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When a family is in crisis, having more information does not always mean knowing what to do next.
Pam Feinberg-Rivkin begins a new series exploring the path from crisis to healing with Steve Feldman, CEO of Feinberg Consulting. Together, they look at why families facing addiction, mental health challenges, aging, or complex medical concerns can quickly become overwhelmed. Emotions are high, decisions feel urgent, and even well-meaning advice from doctors, friends, books, and the internet can leave families with more information but no clear direction.
Pam and Steve reflect on the difference between temporary relief and having a real plan. They explore why families often try to manage a crisis alone, how fear and uncertainty can affect decision-making, and the value of having a calm, experienced guide who can assess what is happening, identify the right level of care, find appropriate providers, and create a strategy for moving forward.
At the heart of the conversation is a simple reminder that asking for help is not giving up control. It is creating the space for collaboration, clarity, and hope when a family needs it most. Sometimes healing begins with realizing you were never meant to find the way forward alone.
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What do you do when someone you love refuses help and every option feels impossible?
Families living with addiction often reach a point where fear, guilt, and exhaustion make it difficult to know what comes next. Craig Robinson shares how his own recovery journey led him to combine law, social work, and lived experience to help families access treatment through Florida's Marchman Act. Alongside Feinberg Consulting's Thatcher Shivley, the conversation explores what really happens when a family decides to intervene, why addiction is a brain disease rather than a failure of willpower, and how compassionate action can open the door to recovery when hope feels out of reach.
Pam, Craig, and Thatcher talk honestly about the emotions families carry, from the fear that a loved one will never forgive them to the shame that keeps difficult conversations from happening. They explain how clinical intervention, family coaching, and the Marchman Act can work together to create a path toward treatment, while reminding families that healing is never just about one person. Lasting recovery asks everyone to grow.
The conversation is a powerful reminder that intervention is not about punishment or control. It is an invitation to choose life, restore connection, and begin telling the truth with love. Sometimes the bravest thing a family can do is take the first step before the next crisis arrives.
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What if the most important part of your child's health isn't something you can see?
When children struggle with anxiety, attention, behavioral health, or substance use, families often feel overwhelmed long before they know where to turn. Dr. Celina Moore shares why pediatricians are uniquely positioned to recognize these challenges early and why caring for a child's emotional health should be just as routine as checking their height, weight, or blood pressure. As Pam reflects on the lasting effects of trauma in communities and families, the conversation centers on helping children before small concerns become lifelong struggles.
Together, they explore how brain development shapes behavior, why movement, play, sleep, nutrition, and healthy relationships are essential to emotional regulation, and how family history can offer important clues long before symptoms appear. They also discuss the growing impact of screen time, social media, adolescent substance use, and the pressures facing today's children, while offering a hopeful reminder that early intervention and honest communication can change a child's path.
Dr. Moore explains why parents should never feel ashamed to ask for help and why a trusted pediatrician can become one of the family's greatest partners through every stage of childhood. Sometimes the strongest foundation we can give a child is knowing they never have to face life's hardest moments alone.
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What if the moment you finally decide to give up turns out to be the moment everything begins?
Helice Bridges, who everyone now calls Grandma Sparky, talks with host Pam Feinberg-Rivkin about the years before that question found her: a thriving real estate career, a home overlooking the Pacific, two young sons, and a marriage that quietly left her feeling invisible. At thirty-seven, she reached a point where she didn't think she could go on, until a small, unexpected voice told her she still had something to give. She walked away from that life with little more than a potted plant and an idea she couldn't ignore.
That idea became a simple blue ribbon, one that says who I am makes a difference, born from her time serving as co-chair of the San Diego Hunger Project, where she realized people everywhere were starving for something money could never buy: to feel seen and valued. Sparky shares the story that became a television movie, about a chain of honoring that reached a father just in time to change everything he said to his son that night.
Now in her eighties and still working toward a goal of reaching a billion people, Sparky's life is proof that the smallest gesture, a sentence, a ribbon, a moment of being truly seen, can change everything.
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Sometimes the people who help us heal become part of our story forever.
When stage three colorectal cancer returned as stage four with liver metastasis, Pam Feinberg-Rivkin found herself facing a very different journey than the one she had traveled before. Looking for support beyond treatment alone, she connected with Dr. Jen Green, a naturopathic physician and integrative oncology expert whose guidance would become an important part of her path through chemotherapy, recovery, and remission. What unfolds is a thoughtful conversation about what it really means to care for the whole person during cancer treatment.
As Jen shares her approach to integrative cancer care, the conversation moves beyond supplements and research into the deeply human side of healing. They explore survivorship, purpose, stress, sleep, movement, meditation, healthy relationships, and the importance of creating a life that supports long-term wellness. Pam reflects on the lessons that emerged from her own cancer journey, including learning how to receive help, embrace community, and step away from the relentless pace that once defined her life.
Jen also shares her experience as a cancer survivor, the role of resilience in difficult seasons, and the unexpected ways connection, gratitude, dance, mindfulness, and presence can help carry us through uncertainty. Healing is rarely about one thing alone, but about finding the courage to belong fully to your life again.
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What does it look like to build a full, meaningful life when no one handed you a blueprint for it?
Dr. Sonya Friedman grew up in Brooklyn with little money and a father who wasn't present, and she turned every open door into something remarkable. She talked her way into a newspaper column she'd never written before, brought psychology into mainstream media decades before it was welcome there, worked alongside Barbara Walters, became one of the first anchors at CNN, and wrote books about women's self-worth that were ahead of their time. All of it, she says, came down to one word: yes.
The conversation with Pam moves through a lot of territory, from Sonya's early books on women's independence and relationship patterns to a jaw-dropping story about filming a Ku Klux Klan meeting in Kentucky as an ABC correspondent. What runs through all of it is a woman who never let her origin story become her ending. She talks about the moment her thinking shifted from "what was wrong with me" to "what was wrong with him," and how that single reframe changed everything.
Now approaching 90, Sonya is still seeing clients, still swimming and doing Pilates, and still thinking about what women over 50 need most from each other. Her life is a quiet argument against the idea that where you start determines where you land.
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Dr. Steven Klein came to addiction medicine through an unusual convergence of paths. A physician and scientist triple board certified in addiction medicine, pediatrics, and medical genetics, he also carries lived experience in recovery that shapes everything about how he shows up for his patients. He speaks openly about his own relationship with substances, with food, and with the kind of internal noise that most people in active addiction know intimately. That noise, what he describes as a hierarchy of craving that drowns out everything else, is at the center of his clinical work.
Much of that work now centers on GLP-1 receptor agonists, medications most people associate with weight loss, that are showing remarkable promise in quieting the craving signal in people struggling with alcohol, opioids, and other substances. Steven describes it not as a cure but as a way to lift the needle off the record long enough to learn a new song. Recovery still has to be built. But these medications may be buying patients something that's always been in short supply, time. Pam and Steven also explore the genetics and epigenetics of addiction risk, why relapse is better understood as a neurobiologic stage than a moral failure, and what it means to finally have a tool that could shift care from reactive to preventative.
There is something quietly revolutionary happening at the intersection of science and compassion, and this conversation sits right in the middle of it.
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What does it look like when someone spends decades performing function while quietly falling apart on the inside?
Brad Walsh grew up in a small Illinois town where drinking was woven into every family occasion, and by sixth grade he was already the ringleader with a box of liquor and a habit of filling bottles back up with water. What followed was decades of being the life of every party and the loneliest person in the room. Ski weekends, bartending shifts, a short marriage, OWIs, a boot camp in Montana, a stint at ASU, and a seizure in the middle of a trade show floor in Chicago. Through all of it, Brad held onto one identity above everything else: functional alcoholic. He could do the work, ace the class, show up. He just couldn't slow down long enough to ask himself why he was running so fast.
The intervention that eventually changed things didn't feel like a turning point. It felt like a trap. Brad walked into what he thought was a workday and found his parents, his sisters, a close friend, and a stranger all waiting for him around a conference table. He was furious. He left. He came back a week later, not because he was ready, but because the one thing he couldn't afford to lose was his job. What Pam and her team had set in motion became the thread he followed, even when he didn't believe in it yet.
Five years of weekly family coaching calls, treatment at Hazelden's Center City campus, a daily checklist that starts with prayer and ends with Spanish study, and a retreat in Costa Rica that turned into a permanent life. Brad is now engaged, expecting his first child, and living somewhere quieter and truer than he ever imagined reaching.
Some people have to go through all of it before they can finally stop running from themselves.
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What does it take to face stage four cancer twice and come out the other side not just surviving, but fully alive?
Pam Feinberg-Rivkin was re-diagnosed with colorectal cancer in 2020, this time with a spot on her liver, and just a year after losing a brother to cancer. She had already done the chemotherapy, the radiation, the surgery. But she knew something else was needed, something the oncology appointments couldn't offer. That search led her to Dianne Porchia, a spiritual therapist and holistic practitioner who Pam found through the documentary Heal while sitting alone on the Fourth of July, terrified and looking for a way through.
Dianne's path into this work is its own story worth hearing. A divorce, a massage session that opened an unexpected floodgate of emotion, a master's degree in spiritual psychology, and years of working with law students, cancer patients, and anyone carrying wounds they hadn't yet found words for. Her approach moves beyond the thinking mind into what she calls the deeper levels of the heart, the soul, and the subconscious, where the inner saboteur lives and where real shifts begin. She speaks honestly about trauma, the inner child, and why so many people with serious illness share a pattern of giving endlessly to others while quietly neglecting themselves.
Five and a half years later, Pam is cancer-free. She travels, she volunteers with her therapy dog at a cancer center, she created this podcast. Dianne now tends a regenerative eco-farm in Oregon and continues seeing clients from around the world. Their conversation is a quiet testament to what becomes possible when Western medicine and inner healing work are allowed to exist side by side. Sometimes the bravest thing you can do is admit that treatment alone was never going to be enough.
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In this episode of Resilient Butterfly, Pam Feinberg speaks with Dave Aronberg about the “Florida Shuffle”—a term used to describe fraudulent and predatory practices within the addiction treatment industry. This conversation explores addiction treatment fraud, regulatory oversight, and the urgent need for accountability to protect individuals and families seeking recovery.
The episode honors the legacy of Jamie Daniels, a young man who died from an overdose at the age of 23 while receiving treatment for a substance use disorder (SUD). In response to this tragedy, his parents established the Jamie Daniels Foundation to advocate for ethical reform and provide hope and support to families navigating addiction and recovery.
Together, Pam and Dave examine the intersection of law, public policy, and behavioral healthcare. They discuss how trusted provider networks, care coordination, and treatment navigation help ensure safe, ethical, and effective pathways to recovery. This discussion also highlights the importance of due diligence when selecting treatment providers and the role of cross-sector collaboration in improving outcomes.
Presented by Feinberg Consulting, a leader in complex care coordination, behavioral health consulting, and treatment placement guidance since 1996. Learn more at FeinbergCare.com
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What happens when the thing that once felt like relief slowly becomes the thing that takes everything from you?
Brad Lamm shares the long arc of his story, from growing up in a Quaker household in Oregon to discovering alcohol at 15 and feeling, for the first time, a kind of emotional numbness that felt like safety. What started as a powerful escape eventually cost him relationships, trust, and a career he loved as a morning television weatherman. After years of drinking, meth use, and trying to manage it on his own, a conversation with a trusted friend pierced the secrecy and led him toward treatment.
He speaks honestly about how hard early recovery was, the anger, the vulnerability, and the unexpected grace of people who stood beside him. Brad and Pam reflect on the many paths to healing, why there is no single right way to recover, the role of trauma, family involvement, and even the importance of avoidance when something continues to wound you.
From founding Breathe Life Healing Center to training families in compassionate, invitational interventions, Brad’s life has become rooted in service. His story is a reminder that recovery is rarely easy, often messy, and deeply human. And sometimes, the most meaningful work grows out of the places that once broke us.
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Some stories stay with you long after you hear them. This is one of those conversations. Pam sits with Jenni Frumer and Holocaust survivor Rose Rosenkrantz, whose life began in a Siberian labor camp during World War II. What unfolds is not just history, but a deeply human story of survival, loss, and the quiet strength it takes to keep going.
Rose shares how her parents endured unimaginable conditions, how she was born against all odds, and what it meant to rebuild a life after everything familiar was gone. There’s a tenderness in the way she recalls her childhood, the small moments that carried meaning, and the lasting impact of trauma that doesn’t simply disappear with time.
As the conversation continues, it gently shifts into something just as important—what we do with these stories now. Through reflection, dialogue, and the willingness to listen, there’s an invitation to carry these voices forward. Not with fear or anger, but with awareness, compassion, and a sense of responsibility to speak when it matters.
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What does survival really look like when the world you knew is gone?
Pam Feinberg-Rivkin sits with Dr. Jenny Frumer and Carol Weinstein to honor the life of Carol’s father, Joe Rubenfeld, who survived eight concentration camps, including Auschwitz, after being separated from his family at just 11 years old. Carol shares the pieces of her father’s story that he was able to tell, the mysterious words he repeated every day to stay alive, and the unexpected reunion that eventually brought him to family in New York.
The conversation moves gently through the realities that followed liberation. Nightmares that echoed for decades. A return to Auschwitz later in life that finally quieted those dreams. A man who carried survivor’s guilt yet chose to live with generosity, faith, and forgiveness. From becoming the beloved candy man at temple to teaching his children to always say thank you, Joe’s resilience shaped generations.
Dr. Jenny Frumer reflects on intergenerational trauma, the strength of second and third generation families, and the mission of the Holocaust Learning Experience to bring stories of courage and moral clarity into classrooms across the country. Together, the conversation honors both vulnerability and resilience, and the responsibility we carry to remember, to teach, and to keep these stories alive.
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Trauma does not always come from one clear moment. Sometimes it lives in layers, in patterns that repeat, in reactions that feel bigger than the present moment. Host Pam Feinberg-Rivkin sits down with therapist Brian Gong to talk through what EMDR really is, how it works beyond talk therapy, and why insight alone is not always enough to create change.
Brian shares what drew him into therapy, how he found EMDR, and what he has seen over more than a decade of working with both big T and little t trauma. They explore how memories get stuck in the nervous system, why people can feel triggered without knowing exactly why, and how EMDR helps process experiences in a way that feels deeper and more complete.
The conversation also touches on EMDR intensives, virtual versus in person work, trauma in addiction recovery, and Brian’s experience providing EMDR support after the Parkland school shooting. Throughout, the focus stays human and grounded, honoring the messy and often uncomfortable process of healing while holding space for hope, relief, and real change.
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Candy Finnigan joins host Pam Feinberg-Rivkin for a deeply honest conversation about recovery, intervention, and the moments that quietly change everything. Candy shares the personal turning point that led her into sobriety, long before her life appeared to be falling apart on the outside, and reflects on how one family member’s refusal to look away altered the course of her marriage, motherhood, and future.
As the conversation unfolds, Candy talks about nearly four decades of recovery, her path into intervention work, and the spiritual grounding that guides her when families reach out in crisis. Together, she and Pam explore the reality behind televised interventions, what never makes it on screen, and why trust, truth, and timing matter more than dramatic moments.
The discussion weaves through music, loss, service, and long-term sobriety, offering a compassionate look at recovery as a lived experience shaped by connection, accountability, and hope.
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This conversation opens up the story behind a long-standing partnership built on advocacy, recovery, and a belief that healing is never one size fits all. Host Pam Feinberg-Rivkin sits down with her business partner and friend, Steve Feldman, to reflect on how their work grew from early consulting roots into a nationwide model grounded in care coordination, integrity, and resilience.
They talk honestly about long-term recovery, family impact, and what it means to turn personal struggle into meaningful service. The discussion moves through moments of synchronicity, leadership through health challenges, and navigating major industry shifts and COVID without losing clarity or values. Throughout, there is a steady reminder that healing involves mind, body, community, and curiosity about what else is possible.
The heart of the conversation comes back to resilience as the ability to bounce back, learn from the past without being defined by it, and move forward with vision, compassion, and hope.
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In this powerful episode of Resilient Butterfly, host Pam Feinberg-Rivkin sits down with Dr. Lori Leyden, PhD, to explore a deeply personal and transformative journey of healing trauma through compassion, presence, and grace. Dr. Leyden shares how her own childhood trauma, near death experience, and lifelong spiritual inquiry led her to develop a trauma healing approach now used around the world.
Together, they discuss her humanitarian work in Rwanda following the genocide, her decades of service with survivors of mass violence including Sandy Hook and Parkland, and her ongoing work with refugee and war affected communities. Dr. Leyden explains the Grace Process and the Embodying Grace Heart Map, a framework rooted in heart brain body coherence, somatic healing, forgiveness, and resilience.
This conversation offers profound insight into how healing ourselves becomes a pathway to healing others, and how even the greatest human tragedies can give rise to connection, meaning, and hope.
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In this episode of Resilient Butterfly, we explore resilience, healing, and the many pathways available for trauma recovery. We believe there is more than one way to heal, and this conversation is about expanding possibility rather than endorsing any single approach.
Host Pam Feinberg Rivkin sits down with Dr. Chantel Thomas to discuss her personal journey into trauma, addiction, and recovery work. Dr. Thomas shares how her family background in medicine, early experiences in residential treatment environments, and deep respect for sensitive nervous systems shaped her path into clinical psychology and health psychology.
Together, we explore psychedelic assisted therapies including psilocybin, MDMA assisted therapy, and ketamine assisted psychotherapy. Dr. Thomas explains how these approaches are being studied, what is currently FDA approved, and why preparation, screening, informed consent, and a strong therapeutic container are essential for safety and ethical care.
The conversation also addresses trauma, PTSD, addiction, recovery, and the importance of patient empowerment, agency, and choice. We discuss the differences between infusion clinics and therapy-based models, the risks of misuse, and how these tools may support healing when used responsibly and with professional guidance.
This episode invites listeners to stay curious, ask questions, and do their own research while honoring the resilience and creativity that exist in every healing journey.
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In this episode of Resilient Butterfly, we sit down with trauma therapist Ryan Soave to explore how trauma shows up in our lives, even when we do not recognize it. We talk about the difference between stress and trauma, why childhood patterns follow us into adulthood, and how recovery often begins with understanding rather than blame. Ryan shares how his own healing led him into this work and why emotional vulnerability matters, especially for men who have been taught to hide it.
We also talk about why relapse is often tied to unresolved trauma, how treatment needs to be based on individual needs rather than a preset timeline, and why spirituality and creativity play such powerful roles in long term healing. Ryan opens up about the transformations he has witnessed over the years and how people can move from deep pain into lives filled with meaning, family, connection, and service.
Whether you are navigating your own healing or supporting someone you love, this conversation offers grounded insight, compassion, and hope.
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Download our complimentary companion resource, Looking Beyond the Behavior, designed to help parents and caregivers shift from asking "What's wrong with my child?" to "What might my child be communicating?" The guide explores how looking at children's emotional, behavioral, and physical health through a holistic lens can open the door to greater understanding, connection, and support.Contact Pam Feinberg-Rivkin:
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Join Resilient Butterfly host Pam Feinberg-Rivkin as she sits down with licensed mental health counselor and author Tricia Youngs to explore what it truly takes to heal from complex trauma. Tricia shares the story behind her book Rescued, her early recovery journey, the turning points that shaped her resilience, and the deep emotional work that led her to help others heal. She explains the hidden roots of love addiction, the impact of early neglect on adult relationships, and the powerful role of boundaries, somatic tools, and community support in creating lasting change. This episode offers practical steps anyone can begin today while reminding listeners that even a shattered heart can heal. Listen now and begin your own rescue.
Contact Pam Feinberg-Rivkin:
Facebook: @FeinbergCare
Instagram: @FeinbergCare
LinkedIn: Feinberg Consulting Inc
YouTube: @FeinbergConsulting8059Looking for a practical takeaway from this conversation?
Download our complimentary companion resource, Looking Beyond the Behavior, designed to help parents and caregivers shift from asking "What's wrong with my child?" to "What might my child be communicating?" The guide explores how looking at children's emotional, behavioral, and physical health through a holistic lens can open the door to greater understanding, connection, and support.Contact Pam Feinberg-Rivkin:
Facebook: @FeinbergCare
Instagram: @FeinbergCare
LinkedIn: Feinberg Consulting Inc
YouTube: @FeinbergConsulting8059 - Laat meer zien
