ABOUT THE SHOW
Hosted by Doryn Wallach, It’s Not a Crisis began in 2020 as a search for answers about what happens when everything in midlife starts to shift—our roles, relationships, bodies, and sense of self. After a few years and a lot more life experience, the podcast returns in a new form: short, honest reflections on what it really feels like to grow through change rather than resist it.
Each episode offers a grounded perspective on the emotions, losses, and awakenings that define this stage of life, reminding us that transformation doesn’t always mean starting over.
Because midlife is not a crisis.
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Listen to the trailer here!
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This podcast is for women in their 40s to 60s who are in the middle of it all: careers, family, identity shifts, and questions about what comes next. My hope is that these reflections help us make sense of this stage together, so we can live our next chapter with more clarity, humor, and meaning.
With my own mix of life experience, career reinvention, and a background in art therapy, I want It’s Not a Crisis to feel like a thoughtful pause in your week, honest, relatable, and grounding.
I always love hearing from you. Reach out anytime by email or on social @itsnotacrisispodcast.
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ABOUT Doryn
Doryn Wallach is a designer, creative director, and emerging art therapist whose work bridges creativity, mental health, and women’s lived experience. She is completing her M.S. in Art Therapy at Syracuse University and holds a MicroMasters in Maternal and Child Public Health from The George Washington University.
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Her clinical experience includes working in substance use recovery and adolescent psychiatric care, as well as facilitating therapeutic groups focused on women’s mental health, including midlife transition, PMDD, perfectionism, and self-compassion. She integrates creative expression into mental health treatment and holds credentials including CASAC-T, CBT and Motivational Interviewing training, and specialized certifications in women’s mental health, perimenopause and menopause, perinatal mood disorders, PMDD, and women’s substance use disorder recovery.
Doryn is also the creator of Her Voice in Photos, an art therapy–informed participatory photography project that helps women reflect on personal challenges, reframe their stories, and share curated images in digital and community exhibitions. The podcast and the project are deeply connected, both inviting women to pause, reflect, and see midlife as a meaningful point of growth.
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A former award-winning fine jewelry designer featured in Forbes, Harper’s Bazaar, and Vanity Fair, Doryn brings the same creative vision to her current work in women’s wellbeing, blending art, psychology, and storytelling to help women feel seen and understood.
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