Big Mood, Little Mood: Anxious Surrogate
Episode description
Danny Lavery welcomes Leslie Cohen-Rubury, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and host of “Is My Child a Monster?”, A Parenting Therapy Podcast.
Lavery and Cohen-Rubury offer advice to someone who’s parents might interfere with her decision to be a surrogate mother for her friends. Another letter writer is wondering how to tell their mom about being abused by their teacher when they were 16. Also, a listener's response to the “Fairweather Friend Group” letter.
Resources mentioned in today’s show:
- Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD - https://cptforptsd.com/cpt-provider-roster/
- Dialectic Behavior Therapy - Prolonged Exposure (DBT-PE) - https://dbtpe.org/find-a-therapist
- The Body Keeps Score - A book by Bessel Van Der Kolk
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