Talk with Francesca

Acclaimed family therapist and author of the classic bestseller Will I Ever Be Good Enough? presents a comprehensive and actionable guide to understanding and healing from narcissistic family abuse. A pioneer on the devastating effects of narcissistic abuse, Karyl McBride, PhD, has the answer for anyone desperate for help in overcoming the damage of being raised in a family headed by a narcissistic parent.         Dr Karyl McBride - dr. karyl mcBride MP3jPLAYLISTS.inline_0 = [ { name: "Dr Karyl McBride", formats: ["mp3"], mp3: "aHR0cDovL3RhbGt3aXRoZnJhbmNlc2NhLmNvbS93cC1jb250ZW50L3VwbG9hZHMvMjAyMy8wMS9Eci1LYXJ5bC1NY0JyaWRlLm1wMw==", counterpart:"", artist: "dr. karyl mcBride", image: "", imgurl: "" } ]; MP3jPLAYERS[0] = { list: MP3jPLAYLISTS.inline_0, tr:0, type:'single', lstate:'', loop:false, play_txt:'     ', pause_txt:'     ', pp_title:'', autoplay:false, download:false, vol:100, height:'' };

For the first time ever, one of the former president’s lovers tells her story. It’s an old story. Really old: young woman, Great Man. Predictable outcome: heartbreak for her, no consequences for him. But wait … there’s a twist. He dies, abruptly, although he lives on in song and story, in history and in her story. “She”—her, just plain lives on. Flattened at first, marked by an invisible hoofprint seared into her being, but then reconfiguring and gathering speed toward an unexpected life. More than 60 years after John F. Kennedy’s assassination, Diana De Vegh, an 84-year-old New York psychotherapist has broken her silence on an alleged love affair between the two. According to Diana, Kennedy courted her when she was a 20-year-old student at Radcliffe. The pair continued their affair for 4 years. It ended a year before his assassination. She chose to go public now to help other women who are engrossed in relationships where she feels there are unequal power dynamics. She says, “The whole idea of conferred specialness—‘You go to bed with me, I’ll make you special’, we have seen a lot of that with Harvey Weinstein, and Roger Ailes.

Author of "This is Assisted Dying", Dr. Stefanie Green has been forging new paths in the field of medical assistance in dying since 2016.  Dr. Green reveals the reasons a patient might seek an assisted death, how the process works, what the event itself can look like, the reactions of those involved, and what it feels like to oversee proceedings and administer medications that hasten death. She describes the extraordinary people she meets and the unusual circumstances she encounters as she navigates the intricacy, intensity, and utter humanity of these powerful interactions.

Understanding how the mind of a criminal thinks radically differently from others as well as how such a person becomes ingenious at casing others out for his or her own purposes seems like a pretty good reason to invite Forensic Psychologist Dr. Stanton Samenow, author of Inside The Criminal Mind who has spent 50 years as a researcher, clinician, consultant and expert witness specializing in criminal behavior.  He has appeared on 60 minutes, Oprah, good morning America and Today.

Why do so many women feel that men don’t tell them anything, that they only want to fix everything? Why do so many men feel that women nag them and never get to the point? Sociolinguist and bestselling author of “That’s not what I meant!” ,Deborah Tannen, a professor of linguistics at Georgetown university offers revolutionary answers to these and other questions that confuse women’s and men’s attempts to communicate with each other.  She has some stunning evidence from her own studies where she shows that men and women live in different worlds, even under the same roof. From a very early age, girls play with a best friend or a small group and use language to seek confirmation and reinforce intimacy, while boys use language to negotiate status in large group activities.  As a result, men and women have completely different impressions of the same conversation. Listen to find a peace treaty in the battle of the sexes.

By now, most of us are at least aware that food affects so much of our health.  Some foods can actually cause a surprising range of health problems, the list goes on and on from infertility to weight gain, breast and prostate cancer, chronic pain to low moods and memory loss.  All of these conditions have one thing in common, they are fueled by hormones. But the great news is you have the power to change your hormones with the food choices you make…hormone adjusting foods can actually revolutionize your health!

For all the love and attention we give our pets,  so much of what they do remains mysterious. We know what it means when dogs wag their tails—but what about when they sniff and roll on a stinky spot? Why do they play tug-of-war with one dog, while showing their bellies to another? Why are some dogs shy, while others are bold? What goes on in dogs’ heads and hearts—and how much can we know and understand? Carl Safina is the author of ten books including The New York Times Bestseller, Beyond Words, what animals think and feel.  He is the founding president of the non profit Safina Center and he hosted the PBS series Saving The Ocean.  His writing appears in the NY Times, Time Magazine,, The Guardian, Yale and National Geographic to name a few.  Audobon magazine named Carl amongst its “100 notable conservationists of the 20th century.  His recent Ted Talk received over a million views in the past month. A not to miss episode!

Rigorously researched, The Lost Café Schindler successfully weaves together a compelling and at times deeply moving memoir and family history that also chronicles the wider story of the Jews of the Austro-Hungarian Empire... It distinguishes itself through its combination of mystery and reconciliation.' http://talkwithfrancesca.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/meriel-schindler.mp3

This show is about how two doctors had separated identical twins to study them, BUT never told the twins or their adoptive parents of the existence of their siblings. It sounds like something from a science fiction novel, doesn’t it? This couldn’t happen in the United States. But as Dr. Nancy Segal,  investigated further, she discovered, to her surprise and horror, that such a study had in fact happened. The details were not quite as straightforward as she had been led to believe, but twins were indeed separated from each other and studied by scientists, who kept the purposes of their work secret.         nancy segal twf - nancy segal twf MP3jPLAYLISTS.inline_4 = [ { name: "nancy segal twf", formats: ["mp3"], mp3: "aHR0cDovL3RhbGt3aXRoZnJhbmNlc2NhLmNvbS93cC1jb250ZW50L3VwbG9hZHMvMjAyMS8xMi9uYW5jeS1zZWdhbC10d2YubXAz", counterpart:"", artist: "nancy segal twf", image: "", imgurl: "" } ]; MP3jPLAYERS[4] = { list: MP3jPLAYLISTS.inline_4, tr:0, type:'single', lstate:'', loop:false, play_txt:'     ', pause_txt:'     ', pp_title:'', autoplay:false, download:false, vol:100, height:'' };