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.
Release Date: 04/18/2024
Episode 162 - My hot take on Unexplained Infertility (It’s not what you think)
Fertile Ground: A mind-body approach to getting pregnant - without it taking over your life.
I’ve noticed more and more people online saying “there’s no such thing as unexplained infertility.” That if you just test enough, fix enough, try enough… you’ll find the root cause. And although that may sound comforting to some — I respectfully and fully — disagree. All those years I was TTC, I do not believe my body was missing something that I could have found in a test. I believe I was being asked to trust something deeper. To stop playing the martyr. To stop micromanaging every second of my life in the name of “doing...
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Episode 161 - The moment she realized it wasn’t “just her” who wanted this baby…
Fertile Ground: A mind-body approach to getting pregnant - without it taking over your life.
I have to tell you about one of the most powerful full-circle moments I’ve ever witnessed in my coaching career — and now you get to witness it too. In the latest coaching call of the Fertility Mind-Body Mastery, something magical happened. One of my longtime clients — who just completed her third (!!) round of FMBM — shows up to her very last call… with her newborn baby in her arms Baby Daniel. (Yes — partly named after a good man. My husband Dan, actually ) But that’s not even the most touching part. She opens up about a powerful force she felt all throughout trying to...
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Episode 160 - When actually getting pregnant feels scary. (Even when you really want the baby)
Fertile Ground: A mind-body approach to getting pregnant - without it taking over your life.
Let’s cut the fertility fluff. You say you want the baby. And I 100% believe you. But the real question is: Does your nervous system—the bodyguard of what gets let in—believe it’s actually safe to receive this? This week’s episode is not for the surface-level manifesting girlies. This is for the woman who’s done so damn much and still feels like she’s stuck in fertility purgatory. Because here’s what no one tells you: Sometimes, it’s not the heartbreak you’re scared of anymore. It’s the vulnerability of letting yourself have it. This episode will hit if: You...
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Episode 159 - Honoring Pregnancy Loss
Fertile Ground: A mind-body approach to getting pregnant - without it taking over your life.
If you’re not in the space to hear about pregnancy loss, please take care of yourself and skip this one. But if you’ve been through it—or are in it right now—this is for you. My intention is to honor you. To walk beside you. To name the sacredness of this experience in a world that often doesn’t know how. In this episode, I share my own story: a pregnancy loss I had this past December. I’ve had two healthy boys, and three miscarriages—each one a portal that cracked me open. This most recent one, especially. Not from fear, but from surrender. Pregnancy loss brings you into...
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Episode 158 - Entering your season of restoration and receiving
Fertile Ground: A mind-body approach to getting pregnant - without it taking over your life.
This week’s episode is for the woman who has been through a lot lately. Has life asked you to carry more than most in the past season of your life? You’ve been the strong one. The responsible one. The one with deep resilience. You still show up — even when your heart feels shattered. Even when no one notices how much you’re really holding. And maybe you’re starting to wonder… What happens if I stop holding it all? What happens if I don’t keep over-giving, over-doing, over-functioning? That’s exactly what we’re talking about on the podcast this week: Entering Your...
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Episode 157 - How mind-body work makes IVF 1000x better
Fertile Ground: A mind-body approach to getting pregnant - without it taking over your life.
Out of 156 podcast episodes, I’ve never done one on IVF—which is honestly kind of wild. And if I’m being really honest with you… I think it’s because I’ve been so careful with this topic. I know how deeply emotional IVF is, and I never want to add to anyone’s pain. But this year, I made a promise to myself: to speak my truth fully. Because when I hold back out of fear, I also hold back from the women who need to hear this message. Here’s the truth: IVF isn’t just a medical process—it’s a deeply emotional one. And yet, so much of the focus is on...
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Episode 156 - You can hold space for your future baby, and still hold space for yourself
Fertile Ground: A mind-body approach to getting pregnant - without it taking over your life.
This weekend, something happened with my sweet 17-year-old Yorkie-Poo, Abby, that really hit me hard and made me reflect on how we all react to uncertainty. As we got ready for our Sunday family walk, Abby did something she’s never done before — she sat there, refusing to move. For the first time in her life, she didn’t want to go for a walk. I panicked: Shit. My girl is really slowing down. What does this mean about the future? In that moment, I was flooded with fear—not just about her future, but about my own. The uncertainty of what was happening to her made me feel unsafe. I...
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Episode 155 - Breaking free from a transactional relationship with your body
Fertile Ground: A mind-body approach to getting pregnant - without it taking over your life.
I want to ask you a hard question: How’s your relationship with your body right now? No, really. How are you actually treating it? In today’s episode of the Fertile Ground podcast, I’m breaking down something that’s been on my mind for a while: how women have been conditioned to have a transactional relationship with their bodies. We’ve ALL been taught that our bodies are like machines. That they’re here to serve us. That they somehow OWE us. To perform when we tell them to. To fit into these narrow boxes of what “healthy” and “acceptable” look like. And...
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Episode 154 - From Type-A to Ommm: How yoga can set you FREE with Jen Edmonds
Fertile Ground: A mind-body approach to getting pregnant - without it taking over your life.
I know what you’re thinking. Yoga? For fertility? How the hell is lying on a mat and breathing supposed to help when you get pregnant when you're not even breaking a sweat? When every part of you feels like you need to be doing more, trying harder, pushing through? That’s exactly why I invited Jennifer Edmunds onto the Fertile Ground Podcast—to flip the script on what the 5000 year old 🤯 practice of yoga is really about. (dude that’s SO old!) When Jen was TTC, she used yoga – not as a means to an end – but as a way to slow down...
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Episode 153 - The Manifestation Mirror – Why it feels like the Universe is giving you crickets
Fertile Ground: A mind-body approach to getting pregnant - without it taking over your life.
Does it feel like the Universe is giving you the silent treatment? You’re doing sooo much and yet – you’re hearing crickets… WTF…am I right? It just doesn’t feel like there’s any proof that things are working I remember the grief that came with every cycle and the belief that if I just did more—restricted myself more, stayed home more, or moved to a fucking forest— then I’d have more control. In this week’s podcast, I’m challenging that belief. What if those "crickets" aren't really crickets? What if they’re a reflection—a mirror from the...
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