Anxious Surrogate
Big Mood, Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Danny Lavery welcomes Leslie Cohen-Rubury, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and host of “Is My Child a Monster?”, A Parenting Therapy Podcast.
Lavery and Cohen-Rubury offer advice to someone who’s parents might interfere with her decision to be a surrogate mother for her friends. Another letter writer is wondering how to tell their mom about being abused by their teacher when they were 16. Also, a listener's response to the “Fairweather Friend Group” letter.
Resources mentioned in today’s show:
- Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD - https://cptforptsd.com/cpt-provider-roster/
- Dialectic Behavior Therapy - Prolonged Exposure (DBT-PE) - https://dbtpe.org/find-a-therapist
- The Body Keeps Score - A book by Bessel Van Der Kolk
Need advice? Send Danny a question here.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening ad-free on Amazon music. |
| 0:03.4 | Just a reminder that Big M. Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery happens twice a week. |
| 0:08.0 | Slate Plus members get an additional mini-episode or Little Big Mood every Friday. |
| 0:12.8 | Sign up now to listen at slate.com slash mood. |
| 0:15.4 | Music Hello and welcome back to Big Mood Little Mood. |
| 0:39.4 | I am your host, Danny M. Lavery. |
| 0:41.5 | And with me in the studio this week is Leslie Cohen Rubbery, a licensed clinical social worker with an MSW as well as a master's in special education. |
| 0:50.3 | Leslie, welcome to the show. |
| 0:51.9 | Thank you so much, Danny. |
| 0:53.3 | Glad to be here. |
| 0:54.7 | I'm so pleased that you're here, and I feel a little bit abashed as if I took advantage of your professional credentials by really loading today's episode with pretty thorny and difficult questions. |
| 1:06.0 | So I suppose I want to begin with a sort of minor apology of both thank you for bringing your |
| 1:12.3 | professional credentials to bear. And I also realize you are not in joining me here, |
| 1:16.4 | giving advice to people, using your professional credentials. You are not doing this in your capacity |
| 1:22.3 | of your professional work, simply that I am grateful to you and your expertise. And I hope that |
| 1:27.3 | also just as two human |
| 1:28.6 | beings, we will be able to talk about possible options available to all of these people. |
| 1:33.1 | Yeah, that's fabulous. I mean, it is, even as a therapist and 37 years of experience, it's |
| 1:40.1 | amazing how the mental health and the well-being of humans is complex and a big, you know, as you said, thorny topic. |
| 1:49.1 | So ready to dive in and, you know, definitely we'll see what comes out. |
| 1:56.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:56.3 | And I think actually now that I look at it, you asked me right before we started the show whether I ever |
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