NACHUM SEGAL LIVE with Tzippy Landau

it's your night to heal thanks everybody for being as generous as you have been so far those of you who haven't yet contributed now is the time unite the heal check the Donate button almost 3,000 people have already donated from around the world and we at $38 million $3.8 million the goal is to be at5 Million by 9900 p.m. eastern time tonight please join this effort keep the work of amudam going those those of you who have been watching especially over the last few minutes you've gotten a very good perspective about some of the things that amudam deals with let's give them what they need to continue going and to operate the way they are on behalf of our families and our teenagers unite to heal.com be as generous as possible Tippy landow is with us Tippy landow is digital media manager for unite to heal a pleasure to welcome you to this amazing live stream thank you nak it's great to be be here what is it exactly that you do for Amud what is a digital media manager um so I work on the operational team which basically means that I am not certified to give anyone therapy no counseling come to me for I can give you advice but probably don't take it um but I do a lot of the amudim online things so everything that happens every program that we create for example with the war that's happening now we're offering free services um for people that are affected and so that needs to have besides for what you see in the front you know we have therapists and mental health professionals and then clients as well who come and need the services there has to be a back end where we can connect them we can vet them so that's sort of where I stand behind the scenes for this campaign specifically there's a lot of elements that go into creating a website the emails and so that's you know what I do and everything you just described forget for a moment to live stream everything you just described on a daily basis is just getting more and more I mean I would assume there's more webinar type activities and and you know and and as you said you know people checking in with the organization just trying to find a way to get help from amudim exclusively using the web I mean they're they're not picking up a phone they're literally going to the website and seeing what they could find there that's going to help them out yeah um I would say that we moved I was with them mov in parttime before Co and then when Co hit and everything moved online that's when I don't know that there was ever a moment that I made the decision of I'm going to move to this full-time it was more like right now people need help and I have want to do what I can to help them um and that's how I transitioned into fulltime but there was we needed to provide online AA meetings resources for people with domestic violence anything like that it became very quickly a full-time job if not more and those having mental health issues in Co just that brought a lot of mental anxiety and stress and God knows what else yeah and so like as we're growing we have you know a lot of partner programs projects under amudim um so it's a lot and but I really enjoy being able to take my skills of graphic and web design and being able to use it for something like this how' you get to Amud to with how' you find that about the organization I actually started off as a client I grew up in a home my father was pretty severely injured when I was younger um in he was burnt in a fire and it was throughout his recovery they prescribed him a lot of meds he got addicted and so I grew up with an addict as a father and a lot that comes along with that and that was when I learned how cruel perpetrators can be when they see this innocent helpless child who they're supposed to be caring and protecting and they decide to take that moment and take advantage of them um and so I went through a couple years of sexual abuse and I tried I didn't have words to describe what I was going through or to describe what I was feeling and it got to a point where life didn't feel worth living I didn't want to die cuz my father had passed away and I knew the effects of dealing with a suicide I didn't want to put that on to someone else but I also just didn't want to live anymore and my sister told me about this place called amudim and she said you know call them get a case manager and I was just at a place I had nothing to lose and so I did that and that call changed my life my case manager sat with me and we discussed where I'm at and she put words to things that I didn't know um and I got into therapy I ended up going to a place for PTSD for a few weeks and at some point as I was getting more healthy it clicked in me that I didn't know that those Services were available and I needed them and they changed and saved my life I wanted to be a part of the solution and so I took what I knew how to do which was graphic design and web design and I said you know if there's anything that you need if I can come on as a part-time volunteer and that's where I started with amudim and it was the greatest decision that I've ever made was calling amudim and then the next one was you know joining on with the team I assume I'm right that you've never discussed this during this live stream before right we never discussed this in previous years no right and I'm sure it's no secret to you that some of what I'm hearing is quite devastating because you don't always know what's going on uh most people don't know you would say most people don't most if not all people don't know what's going on in general in situations like this yeah um and it's amazing coming off the conversation we just had here I get to ask you a couple of similar questions I guarantee you that there is a a a girl from Brooklyn right you're from Brooklyn right there's a girl from Brooklyn who's watching right now who either is going through a situation or went through one in from which they're suffering PTSD yeah and they don't know that there's somebody a phone call away and you could literally look at that camera and say there is somebody a phone call away I I mean I would say that there is someone a phone call away and that you're not alone and that the things that you're experiencing right now you know it feels like when you're going through something like that it feels like there is no other pain that's this bad there's no one else in the world who can understand this feeling um perpetrators will you know they the way that they'll create this mindset of like no one will understand people will think that it's your fault and I believed it I believed every word of it and um there's a lot of us who we make it through to the other side and there is help out there and pick up the phone and call because there's another s to it it's hard work to get through and to recover but there's this other side past it and when you're there it's it's beautiful and and the grass looks Greener and life feels better and the ear feels fresher it's just I woke up one day at some point and I saw the world like I had never seen it before someone once described to me that uh someone of of somewhat Authority who who knows these issues said that the suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem and not to minimize that temporary problem because that temporary problem is with you your entire life I get it but I'm sure you appreciate that and again if someone out there God forbid is even thinking in those terms they need to hear from people like you that they're is another side and there is a road that brings you to where the grass is greener again not forgetting because that's impossible to completely eliminate everything from your past but certainly where you can experience life and enjoy it yeah um I had a therapist once that told me that you know it was when I was still fearly new and I was struggling a lot with suicidal ideations and she said that death is you know it can be an option but it's once you do it once it's permanent and you can't try anything else so you owe it to yourself to try other other things first because you can't you can go to therapy and if it doesn't work you can try something else and you can try another route you can't come back from that one and I think until today you know what my father's life would have been like had he if he was still around if we would have a relationship now if he would know me and my family and my kids and you know how different it could be if he was still here and I hope on to that and I talk to people who sometimes when they're going through hard things and I say like it's something you can't ever come back from you do it once and and you you H you owe it to yourself to try everything else first we'll change our tone here for a moment because SPL tells me that you're the force behind run for amudim uh I'm not familiar with run for amudim tell us about it um so run for our moodam started we had I had a classmate of mine who un fortunately was involved in drug addiction and when she got out of rehab uh she relaps and that's a very scary time for newly sober people because they think that their body is able to handle what they used to take and um because they've detoxed they're not able to and unfortunately that's when she passed away and her sister called and said that she was looking to do something elas her if she put together a team would we coordinate an event in Miami and they would go run the marathon and raise money and this would be her Legacy oh this is the January event this is the January event yeah and so her sister that she was talking about was a classmate of mine and I asked to be on board for this project and I've worked with amudam for a while and I know about we raise money obviously I'm very I feel like this cause is extremely important and and so I wanted to do it from a fundraising aspect but the piece that I didn't know that would be so amazing was the experience for me and for the runners we've become almost like a family where there's the WhatsApp chat groups the weekend is incredible it's this once in a-lifetime experience except that you can get it once a year everyone that's there they care about mental health and so it's uplifting and it's POS positive um and I'm I'm really close I call them my Runners but I'm really close to my Runners and it's just a fantastic experience and I hope that we continue to grow it well now it's h what are we in we're in December is it too late for people to sign up we have a couple spots available nice information on the website I bet information on the website or send an email we we close registration on the website but we have just just a few spots available fantastic all right coming up we're going to be watching a highlight reel of the last 34 hours now you of course are very close to the content that's being presented as the digital media manager for amudim what can you tell us about this highlight reel in general all the great content we've been seeing I think that yummmy and gb's team and everyone that has been every year I think that we can't top some of the segments and every year they do there was this this year had a lot of last minute additions and changes due to the current events right but you know hearing from a holocaust Survivor about never again um I remember when we were dealing with the emergency evacuation flights having to put in the passport information for someone that the date of birth was in 1933 in Germany and having to make sure that he was sat next to one of our medic you know and so just watching the segments I think that it's been I'm I'm glad that this gets to stay on forever and that if anyone missed it they can go back and watch it because it's important for us to keep talking about it and to keep seeing it and you know the music and the entertainment is obviously incredible so well Tippy landow thank you for being here tonight thank you for all your great work on behalf of amudim and thank you for sharing all this with us it's going to help people that are out there watching right now thank you I appreciate it the Highlight Reel is all set that's right it's queued up this highlight reel is going to review the last 34 hours maybe you didn't have a chance to see everything that's been presented by amudam and charity bids over the last day and a half well here's an opportunity to get a glimpse of the highlights of all this great content with a reminder as sippy just said that it's going to be available all year round at unite the heal.com and probably on other platforms as well for you to enjoy and to remember why it's so important to support the great work of Amud please keep giving everybody here's the Highlight Reel at unite the heal.com