Healin Podcast

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...

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, t...

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...

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...

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 exp...

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-...

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 podca...

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 len...

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...

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 fee...

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 aff...

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 a...

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, t...

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! ...

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...

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 w...

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...

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 gettin...

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 t...

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...

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 sha...

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 l...

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 eradic...

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...

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 th...