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, init...
Dec 16, 2021•39 min•Ep. 43
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 i...
Apr 12, 2021•55 min•Ep. 42
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...
Aug 27, 2020•34 min•Ep. 41
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,...
Jul 29, 2020•58 min•Ep. 40
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 path...
Mar 23, 2020•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 39
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 w...
Mar 19, 2020•59 min•Ep. 38
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...
Jan 24, 2020•57 min•Ep. 37
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 an...
Jan 17, 2020•54 min•Ep. 36
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...
Dec 13, 2019•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 35
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....
Dec 06, 2019•50 min•Ep. 34
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 Medicin...
Nov 14, 2019•46 min•Ep. 33
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 regul...
Nov 01, 2019•41 min•Ep. 32
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 gro...
Oct 25, 2019•57 min•Ep. 31
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 car...
Oct 11, 2019•49 min•Ep. 30
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 , ...
Sep 20, 2019•39 min•Ep. 29
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 M...
Sep 06, 2019•43 min•Ep. 28
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 Universit...
Aug 30, 2019•52 min•Ep. 27
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 fi...
Aug 23, 2019•46 min•Ep. 26
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 th...
Aug 16, 2019•35 min•Ep. 25
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...
Aug 02, 2019•46 min•Ep. 24
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 Ang...
Jul 26, 2019•47 min•Ep. 23
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 ...
Jul 19, 2019•1 hr•Ep. 22
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 ...
Jul 12, 2019•49 min•Ep. 21
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 nev...
Jul 06, 2019•44 min•Ep. 20
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 coun...
Jun 14, 2019•51 min•Ep. 19
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...
Jun 08, 2019•45 min•Ep. 18
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 nat...
May 31, 2019•24 min•Ep. 17
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 level...
May 24, 2019•47 min•Ep. 16
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 k...
May 17, 2019•50 min•Ep. 15
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 exte...
May 10, 2019•56 min•Ep. 14
