Episodes 106
Avg. Duration 40m
Activity Sporadic
Apple Rating 5.0 (58)
Since Jun 2019
Latest Episode Nov 2025

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About This Podcast

Dear Family, is a love letter to our complicated families and achieving mental wellness meant to stop us from writing ourselves and our loved ones off. Join Rachel Steinman- a writer, educator, and mental health advocate, along with her inspirational guests to find community, healing, understanding, and compassion. Feel like you're eavesdropping on an intimate and raw conversation between close family members or best friends, who we all know are your chosen family anyway. Besides practical advice, plan on being entertained, moved, and feeling uplifted. Maybe you'll even look forward to your next family gathering.

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S1E105 Friendship is the New Wellness: When Women Shine Together

Nov 06, 2025 25m

What if the secret to feeling happier, healthier, and more fulfilled isn't a new wellness trend- but true connection? What if it's friendship? In this inspiring episode of Dear Family, host Rachel…

S1E104 The Rachels- Why Friendship is the New Marriage and Golden for Mental Health

Apr 09, 2024 1h 3m

Rachel Winter and Rachel Steinman are best friends, co-authors, and co-hosts of this special collab between the Dear Family, Podcast with Stay Forever Gold. Rachel Winter is a writer, director,…

S1E103 My So-Called High School Rank- Documenting Teenage Loneliness and College Admission Pressures through a Musical

Nov 29, 2022 47m

My So-Called High School Rank, premiering on HBO and HBO MAX, is a special documentary that gives an unfiltered view into the private loneliness and pressures of teenage life. This was especially…

S1E102 Kevin Hines- Golden Gate Bridge Suicide Jumper Saved by a Sea Lion Becomes Inspirational Storyteller and Filmmaker with Message of Hope and Resilience

Aug 23, 2022 39m

Kevin Hines is a storyteller, best-selling author, global public speaker, and award-winning documentary filmmaker. In the Year 2000, Kevin threw himself off the Golden Gate Bridge in an attempt to…

S1E101 Dr. Ran Anbar- Pediatric Pulmonologist Addresses Health Challenges with Hypnosis

Aug 02, 2022 44m

Dr. Ran Anbar is a pediatrician board certified in pulmonology who offers hypnosis and counseling services in La Jolla, California, and Syracuse, New York. He's past president, fellow, and approved…

S1E100 The Dear Family, Wellness Graduate School- 100 Podcasts Later- 40 Wellness Universal Truths

Jul 12, 2022 26m

Three years ago, I was nervous to put myself out so publicly with a brand new mental health podcast about family and secrets. I didn't know where it would take me or if anyone would listen or even…

S1E99 Chris and Erik Ewers- Brothers/Co-Directors on Ken Burns Documentary about the Youth Public Mental Health Crisis

Jun 28, 2022 49m

Erik and Chris Ewers are brothers and co-directors on a new Ken Burns PBS documentary, "Hiding in Plain Sight." The two-part, four-hour film is about the mental health crisis our youth are facing. It…

S1E98 Julian Sarafian- Harvard Law-Educated TikToker Redefines Success After his Mental and Physical Breakdowns

Jun 07, 2022 38m

Julian Sarafian was valedictorian and attended UC Berkeley at 17. He got an internship at The White House at 19 and at 20, was accepted at NYU Law before transferring to Harvard Law School. His high…

S1E97 Tembi Locke- Food, Family, and Cooking From Scratch after Loss and Grief

May 17, 2022 43m

Tembi Locke is an actor, an author, a screenwriter, and a producer who really knows how to connect with her audience. Her New York Times bestselling book, From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and…

S1E96 Dr. Jonathan Goldfinger- Nationally Recognized Pediatrician on the Need For and Right To Mental Health Care

Apr 26, 2022 55m

Dr. Jonathan Goldfinger is a nationally recognized pediatrician and an advocate for mental health services for children and families, including in minority and low-income communities. His inclusive…

S1E95 Jeanette Yoffe- From Foster Care to Adoption to Trauma-Informed Therapist Jeanette-ically Speaking

Apr 08, 2022 1h 1m

Jeanette Yoffe believes family is so much more than our blood relations. Her strong desire to become a trauma-informed psychotherapist with a special focus on adopted and foster care issues began…

S1E94 Dear Ukrainian Grandparents,

Mar 15, 2022 14m

Dear Ukrainian Grandparents, When I watch the senseless human suffering in Ukraine with tears in my eyes, it's as if my dear Jewish-Ukrainian grandparents' history is being repeated. My family was…

S1E93 Clancey Cornell- World Traveling Archivist Heals Others through Collective Memory and Art

Feb 22, 2022 43m

Clancey Cornell is an artist, mental health professional, memory worker, and advocate for the arts who considers herself a very nostalgic person. She grew up in a family that was very much about…

S1E92 Michael and Gayle Zibilich- The Shocking Reality from their Only Child's Suicide Leads to Life-Saving Conversations with College Students

Feb 01, 2022 53m

Michael Zibilich is a commercial real estate executive who resides with his wife, Gayle Zibilich, in Atlanta, Georgia. Michael and Gayle had their only child later in life, an astonishing blessing.…

S1E91 Dr. Raghu Appasani- Psychiatrist and Neuroscientist Bridging the Gap Between Western and Eastern Health Practices Including Microdosing and Nutrition

Jan 11, 2022 45m

Dr. Raghu Kiran Appasani is an Integrative Psychiatrist, Neuroscientist, and Social Entrepreneur focused on bridging the gap between western and eastern practices to create a wholesome society by…

S1E90 The Best Gift is Self-Love- 24 Ways to Get It

Dec 21, 2021 16m

When my daughter was about five years old, she announced, "I love myself the most." In generations past, her declaration may have been viewed as self-centered, selfish, or self-absorbed but I was…

S1E89 Millennial Orphaned by her Mother's and Father's Suicides Months Apart Finds her Life's Purpose

Dec 07, 2021 54m

Jennie refers to herself as a millennial orphan after recently losing her mother and father to suicide. She's also a friend, a sister to a Buddhist monk, a future therapist, a present therapy client…

S1E88 Katie Hanus- Homesteader & Homeschooler Attains Comfort & Nourishment Through Hearth Medicine, Herbalism, Ritual, & Ceremony

Nov 16, 2021 49m

Katie Hanus is a mother and herbalist who some may say is not meant for our current modern cookie-cutter rushed world. She's the founder of The Handmade Life which offers herbal traditions,…

S1E87 Newborn Adult- From Cradle to College to Care Packages

Oct 19, 2021 17m

It's been said the two hardest days for parents are the first day home with their newborn and the first day home without their newborn adult. My oldest child has just flown the coop, left her nest,…

S1E86 10 Free Mood-Boosters for Mental Health and Happiness

Jul 13, 2021 11m

Good mental health does not have to be expensive but ignoring it can be. There's no denying mental health conditions can require therapy and/or medication but a majority of achievement is within our…

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