Meet BIGLOVEFIERCEJUJU - an OB/GYN with her own cancer story

You Are Not Broken

Kelly Casperson, MD

Medicine, Health & Fitness

5 • 743 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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PART 1 - Today I am so excited to chat with BIGLOVEFIERCEJUJU!!! Or in her day job Dr. Shieva Ghofrany. She is a medical doctor, who is an OB/GYN practicing in Connecticut. You can find her at biglovefiercejuju.com On IG at biglovefiercejuju -she as 23k followers! Through the BIG LOVE FIERCE JUJU Foundation, Dr. Shieva Ghofrany plans to help people engage in their mindset and "lose the fear" of VERY common, everyday, but admittedly anxiety-provoking issues. 01:19 – Origin of the name Big Love Fierce Juju 02:42 – Talking about Ovarian Cancer – her personal journey 06:!5 – Surgical Menopause – how is this different than “regular” menopause 08:39 – Managing Hot Flashes – natural non-hormonal options 12:35 – Vaginal Dryness 22:18 – Libido Check out her TRIBECALLEDV - www.instagram.com/tribecalledv Where she increases your knowledge about your female health to decrease your anxiety! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kj-casperson/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to You Are Not Broken, the only podcast that combines science, medicine, and psychology, to re-educate your brain and help you live your best-to-love life.
0:16.0	And I'm your host, Ford Certified Female Urologist, Dr. Casperson.
0:22.8	Ladies, ladies, today I'm so excited to chat with big love fierce juju.
0:27.3	Or in her day job, Dr. Shiva Grylwraini.
0:30.3	She's a medical doctor who is an obi-guine practicing in Connecticut.
0:34.1	Dr. Gofrani earned her bachelor's degree from Georgetown and went to medical school in Israel.
0:38.5	She wanted to complete her residency and obstetrics and gynaecology at Stanford Hospital in Connecticut.
0:43.8	Committed to the endless pursuit of knowledge, Dr. Gofroni completed training in integrative health and healing at the Graduate Institute in Bethany, Connecticut in 2016.
0:52.3	You can find her at big love fierce juju.com. On Instagram at
0:57.3	Big Love Fierce Juju, you have 23,000 followers, which is amazing. So through the Big Love Fierce
1:03.6	Juju Foundation, which she also started, she plans to help people engage in their mindset and
1:08.8	lose the fear of very common every day, but admittedly,
1:12.5	anxiety-provoking issues. Thank you so much for being with us. Thank you for having me. It's so
1:17.9	fun. I love this. So fun. So where did the name Big Love Fier's Ju-Ju come from? I know. It's so
1:23.3	funny. So I also had ovarian cancer four years ago. And on the heels of that, which taught me,
1:30.6	I mean, myriad items about my life, my body, about women's health and everything, really soon
1:36.3	after that, I was talking to another patient who I believe had had, was diagnosed with breast
1:39.9	cancer. And as we were texting back and forth and I was kind of signing off, I thought, I don't want to
1:45.3	say to her, I'm sorry, because whenever people said to me, I'm so sorry, it felt, like, I know that
1:50.3	they weren't pitying me, but it felt just, it felt vulnerable and more pity. So I wrote to her and I said,
1:55.9	I don't want to say I'm sorry, but I do feel terrible you're going through and I just want to send you my big love. And then for whatever reason, right away, I thought I need to give her more than that.
2:04.7	So I said, and fierce juju.
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