Latest Bobbie comforto Podcast Episodes

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Erin Brady- "Mise en Place"

Processing - September 23, 2021 14:56 - 1 hour
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,...

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Remembering 9/11, 20 years later

Processing - September 11, 2021 00:06 - 1 hour
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...

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Sheila Dee -“Chocolate Pudding Pie”

Processing - August 27, 2021 00:05 - 1 hour
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 m...

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Let’s Talk About Taking a Break

Processing - August 18, 2021 01:01 - 46 minutes
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? ...

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Kathie Bodily returns - “Cookie & Chemo”

Processing - July 15, 2021 16:37 - 1 hour
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...

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Edy Massiah - “Your friendly neighborhood grocer”

Processing - July 08, 2021 22:34 - 47 minutes
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, l...

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Reid Peterson- "Pfannkuchen"

Processing - July 02, 2021 09:33 - 1 hour
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 ...

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Aimee Lee Ball- "Eat, Darling, Eat"

Processing - June 25, 2021 02:36 - 58 minutes
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 mothe...

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Africa Yoon “Kimchi”

Processing - June 17, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour
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 ea...

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Food & Grief & Film- Susannah Gruder returns

Processing - June 10, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour
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 Nomad...

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Gina Hamadey- "Thank You"

Processing - June 03, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour
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...

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Noah & Ari Meyerowitz- "Sprouts"

Processing - May 27, 2021 14:35 - 1 hour
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,...

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Mary Beth White- "Dry Ice"

Processing - May 20, 2021 16:34 - 1 hour
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 f...

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Let's talk about "The Year of Magical Thinking"

Processing - May 13, 2021 12:00 - 58 minutes
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...

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Let's talk about Mother's Day

Processing - May 06, 2021 08:00 - 46 minutes
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 th...

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Suzanne Phillips - "Broccoli Rabe"

Processing - April 29, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour
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 3...

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Beth Robbins "Sproutman"

Processing - April 22, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour
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 eatin...

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Paul Manza- "WAKE UP!"

Processing - April 08, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour
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, ...

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"Danielle Joffe" -Chicken Feet

Processing - April 01, 2021 08:00 - 58 minutes
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 ...

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Iris Ruth Pastor- "The Secret Life of a Weight Obsessed Woman"

Processing - March 25, 2021 17:09 - 48 minutes
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 de...

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Sydoney Taylor- "A Peace of Grief"

Processing - March 19, 2021 13:20 - 1 hour
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 t...

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Martel Catalano- "Beyond My Battle"

Processing - March 11, 2021 14:22 - 1 hour
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 mi...

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Listener Letter- Mourning in COVID

Processing - February 25, 2021 20:31 - 55 minutes
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 tou...

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Jess Quinn - "Porterhouse for 2"

Processing - February 18, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour
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 ...

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Let's talk about nostalgia

Processing - February 11, 2021 13:00 - 55 minutes
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 strude...

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Tessa Miller- "What doesn't kill you"

Processing - February 05, 2021 01:31 - 1 hour
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 h...

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Let's talk about heartbreak

Processing - January 21, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour
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 co...

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Kimberly Warner- "Saffron Bread"

Processing - January 14, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour
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 i...

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Ellen, Dan & Clare Driscoll -"Soft Shell Crabs, Caesar Salad & Spaghetti Sunday's"

Processing - December 28, 2020 22:20 - 1 hour
On today’s show we are honored to welcome the Driscoll family. Ellen and Dan are brother and sister, and Clare is Dan’s daughter and Ellen’s niece. Dan and Ellen both lost their wives to cancer, and Clare, her mother, and they talk candidly about this experience, and how they have found ways to ...

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Ryan Augusta- "Superman"

Processing - December 17, 2020 22:26 - 1 hour
This week we have the pleasure of speaking with an old friend of the family, Chef Ryan Augusta. Ryan joins us to talk about his harrowing and life changing experience with being diagnosed with tongue and neck cancer in his early 30’s. He talks to us about the incredibly complex nature of battlin...

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