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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165. Fill Your Cup with Shirel Korobkin
Shirel Korobkin, joins Aimee Baron, MD to talk about her deeply personal fertility journey, the stillbirth she experienced four years ago, a recent miscarriage, and the ongoing pain and resilience that define life after loss and the powerful parallels between her own struggles and the journey of the Jewish people in Egypt.
163. Turning Pain into Purpose with Chaya Hott
Chaya Hott joins Aimee Baron, MD to talk about grief, resilience, and the power of turning personal tragedy into a source of healing for others and her experience navigating secondary infertility, a devastating stillbirth, and an early loss.
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.
147. Navigating the pain and grief: A personal story of primary infertility and infant loss with Elissa Felder
Elissa Felder joins Aimee Baron, MD to talk about her years of primary infertility, coupled with the devastating loss of her infant son, her book, “From One Life to the Next Life: The Sacred Passage After Death,” which has become a lifeline for those navigating the churning waters of grief and her raw, soul-baring journey from paralyzing grief to living a life infused with purpose and passion.
133. Pride, Faith and Stillbirth with Rabbi Karen Glazer Perolman
Rabbi Karen Glazer Perolman joins Aimee Baron, MD to talk about her upbringing, her passion for her job as a community rabbi, and having a stillbirth, her baby, Leo, who she lost, what grief looks like when your job is to hold people in *their* pain and how she has managed to get through all of it.
132. Perinatal Grief in the LGBTQ+ Community with Shira Collings
Shira Collings joins Aimee Baron, MD to talk about her personal experience with recurrent pregnancy loss (4 heartbreaking losses), how navigating grief is hard enough after a loss, as most people don’t truly understand what a grieving person needs and the added layers of being part of the queer community, which brings up other ways that people can feel isolated and alone.
131. Sad Dads Club: Grieving Together After Loss with Rob Reider
Rob Reider joins Aimee Baron, MD to talk about the stillbirth of his daughter, Lila, in December 2017, how he dealt with the grief and overwhelming heartache, and how he and his his wife, Tehila, got through those early weeks (spoiler alert- they were both a mess).
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