Cycle Tracking For Fertility and Health with Haley Smith
Release Date: 10/09/2024
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In this episode, Erin Skinner welcomes Haley Smith, a Certified Fertility Awareness Practitioner and the founder of Innate Rhythm and the Fertility Freedom Podcast. Haley's mission is clear: to empower women overlooked by the traditional healthcare system with body literacy, self-trust, and fertility awareness. Together, they discuss how women can optimize fertility through nourishment, mindfulness, and lifestyle adjustments. Haley explains how adding nutrient-dense foods, improving sleep, and managing stress can create the right environment for conception. She also shares her personal experience of how emotional and physical stress impacted her menstrual cycle and fertility. Erin and Haley dive deep into the connection between safety signals to the body and successful conception, emphasizing that fertility is about more than just biology—it's about creating space in your life for new possibilities.
Episode Highlights
- Mindful Eating for Fertility: Haley advocates for adding quality high proteins and whole foods to support fertility, rather than cutting things out. It's about sending safety signals to the body through nourishment.
- Body’s Safety Signals & Fertility: Stress, over-exercising, and emotional turmoil can signal to the body that it’s not safe to conceive. Haley shares how her own stressful breakup and calorie deficit caused her to stop ovulating for nine months.
- Fertility Awareness & Tracking: Haley highlights the importance of tracking your cycle and temperature to understand when you’re ovulating. She explains that even if you're bleeding, you may not be ovulating—something only tracking can reveal.
- Foundations of Fertility: Before diving into supplements or other interventions, it's essential to focus on the foundations of sleep, stress management, exercise, and nutrition. Haley emphasizes starting with small changes like getting sunlight in the morning and increasing protein intake.
- Tailored Health Protocols: Haley explains her approach to working with clients, which starts with gathering data through cycle charting, lab work, and health intake forms. This helps her create personalized health protocols, with a commitment to at least four months of focused change.
Resources Mentioned
- Haley’s Practice: Innate Rhythm.
- Check out a 'Free Discovery Call'
- Group Program: Fertility Freedom, launching later this year.
- Haley's Instagram: @fertilityfreedom.ir
- Haley's Podcast: Fertility Freedom Podcast
- Tests mentioned: The Dutch Test for sex and adrenal hormone metabolites.
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