A Journey of Healing, Nourishing Ourselves and Nurturing Our World
I have always been conscious of my own healing journey, dealing with severe health challenges in childhood, mainly affecting the lungs. As a sick child left largely to her own devices, I was able to master the ability to drop into deep meditative states and eventually, instead of struggling for breath, become quiet and peaceful. Not being able to join in with many games and sports, particularly in the cold, English winters, gave me the opportunity to sit on the sidelines and observe, which is something that I attribute now to my ability to meditate and ask big-picture questions…
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The MOTHER of All Holiday Triggers: It's OK Not to Feel Celebratory on Mother's Day
“As long as I can remember I have never liked Mother’s Day,” says Alison Hunsicker, a full-time homemaker and caregiver to her disabled husband, with four children, ages seventeen to thirty-two. “Even when I communicate my expectations to my partner and our children, the day falls short. The worst year resulted in me yelling, “I hate this f’ing family!“ and leaving in my car to be by myself for hours. I wonder why it is so difficult to just acknowledge the huge contribution I make as a wife and mother?”…
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Our Kids Deserve Better Sex Education Than We Got
Most of us who hit puberty in America in the 1990s and early 2000s never got a real sex talk. If we did, it was threatening and scary, focusing on purity and infections. We were told not to have sex because it could result in pregnancy. We were not taught about sexuality as a crucial part of being human or about how to navigate sexual relationships, including consent and how to control if/when we got pregnant…
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Seven Self-Care Concepts to Teach Our Kids
When the concept of self-care first emerged, it meant long baths, pedicures, and wine — lots of wine. But, gradually, the concept has evolved into something more akin to self-compassion and genuine, healthy habits for protecting and providing for our mental and physical health…
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A Pandemic Guide to Surviving the Holidays
Whether or not to gather with family over the holidays has never been a harder decision. Not only do we have to navigate the usual stressful family dynamics, but for these past two seasons, we’ve had to worry that we might be passing more than gravy and mashed potatoes over the dinner table. COVID-19 has dominated our thoughts, fears, and newsfeeds since March 2020, making it even more complicated to celebrate the holidays….
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Former CEO & President of Planned Parenthood Gloria Feldt Teaches Women How to Take Back Their Power and Their Health
We sat down with the inspiring Gloria Feldt, the Former CEO and President of Planned Parenthood, to discuss the world of working women, burnout, empowerment, and her new book "INTENTIONING: Sex, Power, Pandemics, & How Women Will Take the Lead for (Everyone’s) Good.” In addition to her extensive resume in women’s health, Gloria is also the co-founder of Take The Lead, a nonprofit initiative with a goal to propel women to leadership parity by 2025. Take a listen.
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Overwhelmed By Motherhood and Marriage? It’s Not Because You’re Doing It Wrong
It has been well-documented that COVID has only increased the weight women in families carry. On author and activist Glennon Doyle’s popular podcast, “We Can Do Hard Things,” she and her cohost and sister, Amanda Doyle, recently discussed women’s Overwhelm. They describe having a ticker of things to do, to worry about, to fix, to anticipate and oversee, always running through their heads, and how carrying the burden of their family members and colleagues’ comfort, safety, health, and success on their backs is flattening them…
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The Art of Meditation
All the new research shows how incredibly connected all these elements are. You simply cannot heal a physical ailment without addressing the emotional underbody. You have to find peace within to be whole without….
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On Compassion Fatigue: An Endemic in the Internet Age
If empathetic professionals can experience compassion fatigue due to regular access to human suffering, it stands to reason that so too can the average consumer of news and information…
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How Jenny Galluzzo and The Second Shift Are Transforming the Way Women Work
Jenny Galluzzo is an agent for change. Her company, The Second Shift, empowers women through work — by connecting them with meaningful, ethical, and diverse jobs.. The company tagline “making work, work for women” is an apt one because it is precisely what Jenny is all about: cultivating careers while advocating for equality in the workplace. In this interview, this inspiring entrepreneur sits down with SEAM founder Amy Cohen Epstein to discuss her experience cultivating this important network as well as her previous life as a journalist.
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Jenna Grosfeld on Finding Creativity in Unexpected Places
Jenna Grosfeld is the founder and creative iconoclast behind Jenna Blake, a bespoke jewelry design studio based in California. She has been making jewelry for 15 years, creating modernized renditions of classic designs which reference the past while bringing them into the 21st century. Here she is on creativity, entrepreneurship, and more — exclusively for The Seam
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Conversations on Clinical Prevention: A Mothers Day Q+A
On Tuesday, May 3rd, The Lynne Cohen Foundation hosted their very first live webinar q+a featuring LCF Clinic Patient, Playwright, Sophia Heinecke. Here, Sophia unpacks her experience at LCF’s preventive care clinic located at Bellevue Hospital as well as her work with the Creative Center at University Settlement, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing the creative arts to people with cancer, chronic illnesses, and through all stages of life.
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How I Turned Back the Clock on Aging at 60
I have been searching for vibrant health, inner peace, and self-love for all of my adult life. As a shorthand, let’s call this magical trifecta “wellness.” And I can tell you, firsthand, that this kind of wellness is not easy to achieve. It is certainly not something that ever came naturally to me. I do not say this to discourage anyone from seeking it out – in fact, I am here to tell you quite the opposite…
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Advocate, Marcia Cross, on Her Battle with Cancer and HPV
Marcia Cross is perhaps best known for her role on Desperate Housewives but her work educating men and women about HPV has become a crucial force in the cancer prevention community. We sat down with the actress, activist, and and all-around inspiration to discuss her experience with anal cancer, its stigmas, and how the medical community needs to evolve in order to save lives
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Her Story: Ali Bartman on Surviving Breast Cancer
The Seam founder, Amy Cohen Epstein, sits down with breast cancer, Ali Bartman to talk about her unique experience, including risk, survival, and the importance of “knowing your normal”…
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ShineSafe Is on a Mission to Rebrand Sun Safety
ShineSafe founder, Celine Mactaggart, impressed us with her millennial-friendly design sensibilities. But it's her foundation's science-backed, friendly approach to skin cancer education that keeps us coming back for more.
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Handcrafted in Laurel Canyon’s Linnea Stalberg on Love, Loss, and Hand-Sanitizer
Amy Cohen Epstein sits down with Linnea to talk about starting a business in the age of COVID and using tragedy as an impetus to build a better future…
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Philanthropy at a Distance: How One Small Business Turned a Pandemic into an Opportunity
Like many business owners, Whitney Rosenson had to adapt her company post-shut-down — and fast. So she directed her energies online, not only to benefit her business but also those most vulnerable among us…
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Beyond Yoga's Jodi Guber Brufsky on Inclusivity in Athleisure and Entrepreneurship
Beyond Yoga makes the softest, most durable yoga and loungewear, but it is the inclusive, spiritual focus that founder, Jodi Guber Brufsky, brings to her business that we find most inspiring…
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Amanda Freeman, Founder of SLT NYC, on Entrepreneurship in the Age of Covid-19
We can't think of a better role model for entrepreneurs than Amanda Freeman. In this inaugural interview for The Seam Podcast, our founder, Amy Cohen Epstein, sits down with Amanda to talk business, fitness, and survival in the age of Covid-19…
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