All About Nothing With Ruth Cohn
Episodes
Where's the Spark?
11 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Amidst the buzz about sex that seems to always be around, for many of us, your clients may be wondering about their own lackluster sex lives, their pa...
A Feeling in the Air
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It is a challenging time of year for those with neglect and incident trauma histories. The winter holidays of any denomination may be fraught with fam...
True, Kind, Necessary
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Next week is the Thanksgiving holiday here in the US, never a favorite of mine. For an anorexic kid, it was a true nightmare. I always thought of it a...
Stephanie Simms
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In today’s video we feature special guest Stephanie Simms. I met Stephanie in Oxford in 2024, when she was on a panel where she described an experie...
Myths and Legends
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Like many children of trauma and neglect, I searched for heroes and idealized others, someone to look up to and identify with. I was and to some exten...
Up, Up and Away
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week's episode was recorded in Oxford, where I was attending and speaking at the Transform Trauma 2025 Conference.In this episode, I reflect on a...
We Are the World, We Are the Generations
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we have a very special guest. We are honored and privileged to welcome Mike Niconchuk.I met Mike at the Boston Trauma Conference. I was so m...
Ghosts and Helpmates
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone is talking about it, and it seems to be everywhere. I figure it is time for me to say at least a few words about AI. I admit I feel very mixe...
Living Color
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I was about five when they came out with color TV’s. We did not have one, and continued to huddle around the grainy old black and white for a long t...
Regulation
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we pay a brief visit to the big topic of regulation and its many meanings and manifestations, from "over-reacting" to getting somehow ...
Odds & Ends
25 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today video is a bit of a patchwork, bits and pieces of ideas I am sure I will develop, disarray of coming home from vacation, and trying to get organ...
Mind & Body
24 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mind and BodyAloha everyone from glorious Kona, Hawaii, where I have the privilege to be this week. This video was made with a (real!) spectacular oce...
Relationship Art With Mariah Rooney
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of All About Nothing, we welcome special guest Mariah Rooney. When there is trauma, neglect, violence and differentness, often family ...
Episode 19
03 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
While we are all inundated with grief, horror, shock and injustice, I thought we might look for a ray of light. Here in San Francisco, I awoke to a ra...
Coming Back
26 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It is summer here in the US and a time of many comings and goings. Vacations, summer camps, and young adults graduating and launching for the lucky (I...
Nothing To Play With, with special guest Akillah Wali
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we have a special treat. Akillah Wali, who I met at the Boston Trauma Conference, will join us, and bring humor and fun to what is mo...
World of Books
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I shamefully realized after recording the video, that it is summer in the Northern Hemisphere, but not everywhere! My one-person psychology at work: t...
Boston Hotel
22 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Do you ever despair when once again revisited by old ghosts? When parts of you that you thought you had worked through long ago, rear up again, as pow...
Can We Play?
08 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In his masterwork, The Archaeology of Mind, neuroscience luminary, researcher and animal lover Jaak Panksepp wrote that a brief interlude of tickling ...
Coming of Age
25 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we discuss the neglected topic of aging: the aging body, the aging brain, sexuality as we age. Another of those seemingly taboo subjec...
Let's Talk About Sex
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 12 I invite you to join me in talking about sex, a topic so important to so many, and all too often neglected and unaddressed. On one hand ...
The Bermuda Triangle
28 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As we see our parents age, many of us are seized with a nameless clash of often intense emotions, especially if we have traumatic memories of these pa...
Celebrate Women's Month
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we diverge a bit from the more somber topics of trauma and neglect, to celebrate International Women's Month and specifically women's ...
Episode 9
20 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Andy Marra, a Korean American trans adoptee told the moving story of searching for and traveling to Korea to meet her biological mother. Uncertain abo...
Nothing Matters Goes Global
06 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Recently, I was introduced to a new-to-me clinical term: "Climate Anxiety."It is a mix of overwhelm, fear, anxiety, and hopeless despair about what is...
Social Support
23 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today we explore the crucial subject of interpersonal need, and the immeasurable value of social support.It is perhaps the most salient and profound o...
Plenty of Nothing
10 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Before I started studying trauma and neglect, I associated the word regulation with rules and laws. Now it means so much more. And this word may be co...
Episode 5
19 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of All About Nothing is a visit into a chapter of my past. We touch on the intergenerational transmission of trauma, and how my internali...
One Person Psychology
05 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What do you get when you cross a person hyper-focused on the feelings, needs and reactions of the other, with a person completely isolated and alone a...
Thanksgiving
14 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to episode 3 of All About Nothing, our bi-weekly podcast series. Today, amidst storms of feeling on the heels of the recent US presidential el...
The 3 P's
14 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When I began studying neglect and looking for patterns to recognize it, one of the first that jumped out at me, is what I came to call “the Three P’...
Forgiveness
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we will explore the complex subject of forgiveness, inspired by the Yom Kippur holiday and also by the many feelings stirred in me by ...