Neshamos.org Podcast: Stories of Hope and Healing
Health & Wellness Podcasts
We at Neshamos are on a mission to promote mental and emotional health and healing within our community Among the many ways we do this is by empowerment through education. this podcast is where we get to listen to personal experiences of those who have been effected by mental illness - the pain, the struggle to get better and today, by the grace of G-d, have emerged with a message of hope and healing. My name is Moishe Chanin. I am a grateful addict in recovery; And I am a certified life and addiction recovery coach. I'm here to encourage vulnerability and allow for hope to emerge from the internal journeys we share. Please join me Hear the stories of these heros and know that you are not alone Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/neshamos-podcast/support
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United States
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Health & Wellness Podcasts
Description:
We at Neshamos are on a mission to promote mental and emotional health and healing within our community Among the many ways we do this is by empowerment through education. this podcast is where we get to listen to personal experiences of those who have been effected by mental illness - the pain, the struggle to get better and today, by the grace of G-d, have emerged with a message of hope and healing. My name is Moishe Chanin. I am a grateful addict in recovery; And I am a certified life and addiction recovery coach. I'm here to encourage vulnerability and allow for hope to emerge from the internal journeys we share. Please join me Hear the stories of these heros and know that you are not alone Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/neshamos-podcast/support
Twitter:
@neshamosorg
Language:
English
Website:
https://neshamos.org/interviewed
Email:
podcast@neshamos.org
Episodes
Free from Obsession (feat. Yitzi Rabinowitz)
5/15/2022
Meet Yitzy Rabinowitz. Yitzy was raised in Borough Park, and currently resides in Crown Heights, NY. In this episode, hear Yitzy’s heartfelt recount of his journey of healing from sex addiction and codependency. He demonstrates immense courage and bravery in speaking about the various factors that played into life story, and brought him to where he stands today. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/neshamos-podcast/message Support this podcast:...
Duration:01:06:26
Fighting to Live (feat. Breina Levilev)
3/28/2022
Hear Breina's story of her struggle with addiction and her eating disorder from a first-person view. This episode will leave you with a deeper sense of compassion and understanding, and a very sobering view of recovery and the real-life challenges it presents.
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Duration:01:00:51
Undiagnosed ADHD (feat. Leah Groner)
1/24/2022
Born and raised in Melbourne, Australia, Leah Groner shares with us her journey at discovering clarity. With the support of her family and her general practitioner, Leah received her diagnosis of ADHD in her twenties. She eloquently illustrates for us her journey in navigating the various challenges that would come up with her, along with the gifts of support and clarity that she found along the way.
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Duration:01:07:14
Permission to Feel (feat. Rachel Cohen)
12/20/2021
Meet Rachel Cohen. Rachel is Long Island homegrown, and continues to live there now with her family. She works as a Special Ed Teacher, and uses her talents to inspire and advocate for others on their road to recovery. She shares with us her history of childhood sexual abuse and medical trauma, which set forth her journey in learning to cope with her pain. After experiencing anorexia, an opioid addiction, and many intense emotions, Rachel is here with us today to share her story of...
Duration:00:50:34
No Longer Hiding (feat. Rivka Tauber)
11/8/2021
Rivka Tauber is a writer, Torah educator, and public speaker who grew up in Crown Heights and recently made aliyah to Jerusalem. In this episode, Rivka shares her journey from the challenges of depression and the struggle of finding reasons to live to the wholeness she discovered in her connection with others, her relationship with G-d, in therapy, and so much more along the way. Thank G-d, today, she is free from the obsession over the future and is able to live in the present. Today, she...
Duration:01:04:15
A Sofer in Sobriety (feat. Yankel Maislin)
9/5/2021
Yankel Maislin is a sofer (Torah scribe), author, public speaker and mentor who lives in Crown Heights, Brooklyn with his wife and five children. To the casual observer, he looks like your typical Chabad rabbi, spending his day in prayer, holy work, and raising a family. While that may be true now, there was a time when Yankel’s identity couldn’t be more of a contradiction to what it is today. Yankel grew up in a small town in Long Island, NY. As a physically small child with a unique...
Duration:01:22:10
Love Addiction (feat. Tzipora Zelmanowitz)
8/22/2021
Meet Tzipora Zelmanowitz, a recovering Love Addict. Tzipora, a practicing attorney who lives in Queens, New York, has been in recovery from her love addiction for 5.5 years. Her journey into the world of recovery began after years of unsuccessful dating, when she eventually began to wonder… why weren’t things working? Why was she dating the kind of men she didn’t actually want to marry? Were things supposed to be this hard? As she started looking within, she began to understand that she...
Duration:01:12:29
Medication Doesn’t Do the Work; You Do (feat. Nechamy Rabin)
8/1/2021
Nechamy Rabin, a high-powered, upbeat mom of three who has her Masters Degree and works in Special Education, is not the kind of person you’d imagine would cry over a parking spot.
Growing up in Pittsburgh in a large family, Nechamy always knew she wanted to have a large family of her own someday.
“It couldn’t be that hard,” Nechamy recalls thinking. “Everyone looks great pushing their Bugaboos up Kingston Avenue.”
For the most part, things worked out after her first child. But after the...
Duration:01:12:34
"It Was the First Time I Felt Hope" (feat Shiri Kornblit)
7/5/2021
Shiri Kornblit joins the Neshamos Podcast to share her story of surviving traumatic early childhood loss of a parent, the coping mechanisms she developed as a result, and her process of learning and recovery as she began healing from helplessness and many patterns of unhealthy behaviors including addiction to drugs and alcohol.
As an adult, Shiri joined Alcoholics Anonymous and eventually became a baalat teshuva. Today, she lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband and two children and works...
Duration:01:17:17
At-Risk-Teen Turned Rabbi (feat. Shloimy Fuchs)
5/23/2021
Shloimy Fuchs was born and bred in Crown Heights, Brooklyn and currently serves as a mashpia in Yeshivas Bais Menachem of Wilkes Barre (now located in the Poconos).
In this episode of the Neshamos podcast, Shloimy talks about his struggles with anxiety, addiction, and low self esteem. In his younger years, he was a “problem student” who was expelled from yeshiva and spent time on the streets shoplifting and committing petty crimes. Later, he sought comfort in alcohol, relationships, and a...
Duration:01:02:00
“Grief is Not One Size Fits All” (feat. Sarah Rivkah Kohn)
4/11/2021
Today, Sarah Rivkah is comfortable with who she is and uses her own experience with childhood loss to help others who are going through similar situations. Her annual shabbaton for children who have lost a parent gathers some 225 children from all over the world and gives them an opportunity to make friends, heal, and grow together. You can find Sarah Rivkah on Instagram at instagram.com/links_shlomiesclub or via her website, www.wereinittogether.org. --- Send in a voice message:...
Duration:01:21:42
Soul Substance (feat. Elka Cubacub)
2/1/2021
Elka (Malamud) Cubacub is a yoga teacher and Psychology student born and bred in Chicago, where she currently resides with her husband and daughter. For years, Elka struggled with Bulimia/Binge Eating Disorder that first began when she attended seminary in Israel. As she struggled with restrictive eating habits and bingeing compulsions, she began to understand that at the root of her unhealthy behaviors were underlying emotions and a sense of disconnect. What followed were years of ups and...
Duration:01:12:45
I Experienced Sexual Assault (feat. Rochel Spangenthal)
12/28/2020
Rochel Spangenthal is a psychiatric nurse practitioner and writer from North Carolina. At a young age, Rochel’s family made the transition to a religious lifestyle, becoming Baalei Teshuva and joining the Chabad community.
Rochel took her religious responsibilities seriously, determined to be the perfect daughter and student and aspired toward a relationship with a man befitting her religious status. She was scrupulous in her Torah observance, carefully maintaining her distance from men as...
Duration:00:53:36
Just Me Being Alive is Enough (feat. Mushky Rosenfeld)
12/7/2020
As a child, Mushky York (now Rosenfeld) suffered from severe anxiety which affected her social, academic, and general wellbeing. Eventually, her anxiety got so bad that she suffered from constant nausea and couldn’t keep food down and began losing weight. Soon, Mushky began receiving compliments and comments on her body changes. While that lifted her mood, it also meant she felt better and was able to eat more--which led to weight gain, which led to less compliments, which led to anxiety and...
Duration:00:54:00
I Am Not My Circumstances (feat. Schneur Lakein)
11/23/2020
Schneur Lakein is a Miami-based entrepreneur who grew up in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. At three years old, Schneur lost his mother, and his father passed away just twenty years later. As a result, Schneur struggled with feelings of abandonment, loneliness, and a desperate need to prove his strength and independence to both himself and others. As he progressed first through primary and high school and later on to the Israeli army, he began to understand how his mindset, self-beliefs, and...
Duration:01:08:38
Separate Accounts (feat. Rachel Lebowitz)
11/9/2020
Growing up, Rachel (Ruchi) Lebowitz felt misunderstood and unheard. She struggled both at home and in school, secretly harming herself and, in her own words, attempting to make herself “smaller.”
When Ruchi got married, she thought she’d “made it.” It quickly became apparent, however, that her husband had a serious gambling addiction. In addition to the problems his addiction inflicted on their marriage, they two could barely stay afloat financially.
As Ruchi sought help for her husband’s...
Duration:00:55:59
Preview of Rachel Lebowitz
11/6/2020
A short snippet from the episode dropping this Sunday i.y.h. (November 8th) at 6pm.
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Duration:00:00:56
I Still Have Tough Days (feat. Avremi Zippel)
10/25/2020
Rabbi Avremi Zippel grew up on shlichus in Salt Lake City, Utah. Zippel is a survivor of child sexual abuse, something he kept secret for a long time. After getting married, moving on shlichus, and becoming a father, he eventually chose to go public with his story, impacting hundreds of people and becoming an advocate for mental health and survivors of sexual abuse in the process. In this episode, Rabbi Zippel opens up about his internal experiences, how his self-image shaped his experience...
Duration:01:16:40
Putting the Pieces Back Together (feat. Yossi Rodal)
9/6/2020
Singer/Songwriter/Rabbi Yossi Rodal of Carlesbad, CA talks about losing his sister at the age of 12, struggling with the feelings of loss and grief, coming to the realization that he needed help to heal, and eventually embarking on the road toward healing and using his music as a tool toward that end.
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Duration:00:57:59
Putting the Pieces Back Together (feat. Yossi Rodal)
9/6/2020
Singer/Songwriter/Rabbi Yossi Rodal of Carlesbad, CA talks about losing his sister at the age of 12, struggling with the feelings of loss and grief, coming to the realization that he needed help to heal, and eventually embarking on the road toward healing and using his music as a tool toward that end.
Check out Yossi's Music Video "Dry Tears" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onDO5uYGtDs
Duration:00:57:59