trauma

Episode 40: Kathleen Kendall-Tackett on domestic violence, trauma, breastfeeding, mothering and their intersection

March 14, 2019 Children, Divorce and Custody, Domestic Violence, Gender-Based Violence, Podcasts, Trauma and Abuse

Our guest today is Kathleen Kendall-Tackett, a health psychologist and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, and the Owner & Editor-in-Chief of Praeclarus Press, a small press specializing in women’s health. Dr. Kendall-Tackett is Editor-in-Chief of two peer-reviewed journals: Clinical Lactation and Psychological Trauma. She is Fellow of the American Psychological Association in Health and Trauma…

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Episode 39: Trauma therapist Julia Hochstadt on working with survivors of abuse and violence

March 7, 2019 Children, Divorce and Custody, Domestic Violence, en(gender)ed Reflections, Gender-Based Violence, Healing, Podcasts, Prevention, Rape and Sexual Assault, Trauma and Abuse

Our guest today is Julia Hochstadt, a therapist with over twenty years of expertise in working with victims of crime, trauma and interpersonal violence, including child abuse, rape and sexual assault and domestic violence. Before working in private practice, Julia led New York Presbyterian’s Victim Intervention Program (VIP) providing acute emergency room support, counseling, and…

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Weaponizing Race at the Expense of Survivor Safety and Abuser Accountability - Yet Again!

January 18, 2019 Blog

Imagine attending a #BlackLivesMatter organizing meeting and hearing the organizers spout #AllLivesMatter or #BlueLivesMatter as a rallying cry. Imagine going to a Title IX policy workshop that touted itself as a solution to strengthening accountability of campus rape and sexual assaults, then hearing the speakers refer to Brock Turner, not as a convicted rapist, but…

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Episode 20: #SurvivorStories Series with Rosaura Torres Thomas, on abuse when your partner is a cop

September 6, 2018 Children, Divorce and Custody, Domestic Violence, Gender-Based Violence, Image, Podcasts, Rape and Sexual Assault, Survivor Stories

In this episode, we speak with survivor, Rosaura Torres Thomas, author of the book: Abuse Hidden Behind the Badge—a memoir of her life living suffering from the abuse and coercive control of two police officers–one a highly ranked Officer in Philadelphia and, another–a Pennsylvania state trooper.  Our guest, Rosaura, suffered two (2) retinal detachment surgeries stemming…

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Episode 16: en(gender)ed Reflections on the “Family Court” series–a look back with our guest, Michael

August 9, 2018 Children, Divorce and Custody, Domestic Violence, Gender-Based Violence, Podcasts

Greetings en(gender)ed listeners: This is the second “Reflections” episode where I examine a series of interviews with my friend, Michael.  He joins me as we reflect back on episodes, 7 (Nancy S. Erickson), 9 (Joan Meier), 10 (Barry Goldstein), 11 (Kathleen Russell), the first set of episodes on the first family court crisis.  Michael and…

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