Becoming Maternal

In this podcast, Emily Burgess, LMSW, CGP interviews Litsa Williams, MA, LCSW-C about  grief as it pertains to reproductive and perinatal loss. This episode is a must listen to if you are trying to understand your grief and make sense of the grief experience. 

Litsa Williams, MA, LCSW-C is the co-founder of the online grief community What’s Your Grief. She’s a grief therapist with 15 years of experience specializing in grief, with expertise in sudden and traumatic loss as well as ambiguous grief. Drawing on personal and professional experience with grief, WYG was built as a resource offering concrete, practical, creative, down-to-earth, and relatable support, founded on the values of psychoeducation and creative coping. It has grown to serve more than 5 million visitors each year. Litsa received her master's degree in Clinical Social Work from the University of Maryland School of Social Work, as well as a master’s degree in Philosophy from the University of Warwick (UK). She has been interviewed as a grief expert for the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, NPR, and New York Times. She co-authored the book What's Your Grief: Lists to Help You Through Any Loss.

Litsa's Contact:
https://whatsyourgrief.com
https://www.instagram.com/whatsyourgrief/

Tennessee Reproductive Therapy
www.tennesseereproductivetherapy.com
https://www.instagram.com/tennesseereproductivetherapy/

Arkansas Reproductive Therapy
www.arkansasreproductivetherapy.com
https://www.instagram.com/arkansasreproductivetherapy/

Sponsor:
www.navigatinginfertility.com
https://www.instagram.com/navigatinginfertilitytogether/

In this episode, Cathie Quillet, LMFT interviews Dr. Colleen Miller from Tennessee Fertility Institute. From the perspective of a Reproductive Endocrinologist, Dr. Miller explains the the diagnosis of infertility, how to being treatment with a fertility clinic and what a patient should expect from testing and treatments. 

Colleen M. Miller, M.D. earned her Bachelor of Science in Human Nutrition with a minor in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, as well as her medical degree, from The Ohio State University. While there, she help multiple peer-elected leadership positions and received an award for excellence in professionalism.

Dr. Miller completed her OB/GYN residency at Ascension St. Vincent Hospital in Indianapolis, Indiana, during which she published a book chapter on mentorship for academic scientists and physicians. She was also selected as an ACOG Gellhaus Advocacy Fellow; as such, she lobbied for maternal healthcare and obtained bipartisan support for the Preventing Maternal Deaths Act, signed into law in 2018.

She completed her fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at Mayo Clinic, where she authored multiple peer-reviewed publications, one of which was chosen as the topic of discussion at an ASRM global journal club. While at Mayo Clinic. Dr. Miller also earned a master’s degree in Biomedical Sciences in Reproductive Endocrinology.

Dr. Miller is passionate about patient advocacy and dedicated to providing patient-centered care. She believes in empowering her patients with the knowledge to achieve their own personal fertility and family building goals.

Tennessee Fertility Institute:
https://tnfertility.com
https://www.instagram.com/tennesseefertility/

Tennessee Reproductive Therapy
https://tennesseereproductivetherapy.com
https://www.instagram.com/tennesseereproductivetherapy/

Sponsor: Navigating Infertility
https://navigatinginfertility.com
https://www.instagram.com/navigatinginfertilitytogether/

In this episode we welcome you back into this space which I (Cathie) have been a part of with you for awhile. I took a much needed pause from many extras in life and am excited to be back in the podcast world!

While I introduce you to Thrive (In)Fertility, I invite you also into our new podcast: Becoming Maternal! I was a one woman show before, interviewing some amazingly brilliant guests. Now, I share the platform and the microphone with our amazing staff at Tennessee Reproductive Therapy and Arkansas Reproductive Therapy. 

Our topics will still include infertility; however, Becoming Maternal will step into the other life seasons that Tennessee Reproductive Therapy and Arkansas Reproductive Therapy support. These topics include infertility, pregnancy loss, pregnancy, postpartum and adoption.

Please subscribe and share. We're excited to embark on this with you!

Meet my friend Courtney! After eight years of infertility and countless surgeries, diagnoses and interventions, she and her husband chose to get their life back. Without ever having a pregnancy, they made the difficult decision to live childless not by choice. I knew her story and was inspired by how she told her story. You will be too!

If you want to find the community she talked about, you can do so here

You can find Tennessee Reproductive Therapy, here

Have a great week!

Join Cathie Quillet, LMFT and she discussed the emotions you might experience between two Beta Draws and equips you with tools for how to wait well between them.

For Tennessee Reproductive Therapy's Bringing Home Baby class, click here

Have a great week, ya'll!

Kyla Saphir is a mother, yoga instructor, early childhood educator, and now the author of the new children’s book On Brighter Days. She lives in Columbia, South Carolina with her husband, daughter, and their dog, Nia.

The inspiration for the book, On Brighter Days, came from Kyla's personal experience with secondary infertility. Kyla is the youngest of five children and wanted her daughter to have siblings as well but was not able to make that happen. When she looked for books for her daughter to read about their experience, the bookshelves were empty.  Kyla is passionate about high quality children's literature and so she and her daughter decided to write their own book addressing these feelings for other parents and only children.

You can find her here: https://www.instagram.com/kyla_saphir_books/
Or: https://www.kylasaphirbooks.com

Thrive (In)Fertility community, meet Stephanie May Wilson!

Stephanie May Wilson is an author, a podcaster, a speaker, and the go-to guide for 20 & 30-something women as they navigate their most important relationships. Through her books, her courses, and her chart-topping podcast, “Girls Night,” Stephanie has mentored more than a million women as they cultivate healthy, thriving relationships with God, their friends, their significant others, and with themselves.

Stephanie’s writing has been featured on NBC, the Anthropologie blog, and Relevant Magazine, and she’s been a long-time blog contributor for CNBC’s Nightly Business Report, Darling Magazine, and the Christian Mingle blog.

When she’s not writing, speaking, or recording a podcast episode, you can find Stephanie packing for a global adventure with her husband Carl, laughing with her close tribe of girlfriends, or snuggled up in yoga pants in her Nashville home.

You can find her, her socials, her podcast and her shop here: https://stephaniemaywilson.com

www.tennesseereproductivetherapy.com

This week, Cathie discusses seven ways to stay balanced, honor your mental health and thrive during the two week wait! Thanks for joining us!

www.tennesseereproductivetherapy.com
IG/FB @tennesseereproductivetherapy

Dr. Lora Shahine is our guest in this weeks Thrive (In)Fertility Podcast.  Lora is a fertility doctor, author, and speaker who shatters stigmas about miscarriages and fertility. https://drlorashahine.com

She is a double board certified OBGYN and reproductive endocrinologist, practicing at Pacific Northwest Fertility in Seattle, Washington.

On this weeks episode, we discuss the elective parts of the IVF fertility. While a doctor may lay out the roadmap through IVF for you, there are a few detours that you can elect to take, through an ERA, PGT testing and the potential of multiple retrieval cycles. Lora explains what each procedure is and why (or why not) these procedures may be right for you! PLUS, you'll catch a big announcement from Lora at the end! And, you're hearing it here FIRST!

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lora-shahine-md-facog-baba0a16/?original_referer=https%3A%2F%2Fdrlorashahine.com%2F

https://www.instagram.com/drlorashahine/

You can check out our Bringing Home Baby class, here: https://www.tennesseereproductivetherapy.com/bringinghomebaby

Thanks for listening!