In today’s episode of Get Intuit with Gila, I speak with Jessica Tzur.

Jessica has become a dear friend of mine. She is open about her struggle with anxiety and depression and has used this struggle to help and empower others. It is truly remarkable to see what she has done to remedy this illness. She used chesed in two ways. Number one - she has become a voice for those struggling - creating support groups and funds for therapy for those who need. Number two - she has created a beautiful gemach, helping in two ways - she collects clothes and shoes from stores and sells them at a very small fee (.50$-5.00$ items) and with that money - she helps send kids to camp! How seriously, amazingly awesome is that!?

For some people, doing acts of kindness is really a life line. What a beautiful way to spin a hard situation.

On the flip side, if chesed(acts of kindness) isn’t your thing, do not despair. There are SO many modalities of healing and I would encourage you to find one that speaks to you!

Mine are going to a spin class, going out to eat with friends, journaling and going to therapy.

What are yours? If you don’t have any, start exploring now! Reminder for those who need it. Self care is a necessity and not an added bonus. Especially for those struggling with mental illness, self care tools are literally coping skills and part of the therapy.

Here’s a little bit about my guest:

“Hi, my name is Jessica. I live in far rockaway with my. Husband and 5 delicious children who fill my heart with love and my house with chaos . I grew up in a secular home in New Hampshire and married a frum israeli man. As they say opposites attract.

My life is quite busy. Besides for cooking, cleaning, homework, mommying and trying not to lose my sanity, I run an at home day care as well as a gemach for women and children’s clothing. Running and physical exercise is my passion as it gives my body physical strength and my head emotional space.

Here’s where it gets interesting. I suffer with severe anxiety and depression. Because god gave me the opportunity to hit rock bottom my eyes were opened to a very big gap In our jewish world- an all encompassing organization for women struggling with mental health challenges.  Hence I recently launched CATCH- creating a team of courage and hope. The go to spot for women who need support navigating these extremely challenging waters- fighting an illness so often invisible to the outside world. CATCH will be an all encompassing space for women to get support and direction and not feel alone when dealing with anxiety and depression.

If you are interested in hearing more you can reach me at [email protected]

Or@levligemach."

To see more episodes like this and read the full blog on today’s episode,  please visit my website www.gilaglassberg.com. 

If you are interested in making peace with food through the principles of Intuitive Eating and the practices of self care, go ahead and schedule a free call via my website(www.gilaglassberg.com).  Catch me on Instagram @ Gila.Glassberg.IntuitiveRD. You can work with me one on one or sign up to be in one of my intuitive eating online support groups via Zoom.

Have a wonderful day!

OMG! Today, I am releasing my 30th episode of this podcast. I am beyond excited to do so. Just a few years ago, I was afraid to work with my first client. I was afraid to speak my truth about dieting. I was afraid to speak - period. Maybe you don't know this about me, but I have a severe fear of public speaking. It's so debilitating especially because I actually really enjoy speaking -can't you tell.

Well my good friend and mentor, Tsippi Gross (https://tsippigross.com/), really pushed me to start this podcast. I happen to love being interviewed and interviewing others.  I try to stick to the things I love, but I do push myself to public speak as well. I am a believer in - Feel the fear and do it anyways (Which is a great book btw that Yael Trusch recommended on one of her other podcast episodes - https://www.amazon.com/Feel-Fear-Do-Anyway/dp/0345487427). 

So why did I decide to release this episode on my own podcast and why this week? Well - things have been pretty stressful for me lately. I have all three kids home with me and no camp or school yet. I had to put a pause on some of my business projects. This is really hard for me which is actually bittersweet because I have never, ever enjoyed a job and now I LOVE working for myself. Anyways, I wanted to put out this podcast because the #1 the work is done and #2 this is an awesome podcast episode. Yael is an excellent interviewer and I have a lot to say on this topic (always)! She asks me the questions that most people ask me when they are first introduces to Intuitive Eating. I have listeners of all types- ranges from avid Intuitive eating followers to people who have heard the concept once or twice and want to hear more. This interview covers a many of those questions that people want answered. 

This interview can be found on Yael's website @ https://jewishlatinprincess.com/gila-glassberg/

Gila Glassberg is a Master’s level Registered Dietitian and a Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor. She became passionate about the field of nutrition and dietetics as a teenager. What happened as a teenager, which led her to the field of nutrition? Being in a dangerous place and being in a borderline place when it comes to negative thoughts and behaviors around food – Can this be turned around? How can you help your child not go down a negative path when it comes to disordered eating? Really, practically, how do we avoid sending the wrong messages to our teens? Trust is a big part of it, mothers. How did Gila come across the non diet, weight neutral approach to health called Intuitive Eating? And, what was the disconnect between her training as a Registered Dietitian and Intuitive Eating? By the way, what is the difference between a nutritionist and a Registered Dietitian? Important to know. We also go deep into the benefits of this approach. 

To see more episodes like this and read the full blog on today’s episode,  please visit my website www.gilaglassberg.com.

If you are interested in making peace with food through the principles of Intuitive Eating and the practices of self care, go ahead and schedule a free call via my website.  Catch me on Instagram @ dietitian.gilaglassberg. You can work with me one on one or sign up to be in one of my intuitive eating online support groups via Zoom.

Have a wonderful day!

In today’s episode of Get Intuit with Gila, I speak with Malky Weingarten.

Malky Weingarten is a frum female filmmaker. She started off performing comedy at tzedakah parties which drew people to come to the parties and give donations. She then began to write scripts and build sets for the shows she was performing at. When this became difficult, she began filming in real houses and would show this movie at her shows. This turned into producing full-fledged movies. 

Malky grew up in a chassidish family in Seagate, where she was exposed to many variations of frum Jews. She didn’t grow up in a strict environment; she was allowed to roller skate and bike ride. She went to a chassidish school but she had friends from all different types of families. She started film-making to the best of her ability and then went to study in New York Film Academy. By that time, she had already produced 3 movies and wanted to learn if she was doing things correctly. Malky realized that the way she does things is not the way things are typically done in the film-making world, but you don’t need many years of college to make a movie. All you need is the confidence that what you’re doing is good. If you have a strong will you can do it. You have to believe in yourself, otherwise no one will believe in you.

Malky’s goal in creating films is to convey a message to her viewers. Malky only spends time on projects meaningful to her that hold a message behind them. Hashem gives each person a talent to make the world a better place, so Malky has taken advantage of her special opportunity to influence people and change the world.

Malki writes her scripts according to what inspires her. Her first movie was about a girl with Aspergers which was inspired by her son who has Aspergers. She wanted the world to know that these are humans and she feels the movie made an impact on its viewers. Her movies are things that happen around her and happen to her. Her newest movie is about mental health in the frum community. There are a few people in her life suffering from mental illness and they don’t have enough people to talk to because mental illness is such a non-topic in her community. There isn’t enough open discussion surrounding anxiety and depression; there’s a lot of stigma surrounding them. People think that anyone suffering from mental illness can just snap out of it. Imagine telling someone with cancer to just snap out of it?! 

(See the full blog/transcription on my website www.gilaglassberg.com) 

Want to learn more about Malky Weingarten? Make sure to follow her on Instagram at malkys_media. Thanks Malky for sharing your story and role on today’s episode of Get Intuit with Gila! Please reach out to Malky if you are interested in helping her break her FABULOUS new movie to life. Her next production is about breaking the stigma of mental health in our beautiful community. 

To see more episodes like this and read the full blog on today’s episode,  please visit my website www.gilaglassberg.com.

If you are interested in making peace with food through the principles of Intuitive Eating and the practices of self care, go ahead and schedule a free call via my website.  Catch me on Instagram @ dietitian.gilaglassberg. You can work with me one on one or sign up to be in one of my intuitive eating online support groups via Zoom.

Have a wonderful day!

Sylky became a family life coach and thought it was fascinating. She thought she could reinvent herself with everything she had learned but began to realize that this wasn’t enough. She needed to go to the parts of her that were broken. Sylky learned that you’re only as strong as your foundation is deep and she realized she was lacking in her own foundation. She was learning a lot about healing, yet she felt a void that wasn’t getting filled. She hit rock bottom at a certain point and a therapist introduced her to Pia Mellody’s work. Pia’s work comes with a lot of training so Sylky went and did an intensive workshop. For the first time, she really got her family history straight;  what she needs, what her children need and what her role in the family really was. Mellody teaches that anything less than nurturing is abusive to the child whether it’s overt abuse or covert abuse. You may not realize abuse walking into someone’s house. The parents may be very well respected but emotionally there may be neglect or harm done. Most people are not trying to hurt their children on purpose. For example, using the silent treatment can make a child feel like he doesn’t exist, so this can be a form of abuse for a child. This may affect a child later on in life. There are so many people who think that they are made wrong while in reality there’s nothing wrong with me but with the messages I was given as a child. We work through this our entire lives.

When many parents learn about this they get nervous that they’re making mistakes and covertly abusing their kids. However, when parents act in a genuine fashion and are good role models for their kids, their kids will see this. Your children just need to build up a good image of you. Pia’s work is all about being human but being able to grow and change. If we nurture our inner child, parenting will become a much more natural process. Parents nowadays need more guidance. Every person who works on themselves knows that parenting is about growing yourself as a person. You can do certain things to help remind you who you want to be, like checking in on your kids everyday, but it’s also about doing your own work. When we do our own work we relate to our marriage differently, we are more open to have harder conversations, we can own up to things and we’ll have more strength to hear our children without taking things personally. 

(See the full blog post on my website www.gilaglassberg.com)

To see more episodes like this - please visit my website www.gilaglassberg.com.

If you are interested in making peace with food through the principles of Intuitive Eating and the practices of self care, go ahead and schedule a free call via my website.  Catch me on instagram @ dietitian.gilaglassberg. You can work with me one on one or sign up to be in one of my intuitive eating online support groups via zoom.

Gila Glassberg, RD interviews Elisheva Liss, LMFT (a licensed psychotherapist in private practice).  

In today's episode,  I speak with Elisheva Liss about how poor body image can effect marital intimacy. We get into the possible causes of this poor body image and how each partner can support each other through this. 

This is an episode you will note want to miss! To see more of my episodes, visit www.gilaglassberg.weebly.com or instagram @dietitian.gilaglassberg. 

Elisheva Liss, LMFT is a licensed psychotherapist in private practice, blogger, author, lecturer, and online educator. Her specialties are narrative therapy, couples counseling, and sexual issues. Her book, Find Your Horizon of Healthy Thinking, teaches her narrative therapy technique for using the power of the mind to boost mood, empowerment, and quality of life, and is available on Amazon as ebook or paperback. 

Her new digital courses: Private Practice Pro Tips and Sacred, Not Secret: A Religious Family's Guide to Healthy, Holy Sexuality Education, as well as her blogs and book, are linked below:  https://elisheva-s-school.thinkific.c... https://elisheva-s-school.thinkific.c... https://www.amazon.com/Find-Your-Hori... https://nefesh.org/blogs/ElishevaLiss http://elishevaliss.com/ she can be reached at: [email protected]

In today's episode, I interviewed Elisheva Weiner - The Feeding Specialist. 

Elisheva specializes in working with picky eaters. She mostly does workshops and works with one on one clients.   Elisheva struggled to feed her own daughter. Because she already had her degree in speech, she had a background in the feeding of children. Once she was faced with this challenge, she realized their needed to be something done for her child. She realized that she needed to change the feeding dynamic in her home. 

  This is where she was exposed to The Division of Responsibility of Feeding - a feeding model created by Ellyn Satter (registered dietitian and social worker). This approach allows children to be competent eaters and to grow up to be intuitive eaters.   It's amazing to see what happens when we learn the skills and tools to properly feed our children. I have seen a huge turnaround in my own home with my own children and now with my clients.  

 Elisheva's Information: Elisheva Weiner, M.S., CCC-SLP The Feeding Specialist Instagram @elishevaweiner Website: thefeedingspecialist.com Email: [email protected]  To see more episodes like this - please visit my website www.gilaglassberg.com. If you are interested in making peace with food through the principles of Intuitive Eating and the practices of self care, go ahead and schedule a free call via my website.  Catch me on instagram @ dietitian.gilaglassberg. You can work with me one on one or sign up to be in one of my intuitive eating online support groups via zoom.

In today's episode, I interviewed Yonina Kaufman on the painful topic of infant loss and body image. One of the most important things we spoke about was the pain women feel when their body's change due to pregnancy - but now, with this added suffering of loss, woman experience such a deep sense of pain towards their body.     

Yonina explained that on the one hand, we are so fortunate to be moving in the right direction with this conversation. We are now giving woman grace and permission to love and accept their postpartum body as opposed to the way it used to be where we heard  "just get back to that pre baby body." On the other hand, woman who have been pregnant and than experience pregnancy or infant loss are experiencing physical symptoms of pregnancy or post pardon but without a baby to show for it. They may experience deep feelings of guilt and shame towards their body.      

One of the ways Yonina supports these women is by opening up the floor and letting them know that they are not alone. 1 in 4 pregnancy's will end in a miscarriage and 1 in 100 pregnancy's will end in a stillbirth. This is a real and common phenomenon.      But we must not minimize this loss. We must not try to minimize someones pain by saying how common it is. We want to allow these women to say they are hurting instead of hearing the infamous words "just get over it."     

We must breakdown the barriers so we can give support and permission to feel.    

Yonina specializes in helping women and couples who experience (d) perinatal and infant loss, infertility, and perinatal or postpartum mood and anxiety disorders. Yonina is trained in maternal mental health, grief and bereavement, trauma, and parent training. While using evidenced based approaches, Yonina is there to help clients untangle their thoughts and feelings, while they go through their grieving, mourning, and/or parenting journey. As the Clinical Coordinator for ATIME HUG, Yonina is fortunate to support women and couples experiencing perinatal and infant loss. In Yonina’s  private practice, she continues to do more of the same. Additionally, Yonina provides clinical supervision for therapists and social work interns, as well as conduct parenting classes for parents with children of all ages and stages.   Yonina Kaufman, LCSW, Ms. Ed. 646 – 893 – 9194 [email protected] Instagram: @yoninakaufman  To see more episodes like this - please visit my website www.gilaglassberg.com. If you are interested in making peace with food through the principles of Intuitive Eating and the practices of self care, go ahead and schedule a free call via my website.  Catch me on instagram @ dietitian.gilaglassberg. You can work with me one on one or sign up to be in one of my intuitive eating online support groups via zoom.

In today's episode, I interviewed Tsippi Gross. 

I personally joined one of Tsippi Gross's masterminds. I have always been drawn to entrepreneurship.  I am also seeing such a big shift in the orthodox Jewish world when it comes to Female entrepreneurs. When I heard her speaking on her own podcast and on her Instagram platform, I was truly blown away. I realized that over the years, I had picked up these limiting beliefs that were really negatively affecting my day to day life. For example - I have always wanted to have my own business. Something about it just drives me - the creativity, the frequent change of routine, me being my own boss. However, I always "knew" this was just a dream. When I heard Tsippi encouraging other women to pursue their dreams and quit the jobs they absolutely hated - I though to myself "this can never be possible, I am not being realistic."

What I have learned from Tsippi is that these negative thoughts create our realities. And this definitely comes up with my clients when it comes to food. We absorb these messages from our surroundings like "being fat is the worst thing ever" or "going on a diet will cure your problems." When in reality, we see time and time again, that diet doesn't work and it actually just keeps creating more problems for us. 

When we have the guts to pour out the contents of our psyche and see what has gotten stuck in there, only than can we decide to challenge our limiting beliefs. I hope this interview helps give you the courage to challenge those limiting beliefs and learn how to live within alignment of your true self. 

Tsippi gross is a life and business coach, serial entrepreneur and podcast host. Tsippi’s specialty is helping people achieve their goals in a way that the ripple effect impacts long lasting success in all other areas of their life as well.   You can reach Tsippi at tsippigross.com or [email protected]. Catch her on Instagram @tsippigross.

If you would like to work with me, Gila Glassberg, please visit my website www.gilaglassberg.com or on Instagram @ dietitain.gilaglasberg.

If you enjoyed this podcast or any of the other episodes, please leave a review/comment and share it with those you feel who can benefit. 

Have a wonderful day!

In today's episode, I feel blessed to be able to interview Brianna Campos of BodyImageWithBri.  We discussed Brianna's story, how she became a body image coach and how she has learned to be at peace with her body.  So many of us feel hatred or shame towards our body because diet culture tells us if we just tried harder, we could be in a smaller body.   Many of us are shamed by doctors or have assumptions made about our eating habits just by looking at our body.  We also discussed how our negative thoughts and negative beliefs can create such negative feelings. For example- Bri says she noticed she had the belief "No one will love me in my large body."  She realized this led to feelings of hopelessness.   We need to learn to change our self talk. We can realize that you can not play two tracks in your head at the same time. So the negative tracks in our head need to be exchanged with positive one's.  I learned so much from this interview! If you have gained anything from the podcast/youtube video, please subscribe, comment, like and share- this is how we will continue to spread this body positivity message.   You can follow Bri on instagram @bodyimagewithbri  and find me, Gila Glassberg on Instagram @ dietitian.gilaglassberg. Find more of these episodes on my website at www.gilaglassberg.com.  You can also sign up for a clarity call through my website and see when my next support group is running.  Have a wonderful day!

Psychodrama and Experiential Intuitive Eating - Take 2!  In last weeks episode, I interviewed Bruchy for the podcast and it was awesome. I learned so much but I also felt like I had to experience what Bruchy was really talking about. In today's episode, Bruchy actually tried some of her techniques on me and even though I was pretending to be someone else for the sake of the podcast, I still had some real emotions come up for me- how much more so if you are actually practicing this on yourself (or in a group setting with a trained therapist).   Talk therapy is great and I highly recommend it. However, their is a whole different phenomenon that takes place when you experience something in your body. Using these techniques can help move a person out of their brain and into their body- into the deeper parts of themselves where they can learn from their own inner wisdom and not what the outside world has indoctrinated them with. I find this extremely useful because diet culture is so extremely hard to reject. We may intellectually know that it is harming us but we are surrounded by it on all sides, the media, our homes, advertisements.  A huge part of use wants to reject it but we can't seem to let go of it. We may talk about it over and over again but when you have a visceral reaction to something, it helps it become second natural to you, its not just your brain remembering, its your body.   

I hope you enjoy! If you learned something valuable, please subscribe to the podcast as well as the YouTube channel, rate and leave a comment below. Share the podcast with those you think would benefit- this is an important way to spread this message!! 

Thank you for being here with us today!  

Follow Bruchy on Instagram @bruchymoskovics.lmsw.  

If you are interested in working with me, Gila Glassberg, Please visit my website www.gilaglassberg.com or on Instagram @dietitian.gilaglassberg.  Have a wonderful day!