CatharSIS: a Podcast about the Meaning of Life
20 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago -CatharSIS is a podcast about the meaning of life, created by Michal and Maayan as a way to honor the life of their dad, an Oncologist/Hematologist who would often ask his patients, family, friends, even strangers: “What’s the meaning of life?” It’s a relatable podcast where two sisters, both Associate Marriage and Family Therapists, interview different people about the meaning of life, existentialism, friendship, relationships, love, death, grief, and nostalgia. If you want to learn more about psychology in general and how to apply it to your daily life, you may follow their Instagram @sistersinpsychology and their website www.sistersinpsychology.com.
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Episodes
#14 Dr. Patricia Wynn-Jones on Energy Medicine and Creating Your Own Reality
December 24, 2020 10:00 - 45 minutes - 31.1 MBDr. Patricia Wynn-Jones is an anesthesiologist and pain management specialist, with a focus on energy medicine and epigenetic based pain management practice. She worked very closely with our late father, a Hematologist-Oncologist. Dr. Wynn-Jones helps us understand what exactly is energy medicine and epigenetics, both of which have been around for decades but are just now being accepted into the mainstream. In a nutshell, we are so much more than the bodies our souls are contained in. We cr...
#13 F*ck Shame: Overcoming Addiction through Connection, with Dr. Adi Jaffe, PhD
December 17, 2020 10:00 - 56 minutes - 38.9 MBYou wouldn't know it just by looking at Dr. Jaffe today, but he was once convicted and sentenced to 1 year in jail for using, buying and selling hard drugs. After getting out of jail, it was impossible to find anyone who'd accept him for a job. For many in the US, this situation leads people back to crime and in jail again, and so the cycle repeats. But for Dr. Jaffe, he attributes his success to the fact that he had (and has) a strong support system--people who believed in him and saw his ...
#12 Change Your Perspective, Learn, and Share with Sydney Estrada, AMFT and Lauren Thomas, AMFT
December 10, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 41.6 MBSydney Estrada and Lauren Thomas, both Associate Marriage and Family Therapists, share how their experiences with racism, colorism, and racial trauma led to pursuing careers in therapy. The discrepancies amongst the Black community within the education system, due to colorism, empowered Lauren to prioritize her practice for uplifting Black women of various backgrounds as well as unpacking racial trauma. Sydney currently works at the Child Development Institute, where she and Maayan met. S...
#11 How to Be There for a Grieving Friend with Medical Student Kira Sklar
December 03, 2020 10:00 - 49 minutes - 34.1 MBFor most of us, death is a topic that was typically avoided in our households growing up. So, when a friend loses a loved one, it's difficult to know how to respond, especially if we've never experienced deep loss ourselves. You don't know what to say, and don't want to say the wrong thing, so you say nothing. For those grieving, it can then feel like they are all alone. With the help of her therapist, Kira learned how to be very vocal with her friends about what she needed from them when ...
#10 The Simplest Meaning of Life with Dr. Rafael Reisfeld, MD, and Dr. Gabriel V. Rubanenko, MD
November 26, 2020 10:00 - 44 minutes - 30.8 MBMore often than not, it's best to just keep things simple. Dr. Rafael Reisfeld, MD and Dr. Gabriel V. Rubanenko, MD, have known our dad for over 35 years, working together in the medical field and sharing a bond of being Israeli Americans. Throughout those 35 years, our dad would continue to ask them the question, "What is the meaning of life?" Our guests each give their perspectives on the question, taking into account years of working with often terminally ill patients, and emphasizing t...
#9 Finding Meaning While Healing From Alcohol Addiction with Justine Wu, M.A.
November 19, 2020 10:00 - 37 minutes - 25.8 MB"You could have everyone love you, but if you don't love yourself, you'll never be happy." These were the words Justine heard while in rehab after an alcohol addiction relapse. It was after hearing these words that Justine realized she couldn't keep doing things, like quitting drinking, just to please others...she actually had to want them for herself as well. With over six years of sobriety under her belt, Justine Wu vulnerably shares with us her journey of learning to live without being ...
#8 Understanding How Trauma Manifests in the Body with Polyvagal Theory Expert Justin Sunseri LMFT
November 12, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 41.9 MBYou may be stuck, but you're not broken. This is what Justin Sunseri, LMFT and host of the podcast Stuck, Not Broken, wants you to know. He doesn't subscribe to the narrative that you are broken and need healing, but rather, your body is in a defensive autonomic state: flight, fight, shut down or freeze. Better known as the "fight or flight" response, it is our body's natural physiological response to perceived danger. It's what makes your palms sweat or makes you want to run away and hide...
#7 Finding the Joy Through the Pain with Cancer Survivor Merhawit and her Husband Aron
November 05, 2020 10:00 - 47 minutes - 33 MBWhen couples say their vows at the altar, "through sickness and in health," you never really imagine that the sickness would come so soon. Married couple Aron and Merhawit were caught completely off guard when Merhawit was given a cancer diagnosis while she was pregnant, and while Aron was in medical school. Despite the heart-breaking, earth-shattering news, painful treatments, and hidden tears, this couple managed to find the silver lining in their adversity. In fact, they believe experie...
#6 It's Not About What You've Lost, But What You've Had with Jeanne Pepper Bernstein
October 29, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour - 43.6 MBIn early January of 2018, Blaze Bernstein was only 19 years old when he was murdered in a hate crime. We had the privilege and honor of meeting and conversing with his mother, Jeanne Pepper Bernstein. She shares with us powerful messages about persevering in times of such despair, while emphasizing the power of hope. Jeanne is an attorney, writer, speaker and advocate for the Kindness movement and advocates for the LGBTQ community as a parent of a gay teen. She received public attention whe...
#5 Brain Health Advocate Kola Adetu on the Link Between Neuroscience of Attachment, the Quantum Field, and the Meaning of Life
October 22, 2020 09:00 - 43 minutes - 30 MBKola Adetu is brain health advocate. He's one of those rare people with the "gift of the gab", so we cannot really fit him into a box title. His inspiration, passion and study extends from Neuroscience of Attachment science, Quantum Mechanics, Astrophysics and Astrobiology. He's a Corporate Brain Health Facilitator/Consultant. In all, he is passionate and ferociously curious about THE EXPERIENCE OF AWE. In this episode, we hear Kola's unique perspective on the meaning of life through the le...
Living Life to the Fullest Despite Chronic and Life Threatening Illness with Wendei Melnick Smith, Founder of Peace of Mind Skin Care
October 15, 2020 09:00 - 42 minutes - 29.4 MBJoin us as we have a raw and vulnerable interview with Ms. Wendei Melnick Smith, an international speaker and educator, who is also a licensed esthetician and product formulator. She shares with us her journey being diagnosed with PANS (pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome), Lyme disease, and got personal with us about her life's history. Wendei is the founder of Peace of Mind Naturals skin care and the owner of Peace of Mind Skin & Body Care in Studio City, California, a boutiqu...
Honoring Yourself Through Grief and Despair with Genesis Moreno, Founder of How to Woman
October 15, 2020 09:00 - 35 minutes - 24.6 MBGenesis takes Michal and Maayan on a journey in their conversation about hitting rock bottom, awakenings, living with uncertainty, and how to honor our grief and despair. When Genesis was 20 years old in the middle of her junior year at university, she found herself in jail, thousands of dollars in debt, no job to pay back the debt, all while trying to keep up appearances for her parents. Genesis had hit bottom. She then had an awakening which put her on a trajectory of embracing spiritua...
#4 Honoring Yourself Through Grief and Despair with Genesis Moreno, Founder of How to Woman
October 15, 2020 09:00 - 35 minutes - 24.6 MBGenesis takes Michal and Maayan on a journey in their conversation about hitting rock bottom, awakenings, living with uncertainty, and how to honor our grief and despair. When Genesis was 20 years old in the middle of her junior year at university, she found herself in jail, thousands of dollars in debt, no job to pay back the debt, all while trying to keep up appearances for her parents. Genesis had hit bottom. She then had an awakening which put her on a trajectory of embracing spiritua...
#3 Living Life to the Fullest Despite Chronic and Life Threatening Illness with Wendei Melnick Smith, Founder of Peace of Mind Skin Care
October 15, 2020 08:00 - 42 minutes - 29.4 MBJoin us as we have a raw and vulnerable interview with Ms. Wendei Melnick Smith, an international speaker and educator, who is also a licensed esthetician and product formulator. She shares with us her journey being diagnosed with PANS (pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome), Lyme disease, and got personal with us about her life's history. Wendei is the founder of Peace of Mind Naturals skin care and the owner of Peace of Mind Skin & Body Care in Studio City, California, a boutiqu...
Who Are We and Why “CatharSIS”?
October 08, 2020 09:00 - 28 minutes - 19.9 MBWelcome to the very first episode of a new podcast, CatharSIS, a show about the meaning of life. Meet the creators of the show, Michal and Maayan, two sisters and professionals in the field of Marriage and Family Therapy, and learn why they decided to start this podcast. They discuss how the recent passing of their father, an Oncologist/Hematologist, inspired this podcast and the mission behind it. Having often worked with terminally ill patients, their dad had many insightful conversations...
#2 Getting Back to our Natural Rhythm of Life with Kit Winter, Associate Marriage and Family Therapist and Lawyer
October 08, 2020 09:00 - 47 minutes - 32.7 MBWhat is our greater purpose here on Earth? Are you hungry for spiritual nourishment? Many of us in today's modern society are hungry for spiritual nourishment. We may be brought up to believe that our value is based on how much we can produce for the least amount of money, leaving us to put our basic human needs of relationships, physical and mental health, and self actualization to the side. This pulls us further and further away from our true nature, leaving us wondering, what is the me...
Getting Back to our Natural Rhythm of Life with Kit Winter, Associate Marriage and Family Therapist and Lawyer
October 08, 2020 09:00 - 47 minutes - 32.7 MBWhat is our greater purpose here on Earth? Are you hungry for spiritual nourishment? Many of us in today's modern society are hungry for spiritual nourishment. We may be brought up to believe that our value is based on how much we can produce for the least amount of money, leaving us to put our basic human needs of relationships, physical and mental health, and self actualization to the side. This pulls us further and further away from our true nature, leaving us wondering, what is the me...
#1 Who Are We and Why “CatharSIS”?
October 08, 2020 08:00 - 28 minutes - 19.9 MBWelcome to the very first episode of a new podcast, CatharSIS, a show about the meaning of life. Meet the creators of the show, Michal and Maayan, two sisters and professionals in the field of Marriage and Family Therapy, and learn why they decided to start this podcast. They discuss how the recent passing of their father, an Oncologist/Hematologist, inspired this podcast and the mission behind it. Having often worked with terminally ill patients, their dad had many insightful conversations...
CatharSIS: A Podcast about the Meaning of Life
September 26, 2020 05:00 - 2 minutes - 1.79 MBWelcome to CatharSIS, a podcast about the Meaning of Life. We are two sisters, Michal and Maayan, who are both Associate Marriage and Family Therapists. We created this podcast in honor of our Dad, who was an Oncologist/Hematologist. He loved to ask everyone: “What is the meaning of life?” In other words, what brings your life meaning? What are constant themes in your life that have motivated you thus far? We will explore questions like these in our podcast. Join us weekly for new episodes!
TRAILER CatharSIS: A Podcast about the Meaning of Life
September 26, 2020 05:00 - 2 minutes - 1.79 MBWelcome to CatharSIS, a podcast about the Meaning of Life. We are two sisters, Michal and Maayan, who are both Associate Marriage and Family Therapists. We created this podcast in honor of our Dad, who was an Oncologist/Hematologist. He loved to ask everyone: “What is the meaning of life?” In other words, what brings your life meaning? What are constant themes in your life that have motivated you thus far? We will explore questions like these in our podcast. Join us weekly for new episodes!