Shattered Conception

I 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 expert with over 30 years global experience. After dedicating years of her life to her own healing journey, Jessica has now built a successful business focusing on helping people regain their own emotional health and wellbeing. Jessica founded Harmonyum LA in 2018, a private healing practice working exclusively with the Harmonyum Healing System. A divine and spiritual healing technique, Harmonyum focuses on activating the self healing capacity of the body, Jessica offers in person and distance sessions. Jessica is the host of ‘Stop Searching Start Healing - The Podcast' available on Apple, Spotify and YouTube. Jessica believes in giving back. As a published author, her first children's picture book, ‘Monkey - Wishes Do Come True', donates 100% of the proceeds to supporting the Casa Hogar Sion orphanage in Tijuana, Mexico. Topics discussed: Spiritual hygiene Law of resonance Emotional diet Nervous system regulation Importance of breath Self healing What is Harmonyum Acts of service Phone: 310-849-7231 Email: hello@harmonyumla.com Website: harmonyumla.com IG: @harmonyumla

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, to running a bed and breakfast, and now she and Healing Mama Co. are on a movement to raise the standard of care for birthing people and partners during childbirth and postpartum. She is dedicated to helping and supporting women and their partners through pregnancy, birth and the postpartum period. I am now also affiliated with her Healing Mama Co. as a resource for new mothers and their partners, either with help with educating women and men on postpartum or through pregnancy loss. Website: www.healingmamaco.com Phone: 416-475-2584  

Kelly 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 treatment. Kelly previously served as Maternal Mental Health NOW’s Development Director for 7 years. Before joining Maternal Mental Health NOW’s team (which coincidentally corresponded with her own transition to motherhood), Kelly worked for a number of nonprofit organizations in the human services and environmental fields in the US and the UK as a freelance fundraising consultant and staff member. Kelly is a graduate of Northwestern University, having received a BS in Communication Studies & Sociology. She also holds a MS in Elementary Education form Brooklyn College, part of the City University of New York. Kelly discusses the important work of the Maternal Mental Health Now Task Force (previously known as the Los Angeles County Perinatal Mental Health Task Force started in 2007). The Maternal Mental Health NOW Task Force plays a key role in helping to reduce the stigma and shame around maternal mental health disorders, such as depression, anxiety and sometimes psychosis, during pregnancy and after pregnancy. Additionally, the MMHN Task Force advocates and supports many different organizations and hospitals for women in Los Angeles County. www.maternalmentalhealthnow.org  

On 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 - humans in general do not like uncertainty - the human mind needs order and a sense of safety in our daily life. Elizabeth connects how FEAR releases hormones and neurotransmitters that significantly impact brain waves! Elizabeth’s main passions of music, healing and consciousness complemented and co-mingled in 2016 with the start of her private practice Sound Medicine. She has trained and immersed herself in the Biosound Healing™ methodology, a configuration of a vibrating sound bed, meditation, music, video and Heartmath®, and combines this with the other skill sets in her practice to help clients deal with stress using sound and biofeedback.   In 2018, Elizabeth was published in the World Futures Journal and twice in the Society for Consciousness Studies newsletter. She presents on sound and consciousness at venues such as the Yale Divinity School with Deepak Chopra, The Graduate Institute, CIIS, CIHS, the Academy of Intuition, the Globe Sound Healing Conference and lastly JFK University, where she now teaches the annual Sound Healing class in the Expressive Arts Program. Website: www.sound-medicine.com

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 the patent for the Endometrial Function Test® (EFT®)—“The soil test for the endometrium®” and “Method and system for determining placental volume.” His contributions in the field of placental research include the development of the “Kliman” method of trophoblast purification, research into the mechanisms of trophoblast differentiation and invasion, the role and genesis of syncytial knots, and more recently, the clinical utility of abnormalities in placental growth patterns, especially trophoblast invaginations and inclusions, to diagnose genetic abnormalities in pregnancy, including autism. We spoke at length before recording this podcast and thought we could begin this episode talking about the inability to become pregnant. What would you want a woman to know about her inability to get pregnant or sustain a pregnancy…where should she start to gather the needed information to see what is going on with her uterus? (This is where we discuss the different types of uterine lining tests, including the Endometrial Function Test®, "EFT®") There are approximately 2 million pregnancy losses a year in the USA. We are talking about the women who are pregnant but lose the pregnancy AND there are women who lose their pregnancy between 20-40 weeks gestation. (This is where we talk about the Estimated Placental Volume Test®, "EPV"® ) Dr. Harvey J. Kliman can be reached at 203-785-3854 or http://klimanlabs.yale.edu    

My 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 Award from the Division on Men & Masculinities. He is Past President of the APA’s Section on Positive Psychology and currently serves on the Board of the APA’s Society for the Psychological Study of Men and Masculinities as well as Postpartum Support International. He conducts trainings and presentations around the country to assist individuals and organizations to enhance their level of father inclusiveness. Dr. Singley founded the grant-funded Basic Training for New Dads, Inc (nonprofit) and Padre Cadre a social networking application just for dads in order to give new fathers the tools they need to be highly engaged with their infants as well as their partners. Follow Dr. Singley @MenExel and www.facebook.com/MenExel/

My 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.  Through years of traditional psychotherapy, spiritual counseling and shamanic training as a modern day medicine woman, Amanda pierced through the layers of emotional pain to heal her heart.  Amanda created Flight, a lifestyle brand, to empower a broader audience of people who don’t have the ability to see her for one-on-one sessions. Flight speaks directly to people who are either suffering from their own Heartquake™, living with heart disease, grieving the loss of a loved one, longing for more purpose in their lives, learning to manage their own spiritual gifts as sensitives or looking for better overall health. She's broken down Flight into a simple formula. Force x Light = Flight. That's the Flight Formula. "Heartquake™ will Force you to ignite the Light that's always existed within you so that you can take Flight to a healthy, more purposeful and fulfilled life."  Amanda works with clients in her Santa Monica studio, she co-founded the first peer led support group in Los Angeles for women living with heart disease, and she sells intention crystal pouches to help her clients with some additional energetic support. www.FlightoftheHeart.com Follow Amanda on IG: @FlightoftheHeart Email Amanda at: amanda@flightoftheheart.com

My 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 teaching inner development courses and meditation. In 1989, Elizabeth began exploring life before birth and interviewed mothers reporting communications with their unborn children via dreams, visions, an inner voice, feeling the child’s presence, telepathy, and a host of other announcing signs. Mothers also reported memories of their journey from the spiritual world to conception, life in the womb, and birth itself. Elizabeth and Neil’s prebirth research did not stop there. Their first two books were Cosmic Cradle (2013), and the book Souls Waiting in the Wings for Birth. (1999) In Cosmic Cradle, Spiritual Dimensions of Life before Birth (2013) they explored philosophical, religious, ethnological, and anthropological sources from nearly every culture showing the soul’s immortality. We are conscious spiritual beings coming into human life with purpose and design. In the Carmans’ recently released book, Babies Are Cosmic, Signs of Their Secret Intelligence published in 2019, they document extraordinary findings of babies’ awareness of their birth, life in the womb, and before. With a firm foundation in prenatal and perinatal psychology and medicine about the consciousness of unborn and newborn infants, Elizabeth and Neil touch on such topics as — Children’s memories of choosing parents. Children who recall a mother’s miscarriage, abortion (or as I refer to abortion as a pregnancy release), and/or birth loss and return in a subsequent pregnancy. Advanced abilities of unborn babies such as telepathic communications, clairvoyant sensing of events inside and outside the womb, and sensing the difference between being loved and unloved. These stories will draw you into a new world of wonder about consciousness before birth and suggest the need for a new standard of medical care that includes the power of love. Elizabeth Carman can be reached through email: elizabeth9carman@gmail.com Website: www.babiesarecosmic.com www.cosmiccradle.com Journey to Birth on YouTube

My 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 most gentle and loving of ways. Her recent book, Spiritual Fertility: Integrative Practices for the Journey to Motherhood was published by Hay House, and released earlier this year. She has an unmatched success rate in fertility cases and her method has assisted countless couples in conceiving and carrying healthy children into the world. Dr. Christine Northrup, (who wrote the first seminal women’s health book called Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom in the early 90’s and The Wisdom of Menopause) endorsed Dr. Julie’s book, saying “Spiritual Fertility contains everything and more - that anyone dealing with fertility issues on any level needs to know. Before proceeding with any fertility treatment - or even worrying about it - you must read this book. It’s a treasure!”  Her book, Spiritual Fertility, offers readers the same expertise she offers her patients, showing them how to access their deepest intuitive wisdom and use it as a powerful tool for fertility. Julie shares tools to help heal family wounds, balance hormones, identify and unblock past trauma and grief stored in the body and create receptive energy in order to connect to the spiritual and unseen aspects of creating life - and even connect with the energetic spirits of your future children. Contact Dr. Julie Von: www.drjulievon.com    

My 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 one sweet boy. Tragically, her oldest daughter, Nora, was stillborn after a healthy full-term pregnancy in December 2012. Lindsey’s second daughter, Zoe, was born healthy and alive in March of 2014 and her son Liev was born in 2016.  Her writing about life after having a stillborn daughter has been featured in Listen to Your Mother, Scary Mommy, Healthline, and The New York Times. Lindsey has had the honor of speaking all over the world on conceiving a pregnancy after a experiencing the unimaginable trauma of previous perinatal loss, including at the 2020 Moms’ Maternal Mental Health Forum, The Pregnancy and Infant Death Alliance Conference, The Postpartum Support International Conference, The Stillbirth Summit, and at The International Women’s Maternal Mental Health Conference in Paris.  She is currently working on her first book. Contact:  https://pregnancyafterlosssupport.org

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 comment on issues that arise at the intersection of law and medicine.   You've seen the headlines: A woman is arrested after giving birth because a drug screening test was positive. A state law eliminates religious and philosophical objections to vaccination, while leaving medical exemptions in place. A court orders a pregnant woman to submit to any and all medical treatment her obstetrician deems necessary. A statute restriction to abortion access raises questions about the rights established in Roe v. Wade. An expert with deep knowledge of both medicine and the law needs to be able to unpack these kinds of situations, both with clinicians, medical providers, hospitals and the public. Dr. Cantor does just that. She offers unique perspectives on issues that traverse law, medicine, and medical ethics. When she lectures, Dr. Cantor draws on medical evidence, case law, history, and art to create multi-media presentations that navigate cutting-edge dilemmas, leaving audiences with a deeper understanding of complex cases and a firmer grasp on potential solutions.   Additionally, she is an entrepreneur in fashion and the founder of Harlen, a luxury brand that elevates women’s work bags to Modern Career pieces, all made exclusively in Italy. Dr. Julie Cantor can be reached through her website: www.juliecantor.com

My 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 is a member of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology Expert Work Group on Maternal Mental Health and the California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative Executive Committee.  Joy has been recognized for her leadership and vision with several awards, receiving the "Emerging Leader" award in women's health from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Women's Health (2016), The California American Mother, Mother of Achievement Award (2019), a Women in Business Stevie Award (“Silver”) for Non-Profit/Government Leadership, Cigna's Volunteer of the Year Award (2016), and the Junior League of Los Angeles' Founders Cup (2014) and Community Achievement Award (2016).  She spearheaded the three important legislation laws that passed recently, including the Maternal Mental Health Screening and Support Act (AB 2193) that went into effect as of July 1, 2019. This law requires an OB-GYN to screen their patient for a Postpartum Mood and Anxiety Disorder during their pregnancy and/or at their followup visit after their baby is born. It also requires private and public (Medicaid) health plans (HMO's) and health insurers (PPO's) to create maternal mental health programs. 1 in 7 women will experience a postpartum mood and anxiety disorder up to a year after giving birth (studies are now concluding postpartum symptoms may last longer than once believed). Suicide is the second leading cause of death in postpartum women. Screening will save lives. Postpartum depression is a misnomer as women can experience "postpartum" during the perinatal period (during pregnancy). When including women who have had a miscarriage or stillbirth, around 900,000 women suffer from postpartum depression annually in the United States - this is not taking into account, traumatic births and the post-traumatic stress symptoms and disorders that also can develop regardless of the birth outcome or loss of the pregnancy. Joy Burkhard can be reached through her website: joy@2020mom.org  

My 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 Los Angeles. Ivy graduated from UC Berkeley and the Institute of Integration Nutrition. Ivy has served as a doula since 2009. She is called to this work because she believes thriving parents create happier families and a kinder, more peaceful world. Ivy Joeva can be reached through her website: www.ivyjoeva.com IG: @ivyjoeva      

My 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 the Journey Through the NICU (Fulcrum, 2013). Dr. Stein is a certified EMDR therapist, EMDRIA Approved Consultant and EMDRIA Approved Trainer for the Institute for Creative Mindfulness where she is on faculty. She is also certified in Emotion-Focused Family and Couple Therapy, is a Gottman Certified Therapist, and continues to pursue training in Clinical Hypnosis, Advanced applications of EMDR, and Ego-State therapies.  She brings a wealth of clinical expertise and insight along with all she has learned interviewing families around the world for her two books to her EMDR Basic Trainings and advanced practice workshops. All of this is grounded in her personal perinatal journey, which began 25 years ago and took her through infertility, twin pregnancy, prolonged hospital bedrest, the NICU, and years of raising NICU graduates. Those children, identical twin girls born 10-weeks early who spent 10-weeks in the NICU, and a son who was almost full-term but not quite, are out of their teens and making their way in the wider world. Contact Information: www.docmara.com Email: mara@docmara.com Phone: 773-338-2980

My 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 healthy postpartum transition for the baby, for each partner and for the evolving relationship. Also known as the fourth trimester. Dr. Berlin was a labor support doula, combining her psychological background and her doula training to help women and their partners feel empowered and comfortable in the labor and delivery process, both on a physical and emotional level.  Dr. Berlin has a specific expertise addressing anxiety, fear or any other emotional concern that may arise around having a baby before, during and after the birth. Dr. Berlin is on the Board of Advisors for the International Cesarean Awareness Network (ICAN) and is a faculty member of Maternal Mental Health NOW Training Institute.  She conducts a multitude of live pregnancy and parenting workshops throughout Southern California and globally via Skype. You can read Dr. Alyssa's blogs on the Huffington Post where she contributes to PBS's "This Emotional Life" project. Dr. Berlin received her doctorate at Argosy University in Atlanta, GA, went on to become a certified Gottman educator and is a member of the American Psychological Association. Dr. Alyssa and her husband, prenatal chiropractor, Dr. Elliot Berlin live in Los Angeles and are the proud parents of four amazing children. Website: www.drberlin.com IG: @dralyssaberlin

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 cover many topics in this podcast including but not limited to: High risk pregnancy, screening for post-partum mood and anxiety disorders aka perinatal mood disorders, team approach to a healthy pregnancy and outcome, miscarriage, infertility treatments, advice and information for men and or partners during and after pregnancy, as well as his thoughts on infertility statistics and grief. Dr. Finke takes the time to get to know his patients and provides the compassion and thoughtfulness everyone needs when feeling possibly vulnerable and unsure during pregnancy, or trying to get pregnant. Website: www.womenscareofbeverlyhillsgroup.com Office phone: 310-657-1600    

My 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, she graduated from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition with a certificate in Health Coaching and learned Chinese and Ayurvedic Medicine at The Invincible Wellness System. Through the years she has had to figure out and solve many health issues within her family including her son's diagnosis of leukemia at the age of nine, her daughter having allergies, anemia and asthma, her husband having heart issues, and her other daughter having comprehension and learning challenges as well as chronic headaches. She investigated on her own to connect the dots and find out what was causing all of these health issues. She strongly believes in the mind body connection. And has come to realize that a lot of the same solutions that heal the gut, and the brain, are the solutions that help to successfully treat her PCOS and fertility issues, achieve weight loss, improve fitness and restore metabolic health.   She has offered a coupon code for my podcast listeners on her website acceleratedhealthproducts.com for 15 percent off, using the code SHATTERED15  Email: sara@acceleratedhealthproducts.com

My 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 their own organizations and what they offered. Susan needed one place where she could learn about a variety of support tools available and, ideally, what other people who were grieving found worked. It was then she decided she would put together that kind of website—a true “grief haven”—where anyone in need could come and find all that was available. That is how griefHaven was founded. In 2003 Susan started The Erika Whitmore Godwin Foundation and griefHaven. Today, the Foundation is known throughout the world, provides grief support, local support groups, education and tools in 14 countries, and receives over 200,000 visits a year on its website. Website: www.griefHaven.org Email:hope@griefhaven.org

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 pregnancy, she has created personalized rituals for individuals and families dealing with such heartbreak.  The loss of an unborn infant is a deeply painful experience for families. Yet in most societies, there is very little space allowed to recognize the grief which is felt by those who lose a baby before birth. Very often the sympathy that people deserve at such a loss is not available to them. Not having “met” the baby, our friends and communities often do not know the real grief and trauma which lives on silently in the lives of those affected. Many churches will not permit burial of an unbaptized infant who perished, adding further pain and even shame to what the bereaved are already enduring. Patricia has adapted and developed similar rituals for people in the West, to help release these “hungry ghosts” and their grieving families. Her rituals offer a chance to change this and to allow people to grieve this pain, mourn the loss of this potential life and create a shrine or memorial at home. Patricia accompanies those who are grieving and helps them to personalize the rituals of mourning, bearing witness to their pain and helping them to transform it through the power of ritual. She incorporates the Jizo figurine. Jizo presides over a world that few like to think about. He is the protector of children, especially those who die before their parents. They include mizuko, the souls of terminated, stillborn or miscarried babies. Patricia Danaher email: patriciadanaher@outlook.com Website: www.ritualsmourntheunborn.com

My 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 meaning around the death of a loved one but also comfort. With her deep compassion, gift of connection and channeling, and broad knowledge of energetic healing practices, Kathleen offers people the space and tools they need to move forward in their healing with practical steps and gentle insight. How to reach Kathleen Hoy: www.kathleenhoy.com  Email: Kathleen@Kathleenhoy.com or 215.813.4225 Kathleen will give $25 off her fee to the first 5 people who mention this podcast when they book an appointment with her. Books mentioned: Tuesdays with Morrie and The Eagle and The Rose

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. After several years of growing her massage/doula business, Laura felt a desire to deepen her knowledge of both eastern and western medicine and enrolled in Chinese Medicine school at Emperor’s college in Santa Monica.  In 2007, she gave birth to her son and her new practice, and began tending to them both with her full heart and soul. Her background in pregnancy and birth made way for an acupuncture and herbal medicine practice with a speciality in women’s health, with a special focus on fertility, the childbearing cycle and labor support. After 5 years in practice, she began teaching other acupuncturists through webinars and joined the faculty at Yo San University as a professor in their doctoral program in reproductive medicine. In 2015, Laura co-authored her first book, with Emily Bartlett, Titled: Feed Your Fertility. The book breaks down different health conditions and compares how Eastern medicine and Western Medicine view and treat that health condition. That was the same year, she founded Mother Nurture Wellness. Mother Nurture Wellness is one of the leading Acupuncture and Holistic Health Centers in the city of Los Angeles. Her Center, offers more than acupuncture and herbal medicine, Mother Nurture Wellness also offers chiropractic care, health and nutrition coaching, pelvic floor physical therapy, body work, midwifery services and a curated retail shop of wellness products made by local woman-owned businesses, such as SeedLyfe and Counter Top, for example. Dr. Laura Erlich can be reached at hello@mothernurturela.com She is offering $25 off the first visit to the first three listeners who make an appointment with her.

My 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 “unknown”.  Unhappy with the insufficient answers to basic questions provided by the autopsy, Ann listened to a podcast interview of Dr. Harvey Kliman, a placental pathologist at Yale University. On this episode, Ann discusses learning that Elijah’s death was due to an extremely small placenta that could not provide the oxygen he needed to survive past week 39 of pregnancy. While Ann’s original plan was to continue teaching environmental science classes to undergraduate students, Elijah’s death was a watershed moment in her life. Elijah's death opened Ann’s eyes to the many unacceptable gaps in the world of prenatal care, stillbirth research, and basic answers for families asking why their baby died. Today, Ann is passionate about encouraging prenatal care providers to measure a baby’s placenta volume in utero to detect babies at high risk of stillbirth, and to help loss families pursue and hopefully find answers to the cause of their baby’s death. Ann can be reached by email: ann.ebert.oneill@gmail.com To learn more about Estimated Placental Volume (EPV) to measure placenta volumes during pregnancy: https://medicine.yale.edu/obgyn/kliman/placenta/epv/ To learn about having your baby’s placenta tissue reviewed by Dr. Harvey Kliman to investigate why your baby was miscarried or stillborn: https://medicine.yale.edu/obgyn/kliman/placenta/pregnancyloss/ Star Legacy Foundation is in Minnesota and are dedicated to stillbirth research.

My 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, also known as MBSR, developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn. Dr. Davis takes us through a short mindfulness meditation at the end of the interview specifically for anyone who has Post Traumatic Symptoms and or a diagnosis of PTSD. Louanne Davis, Psy.D. can be reached through her email: louanne.davis52@gmail.com

My 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. She completed 3 rounds of IUI’s and 3 rounds of IVF, only to find heartbreak and disappointment at the end of each one. She miscarried two of those rounds, and unfortunately the others never resulted in a pregnancy. Her first stimulation for retrival resulted in a dangerous hyper-stimulation situation and the RE retrieved 91 eggs! In July of 2016, Sydnee and her husband decided to give up trying and pursue adoption. This is when her older sister offered to be their surrogate. After much deliberation, paperwork, and therapy, Sydnee accepted her sister's offer, and her beloved son Liam was born about 1 year later. Her period has still never returned, 7 years after coming off birth control. Sydnee shares her reproductive story and what she found helpful while trying to conceive.

My 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 and Family Services (DCFS) as an Emergency Response Social Worker. While working with DCFS Paola had the opportunity to work closely with Stuart house, she found passion in the work she was doing with sexual abuse survivors and decided to pursue the role of a child advocate. After 9 plus years of clinical experience in supporting families during traumatic events Paola was able to recognize the need to obtain specialized treatment and support after experiencing a traumatic pregnancy and termination for fetal anomaly. Paola’s medical team had failed to diagnose Hyperemesis and failed to provide adequate support leaving Paola feeling very isolated. Paola was able to seek treatment and support to help her grieve, process, and heal from her traumatic pregnancy and loss, and in turn was able to continue to provide the highest level of care to her families as a clinician. She went on to have another pregnancy, again with the diagnosis of hyperemesis, and brought her daughter to term. Paola is bravely sharing her reproductive story and helping many listeners who may be going through the same or similar diagnosis. Additionally she and her husband both developed a diagnosis of postpartum and sought professional treatment to help normalize and de-stigmatize the most common mental health complication of pregnancy. Paola's IG: @itspaola Paola's Email: paolambrass@gmail.com She referenced the website www.HelpHer.org And, Mother's Haven in Encino, California

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' reactions are just a few of the many topics addressed. With a genuine desire to help numerous women, Kristy wrote Miscarriage Mom and includes a special "man-to-man" chapter written by her husband, Vincent.  This episode covers many common experiences a woman experiences not only with one miscarriage, but multiple miscarriages. Including the confusion, frustration and grief of not having a diagnosis as to why she kept miscarrying. Kristy Parisi's contact information is on her website: www.miscarriageadvice.com She is giving-a-way her book to the first 3 people to contact her.

My 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, People, The Los Angeles Times & Business Week. Sheri has been recognized by the National Association of Female Executives with a NAFFY Award for nurturing the aspirations of females for the future. She also received The New England Women’s Leadership Award in Business, National Victim’s Center Milton Petrie Award and the Women Of Excellence Award for her outstanding contributions toward helping end violence in our society. Sheri also offers new mothers a weekly virtual support group every Saturday morning from 9:30am until 11:00am. Please email Sheri to receive the Zoom link. Sheri Poe Contact Info: ombabydoulala.com ombabydoulala@gmail.com

My 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 you can order directly from her website. Kelly uses her intuitive sensitivity of Clairvoyance and Clairsentience to support women/couples all around the world that are looking to connect in a deeply spiritual and awakened way on their fertility journey. Kelly calls herself a Spirit Baby Medium and offers a loving service that focuses on spirit baby communication in conception, energetic fertility healing, medical intuition, pre-birth connections in pregnancy, and spirit communication for all areas of pregnancy and baby loss: miscarriage, stillbirth, and termination for any reason. As a medical intuitive she can intuitively connect with her client's body by seeing, sensing, and feeling into their energetic patterns/information from the physical, emotional, and spiritual areas of their being. The book: Medical Intuition - A Science of the Soul - Your Awakening to Wholeness by C. Norman Shealy MD, PhD defines medical intuition really well - "A medical intuitive is not a street psychic or carnival barker who can 'see the future'.  A medical intuitive is exactly that---a person who has the ability to interpret energetic data often includes behavioral patterns, archetypal patterns that govern the souls path, life traumas, and then there is the presence of physical illness as well as the illnesses that are in the process of developing." Kelly's work began with her own healing journey when she was diagnosed with Lupus at age 25, after suffering without a diagnosis for 10 years. She was taught that most scientific autoimmune issues are not curable. That once you have it then she would have to deal with remissions and flare ups for the rest of her life. Kelly's gut instinct told her that this could not be true. For Kelly, Science is not an accurate craft. She began with acupuncture and every other natural treatment from Wobezyme to Moducare.  She did it all!  It was the energy medicine work and more spiritual divine work that got to the very dark root of her illness and had allowed the unwinding into wellness and health freedom. She cured herself and has the bloodwork results on paper to prove it.  The cure was NOT an overnight process. She worked on herself at least 10 years to clean her physical body, the mind of thought patterns, and unloaded new energy into her spirit for awareness and healing. Check out Kelly's website for more information. IG @spiritbabymedium Contact Kelly at soulbabycommunication@ gmail.com.   https://www.soulbabycommunication.com

On 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 a way to support those they care about during times of need and in life’s celebrations.  Give InKind is on a mission to make sure that no one feels too far away to help when life events happen. We know you can't always be with the ones you love when they need you, but they also know that sending money or flowers isn't always the only answer. They wanted to make it easy to send the support that's really needed - whether that's a hot meal, a housecleaner, a good book to read or a cup of tea. Give InKind has hundreds of articles from experts - and the people that have been there before - talking about how best to support one another through these times. Whether you're visiting a friend after a c-section or supporting a family member after a stroke, you can find information on Give InKind with ideas for how to help. Give InKind has been featured in Forbes, babycenter, The Seattle Times and GeekWire. It is their sincere hope that Give InKind makes everyone's life a little bit easier, no matter what you or someone you care about is going through. Give InKind would love to hear new article ideas, product suggestions and ways that they can help support you, whatever your reason or situation may be. You can quickly set-up a free page for you or a loved one and receive: Situation-specific product, service and content suggestions Meal & Help scheduling Visitor, phone call and other preferences Social and Email options to invite others Laura Malcolm Kocsis can be reached through her website: www.giveinkind.com Book mentioned: The Body Keeps the Score

On 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 training at Hubei University and Beijing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. She received a Master’s degree in endocrinology and immunological disorders, which integrated TCM and Western medicine. After completing her graduate studies, she was an Attending TCM Physician at the distinguished China-Japan Friendship Hospital in Beijing for 4 years before she came to US. Since having relocated to Los Angeles in 1996 from Beijing, Dr. Hu has been teaching at both Yo San University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Emperor’s College of Oriental Medicine for over 23 years. Before opening her private practice she was with the Akasha Center for Integrative Medicine in Santa Monica.  Modern science has helped numerous people get pregnant and/or make having a baby possible - however many couples trying to get pregnant find themselves turning to an age-old treatment for help -- one so steeped in tradition it's about as far from life in the 21st century as one can get. That treatment is acupuncture, and today, even high-tech reproductive specialists are consistently looking to Chinese medicine to help those fertility patients for whom western science alone is not quite enough. In fact many scientific studies are concluding that adding Chinese Medicine to a woman’s protocol increases her chances of success significantly. Dr. Jiling Hu can be contacted through her website: www.mind-bodyacupuncture.com

On 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 Japanese medical journals, it was named after the similarities between the LEFT VENTRICLE in systole and the shape of a Japanese octopus trap. It is also called "broken heart syndrome". Marcella shares her story of the death of her newborn son, George, due to a medical condition and the subsequent physical manifestations of grief and trauma in her body. She found comfort in holding a weighted flower pot...which gave her the idea to create a weighted teddy bear. It is in George’s memory that she first began to make each teddy bear by hand and personally deliver them to every hospital in her hometown of San Diego, CA. The Comfort Cub is now in top hospitals across the USA and is used on every continent to help to heal and bring comfort to a broken heart. While the initial intent of The Comfort Cub was for stillbirth, newborn death and child death, evidence shows it provides profound relief for ANY traumatic event. This includes having to leave the hospital while your baby is still in the NICU, the loss of a spouse, parent, loved one or pet. It has also been effective for occupational & autism therapy, adoptions and those experiencing divorce. Due to deep touch pressure, holding The Comfort Cub triggers the brain to release the neurotransmitters dopamine, serotonin and oxytocin, which causes the body to relax and feel comforted. The Comfort Cub has been scientifically proven to decrease heaviness in the chest & aching in the arms, as well as other physical manifestations of a distressing loss. If you would like to receive a Comfort Cub, email Marcella Johnson and/or contact The Comfort Cub organization. You can find out more on the website: www.thecomfortcub.org  Contact Marcella Johnson at: marcella@thecomfortcub.com  

On 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 hyperemesis during her pregnancy with her daughter and told her cervix was labeled “incompetent”. As well as having an OB telling her the terrible statistics while pregnant if she were to have a premature baby…Chaya discusses how she got through that pregnancy. Chaya can be reached through her website: www.kathrynlubow.com or email: kathrynlubow@gmail.com Chaya mentions Mindful Self Compassion (MSC) developed by Dr. Kristin Neff and Dr. Chris Germer Chaya and Ruby Mercadol host their podcast: Awakenings In Real Life  

My 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 personal experiences have helped her be a more compassionate and thoughtful doctor. She also shares how she discovered her passion and career path in obstetrics and gynecology. Dr. Shulman screens her patients for postpartum mood and anxiety disorders during pregnancy and after the delivery. She encourages women to come up with their "birth preferences" (instead of a "birth plan) and works closely with her patients throughout their pregnancies. She is a big supporter of a team approach to her patients care and also of Eastern medicine to achieve fertility goals and/or support the woman's body hormonally - or for any reason. Dr. Paula Shulman can be reached at her office: 310-453-6767 or email at paula@smwha.com I hope you enjoyed listening to this episode of Shattered Conception - please follow me and if you have a moment to leave a positive review I'd be very grateful.  Thank you and Namaste

My 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 of any kind as well as supporting women going through assisted reproductive technology (IVF). Dr. Goldsher believes that healing comes from a willingness to deeply experience, explore, and feel one’s emotions that are related to both present and past circumstances. Unexamined feelings can often lead to unwanted or painful symptoms. The process of understanding one’s feelings and emotions allows one to grieve. Grieving allows for the purging of emotions which creates space for new, more positive emotions, thoughts, and behaviors. Furthermore, Dr. Goldsher believes that therapy is not magic, but rather a process that requires work, commitment, and faith. Change often comes "as a whisper rather than as a thunder bolt". However, Dr. Goldsher believes it is the slow, steady changes that lead to sustained changes. Dr. Goldsher also has a MBA from the prestigious Kellogg School of Management from Northwestern University and worked for over 10 years at a Fortune 500 medical supply corporation. After a decade in the business world, she began her pursuit of a doctorate in clinical psychology. Dr. Hillary Goldsher appears regularly on various local and national media outlets such as CNN, Fox, local LA news channels, and various podcasts such as Dr Drew, help I suck at saying, whine down with Jana Kramer and more.  She provides insight on topics that intersect with her clinical specialties. Dr. Hillary Goldsher is dedicated in her professional life to helping others through traumatic events and chapters in their lives. Dr. Hillary Goldsher can be reached through her website: www.drhillarygoldsher.com. To book her for appearances on TV, radio, podcasts or other media outlets, please contact hillarygoldsher@msn.com or 310.499.4966. If you enjoyed this podcast please subscribe - and take a moment to leave a positive review. Thank you and Namaste, Dr. Ivy

My 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 nightmares and dreams. His work is the first of its kind and exemplifies the healing powers of creativity in a clinical setting.The dream music therapy draws a bridge between Dr. Mollura’s work as a music composer and as a clinician.  As a feature film music composer, Michael Mollura is known for his recent score for the documentary film HEAL directed by Kelly Noonan, which is currently the #1 best seller on iTunes Documentaries and in the top 10 rentals on Netflix. This documentary takes us on a scientific and spiritual journey where we discover that our thoughts, beliefs, and emotions have a huge impact on our health and ability to heal. The latest science reveals that we are not victims of unchangeable genes, nor should we buy into a scary prognosis. The fact is we have more control over our health and life than we have been taught to believe. This film will empower you with a new understanding of the miraculous nature of the human body and the extraordinary healer within us all. HEAL not only taps into the brilliant mind's of leading scientists and spiritual teachers, but follows three people on actual high stakes healing journeys. Healing can be extremely complex and deeply personal, but it can also happen spontaneously in a moment. Through these inspiring and emotional stories we find out what works, what doesn't, and why. Featuring Dr. Deepak Chopra, Anita Moorjani, Marianne Williamson, Dr. Michael Beckwith, Dr. Bruce Lipton, Dr. Joe Dispenza, Anthony William author of ' Medical Medium', Dr. Bernie Siegel, Gregg Braden, Dr. Joan Borysenko, Dr. David Hamilton, Dr. Kelly Brogan, Rob Wergin, Dr. Kelly Turner, Peter Chrone, Dr Darren Weissman, and Dr Jeffrey Thompson! Michael has also composed music scores for AWAKE: THE LIFE OF YOGANANDA, HARE KRISHNA, CLARITY, THE HIGHEST PASS and most recently a score for a pilot season of an episodic TV show ROAD TO DHARMA. His work is new and exciting seeking to breakthrough the ceilings of quantum driven theory using music, love and a passion for life as his tools. Dr. Mollura has also taught and lectured about the healing components of music, meditation and dream work to some of the finest well-being health facilities such as ESALEN. He will be presenting at the end of the month of April 2019 at ESALEN. Michael is currently teaching an annual course titled "Working With Dreams in the Psychoanalytic Relationship" at the WRIGHT INSTITUTE IN LOS ANGELES to doctorates and masters level trainees. Michael R Mollura, received his Ph.D In Clinical Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute and a Master's Degree in Performance Studies from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts which included training and research work in dreams, drama, music, theater and dance work. You can reach Dr. Mollura directly at Michael@drmichaelmollura.com or call 213-280-9625. To learn more about Dr. Mollura's clinical work, visit www.drmichaelmollura.com

On 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 Reverend Michael Bernard Beckwith. Lily formed a foundation a few years ago that partners with local and international organizations called The Kara Love Project. This foundation was developed in loving memory of her first daughter, Kara Meyer Dulan, who died at home in 2009 of SIDS when she was 2 months old. The mission of The Kara Love Project is to promote conscious giving and positive action for underserved and marginalized individuals and communities worldwide. The Dulan's backyard has become a venue to support this mission through gathering community. You can find out more about The Kara Love Project on the website, www.thekaraloveproject.org Lily has used her grief and trauma as a catalyst to bring more love, compassion and light into the world. Lily "believes that we have to learn to get more in touch with our suffering and really feel it before we can create positive meaning that will assist us in our healing." Lily Dulan, MFT can be reached: LilyDulan@msn.com  Website: www.thenamework.com If you enjoyed listening to this podcast please subscribe! And take a minute to leave a positive review...Namaste  

My 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 during infertility can trigger or exacerbate post traumatic stress disorder. Joanna Flemons explains the complex relationship between PTSD and infertility, and offers proven techniques and strategies for reducing trauma symptoms and loosening the powerful grip of PTSD. Telephone: (720) 530-9518 Email: jfccservices@gmail.com Website:  https://highlandsranchcounselingandcoaching.com/ If you liked this podcast episode please subscribe! And take a minute to leave a favorable review. Thank you and Namaste

On 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 advice, exercises, meditations, and yoga practices to cultivate a healthy balanced life)  She works intimately with her pregnant clients and supports new mothers on all aspects of their personal transformation from fertility and infertility journey through pregnancy and into new motherhood. She is unique in her innate ability to blend spiritual coaching, healing and intuition which are fully integrated into her Doula practice. Lori cultivates a strong intimate relationship with her clients by supporting them throughout their entire pregnancy – before, during and after the birth. She is the founder of the Rooted for Life Program, a complete mind, body and spirit support system that helps women enter motherhood empowered and grounded. She is also the co-founder of Seedlyfe, which offers superfood powder blends for all stages of womenhood as well as supporting men and their fertility health. The fertility smoothie powder supports the endocrine and reproductive system, helps reduce cell and DNA damage to improve egg health, restores hormone balance, promotes healthy cervical mucus, enhances egg quality, alkalizes PH levels to help sperm survival, boosts libido and immune system, increases blood flow, lowers FSH levels and is anti-inflammatory. Throughout her career, Lori has studied with and learned from many talented and known healers and spiritual teachers across the world. These teachers have shared with her their wisdom, from spirituality, intuition, body/mind awareness, herbs/vitamins, aromatherapy oils and the healing power of foods. She has incorporated her knowledge to inform her doula work, bodywork, yoga, and numerous other forms of holistic healing with her clients. Lori was named “a motherhood miracle” in MindBodyGreen’s “100 Women to Watch in Wellness”, Lori has also been featured in other magazines such as US Weekly, Allure, Women’s Health and Cosmopolitan along with an array of wellness websites and motherhood blogs including Well and Good, Chalkboard, The Bump and Modern Mom. Contact Lori: lori@loribregman.com 310.429.0254 If you enjoyed this episode please subscribe! And leave a positive comment - also let me know what you liked and/or what other topics you'd like to hear on this podcast. Thank you for listening...Namaste

On 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 and guilt associated with a Postpartum Mood and Anxiety Disorder began. She became the 2018 Spokeswoman for The Blue Dot Project, has lobbied on Capitol Hill, and has recently help pass three new pieces of legislation for new moms in California through supporting 2020Mom and the Maternal Mental Health NOW Task Force (which I am also a member). Angelina has also been featured in USA Today & Essence magazine. Additionally, Angelina is about to join MommyCon 2019’s seven-city tour across the United States where she will lead an interactive session about the taboo topic of Postpartum Depression and Anxiety Disorders. In each host city, Angelina will offer a fresh look at PMADS - Postpartum Mood and Anxiety Disorders with honesty, humor, and hope. Each session will conclude with a diverse panel comprised of PMADS experts of various kinds as well as other survivors. Angelina and her guests will offer personal stories, clinical data and local referrals for support and professional help. Angelina is also fund raising for her documentary film titled: ANGELINA (working title). This documentary is about a woman's humorous, raw, and real journey into motherhood. If you would like to support and donate to this important documentary please go to: www.angelinaspicer.com You can reach and learn more about Angelina through her Instagram: AngelinaSpicer She is also offering a give-a-way of 1 VIP ticket (and gift bag) to the NYC Show on April 6th to the first person to private message her through IG. If you enjoyed this podcast episode on Postpartum Mood and Anxiety Disorders please subscribe and take a minute to leave a positive review - and spread the word!! Namaste and Thank you!

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 Into The Science of Infertility and the creator of The Seed Program, where she offers a collection of online courses for women who want to learn what they can do to improve their fertility. Danica faced fertility challenges of her own and learned that baby-making is a combination of timing, self-care, and faith in a bigger picture. She shares the wisdom she gained in pursuit of her own children with her patients. Danica would like to offer a free meditation called "Fertile Thoughts" to anyone who emails her at https://www.seedfertility.com/freegift/ Danica Thornberry can be reached at 310-826-3706 If you enjoyed this episode please subscribe! And take a moment to leave a positive comment. Thank you and Namaste

Elizabeth 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. Additionally, Elizabeth has provided therapy on BRAVO and OWN Oprah’s Network, and is a featured blogger on Laura Wasser’s divorce platform, IT’s Over Easy, and has brought her mindfulness teachings into classrooms, homes, to athletes across the country, mothers, children. Elizabeth shares her struggle with her own postpartum experiences after the birth of her two children and discusses what helped her through that challenging time, especially as a woman who's mother died while in the first year at college. Elizabeth has offered to send the first 5 people who reach out to her through her email, elizabeth@elizabethwinkler.com, a Heart Surgery Kit. Some of the Apps and websites Elizabeth and I mentioned in the podcast:Bright Minds app, Insight Timer App, Calm App, and The Love Experiment. And to find out more about her "snow globes" with mantra cards, please email her.   Email: elizabethwinkler.com Heart Surgery Kit Email: heartsurgerykit.com IG: heartsurgerykit  IG: ewinklertherapy If you enjoyed this episode please subscribe! And take a moment to leave a positive comment - thank you, and Namaste

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 a young age with 50% hearing loss and has experienced the grief of two miscarriages after the birth of her son.   Elizabeth has found music and sound frequencies incredibly healing emotionally, physically and spiritually. She calls music the "language of consciousness". Music, sound, thoughts and emotion are processed in the same part of our brain - by using music and sound frequencies we can help relieve the flight/fight/freeze response of trauma. This is incredible! Elizabeth's clients come to her to significantly reduce the suffering and emotional discomfort of stress, trauma, illness and fatigue through the use of Sound Medicine. Her private practice incorporates a non-medical vibroacustic sound therapy bed (aka sound bed) to provide cellular stimulation through vibration to the cells of the mind and body. This therapy delivers frequencies in a passive and non-invasive process that activates the brain and central nervous system with the specific intent of balancing, optimizing and harmonizing cells of the body and brain into a balanced state. Elizabeth suggests that anyone going through a challenging emotional time in their lives make a "conscious intent to heal playlist" to uplift their mood for at least 20 minutes a day to give your brain a break from the symptoms and rumination of grief, stress and trauma.   You can email Elizabeth Krasnoff at elizabeth@iroomstudios.com to find out more about her work and upcoming conference presentations. Please subscribe and leave a review on iTunes and Google Play if you enjoyed this episode and please tell a friend who could use more information on healing modalities. In gratitude, Dr. Ivy

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 effort. She also shares her personal story using meditation to help her cope with the devastating experience of having 8 miscarriages before her youngest daughter was born. She is an invaluable resource for women undergoing Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) and helping to improve egg quality and implantation results. Currently, she has several clients over the age of 45 using their own eggs for IVF! Amy works closely with clients 1:1, holds public meditation classes at Unplug Meditation in Los Angeles and provides guided meditations in a corporate environment and personalized recorded meditations for small groups.   Connect The Mind is located in Pacific Palisades, California. She is offering a free guided meditation to anyone who emails her at connectthemind@gmail.com. You can find out more about Amy's work on her website and on IG: @connectthemind. Please subscribe to this podcast and leave a review on iTunes and Google Play - in gratitude, Dr. Ivy