The Psychology of Infertility & Miscarriage w/ Dr. Molly Burrets
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Going through infertility is one of the hardest, most poignant stressors a marriage can face.
This is the Pursuit of Wellness podcast, and I'm your host, Mari Llewellyn. Hi guys, welcome back to the Pursuit of Wellness podcast. Today we have a guest that I am so excited about, Dr. Molly Burrits. She is a licensed clinical psychologist with over 16 years of experience in psychotherapy, research and teaching. She is a professor at USC, has an amazing career, and she also went through IVF herself. She experienced pregnancy loss and secondary infertility, and her practice focuses on reproductive mental health. I do just want to give a trigger warning. We will be discussing topics like infertility, miscarriage, loss. And if you're not ready to hear about those topics, I would recommend clicking out, listening to a different episode.
As you guys know, I went through my own infertility and IVF journey and connecting with Molly was really, really important and special to me. I saw a clip of Molly speaking about how to discuss this topic with friends who were going through loss or infertility and just how eloquent she was speaking about this topic really spoke to me. She actually helped me when I was personally going through my hcg issues at the beginning of my pregnancy when i thought that i would lose my pregnancy so she was there for me personally and i just know how smart and empathetic she is i know this conversation will be hopefully so impactful for so many of you i really hope you guys enjoy and find some value from this and let's talk to dr molly burrits dr molly burrits welcome to the show thank you thank you so much for having me
I am over the moon to have you here. I have been a big fan of yours. Same. You were at my house last night and I think I told you I'm your biggest fan because I saw this clip of yours when I was in the trenches with IVF and you were talking about... infertility and basically how to discuss it with friends and how to basically just like handle that topic and you were so eloquent and I sent it to so many people that I know and ever since then I'm like I just love this woman she gets it obviously you're a clinical psychologist which is incredible I mean Congrats. You have a huge career.
Thank you.
But you've also been through infertility, IVF, so many things. I know you talk about relationships and a lot of different topics. I think today we're really going to focus on reproductive grief, loss. So trigger warning for anyone who's maybe not ready to hear those topics. But it is such a big part of my life and it has been on the show for the last... Thank you so much for having me.
Boy, you know, my story is a long one. So I'll kind of select the highlights. I was working, so I specialize in my practice in two types of issues. I specialize in couples and I specialize in women's reproductive health and the mental health challenges that come along with that. And I was doing that before I ever experienced any issues with infertility myself. And And it's just really pretty shocking how my life sort of transformed to meet my work where I needed to meet it. And now how I work with women experiencing infertility and going through IVF and other assisted reproductive technologies is so different because I know what they're going through. I've experienced it. But I had my first child on the late side.
I had him right before my 40th birthday. And it was easy. And it was very little effort. And I know that experience. And I'm grateful to have known that experience. I didn't know at the time how lucky I was and how fortunate I was. And I kind of just assumed, oh, like I beat the odds. Like I'm just one of those people that can have kids late in life. And I didn't really worry too much about having a second kid. And, you know, maybe 18, 20 months later after my son was born, we tried again and I got pregnant again right away. And again, I told myself, wow, I've hit the jackpot. I'm just one of these lucky people. But that pregnancy ended in a miscarriage.
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