Resilient Butterfly

About Resilient Butterfly

Resilient Butterfly is a heartfelt podcast dedicated to celebrating the strength of survivors and the extraordinary power of transformation, healing, and growth. Hosted by Pam Feinberg-Rivkin—a seasoned nurse, founder of Feinberg Consulting, and compassionate advocate with decades of experience—this podcast dives deep into life's messiest challenges: relationships, family dynamics, mental health, addiction, and more. Each episode features inspiring stories of resilience, expert insights, and meaningful conversations that remind us we are not perfect—nor are we meant to be. Pam invites you to explore the journeys of those who have faced life's darkest moments and emerged with newfound hope, dignity, and purpose. Whether you’re seeking inspiration, validation, or tools to navigate your own path, Resilient Butterfly offers a space for connection and empowerment. Together, let’s embrace the mess, honor the struggle, and celebrate the breakthroughs. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast platform, and join a community that believes in grace, hope, and the indomitable human spirit.

Publisher

Pam Feinberg-Rivkin

Category

education · health & fitness · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

28 Jan 2025

Latest episode

27 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

2 of 58 episodes have a transcript.

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   27 Oct 2026

   Ep. 57 - When Families Stop Waiting for Recovery

   What if the person you've been waiting on to change isn't the only one who needs to begin healing? Pam Feinberg-Rivkin welcomes Brook McKenzie, CEO of Burning Tree in Texas and author of You're Waiting on You, for a deeply personal conversation about addiction, chronic relapse, and the impact recovery has on the entire family. Drawing from his own 18 to 20 years of addiction and his professional experience working with families, Brook shares how the people who love someone struggling with add...

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   20 Oct 2026

   Ep. 56 - When Helping Hurts: The Difference Between Support and Enabling

   What happens when the very things you do to protect someone you love are actually keeping them from moving forward? Pam Feinberg-Rivkin welcomes Hillary from Caron Renaissance for an honest conversation about addiction, family dynamics, and the difficult line between helping and enabling. Families struggling with a loved one's substance use or mental health challenges often find themselves caught in a cycle of fear, rescuing, and trying to maintain control. Hilary explains how paying bills, f...

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   13 Oct 2026

   Ep. 55 - When Pregnancy Loss Changes Who You Are

   What happens when the future you imagined disappears and the person you were before the loss no longer feels like who you are? Pam Feinberg-Rivkin welcomes licensed clinical social worker Amy Santus, founder of TrueBloom Counseling, for an deeply personal conversation about infertility, pregnancy loss, reproductive trauma, and finding a way forward after profound grief. Amy shares her experience of losing five pregnancies and the private pain that followed, including nights spent crying alone...

Inside a recent episode

Ep. 20 - Finding Peace of Mind

Published 21 Oct 2025 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Because there wasn't any sort of easily found help. And so that sort of thinking and lack of knowledge sort of continued on into my generation. And I think it's starting to change now substantially. And I think COVID, if there was one or two positives out of COVID, it's accelerated that process, the combination of COVID, which was a global affair. Plus social media, which meant that people could talk to anybody anywhere, has really increased the awareness of both mental health, you know, which includes things like stress, anxiety, depression, and my case bipolar type two. And also it's increased the understanding of neurodiversity, you know, which includes in my case that, you know, I have dyslexia, but it could be dyspraxia, which is, you know, having problems with numbers, it could be autism, where, you know, you have difficulty maybe socializing or difficulty just living day by day. […]

Who has been a guest on Resilient Butterfly

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Steve Feldman
• Tom Parker
• Karyn Shanks
• John Lieberman
• Dr Jeremy Thompson

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

4,259

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

12 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 45 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

25

Social presence

91

YouTube

68

Engagement

51

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