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 ...
May 03, 2019•51 min•Ep. 13
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, Calif...
Apr 26, 2019•45 min•Ep. 12
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 ...
Apr 19, 2019•50 min•Ep. 11
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 miscarriag...
Apr 12, 2019•45 min•Ep. 10
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 help...
Apr 05, 2019•42 min•Ep. 9
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. Additional...
Mar 29, 2019•36 min•Ep. 8
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...
Mar 22, 2019•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 7
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 Motherho...
Mar 15, 2019•42 min•Ep. 6
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 thou...
Mar 08, 2019•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 5
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 succe...
Feb 24, 2019•40 min•Ep. 4
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 He...
Feb 10, 2019•50 min•Ep. 3
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 h...
Jan 28, 2019•45 min•Ep. 2
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. ...
Jan 28, 2019•44 min•Ep. 1
