Episode 108 - Kathy’s summer of finding herself (and getting pregnant at 44!)
Fertile Ground: A mind-body approach to getting pregnant - without it taking over your life.
Release Date: 06/27/2023
Episode 137 - 3 things that drive me crazy about the fertility industry
Fertile Ground: A mind-body approach to getting pregnant - without it taking over your life.
I got a little (a lot) spicy in this weeks podcast I’m unleashing a lot of pent up emotions I have about the fertility industry This week's podcast is called: 3 things that drive me crazy about the fertility industry. If you don’t yet know this already — with the exception of a handful of fertility experts — I loathe 90% of fertility advice out there. It DID NOT work for me. In fact, it made me feel farther away from the goal and it made me feel like I couldn’t trust myself. I don’t think most of the “tips and tricks” work for women who are: ...
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Episode 136 - Why the fertility journey isn’t just about “fertility”
Fertile Ground: A mind-body approach to getting pregnant - without it taking over your life.
It might be hard for you to believe this right now… but ➡️there will be a day when your fertility journey will be over ⬅️ One day in the future, this chapter of your life will be completed 📕 All your current questions will have answers ✅ You will know HOW you finally got pregnant. Hallelujah! 🙏🏽 You’ll know what astrological sign your baby is. Your pregnancy will have lined up with some celebrity's pregnancy. You’ll know what this infamous tiny human looks like. It will all make sense! My question for you RIGHT NOW on this journey, is the...
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Episode 135 - Can self-compassion heal inflammation in the body?
Fertile Ground: A mind-body approach to getting pregnant - without it taking over your life.
We all want to love ourselves. But have we ever thought to ask WHY? The truth is that “self-love” isn’t just about you being a good girl who should be nice to herself. There’s waaaayyyyyy more of an exciting benefit to self-love than that — which is why I recorded this weeks podcast on this particular topic that you’re NOT going to want to miss. It’s important for you to know the fertility-enhancing benefits of self-love so that you can feel encouraged and motivated to make the relationship you have with yourself, the most important one. ...
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Episode 134 - The spirit of your baby chooses YOU!
Fertile Ground: A mind-body approach to getting pregnant - without it taking over your life.
Chances are, there’s a totally untrue hierarchy between you and your baby that’s swirling around in your head. Here’s how the ego’s playing this mental story out: Your baby is HIGH up on the pedestal. Maybe even wearing a crown with jewels sipping on the most delicious nectar of milk. And you’re at the bottom, exhausted, trying to claw your way up with all the energy you have. You’re looking up hoping you can earn your worth to them by doing all the things (and doing them with precise perfection) to prove how bad you want it. And this my love… is...
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Episode 133 - How real life women TTC let go of their built up fertility shame
Fertile Ground: A mind-body approach to getting pregnant - without it taking over your life.
I used to think my shame was a reaaaallllly good protector of judgment. I used to think, “If I just listened to the orders of my shame – stayed small, pretended everything was fine, kept it all inside – then I wouldn’t have to face judgment.” Meaning, if I silenced my true thoughts and feelings, then no one would know how broken I am. But I was never broken, despite shame making me feel that way. And I never felt more loved then when I let go of my shame, opened my heart and let my authentic feelings be seen and heard. There is nothing more healing than this to the mind...
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Episode 132 - Guided Meditation: How to cultivate a feeling of enoughness.
Fertile Ground: A mind-body approach to getting pregnant - without it taking over your life.
Today’s new Fertile Ground podcast is a free gift for you! A free meditation: How to cultivate a feeling of enoughness. Listen if you want to feel enough and worthy of your baby, now. No more proving. Let’s embed this truth into all the cells of your body. You can listen to it here. I wanna ask a favor of you… If you appreciate the Fertile Ground podcast and how it’s helped you, it would be so helpful for you to leave a quick review on iTunes. The fertility industry is loud with noise on all the things you need to do to change, fix, and...
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Episode 131 - Your pain wants to heal you. Here’s how to let it.
Fertile Ground: A mind-body approach to getting pregnant - without it taking over your life.
Vulnerability share: I had a really hard few days last week. For the first time in what felt like forever, I had a lot bubble up inside of my body. At first, I resisted. I pouted. I complained. (Like any other human does at the feeling of deep feels.) But then… eventually… I surrendered. It got me thinking… My God… us human beings have this massive capability of feeling emotions inside of our bodies. To help guide us and process our life experiences. To literally help us become healthier. Admittedly, it’s very hard to feel it. It’s uncomfortable to be present with your...
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Episode 130 - How to handle setbacks and frustrations around time while TTC
Fertile Ground: A mind-body approach to getting pregnant - without it taking over your life.
Time is at the core of so much suffering when you’re TTC. So it only makes sense for me to devote an entire free podcast to it, to alleviate the panic it’s causing you. My view point: I’m probably the world’s most impatient person. When I want something, I want it now. I’m even annoyed at it needing to take a whole damn day for Amazon to send me my shit! But… I’ve learned to both accept and shift this aspect of myself. My fertility journey taught me exactly how to develop a new relationship with time. Questions for ya: ...
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Episode 129 - Confirmation Bias and how it can affect fertility
Fertile Ground: A mind-body approach to getting pregnant - without it taking over your life.
I watched the Super Bowl with my family a couple weekends ago and I noticed that the members of my family that were cheering for San Francisco (Not Taylor Swift’s BF’s team) had to go on and on about how much air time Taylor got and how she was annoyingly interacting with her friends. (HOW DARE SHE?!) Me, my mom and my husband were cheering for Kansas City. So we were loving watching her celebrate and enjoy herself. She was acting like a completely normal human being watching someone they love play an important football game. What the members of my family have is called a:...
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Episode 128 - Honoring your capacity on the fertility journey
Fertile Ground: A mind-body approach to getting pregnant - without it taking over your life.
Of course you have a HUGE, valid desire to get pregnant and have a beautiful, healthy baby. I would even guess that you had goals BEFORE your TTC journey and you will have goals AFTER it. (Believe it or not, this chapter of your life will not last forever. Phew!) Culturally, we talk a lot about desire. But we haven’t been taught to value our capacity to pursue our desires. Capacity is your body’s ability to experience and metabolize sensation. Depending on the day, your capacity to check things off the ‘optimal fertility list’ varies. There are environmental,...
info_outlineI just recorded a stellar podcast with my client Kathy. Kathy wanted to go into last summer of ‘22 with a strong intention to reconnect with herself. Because: She had just been through 3 FETs that didn’t take. She felt like a failure. And didn’t know why it didn’t work after she did everything “right”. She instinctively knew that she had to come back to herself. So she signed up for my program Fertility Mind-Body Mastery and she shares with you today, what she learned to: Stop deflecting her own needs, by trying to “fix” other people’s problems. Let go of the all shame she felt from having 3 failed transfers. How she felt ready to do IVF again. Get pregnant with a fresh embryo transfer at 43 years old! I know you’ll relate to so much of what she has to say. And that’s part of the healing… that’s a huge piece to letting go of the shame. Knowing you’re not the only one in the world feeling the way you feel and going through this confusing journey. So listen and feel inspired to Kathy’s incredible story to herSELF (and her baby girl!)