Dr. Ivy Love Margulies is a licensed clinical psychologist, who specializes in grief, loss and trauma. She primarily works with women (and their husbands or partners) struggling with (in)fertility, perinatal and postpartum adjustments, perinatal and postpartum mood and anxiety disorders, pregnancy releases and/or terminations for fetal anomaly diagnosis (or any reason), miscarriage, stillbirth, and infant loss.
Dr. Ivy has a unique way of blending psychology, ritual, mindfulness techniques and guided meditations to help guide and support women, couples and families through the grieving and trauma process.
In this episode Dr. Ivy shares her fascination with psychology as a result of her own journey following three very significant deaths in her life. After losing both her father, and best friend to suicide at the age of 15 and her husband 6 years later in a car crash, she details her own experience of PTSD, greif and trauma and her continued search for support through therapy. Her drive to understand family systems, child development and parenting further pushed her towards a career in psychology, away from fashion, making her a renowned clinical psychologist.
Other topics we chat about:
- Grief as an emotion that manifests at every loss, not just death of a loved one
- PTSD and vicarious trauma beyond the death of a loved one
- Energy, sound and vibration as a healing tool
- Benefits of working from a place of gratitude
- The gifts that come with loss and death
- Sleep hygiene
- The tense breath as a solution to panic attacks, anxiety and overwhelming situations
- The power of choice
- Responding, not reacting
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