CatharSIS: a Podcast about the Meaning of Life

Genesis takes Michal and Maayan on a journey in their conversation about hitting rock bottom, awakenings, living with uncertainty, and how to honor our grief and despair. 

When Genesis was 20 years old in the middle of her junior year at university, she found herself in jail, thousands of dollars in debt, no job to pay back the debt, all while trying to keep up appearances for her parents.

Genesis had hit bottom. She then had an awakening which put her on a trajectory of embracing spirituality and healing.

Now, happily married, she is the Founder of How to Woman, a community and educational platform for women interested in spirituality, psychology, and mindset work. She hosts workshops, group programs, a Facebook group with over 65K members, and an Instagram page with 38.5K followers, all so she can guide women to their own awakenings and healing. She is passionate about helping women breakthrough past their limiting beliefs so they too can conquer their fears when it comes to persevering in life and business.

Her story is inspirational.

Connect with Genesis Moreno
Instagram: @how.to.woman
Contact - [email protected]
Freebie - Anxious To Ambitious: https://bit.ly/3izaItH
Mentorship- League of Women: https://www.howtowoman.com/league-of-women-membership/
Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/manifestationbabesgroup/

Get in touch with Michal and Maayan:
Website: https://www.sistersinpsychology.com
Instagram: @sistersinpsychology
Email: [email protected]

Join us as we have a raw and vulnerable interview with Ms. Wendei Melnick Smith, an international speaker and educator, who is also a licensed esthetician and product formulator. She shares with us her journey being diagnosed with PANS (pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome), Lyme disease, and got personal with us about her life's history.

Wendei is the founder of Peace of Mind Naturals skin care and the owner of Peace of Mind Skin & Body Care in Studio City, California, a boutique wellness center specializing in corrective facial skin care, anti-aging strategies and wellness treatments.

Get in touch with Wendei:
You may find her on her website at peaceofmindskincare.com and you may e-mail her at: [email protected] if you have any questions or would like to connect!

You may also want to check out her blog 'Living the Lyme Lie' on Medium: https://medium.com/@wendei.smith55

Get in touch with Michal and Maayan:
Website: https://www.sistersinpsychology.com
Instagram: @sistersinpsychology
Email: [email protected]

All music featured in this episode was composed by Michal Y. Bick

What is our greater purpose here on Earth? Are you hungry for spiritual nourishment?

Many of us in today's modern society are hungry for spiritual nourishment. We may be brought up to believe that our value is based on how much we can produce for the least amount of money, leaving us to put our basic human needs of relationships, physical and mental health, and self actualization to the side.

This pulls us further and further away from our true nature, leaving us wondering, what is the meaning of all this? Why does life feel so meaningless?

In this episode, we talk with Kit Winter, attorney with over twenty years experience serving the needs of Internet, new media, and technology companies. He then went back to school to pursue a career in Marriage and Family Therapy, where he met Maayan in graduate school. In this episode, we talk about how we can get closer to our true nature and rhythm of life.

Resource Mentioned:
On Being Certain by Robert Burton, MD

Get in touch with Kit:
[email protected]

Get in touch with Maayan and Michal:
Website: https://www.sistersinpsychology.com
Instagram: @sistersinpsychology
Email: [email protected]

Welcome to the very first episode of a new podcast, CatharSIS, a show about the meaning of life. Meet the creators of the show, Michal and Maayan, two sisters and professionals in the field of Marriage and Family Therapy, and learn why they decided to start this podcast.

They discuss how the recent passing of their father, an Oncologist/Hematologist, inspired this podcast and the mission behind it. Having often worked with terminally ill patients, their dad had many insightful conversations surrounding the meaning of life.

Michal and Maayan let us in on what we can expect from listening to this podcast, including using their professional backgrounds in psychology to explore and cope with topics of grief, relationships, vulnerability, attachment, existential crisis, enhancing the quality of life, and much more.

They explain what life events inspired them to go into the field of psychology--including being children of divorce. Additionally, they discuss what motivates them to live every day, and how they learned to develop a deeper sense of self-worth.

Make sure to check out the music in the last 2 minutes -- Michal and Maayan created that song in 1999 when they were kids and always had fun creating songs on the piano.

The rest of the piano music was composed and played by Michal Y. Bick © 2020
Music Instagram: @paintapianopurple

Resource Mentioned:
How to Live a Good Life by Jonathan Fields

Connect with Michal and Maayan
Website: https://www.sistersinpsychology.com
Instagram: @sistersinpsychology
Email: [email protected] 

Welcome to CatharSIS, a podcast about the Meaning of Life. We are two sisters, Michal and Maayan, who are both Associate Marriage and Family Therapists. 

We created this podcast in honor of our Dad, who was an Oncologist/Hematologist. He loved to ask everyone: “What is the meaning of life?” In other words, what brings your life meaning? What are constant themes in your life that have motivated you thus far? We will explore questions like these in our podcast. Join us weekly for new episodes!