The Girl in the Red Boots with Judith R. Rabinor, PhD

In this episode, I am joined by Judith Ruskay Rabinor, PhD., psychologist, psychotherapist, author, writing coach, speaker, and workshop leader. Judy has published dozens of articles for both the public and professionals and has authored three books, "The Girl in the Red Boots: Making Peace with My Mother," (She Writes Press, 2021), A Starving Madness: Tales of Hunger, Hope and Healing in Psychotherapy (Gurze Books, 2002) and Befriending Your Ex After Divorce: Making Life Better for You, Your Kids and Yes, Your Ex (New Harbinger Publications, 2012). and she also specializes in working with divorcing and remarried families. Judy offers individual, couples, and family therapy, runs groups for binge eaters, a consultation group for mental health professionals and mentors and coaches writers individually and in groups. Whether working with troubled  individuals, couples, groups or families her goal is to help people bring vitality and aliveness into their lives.

Topics Discussed:
• How the complexities of the mother-daughter relationship can challenge its importance.
• Exploring simultaneous feeling states, such as love and hate towards a parent.
• How reflection and exploration expands our consciousness and allows for new family narratives to be born.
• Understanding the relationship with mother, as opposed to blaming her, can be the beginning to dismantling the anger.
• How hunger for connection can often be disguised as hunger for food.
• The importance of the therapist’s role in helping the family and remembering that “blood is thicker than therapy.”

About Judith R. Rabinor, PhD:
Judith Ruskay Rabinor, PhD. is a clinical psychologist, psychotherapist, author, speaker, writing coach and consultant based on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. In addition to her New York City private psychotherapy practice, she offers remote consultations for writers, clinicians and families. Whether working with troubled individuals, couples, groups or families her goal is to help people bring vitality and aliveness into their lives.

Judy has authored three books, The Girl in the Red Boots: Making Peace with My Mother (She Writes Press, 2021), A Starving Madness: Tales of Hunger, Hope and Healing in Psychotherapy (Gurze Books, 2002) and Befriending Your Ex After Divorce: Making Life Better for You, Your Kids and Yes, Your Ex (New Harbinger Publications, 2012). In addition to her three books, Judy has published dozens of articles and chapters in journals, newspapers and magazines. She blogs for The Huffington Post and Psychology Today, is a consultant to The Renfrew Center Foundation, a supervisor at the Center for the Study of Anorexia and Bulimia and a sought after presenter, workshop leader and media expert.

Connect with Judith R. Rabinor, PhD:
• Visit Judy online at www.judithruskayrabinorphd.com
• View Judy’s press mentions, publicity, upcoming events
• Subscribe to Judy’s blog and view all of Judy’s publications
• Follow Judy on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Youtube
• Purchase a copy of:
╴The Girl in the Red Boots
╴A Starving Madness: Tales of Hunger, Hope and Healing in Psychotherapy
╴Befriending Your Ex After Divorce: Making Life Better for You, Your Kids and Yes, Your Ex

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About Karin Lewis:
Karin Lewis, MA, LMFT, CEDS has been recovered from Anorexia Nervosa for over 20 years and has been specializing in the prevention and treatment of eating disorders since 2005. To learn more about Karin and her center’s services, please visit Karin Lewis Eating Disorder Center. You can connect with Karin on social media by following her on Facebook and Instagram.

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