Not A Mama Yet Podcast: Episode 12

I don’t remember how I stumbled upon Embrace Race, but I am so happy I did. If you are not familiar with it, it is a multiracial community of parents, teachers, experts, and other caring adults who support each other to meet the challenges that race poses to our children, families, and communities. We welcome your participation.  I reached out to the Co-Founders Melissa and Andrew because I believe that while the work they are doing is invaluable for people who already have kids, people who don’t can still benefit greatly from their platform.

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Not A Mama Yet Podcast: Episode 10

For this episode of the Not A Mama Yet podcast, I spoke with my cousin Andrew Wasser who is a Mindfully based Marriage Family Therapist.   Andrew’s approach to Psychotherapy is helping his clients discover and process their unhealthy patterns and finding new ways to change or alter them. Andrew has several years of diversified experience and specializes in families, couples and individuals with addiction, divorce, parenting and family crisis issues.

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Wine & Gyn Part 2: Egg Freezing

I’m so excited to share the second installment of the Wine & Gyn series that covers women’s health, fertility, egg freezing, and more. This post covers questions on egg-freezing that were answered by Dr. Mary Rosser, Dr. Zev Williams, Dr. Brianna Ruddick, and Dr. Paula Brady from Sloane Hospital for Women at New York Presbyterian.  Dr. Rosser’s specialty is Obstetrics and Gynecology and Dr. Williams specializes in Fertility, specifically recurrent loss. Dr. Ruddick is a Reproductive Endocrinologist within the area of third party reproduction and same-sex couples, and Dr. Brady specializes in egg-freezing.

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How we communicate

Among the 35,000 decisions we make everyday, the ways we choose to communicate with others are critical ones that require our attention.  The way we communicate can impact our friends, loved ones, kids, and even strangers that we should always be aware of.  Holding ourselves accountable for our own communication skills is probably one of the best things we can do for any relationship in our lives, including the one we have with ourselves. 

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