Business InsiderMotherhood & Identity
Volume IX · November 2026
A health and science journalist making sense of the messy questions—what we know, what we don't, and what it means for us.
Read the writingBylines in Business Insider · Women's Health · USA TODAY · Men's Health · Healthline
“It’s hard to come up with something original. Rebecca did.”
Drew Barrymore · The Drew Barrymore Show
The Cover Story
What If Trauma Therapy Didn't Have to Take Years? Inside the Controversial Treatment That Requires an NDA
An investigation into a controversial trauma treatment promising rapid relief—and the science, secrecy, and unanswered questions behind it.
Women's HealthOctober 2026Mental & Emotional Health
Featured
All work →Selected Writing
Men's HealthEvidence-Based Health
GLP-1s Are Dramatically Shifting People’s Sex Drives. Scientists Are Finally Figuring out Why.
October 2026Men's HealthEvidence-Based Health
People Think They Drive Better High. These Scientists Are Testing the Theory.
October 27, 2026Business InsiderMental & Emotional Health
I Replaced Doomscrolling With One Tiny Habit. My Screen Time Dropped 44%.
Multimedia
Podcast & Media
Selected conversations, interviews, and media appearances spanning podcast hosting, guest interviews, national television, and voiceover narration.
Podcast — Host
Trauma Myths, Treating Complex PTSD & How to Know You're Healing
An in-depth conversation with Harvard-trained psychiatrist and trauma researcher Dr. Frank Anderson on the latest research in complex PTSD, EMDR, and Internal Family Systems — why trauma is so difficult to treat, and what healing actually looks like.
WELL-BENTPodcast Host
Television
The Drew Barrymore Show
CBS · It's Trending!Television Appearance
Interviewed by Drew Barrymore during the "It's Trending!" segment following a Business Insider essay on taking a solo honeymoon — a national conversation about independence, marriage, and modern ritual.
Featured nationally on televisionIn Their Words
What People Are Saying
“She’s skeptical of wellness hype and anchors everything in research... She also brings both halves of the job: the editorial judgment and the ability to run a multimedia content operation end to end.”
Dennis KeohaneJournalist & Former Boston Globe Reporter “A wonderful on-air presence.”
Kaja PerinaEditor-in-Chief, Psychology Today “The Mel Robbins of wellness.”
Ted CanovaEmmy & Edward R. Murrow Award-Winning Journalist and Podcast Producer
A note about the writer
The best stories start with better questions. I’m a journalist and podcast host fascinated by what makes us tick, the ways we heal, and how we can better understand ourselves—and each other.
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