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In this episode of The Mindful Haven Podcast, host Lori Griffith sits down with therapist & single adoptive mom Diana Gelfand for a deeply personal conversation about trauma, resilience, and what really happens to parents caring for medically complex children.
Diana isn’t just a licensed therapist, she’s a warrior mom with lived experience. After adopting three children from the foster care system, all with significant medical needs, she found herself navigating the overwhelming realities of caregiving, identity loss, emotional burnout, and chronic grief. Today, she’s the founder of DLG Therapy, a virtual counseling practice created specifically for parents like her.
Lori and Diana unpack what happens after the diagnosis, when the world moves on but the trauma lingers. From the PTSD many parents silently carry, to the isolation, g ...
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