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Big Mood, Little Mood: Anxious Surrogate


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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

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