Talking Away The Taboo
Talking Away the Taboo is the podcast for anyone in the Jewish community struggling to have a child and seeking a place for emotional support and comfort. It is a show that will help you learn while validating your feelings and processing the hardship, and teach everyone else to be more sensitive. Each week, Dr. Aimee Baron and her guests talk away the taboo of infertility, pregnancy loss, infant loss, surrogacy, adoption, and more. We laugh, we cry, and we challenge the Jewish community to think differently about a topic that has for so long been shrouded in secrecy and shame. Join us on the wild, unpredictable, and gut-wrenching journey of creating a family.
More than 4 years and 83,603 downloads later, we’re celebrating 200 episodes!
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199. Trusting Your Timeline: Claiming the Future on Your Own Terms with Emily Sklar
In this episode, Aimee sits down with Emily Sklar, a podcast producer and media personality, to discuss her proactive decision to freeze her eggs at age 35. After years of prioritizing her career, Emily opens up about her mother's influence and a professional pivot led her to claim her future by securing the possibility of motherhood on her own terms.
172. Surrendering: Bianca Jade’s Story of Fertility, Faith, and Finding Herself
Bianca Jade joins Aimee Baron, MD to talk about surrendering to uncertainty and what it means to take control, egg freezing in her late 30s, experiencing two miscarriages, and connecting to spirituality
151. The “Value” Of A Fertility Journey/ What The Torah Has To Say About Infertility and Pregnancy Loss with Hadassah Shemtov
Hadassah Shemtov, the cofounder of the “Batsheva Learning Center” joins Aimee Baron, MD to talk about a number of the sources that discuss infertility and pregnancy loss, her hope that having this knowledge could help shape the way people process and relate to some of the difficult experiences that they are having on their journey, and the concept of being “busy with” Pe’ru U’revu (being fruitful and multiply) versus “fulfilling” the mitzvah (commandment) of Pe’ru U’revu.
150. Journeying to Becoming a Solo Mom By Choice with Michelle (Malka) Grunstein
Michelle (Malka) Grunstein, LMFT CATC-IV, joins Aimee Baron, MD to talk about how she has always known that she wants to be a mother, how she decided that by the time she was 30, if she didn't meet someone, she would take steps to do this by herself and her multiple failed relationships including a broken engagement.
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