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Female Voices: Life and Loss
Female Voice: Life & Loss. Our podcast is dedicated to women from all walks of life, providing a supportive and encouraging platform that addresses the various challenges they face. We aim to offer compassionate guidance, share diverse stories, and equip listeners with practical advice and resources to help them grow, heal, and thrive through every stage of their journey.
Episodes
Female Voices: Life and Loss115: Feeling hopeless and isolated on the infertility journey with Desirae Whittle
As a step-mother to three healthy and wonderful teens, Desirae never thought she’d have trouble conceiving with her husband. However, over the course of two…
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114: A grief shared is a grief lesson with Theresa McRee
Theresa McRee is a Life Coach working with women that have experienced profound grief. She works with her clients to find their way to joy and part of that is…
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113: A dream family through using donor eggs with Meta Getman
Meta Getman and her husband Michael went through their own infertility challenges and after eight rounds of fertility treatments, achieved their dream of a…
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112: We rise by lifting up others in their loss with Dr. Sarah Meyer
Dr. Sarah Meyer shared on this episode about the of emotions she had after her fifth pregnancy ended in an early pregnancy loss. They ranged from being angry…
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111: Spreading Awareness of Infant and Pregnancy Loss with Teresa
October is National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month and in this episode I will share how you can be a part of breaking the silence around baby loss…
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110: Honoring Madelyn through Sharing Solace with Crystal Webster
When I ask Crystal Webster about the mission of Sharing Solace she shared. Sharing Solace helps grievers grieve and lovers love their griever through…
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109: Helping Women Become Loving Self-Advocates with Angie Monko
Helping Women Become Loving Self-Advocates with Angie Monko Angie Monko is the owner of Harmony Harbor Coaching since 2008 and a Holistic Women’s Divorce &…
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108: Perspective changed with Madelyn's life limiting diagnosis with Crystal Webster
Crystal Webster is the (co)founder of Sharing Solace, author of ‘Confessions of a Griever’, creator of the ‘Feel Your &*@#% Feels’ Experience, speaker, mentor…
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107: Infertility has added a new part to me with Amanda McMullen
Amanda McMullen is a teacher, artist, and singer living in Charlotte, North Carolina. Before getting pregnant with her sweet miracle IVF baby, she experienced…
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106: National Grief Awareness Day with Teresa
This episode really fired me up after I recorded it. Spreading awareness about infertility, baby loss and the deep grief associated with these losses is my…
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105: Being a mom is my greatest joy, with Kathy Hoelscher
Kathy Hoelscher is an elected official as a Highway Commissioner for a Township. She is a wife, and her greatest joy is being a mom or mama as her daughter…
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104: It took decades to deal with the grief from pregnancy loss with Jackie Duty
Jackie Duty shared that it was not her ambition to be a mother. She wanted a career and the glory of fame, one of the rich and famous. When she unexpectedly…
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103: Holistic approach to finding answers for infertility and loss with Dr. Lindsey Langendorf
Dr. Lindsey Langendorf is a chiropractor in the St. Louis area that specializes in Holistic fertility, prenatal, perinatal and postpartum care and pediatrics…
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102: The Stork Foundation for Infertility with Beth Frattura
Beth Frattura is founder of The Stork Foundation and it was founded due to her infertility journey. It is an organization that gives hope and opportunity to…
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101: EFT, Shifting into the real healing with Theresa Lear Levine
Theresa Lear Levine struggles as a successful mompreneur with trauma, ADHD and high functioning anxiety escalated into chaos, stuckness and self doubt and led…
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100: Learnings and unexpected blessings with Teresa Reiniger
On this episode I shared some of the things I have learned from my guest over the past 99 episodes. There have been so many things that were not expected when…
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99: Catherine Cares was where we channeled our grief with Lauren Turley
Lauren Turley said her, and her husband felt compelled to do something shortly after Catherine's life limiting diagnosis. She said when you are a bereaved…
Female Voices: Life and Loss98: The hardest and most painful time was leaving the hospital with empty arms with Lauren Turley
In this episode Lauren Turley shares her story about her daughter Catherine who is in heaven. At times she became very emotional remembering the hardest parts…
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97: Feeling grief when asked if I have children with Anita Doermann
Anita Doermann said it was like a stab to the heart when people asked if I had children. She shared about never having any biological children and suffering in…
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96: Podcast year 2 celebrated and looking to help more in year 3 with Coach Teresa
I am so very excited to have achieved the milestone of 2 years. Being the host of Labor Pains Podcast has been both a humbling and educational experience this…
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95: Navigating infertility and grief to find peace with Allison Hursey
This episode is a re-release of episode 53. In this episode Allison Hursey shared the journey that she and her husband Chris have been navigating through to…
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94: All the things to spread awareness and honor my baby with Chandria Taylor
Chandria Taylor's therapist encouraged her to start journaling after she lost her daughter, Adelyn Rose. She loved to write and said I didn't know I had so…
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93: Advanced Maternal Age and a missed miscarriage with Charie Motley
Charie Motley is a mother, licensed clinical psychologist, and certified perinatal mental health professional who has experienced pregnancy loss, and…
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92: Why did God take our baby, I was a good mom, Cheryl Layton
Cheryl Layton lost her son 31 years ago just days after his birth. She talks about all the What If's? Should I have done more? Did I do something wrong? Like…
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91: Death of a child in the womb or at any age causes traumatic grief with Coach Teresa.
Traumatic Bereavement is suffered with infertility, pregnancy, infant loss and child loss. Parents are not supposed to bury their children. One of the most…
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90: My daughter was born sleeping at 32 weeks with Chandria Taylor
Chandria Taylor is a teacher, an author, singer and dancer. She is the mother of four beautiful girls named Rylen, Jacelyn, Adelyn and Eden. Her daughter…
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89: How to honor your motherhood as a bereaved mom on Mothers Day with Candance & Ann-Marie
As we approach Mother's Day Candace Kluba and Ann-Maire Ferry joined me to share some great insight to help you navigate the upcoming holiday. Ways to…
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88: Tony Mazzaferro sharing as a male, their infertility journey.
Tony Mazzaferro is a soon to be OB/GYN and part of the leadership of a non-profit called The Stork Foundation. With all of his education in medicine he never…
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87: 10 plus years on the infertility journey with Roxy Jenkins
Roxy Jenkins is one of the strongest women I have met on the infertility journey. Due to her journey that has been over 10 years, she has a wealth of knowledge…
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86: Grieving an ectopic loss while being isolated during Covid with Morgan Newby
Morgan Newby shared seeing a negative pregnancy test for many months until one night she dreamt she was pregnant. She remembers seeing the positive pregnancy…
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85: Life limiting diagnosis & continuing to carry our baby, with Nick & Sabrina Kohlberg
Nick and Sabrina Kohlberg were told at their 20-week anatomy scan that their daughter Collins had anencephaly. This condition is not compatible with life. They…
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84: It takes a very special woman to be a Surrogate, with Shannon Curry
Shannon Curry with ConceiveAbilities shared with me the processes and procedures for those very special women that are considering becoming a surrogate. This…
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83: Chose Surrogacy to Grow Our Family with Shannon Curry
Shannon Curry shares with us her journey to grow her family after being diagnosed with a rare eye condition during her first pregnancy. She remembers feeling…
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82: Am I grieving the right way with Coach Teresa
Grief Coach Teresa shared on this episode receiving devastating news, why she continues to listen, comfort and now coach those that are receiving this news. In…
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81: 7 years of biopsies, hormones, and birth control with Amanda Tooley
Amanda Tooley is very passionate about sharing her own story of PCOS that she describes as hell. During her teen pregnancy she went to the hospital for…
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80: Infertility Doesn't Define You with Rebecca Rudolph
Rebecca Rudolph knew she would have infertility struggles even before she was married due to irregular periods and a PCOS diagnosis. With also having type 1…
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79: Losing Gracie and delayed grief with Lisa Colon
(Part 2 of 2) Lisa Colon shared in last week's episode her high risk first pregnancy and the loss of her daughter Gracie at 5 1/2 months. In this episode she…
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78: No heartbeat and I thought my husband would be mad with Lisa Colon (part 1 of 2)
This is part 1 of a 2-part interview with Lisa Colon. Lisa shared about her first pregnancy which was very unique in the fact that she had a 2-vessel cord…
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77: Giving People Permission to Grieve with Coach Teresa
Grief Coach Teresa Reiniger shared about how and why clients struggle with grief. Everyone's grief is different, and I want to give people a better…
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76 Grief and Trauma Pulled Us Apart with Candace Kluba
This is previously released episode #19. In this episode Candace talked about the grief and trauma she and her husband endured during their two losses and then…
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75: Faith was a Struggle Through Infertility with Dawn Amsden Stark
Dawn Amsden Stark is an inspirational author, public speaker, and passionate advocate. Dawn’s 23-year infertility journey which included seven IVFs, two…
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74: Female and Male Infertility Issues with Jill Berkbuegler-Lembke
Jill said that she knew intuitively from a very young age that she would have to adopt or would have trouble having her own children and she was correct. She…
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73: Continuing the Mission of Awareness of Infertility and Loss in 2022
Teresa reflects on 2021 and is looking forward to 2022 with all of you. Every guest, no matter where they live in the world have the same passion and desire to…
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72: Unexplained Secondary Infertility with Recurrent Pregnancy Loss, with Kaci Howard
Kaci always wanted 2 or 3 children, after having no trouble getting pregnant and having her daughter, it had never entered her mind that she would have such a…
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71: Clomid, IUI's, IVF's, 1 Positive Pregnancy Test, to Adoption with Melissa Brenner
Melissa Brenner said I thought my friends and I would raise our babies together. All of them were having babies so the question I asked the doctor was. "What…
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70: Grief from miscarriages and then navigating a pregnancy after, with Rachel Helden
Rachel Helden didn't picture herself as a mom because as a teenager she was told she had PCOS and endometriosis, so she kind of ruled out having children since…
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69: Navigating Grief during the Holidays with Teresa Reiniger
Suggestions for the Holiday Season to navigate your feelings of Grief: * Be Compassionate with Yourself: During the holidays our schedules change. Schedule…
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68: Sharing the trauma deduces the intensity with Heather Midgley
Heather Midgley is a mental health specialist, she recognized that there was a gap in supporting women when they were experiencing difficulty with conception…
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67: Grieving my stillborn daughter was a sacred experience with Kristen Rademacher
Kristen Rademacher delivered her stillborn daughter at 41 weeks. Her recently published debut memoir is an intimate exploration of the unique grief she faced…
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66: Terminating a pregnancy of a very loved and wanted baby with Dr. Erica Rozmid
Dr. Erica Rozmid is a Clinical Psychologist specializing in evidenced based treatment, including CBT and DBT. After her own heartbreaking story of learning…
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65: Faith and Fertility with Coach Geri
Womb Prep was founded by Geri Alicea in January 2016. Being on a Journey to Motherhood herself, Geri knew firsthand what it was like to feel completely alone…
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64: Elizabeth Amoaa is a Voice for the Voiceless
Elizabeth remembers having symptoms at a very early age that were dismissed by medical professionals. Her symptoms just continued to get worse as she got…
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63: Giving a silver lining through photography with Jessica
Jessica volunteers for an organization called On Angels Wings. Their mission is to seek to improve the mental health and wellness of families with medically…
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62: Return to Zero: H.O.P.E. with Kiley Hanish
Kiley Hanish's husband, a filmmaker, decided to write a fictional script about their son Norbert who was stillborn to help with his healing of grief and to…
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61: Baby Loss Intensified: Advocate for yourself with Kiley Hanish
Kiley Hanish planned to have a home birth but after not feeling well at 35 weeks and having some bleeding she went to the doctors office to be checked. She was…
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60: Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness with Teresa
Breaking the silence and spreading awareness. It is October and it is pregnancy and infant loss awareness month. The moment a woman knows that she is pregnant…
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59 Advocate for your own health with Liane Moccia
Liane Moccia is a Registered Clinical Herbalist who helps women and men take charge of their fertility, prepare for pregnancy, balance hormones, and manage…
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58 Talking Back To Trauma with Ann-Marie Ferry
Ann-Marie Ferry is a writer from the Midwest. She holds a BSN. Ann-Marie is wife of 10 years to Jon, the man she met online, and mother to their four children…
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57 Information on the Adoption Process with Dawn Waymire
Dawn Waymire shared a tremendous amount of information to help you navigate the adoption process, if that is what you have decided for your family or if you…
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56 The Infertility Journey and then Cancer with Adam Saltsgaver
Adam and his wife Erica struggled with infertility for fifteen months. Adam did not anticipate having to go through testing himself when they weren't getting…