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Free Birth SocietyNavigating Stillbirth with Death Midwife & Funeral Director Dr. IvyFuneral director and death midwife, Dr. Ivy Margulies, is helping families to navigate a peaceful way of walking with the loss of a baby. She talks about the logistics and laws of stillbirth, the importance of a death plan, home funerals, and ways to commemorate the child. Follow Dr Ivy on Instagram @drivymargulieshttps://www.drivylove.com✨Get on the waitlist for the FBS private membership community “The Lighthouse” - Doors open February 24th for just a few short days! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/membership-waitlist2025-02-211h 18Free Birth SocietyNavigating Stillbirth with Death Midwife & Funeral Director Dr. IvyFuneral director and death midwife, Dr. Ivy Margulies, is helping families to navigate a peaceful way of walking with the loss of a baby. She talks about the logistics and laws of stillbirth, the importance of a death plan, home funerals, and ways to commemorate the child. Follow Dr Ivy on Instagram @drivymargulieshttps://www.drivylove.com✨Get on the waitlist for the FBS private membership community “The Lighthouse” - Doors open February 24th for just a few short days! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/membership-waitlist2025-02-211h 25
The Babymakers : A Fertility PodcastEffective Strategies for Fertility PTSD & Pregnancy/Infant Loss with Dr Ivy Margulies, Maternal Mental Health PsychologistThe diagnosis of PTSD, until recently, has mostly been assigned to war veterans and victims of assault. However, the traumatizing struggle that many women and couples face when dealing with a diagnosis of infertility is ongoing. It’s not limited to an isolated event or circumstance. “Fertility PTSD”, by comparison to typical PTSD, subjects its patients to be re-triggered on a regularly repeating basis.As fertility patients “hang in”, month after challenging month, they develop a range of symptoms that include: an inability to trust, difficulty feeling safe, anxiety and panic, insomnia, isolation and physiological symptoms such as palpita...2024-10-0252 min
The Eating Disorder Trap Podcast#165: Psychological Shifts during Perinatal and Postpartum Times with Ivy MarguliesDr. Ivy Love Margulies is a licensed clinical psychologist, hypnotherapist and death midwife who specializes in grief, loss, and trauma encompassing the entire spectrum of a woman’s reproductive and maternal mental health. She works with postpartum mood and anxiety disorders, birth trauma, NICU, preterm labor, miscarriage, infertility, pregnancy release, terminations for fetal anomaly (TFMR- Terminations for Medical Reasons), stillbirth, infant death, high risk pregnancy and pregnancy after loss. Dr. Ivy hosts her podcast Shattered Conception,which covers an array of interviews about healing grief and trauma- before, during or after- pregnancy, infertility, or pregnancy loss...2024-07-1522 min
The Hendy ShowThe Psychological Impacts of Infertility and Pregnancy Loss and How to Heal with Dr. Ivy MarguliesIn this heartfelt episode, Amanda welcomes Dr. Ivy Margulies, a licensed clinical psychologist with an expertise in reproductive and maternal health, including grief, trauma, mindfulness, and holistic healing. Amanda and Dr. Margulies delve deep into the emotional complexities of the fertility journey. Dr. Margulies offers insights into the psychological impacts of infertility, pregnancy loss, and the journey to motherhood and Amanda opens up about her own fertility journey. Topics covered: The emotional aspects of fertility journeys, including the common feelings of loneliness, vulnerability, and the lack of certainty in outcomes, providing insights into the p...2024-04-251h 08
Women's Wellness with Abbe Feder36. Dr. Ivy Margulies: Grief is LoveThis week, Abbe is joined by Dr. Ivy Margulies, a Clinical Psychologist, Specialist in Reproductive and Maternal Mental Health, and Death Midwife. Together, they talk about Dr. Ivy's personal journey with death and grief, experience with therapy, and how she helps her clients daily. Follow, Follow Follow!Instagram: @thefertilitychick @abbefeder @incirclefertilityFind Dr. Ivy on Instagram @drivymargulies and Visit her Website here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2024-01-1737 min
Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing PathsEpisode 43 Jessica Headey GandolfiI am thrilled to share Jessica Headey Gandolfi's energetic healing work called Harmonyum. Harmonyum heals anxiety, trauma and depression while creating calm, clarity, focus and joy. Harmonyum targets the entire neurological system, balancing both sides of the nervous system. By taking us into a deep and intense state of relaxation, activating the "rest and digest" zone, our bodies innate self-healing mechanism is stimulated, and dramatic, powerful healing can begin at a root level. Thereby, initiating the process of regeneration activating emotional, mental, and physical healing within the body. Jessica Headey Gandolfi is an emotional health and wellness...2021-12-1638 min
Stop Searching Start Healing. Harmonyum LA: The PodcastFall / Winter 2021 | A conversation with Dr. Ivy MarguliesDr. Ivy Love Margulies is a licensed clinical psychologist, who specializes in grief, loss and trauma. She primarily works with women (and their husbands or partners) struggling with (in)fertility, perinatal and postpartum adjustments, perinatal and postpartum mood and anxiety disorders, pregnancy releases and/or terminations for fetal anomaly diagnosis (or any reason), miscarriage, stillbirth, and infant loss. Dr. Ivy has a unique way of blending psychology, ritual, mindfulness techniques and guided meditations to help guide and support women, couples and families through the grieving and trauma process. In this episode Dr. Ivy shares her f...2021-12-1229 min
Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing PathsEpisode 42 Rhowena Adolfo Patel CEO and Founder of Healing Mama Co.I'm excited to share this episode with Rhowena Adolfo Patel. She is the CEO and Founder of Healing Mama Co. which was born out of her experience as a first-time mom. She has backpacked through 58 countries, and 7 of those were with her 8-month old baby! Entrepreneurship is literally in her blood. Born to immigrant parents that started business after business, not always successfully, but definitely planting the seeds since her childhood. She was an award-winning Financial Planner, she's spoken in Canada and internationally about the art of money and planning, she's literally worn different crowns, as a pageant winner, t...2021-04-1254 min
Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing PathsMaternal Mental Health NOW Task Force Executive Director, Kelly O'Connor KayKelly O'Connor Kay, Executive Director, oversees the programmatic, fundraising and marketing operations of Maternal Mental Health NOW. Her goal is to ensure that all of Los Angeles County’s new families have the resources they need to address maternal mental health disorders so that women and their families can grow and thrive. In Los Angeles County, 25% of birthing people reported a depressed mood during pregnancy and/or the postpartum period. Moreover, rates are highest amongst Black women and Medical patients. And, across the state of California a staggering 72% of people with perinatal depression or anxiety have never received counseling or...2020-08-2733 min
Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing PathsSound Medicine with Elizabeth W. Krasnoff, Ph.D.(c), MIMOn Episode 40 I am welcoming back Elizabeth Krasnoff (she is on my Episode 2 of Shattered Conception) I thought it would be helpful to many listeners to hear Elizabeth and I discuss how incorporating sound, sound frequencies and music can soothe our bodies, our minds, our spirits/souls, and our emotions during these unprecedented times of COVID interrupting our daily lives and daily routines. This is such an important topic for myriad reasons - however especially for those with a trauma history, or people who have overactive nervous systems, and for those of us who are highly sensitive individuals - h...2020-07-2957 min
Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing PathsThe Placenta and What It Tells Us with Harvey Kliman, M.D., Ph.D.My guest on Episode 39 of Shattered Conception is Dr. Harvey Kliman who has, in addition to an M.D., holds a Ph.D. in cellular biochemistry from the University of Chicago. He is currently a Research Scientist in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Yale University School of Medicine and the Director of the Reproductive and Placental Research Unit with a special interest in infertility, pregnancy complications, pregnancy loss(es) and stillbirth. He has over thirty years of anatomic pathology training with particular emphasis in electron microscopy, immunohistochemistry, endometrial and placental pathology. He has over ten patents, including...2020-03-231h 10
Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing PathsMen's Paternal Mental Health with Dr. Dan B. SingleyMy guest on Episode 38 is Dr. Daniel B. Singley. Dr. Singley is a San Diego-based board certified psychologist and Director of The Center for Men’s Excellence. His research and practice focus on men’s mental health with a particular emphasis on reproductive psychology and the transition to fatherhood. Dr. Singley and I discuss a range of topics such as: men and postpartum; men and their relationship to their spouse or partner after the birth of a baby; sex after baby, and more... Dr. Singley’s won the American Psychological Association’s 2017 Practitioner of the Year Awar...2020-03-1958 min
Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing PathsHeart Disease and Pregnancy with Amanda DanielsMy guest on Episode 37 of Shattered Conception is Amanda Daniels. Amanda is a heart disease survivor, mother of three daughters and a spiritual counselor. At 18-years-old she suffered her first Heartquake™ - a term she uses to describe that moment in time when your life is forever changed - when she joined the ranks of the millions worldwide living with heart disease, and heart failure at 25. She spent years in and out of doctors’ offices, hoping that her heart would improve. While continuing on her regiment of medications, Amanda set on a soul journey to reconnect with her authentic self. Thr...2020-01-2457 min
Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing PathsElizabeth Carman, Ph.D., Author of Babies Are CosmicMy guest on episode 36 of Shattered Conception is Elizabeth Carman, Ph.D. Elizabeth is the leading author and researcher—along with her husband Dr. Neil Carman—of 3 books on the extent of consciousness before birth and the incarnation process from spirit to human realms. Elizabeth’s educational background includes a Bachelor Degree in psychology, a Masters in Interdisciplinary Studies, and an honorary doctorate for her pre-birth research. She recently completed her certification as a prenatal and perinatal psychology educator. In the 1970s, Elizabeth did social service work in adoption and foster care. She later spent years...2020-01-1754 min
Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing PathsSpiritual Fertility with Dr. Julie VonMy guest is Dr. Julie Von. Dr. Von is a Manhattan-based holistic doctor specializing in fertility who merges her medical education with intuitive-based practices. The method she developed, called Spiritual Fertility, expresses her unique capacity and experience within both reproductive medicine and medical intuition. The energetic and intuitive work she shares is grounded in real clinical and medical experience. Julie’s work has been called evocative, eloquent, mystical, and practical. Manhattan Magazine called Julie the “baby whisperer". Her most sincere desire is to help individuals to connect to the spirits of their children while guiding them to Earth in the...2019-12-131h 05
Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing PathsPregnancy After Loss with Lindsey HenkeMy guest is Lindsey Henke. Lindsey is the founder and Executive Director of Pregnancy After Loss Support. This is also a website and important resource for women and their families who go on to conceive another pregnancy after losing a pregnancy, their baby is stillborn and/or their infant dies after birth. She is a clinical social worker specializing as a reproductive mental health therapist with a focus on the grief and trauma that happens after a perinatal loss and the pregnancy that follows. She is also a writer, wife, and mother to two beautiful daughters and o...2019-12-0649 min
Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing PathsWomen's Reproductive Rights, Medical Ethics, and the Law with Julie Cantor, M.D., J.D.My guest on Episode 33 is Dr. Julie Cantor. Dr. Cantor is a physician and a lawyer. She graduated from Stanford University, the Yale School of Medicine, and Berkeley Law at the University of California. She was a visiting student at Yale Law School and is on the faculty of the UCLA School of Law where she teaches an upper division seminar on reproductive rights, medical ethics, and the law. Her writing has been published in legal and medical journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine. She is often called upon by the local, national, and international media to...2019-11-1445 min
Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing PathsImproving Maternal Health Care Through Advocacy with Joy Burkhard, MBAMy guest is Joy Burkhard, MBA. Joy is the founder and Executive Director of 2020 Mom. Joy founded 2020 Mom in 2011 after her personal, volunteer and professional worlds collided. She is also the Chair of Mom Congress. In this role, Joy has used her knowledge of the complex health care system to advance change in maternal mental health. She has over 20 years of experience working in several roles with the health insurer, CIGNA, including working in service delivery, quality improvement, and regulatory affairs. She has a passion for scaling change and putting the patient and customer first. She...2019-11-0140 min
Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing PathsFertility Coaching, Pregnancy, Postpartum Recovery with Ivy JoevaMy guest is Ivy Joeva. Ivy specializes in providing support throughout the woman’s reproductive life cycle, including fertility coaching, preparation for labor and birth, postpartum recovery, and pregnancy loss counseling. She brings to her practice a profound appreciation for the mind-body connection and a holistic approach including physical, emotional, sexual and spiritual aspects of care. She directs the Meditation program at the Jonathan Beach Club and facilitates pregnancy loss support groups at LOOM, a Pregnancy, Parenting and Reproductive Empowerment Center where she also offers Pregnancy Coaching and serves as the lead Loss Doula for LOOM in Lo...2019-10-2556 min
Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing PathsNICU and Healing Trauma with Mara Tesler Stein, Psy.D., PMH-CMy guest is Dr. Mara Tesler Stein. Dr. Stein is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Chicago. She specializes in the emotional aspects of coping with crisis around pregnancy & parenting, parent education, child development, and relationship-based and developmentally supportive care to babies and their families. She presents internationally on these issues and consults to health care providers and hospitals, guiding their efforts to improve the level of psychological support and care to families during and subsequent to perinatal crisis. She is the co-author of Parenting Your Premature Baby and Child: The Emotional Journey (Fulcrum, 2004) and Intensive Parenting: Surviving t...2019-10-1149 min
Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing PathsPregnancy, Postpartum and Parenting with Dr. Alyssa BerlinMy guest on Episode 29 of Shattered Conception is Clinical Psychologist Dr. Alyssa Berlin. Dr. Berlin specializes in pregnancy, postpartum and parenting in Los Angeles. She offers private counseling for women individually and/or with their partners on issues such as anxiousness and emotional fluctuation during pregnancy, postpartum blues and depression, and the complex issues that can arise between and around new and expectant parents. Dr. Berlin is the creator of The AfterBirth Plan Workshop, a program that prepares couples for what to expect after a baby is born and how to prepare for a physically and emotionally healt...2019-09-2039 min
Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing PathsHigh Risk Obstetric Care with David Finke, M.D.My guest is obstetrician and gynecologist Dr. David Finke. Dr. Finke specializes in high risk pregnancies and values patient education above all else--assessing a patient's expectations with holistic care outcomes. He has been recognized for 8 years in a row as a "Super Doctor" in Beverly Hills. He finished residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology as Administrative Chief at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and received his undergraduate and Medical Doctor degrees from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He is one of several talented and caring doctors at his office at Women’s Care of Beverly Hills. We cov...2019-09-0643 min
Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing PathsHealing Infertility and Supporting the Immune System with Sara BantaMy guest is Sara Banta. Sara is a Health Coach and owner/founder of Accelerated Health Products. She has devoted her life to providing guidance for all natural health supplements and solutions that heal the body and the root cause of many serious health issues. She was diagnosed with PCOS at the age of 26 after the birth of her first child. She was given Clomid to conceive her second child, with really no other information or options. She completed her undergraduate studies at Stanford University with a bachelors degree in Economics and Psychology in 1998. In 2016, s...2019-08-3052 min
Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing PathsgriefHaven Founder Susan WhitmoreMy guest is Susan Whitmore. In 2001, her only child, Erika Whitmore Godwin, who was 31 years old at the time, was diagnosed with a rare sinus tumor. One year later, despite every effort, Erika died. The painful and difficult journey she began exceeded anything she could have imagined. Only with dedication to her own grief journey, and the love and support of friends, was she able to make it through each day. She discovered there were many support tools, but they were scattered everywhere, and finding them was a painstakingly arduous process. Most of the websites talked about t...2019-08-2345 min
Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing PathsRituals To Mourn The Unborn with Patricia Danaher, M.A.My guest is Patricia Danaher. Patricia is a writer, mythologist and ecopsychologist. She lived in Japan for several years, where she observed and studied the Japanese rituals and traditions around death, in particular the death of unborn babies. A long time practitioner of Zen meditation and ritual, Patricia has a Master's degree in Mythology, Ritual and Jungian studies from Pacifica Graduate Institute, where she was awarded the Joseph Campbell Scholarship. Patricia has personally experienced the grief of miscarriage and failed IVF. Observing the absence of ways in western culture to memorialize babies who did not survive the...2019-08-1634 min
Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing PathsBereaved Mother and Psychic Medium Kathleen HoyMy guest is Kathleen Hoy. Kathleen is a Psychic Medium - she is clairvoyant, clairaudient and clairsentient. She can see visions, hear guidance and sense and retrieve information from people who have died, and are living, as well as information from houses, public buildings and outside areas. Kathleen discovered her gifts after the death of her daughter, Samantha, at the age of 22 to cystic fibrosis. Her own experience with the death of her child and journey towards embracing her new purpose and gifts is what enables Kathleen to guide and validate grieving parents, not only in finding their own...2019-08-0245 min
Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing PathsFeed Your Fertility Author and Acupuncturist Laura Erlich, L.Ac.My guest is licensed acupuncturist, Laura Erlich. She is the owner and founder of Mother Nurture Wellness, a holistic women’s health collective located in West Los Angeles, where she maintains a private practice as an acupuncturist with a specialty in reproductive medicine. Her career in the healing arts began in New York City in 1998 when she graduated from the Swedish Institute of Massage and immediately felt called to work with pregnant women. By 1999, she was back in her home town of Los Angeles, where she quickly built a successful house-call massage therapy practice and became a birth doula. Af...2019-07-2647 min
Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing PathsStillbirth of Elijah with Dr. Ann O'NeillMy guest is Dr. Ann O’Neill. Ann completed her Master’s degree in Environmental Science in 2006, and her PhD in Natural Resource Science & Management in 2015. Excitedly anticipating the arrival of their 4th son in July of 2018 and were shocked to learn Elijah, no longer had a heartbeat at 39 weeks and 6 days of pregnancy. Elijah was stillborn on his due date, July 2nd, 2018. They returned home from the hospital in desperate tears, bewildered, arms aching, and with a million questions. Three months after Elijah’s stillbirth, the autopsy report concluded that the cause of Elijah’s death was “unknow...2019-07-1959 min
Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing PathsMeditations for Healing Trauma with Author Dr. Louanne DavisMy guest is Dr. Louanne Davis, author of Meditations for Healing Trauma: Mindfulness Skills to Ease Post-Traumatic Stress. Dr. Davis is a clinical psychologist affiliated with the Roudebush VA Medical Center and the Indianapolis University School of Medicine in Indianapolis. For the past 17 ½ years, she conducted federally funded research, most recently focused on developing and evaluating treatments for PTSD that include scientifically validated and beneficial approaches such as meditation and yoga. She has practiced yoga and meditation for 13 years and is certified by the Center for Mindfulness at the University of Massachusetts Medical School to teach Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, al...2019-07-1248 min
Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing PathsInfertility and Surrogacy with Sydnee MillerMy guest is Sydnee Miller. Sydnee is a TV Set Decorator in Los Angeles. She moved to Los Angeles from Arizona in search of a new start after receiving inpatient treatment for an eating disorder in 2008. She completed her education at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising and began dating the man who would become her husband. When they got engaged in 2012, Sydnee immediately went off of birth control in preparation for pregnancy, which she hoped to achieve a year later. Her period never returned, and after a year of waiting, she decided to see a reproductive endocrinologist. S...2019-07-0643 min
Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing PathsHyperemesis and Fetal Anomaly Termination with Paola Brass, Clinical Social WorkerMy guest on Episode 19 is Paola Brass. She is a Clinical Social Worker who works as a Child Advocate at Stuart House, a program of the UCLA Rape Treatment Center in Santa Monica. Paola works with children and their families to provide crisis intervention, case management, advocacy, and court-related services for children who are victims of sexual abuse. Paola also participates in The Rape Treatment Center’s 24-hour on-call-response services for suspected victims of assault/abuse as a crisis counselor. Prior to coming to Stuart House, Paola investigated child abuse for 8 years with the Los Angeles Department of Children an...2019-06-1450 min
Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing PathsMiscarriage Mom Author Kristy Parisi, M.A.On Episode 18 of Shattered Conception my guest is the author of Miscarriage Mom: The Unspoken Realities of Miscarriage and How To Cope. Starting from the age of 27 through the age of 32 Kristy and her husband, Vincent, experienced 6 miscarriages. Kristy understands the pain and grief of losing an unborn child and losing many much wanted pregnancies. Her book offers heartfelt insights into the unforeseen realities surrounding miscarriage and suggests ways to cope. Miscarriage Mom openly addresses the emotions, reactions, and experiences to be expected after a miscarriage. Honoring your unborn baby, returning to work, and dealing with others' r...2019-06-0845 min
Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing PathsPostpartum Doula and Sexual Assault Survivor and Advocate Sheri PoeMy guest is Sheri Poe, a DONA trained birth and postpartum doula who specializes in supporting and helping women during the postpartum period also known as the 4th trimester. She is newborn care specialist and also specializes in lactation support and breastfeeding. She has spoken before audiences throughout the country about her experiences as an entrepreneur, an assault survivor, a working mother and a leader in corporate social responsibility. Sheri has also shared her story of triumph on national television and in publications, including: The Today Show, Oprah, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times...2019-05-3124 min
Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing PathsSpirit Baby Medium & Medical Intuitive Kelly Meehan, MFTMy guest is Spirit Baby Medium and Medical Intuitive Kelly Meehan. Kelly has a MFT with a specialization in Somatic Psychology from Santa Barbara Graduate Institute. She also has a podcast titled Spirit Baby Radio. Additionally, Kelly has training in Energy Based and Somatic Based modalities such as: Reiki I, Cranio Sacral Therapy, Infant Massage Instruction/ Parent Education, and Yoga with Mini Yogis (children’s yoga teaching certification). She has completed the training for the advanced levels of Integrative Energy Therapy (IET) I, II, and III. Kelly has authored a book titled: Sacred Communication - A Spirit Baby Journal, which yo...2019-05-2446 min
Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing Paths15. Stillbirth and Healing Through Entrepreneurship with Laura Malcolm KocsisOn episode 15 of Shattered Conception my guest is Laura Malcolm Kocsis. She is the founder of Give InKind. Give InKind was created after Laura and her husband, James, experienced the devastating loss of their daughter Layla while in her 8th month of pregnancy in 2013. While on leave from their respective technology jobs, she and her husband remembered how badly their friends and family around the country wanted to help, but felt too far away during the time after Layla’s death. Laura and James knew there had to be a better way to provide friends and family with...2019-05-1749 min
Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing PathsWomen's Reproductive Health and Acupuncture with Dr. Jiling HuOn this episode my guest is Dr. Jiling Hu. She is a licensed acupuncturist with an office in West Los Angeles. Dr. Hu has over 30 years clinical experience in gynecology and endocrinology and specializes in treating endocrine issues and women’s reproductive and overall health. She specializes in fertility challenges that are related to immune and endocrine disorders, unexplained infertility, irregular menstruation, PCOS, dysmenorrhea, menopause and other female aging related conditions. Her extensive education in both Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine gives her a unique perspective in treating her patients holistically. Dr. Hu had 8 years medical tr...2019-05-1055 min
Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing PathsEmpty Arms Syndrome and Infant Death with Marcella JohnsonOn Episode 13 of Shattered Conception my guest is Marcella Johnson, founder of the non-profit organization, The Comfort Cub. The mission of The Comfort Cub is to bring comfort to anyone experiencing a broken heart as a result of a significant loss or trauma. We have all had our heart broken or know someone that has. Is there actual medical and physiological effects of having a "broken heart" or is it just a figure of speech? It turns out, this is a REAL "syndrome". Starting in 2001, more became known about Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy, aka a broken heart. First described in J...2019-05-0351 min
Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing PathsSomatic Experiencing, EMDR and Self Compassion with Kathryn Chaya Lubow, LMFTOn this episode of Shattered Conception my guest is Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Kathryn Chaya Lubow. Chaya specializes in Somatic Experiencing and EMDR. She is also a Trained Mindful Self Compassion Teacher & Therapeutic Imagery Facilitator. She teaches meditation at the Den Meditation in Los Angeles and is the co-host of the podcast Awakenings in Real Life which focuses on the spiritual path of women and mothers in contemporary life. Her private practice is in Los Angeles, California. Chaya shares two significant life events: One being a terrifying car accident and another being the condition of developing hy...2019-04-2644 min
Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing PathsHigh Risk Pregnancies, Managing Pregnancy After Loss and Prenatal Care with Obstetrician and Gynecologist Dr. Paula ShulmanMy guest on episode 11 is Obstetrician and Gynecologist, Dr. Paula Shulman. Her office is located in Santa Monica, California and she has hospital privileges at Providence Saint John’s Hospital and UCLA. She practices the full breadth of women’s healthcare and strives to use shared decision making whenever possible. She is a supporter of VBAC and vaginal delivery of twins, and encourages her patients to use both Eastern and Western medicine to achieve their fertility goals. She also specializes in menopause. Dr. Shulman shares how she had 2 harrowing traumatic births of her own and how her person...2019-04-1950 min
Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing PathsMaternal Mental Health with Clinical Psychologist Dr. Hillary GoldsherMy guest is licensed clinical psychologist Dr. Hillary Goldsher with a private practice in Beverly Hills, California. Dr. Goldsher’s areas of expertise include trauma and grief, depression, anxiety, eating disorders and relationship counseling. Additionally, she specializes in the arena of maternal mental health—helping women and their families cope with miscarriages/stillbirths, postpartum depression and parenting/couple challenges post birth. On this podcast we discuss her late term miscarriage while on vacation and how her personal journey of pregnancy loss has solidified her commitment to improving mental health outcomes for women who have suffered from pregnancy losses...2019-04-1245 minShattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing PathsDream Music Therapy with Composer and Psychologist Dr. Michael R. MolluraMy guest on Shattered Conception is licensed Clinical Psychologist and music composer, Dr. Michael Mollura with a private practice in Beverly Hills. Dr. Mollura is the creator of Dream Music Therapy. Dream Music Therapy is based on the foundations of Dr. Carl G. Jung and James Hillman. Dr. Michael Mollura composes music to the actual dream reports of his patients as a way of accessing unconscious material to provide healing pathways on neurological, quantum, and collective levels. His music helps heal and bring relief to trauma, emotional conflict in the unconscious mind, and provide answers to confusing and distressing...2019-04-0542 min
Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing PathsGrief, Trauma, SIDS and Healing with Lily Dulan, MFTOn Episode 8 of Shattered Conception my guest is Marriage and Family Therapist, Lily Dulan. Lily is also a certified Heart of Yoga Teacher and Author of the book, The Name Work. The Name Work is also an A-Z deck of cards which describes the qualities of each letter of the alphabet and then has simple affirmations to go with each quality listed on the back of the card. Lily facilitates The Name Work workshops throughout the country and conducts one-on-one sessions in person or on-line. Additionally, Lily studied spiritual coursework at Agape International Spiritual Center under the tutelage of...2019-03-2936 min
Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing PathsInfertility and PTSD with Joanna Flemons, LCSW, CPCMy guest is licensed psychotherapist, certified professional coach and author Joanna Flemons. Joanna's book is titled, Infertility and PTSD: The Uncharted Storm. She has worked in healthcare for nearly two decades and has a clinical specialty in reproductive trauma, grief counseling and infertility counseling. She has a private practice in Highlands Ranch, Colorado. Infertility affects one in eight couples, causing widespread grief, anxiety, and stress affecting both women and men. One-third of infertility is attributed to male factor; another one-third to female factor; and the remainder from both and unexplained factors. Increasingly, research indicates that certain experiences...2019-03-221h 01
Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing PathsMind, Body, Spirit Healing Though Infertility to Pregnancy with Renowned Doula Lori BregmanOn Episode 6 of Shattered Conception my guest is renowned doula, healer, life coach and author Lori Bregman. Lori is the author of The Mindful Mom to Be: A Modern Doula’s Guide To Building A Healthy Foundation From Pregnancy Through Birth (With month-by-month advice, comprehensive checklists, and customizable birth plans, this is your indispensable holistic companion for pregnancy, birth, and beyond.)…and the soon to be released Mamaste: Discover A More Authentic, Balanced, and Joyful Motherhood From Within. (Introducing the “five expressions of motherhood”—Action Mama, Flow Mama, Rebel Mama, Vulnerable Mama, and Free Mama—Lori offers supportive ad...2019-03-1541 min
CharVisionDr. Ivy Love MarguliesIn this episode of CharVisionGuest: Dr. Ivy Love Margulieswww.Pregnancylossdirectory.com joins Char.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/charvision--3561393/support.2019-03-0846 min
Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing PathsPostpartum Mood and Anxiety Disorders with Angelina SpicerOn this episode of Shattered Conception I'm talking with comedian, actress, social media influencer, wife and mother, Angelina Spicer. Spicer has smartly delved deep for comedy that’s authentic, transparent, and relatable. By using her social media platform, she became an outspoken advocate for maternal mental health after she was admitted into a psychiatric facility for a seven day treatment of postpartum depression when her daughter was 8 months old. She was admitted because she had scary thoughts that just would not abate on their own. It was then that her journey to remove the stigma from the shame...2019-03-081h 01
Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing PathsAcupuncture and Infertility with Danica Thornberry, L.Ac.Danica Thornberry, L.Ac., was one of the first women in America to focus, treat, and support women going though assisted reproductive technology. She is a fertility specialist and founder of Well Women Acupuncture in Los Angeles. She completed a post-graduate certification in Chinese Gynecology and has had phenomenal success in helping thousands of women reach their individual goals. She has appeared twice on Lifetime TV’s “Speaking of Women’s Health, ” where she presented acupuncture as a successful form of treatment for fertility problems and hormone imbalances. She is the author of Stick it to Me, Baby! Inserting Spirit In...2019-02-2540 min
Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing PathsMindfulness in the Therapeutic Process with Elizabeth Winkler, MFTElizabeth Winkler, MFT incorporates mindfulness and meditation in her therapy work to help accelerate her client’s productivity, personal growth, ability to create better personal relationships and deepening the therapeutic process exponentially. Elizabeth calls mindfulness the “bullet train to freedom.” She works in Beverly Hills and Los Angeles with individuals, couples and families. Two years ago Elizabeth founded and created a mindfulness process called “Heart Surgery”. She has taught the Heart Surgery process to many children around the nation, and recently brought Heart Surgery to Sierra Leone, Africa for Tiffany Person’s nonprofit organization, Shine On Sierra Leone. 2019-02-1050 min
Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing PathsSound Frequencies as "Medicine" with Elizabeth Krasnoff, M.A.Elizabeth W. Szatmari-Krasnoff, MA is currently in the Ph.D. program of Transformative Studies with a focus in Consciousness Studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Her current inquiry is to study the effect of sound on self-regulation of the autonomic nervous system. She is a certified Energy Healer through the Academy of Intuition Medicine Master Certification Program (MIM), and has a Sound Healing and Therapy Certificate from the Globe Institute. Additionally, she completed her training with the Heartmath Institute. Her masters degree is in Depth Psychology and Mythology from the Pacifica Graduate Institute. She was diagnosed at...2019-01-2845 min
Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing PathsThe Healing Benefits of Hypnotherapy with Amy Budden, C.Ht.Amy Budden is the founder of Connect The Mind (www.connectthemind.com) and a certified hypnotherapist and meditation teacher. Amy uses scientifically validated techniques based in neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), along with music, sound and light frequencies, to effortlessly train the brain to relax the body and reset the nervous system. Her particular way of incorporating music and hypnotherapy heals the body and the mind to achieve greater states of heart coherence and positive emotions. Amy's technique is known as the "magic nap" because she teaches a meditation state that is a deep dive without much e...2019-01-2844 min
Mom and MindAngels Born StillDr. Ivy Love Margulies - Perinatal loss expert & Death MidwifeGoing through a loss of a child during pregnancy, birth or postpartum can be devastating to a family. It's also hard to know what to do...how to even make decision moving forward. Psychlogist, Dr. Ivy Love Margulies shares her expertise in perinatal mental health, reproductive mental health, perinatal loss and her unique work as a death midwife, Reiki healer and ritual facilitator.We discuss:- Many parents are also dealing with trauma and PTSD after infant loss and we talk about how d...2017-04-2432 min