want to Thank You: How a Year of Gratitude Can Bring Joy and Meaning in a Disconnected World”. The book is so beautiful and honest, and it prompted us to examine the connection between grief, gratitu...
Jun 03, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 62
This week we have the pleasure of sitting down for a deep and tender talk with Noah and Ari Meyerowitz. You may remember our episode titled “Sproutman” featuring the incredible Beth Robbins, and Noah and Ari are her amazing sons. They talk to us about their dad Steve- his imprint on their lives, both individually and collectively as a family, picking up the family business , and the intricacies of siblinghood in the face of such a massive loss. We loved our time with these two special humans so ...
May 27, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 61
Hello friends. This week we welcome our dear friend, Mary Beth White. Mary Beth is a women's health care nurse practitioner, advanced practice holistic nurse, transpersonal nurse coach and former hospice nurse whose interest in non-traditional funerals and green burials was inspired by caring for her mom and family at the end of her mom's life. Mary Beth started her nursing career working in a family-centered Labor and Delivery hospital setting and, to her, the deathing experience offers another...
May 20, 2021•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 60
On this week’s show we discuss Joan Didion’s 2005 book, “The Year of Magical Thinking”. This is a brutally honest self observation of her life after the sudden loss of her husband, author John Gregory Dunne, and simultaneous hospitalization of her daughter Quintana Roo. This is a very meaningful book to many folks in the grief community and beyond, and it was a joy to have the opportunity to discuss it at length. Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support P...
May 13, 2021•59 min•Ep. 59
This is a Mother’s Day episode. It’s a complicated and painful day for many of us, and we address that complexity, as a mother and daughter on this week’s episode. We know that this day can be extremely triggering and difficult, and also celebratory and joyous, and in some cases, it is all of that at once, and we aim to unpack this juxtaposition today on a very special episode of Processing. Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support Processing by becoming ...
May 06, 2021•47 min•Ep. 58
On this week’s show we welcome Dr Suzanne Phillips. Suzanne is a licensed Psychologist, Psychoanalyst, Diplomate in Group Psychology,Certified Group Therapist, Fellowand Co-chair of Community Outreach for the American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA). She has been a Psychologist for over 35 years and after 28 years, she is a newly retired Adjunct Full Professor of Clinical Psychology at LIU Post, N.Y. She joins us to discuss the concept of food and grief through her highly trained lense, a...
Apr 29, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 57
On today’s show we are joined by the bold, brilliant, and incredibly warm, Beth Robbins . On September 9th 2015, Beth lost her husband of 30 years, Steve Meyerowitz, in a car accident. Steve had been known as “The Sproutman” for decades, having dedicated his life's work to the growing and eating of all kinds of sprouts. When Steve died suddenly, Beth was tasked with not only caring for her family, but redefining what it meant to care for herself, emotionally, spiritually, creatively, and physica...
Apr 22, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 56
On this week's show we welcome our lovely friend, Paul Manza. Paul joins us to discuss the death of his mother, who passed away shortly after a diagnosis with pancreatic cancer a decade ago. We talk a lot about parenting in this episode, and how it relates to death, dying, grief and mortality, and it was incredibly special and unique. Paul is earnest, warm and open, and we were blown away by the directions this talk took, and where we ended up. Thank you to Paul for his wisdom and vulnerability....
Apr 08, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 55
This week we have the absolute pleasure of welcoming Holistic Healer and Spiritual Psychologist Danielle Joffe to the show. Danielle joins us to discuss her relationship with her late mother, Harriet, who was amongst many other things, an incredible painter and cook. Danielle explains to us the complex dynamics of caring for a loved one with a terminal illness, and reads for us an essay she wrote about her mom, entitled “Starving”. Danielle has such a calming and wise demeanor, and we felt so co...
Apr 01, 2021•58 min•Ep. 54
On today’s show, we welcome author, motivational speaker, and eating disorder advocate, Iris Ruth Pastor . Iris joins us to discuss her decades-long battle with eating disorders, how she saved her own life, and just what her amazing mantra, “preserving your bloom”, means to her. Iris is such a delight of a human, and we were so blown away, not only by her incredible life story, but also by her humor, humility, and warmth. We felt filled with positivity after talking with Iris, and as with all of...
Mar 25, 2021•48 min•Ep. 53
On today’s show we welcome mother and host of “A Peace of Grief” podcast , Sydoney Taylor. Sydoney lost her eldest son Benjamin in September of 2020, and she lovingly shares with us about this unimaginable loss, and how she found ways to cope, and find meaning after Benjamin's passing. Sharing these stories always asks a huge amount of vulnerability of our guests, and we want to extend extra gratitude to Sydoney, and really acknowledge the bravery it takes to publicly open up about such a deep l...
Mar 19, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 52
On this week’s show we have the honor of speaking with Martel Catalano, the Founder and Executive Director of Beyond My Battle, an amazing non profit dedicated to reducing the stress of serious illness, rare disease, and disability through emotional support and educational resources rooted in mindfulness, awareness, and compassion. We talk with Martel about her diagnosis as a pre teen with Retinitis Pigmentosa, her battle with eating disorders in the years following, and how she has found homeos...
Mar 11, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 51
This week we read a listener letter about the painful realities surrounding mourning our loved ones in the times of COVID. The complex nature of grieving is made bitterly painful by the inability to gather and be around people for comfort, support, touch and food. Thank you to Blair for your touching letter, and we are honored to help you unpack some of these hard truths in this week's show. Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support Processing by becoming ...
Feb 25, 2021•55 min•Ep. 50
On today's show we are joined by pastry chef and grief survivor, Jess Quinn . When Jess was 25 her mother was diagnosed with dementia, eventually dying from it five years later. Jess shares the brutally unique experience of losing a loved one this way, little by little. She is a brave and honest woman, and her story is both tragic and hopeful. She vividly recants tender and special moments with her mother that brought is all to tears. Jess is a wonderful woman and we felt so lucky to talk to her...
Feb 18, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 94
Hey friends. On this weeks show we are talking about our most deeply nostalgic food memories. The foods and tastes and smells that bring us right back to a specific time and place, and the people that we loved and lost who made those moments so special. We reminisce about pea soup, apple strudel, pizza rustica and more. What are some of your most nostalgic foods? Let us know by emailing us at processing@heritageradionetwork.org or on Instagram @processing_podcast Heritage Radio Network is a list...
Feb 11, 2021•55 min•Ep. 48
We are so proud to welcome Author and Journalist, Tessa Miller to this week's show. Tessa has written a beautiful book, entitled “What doesn’t Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness--Lessons from a Body in Revolt”, which at the time of this airing, has just been released. Tessa’s book is about her struggle with Crohn's Disease. Just as in her writing, Tessa brings rawness and grace to our conversation. She talks about her experiences living with Crohn’s, the loss of her father to alcoholism, and ...
Feb 05, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 47
This week we are joined by Cake Designer, Baker and Writer, Monica O'Connell. Monica earned a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from New York University, and was executive director of the Center for Black Music Research at Columbia College in Chicago for eight years. She then pivoted in her professional life,and began to pursue her passion and creative calling as a Cake Baker and Designer. Monica has a deeply spiritual relationship with food, from the stunning cakes that she creates in her business, Curt...
Jan 29, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 46
On this week's show it's just us two, and we talk to each other about the complex grief that accompanies heartbreak. Most have experienced at least one great heartbreak in our lifetimes, and yet it is rarely talked about honestly for what it often is; deep grief. We have our different ways of coping with broken heartedness, and many of those coping mechanisms are tied to food. We unpack the emotional and physical components behind loss of love, and how they affect our relationships to food. On t...
Jan 21, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 45
On today’s show we have the pleasure of speaking with filmmaker Kimberly Warner. Kimberly is the creator of the Unfixed podcast and docuseries. UNFIXED is about the stories of everyday people who have learned to thrive with chronic, incurable conditions. Kimberly joins us to discuss the deeply important and innovative work she is doing with Unfixed, as well as some of her own personal experiences with grief and loss. Kimberly is truly a kindred spirit, and this conversation was so captivating to...
Jan 14, 2021•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 44
