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30. NICU and Healing Trauma with Mara Tesler Stein, Psy.D., PMH-C

Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing Paths

Release Date: 10/11/2019

43. Jessica Headey Gandolfi - Harmonyum Healing show art 43. Jessica Headey Gandolfi - Harmonyum Healing

Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing Paths

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...

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42. Rhowena Adolfo Patel of Healing Mama Co. show art 42. Rhowena Adolfo Patel of Healing Mama Co.

Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing Paths

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 and Healing Mama Co. are on a movement to raise the standard of care for birthing people and partners during childbirth and postpartum. Check out www.healingmamaco.com for more information.

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41. Maternal Mental Health NOW Task Force Executive Director, Kelly O'Connor Kay show art 41. Maternal Mental Health NOW Task Force Executive Director, Kelly O'Connor Kay

Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing Paths

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 depression and anxiety during pregnancy and after pregnancy. Including postpartum psychosis.

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40. Sound Medicine with Elizabeth W. Krasnoff, Ph.D.(c), MIM show art 40. Sound Medicine with Elizabeth W. Krasnoff, Ph.D.(c), MIM

Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing Paths

On Episode 40 I am welcoming back Elizabeth Krasnoff. 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.

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39. The Placenta and What It Tells Us with Harvey Kliman, M.D., Ph.D. show art 39. The Placenta and What It Tells Us with Harvey Kliman, M.D., Ph.D.

Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing Paths

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.

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38. Men's Paternal Mental Health with Dr.Dan B. Singley show art 38. Men's Paternal Mental Health with Dr.Dan B. Singley

Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing Paths

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.

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37. Heart Disease and Pregnancy with Amanda Daniels show art 37. Heart Disease and Pregnancy with Amanda Daniels

Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing Paths

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. 

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36. Babies Are Cosmic Author Elizabeth Carman, Ph.D. show art 36. Babies Are Cosmic Author Elizabeth Carman, Ph.D.

Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing Paths

My guest is Elizabeth Carman, Ph.D. 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. Thousands of children also reported memories of their journey from the spiritual world to conception, life in the womb, and birth itself. These stories will draw you into a new world of wonder about consciousness before birth.

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35. Spiritual Fertility with Dr. Julie Von show art 35. Spiritual Fertility with Dr. Julie Von

Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing Paths

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 (which is also the name of her book), expresses her unique capacity and experience within both reproductive medicine and medical intuition. Dr. Julie’s work has been called evocative, eloquent, mystical, and practical. Manhattan Magazine called Julie the “baby whisperer".

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34. Pregnancy After Loss with Lindsey Henke show art 34. Pregnancy After Loss with Lindsey Henke

Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing Paths

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.

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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: [email protected]

Phone: 773-338-2980