Episode 150 - Interview with Eva: Imperfect and still…got pregnant
Fertile Ground: A mind-body approach to getting pregnant - without it taking over your life.
Release Date: 12/10/2024
Fertile Ground: A mind-body approach to getting pregnant - without it taking over your life.
Okay so this isn’t one of those “just checking in 😇” message. It’s the last day to join FMBM. Like, ever. No reopening. No “maybe later.” It’s *closing time* 🎶 And I wanted to send something that actually felt like me. Which is why I’m ending the HELD IN HER STORIES series with a story from a lovely FMBM graduate, Dana. Dana talks about how, very quickly into TTC, the pressure took over. How age narratives, fear, and scarcity turned something so special into an emergency. She joined FMBM because even more than wanting a baby, she wanted herself back. ⭐️How...
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If you’ve ever hit that one-year mark and thought, “Okay. That’s it. Something’s wrong with me…” this episode is going to land in all the cells of your body. In today’s Held in Her Stories episode, I sit down with Chelsea — one of the incredible women inside Fertility Mind-Body Mastery — and she lets you into the real behind-the-scenes of her journey: Not the polished Instagram version. The crying to a friend because it’s been a year version. The buying every book, every supplement, every device version. The “I’ll try anything that worked for someone else” version....
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If you’ve ever thought… ⭐️“I should be further along by now.” ⭐️“Once I finally get pregnant, then I’ll feel okay.” ⭐️“If I don’t control this, it won’t happen…” …then this week’s Fertile Ground episode is for you. It’s part of my Held in Her Stories series — real women, real fertility journeys — and this one with my client Macey is… a lot. In the best, most honest way. Macey got pregnant the very first month she tried. Then she miscarried two months later. She was still bleeding from her loss when her best friends announced their pregnancy —...
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If we’re honest… for a lot of us, TTC quietly turns our partner into a project. Did you take your vitamins? Don’t get in the hot tub. Drink more water. Not that beer. Let me just manage literally everything so this can finally work. On top of tracking, appointments, and Google spirals… you end up carrying the mental load for you, your body, and your partner. And suddenly, the person you fell in love with feels more like… a fertility coworker you’re constantly correcting. 😬 Today’s podcast is medicine for that part of the journey. 🎧 New episode: Held in His & Her Stories...
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Ahhh – you don’t want to miss this one! The 2nd episode in our HELD IN HER STORIES series is for the woman who’s smart (Like, scientist smart), resourced, doing all the things… and still feeling anxious underneath it all. Today I’m talking to a member of FMBM with a PhD who came into fertility like it was a science experiment — 5 rounds of IVF, deep in the research, treating her body like a problem to solve. And then she walked through IVF and miscarriage… and had to learn how to trust her body again after loss. This convo is raw and so, so validating. We get into: That belief:...
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I’m thrilled to share something brand spankin’ new with you — a special Fertile Ground podcast series called HELD IN HER STORIES. These are real conversations with women inside my program, Fertility Mind-Body Mastery, who are rewriting and rewiring what it means to trust life, their bodies, and themselves. Each story is a living example of what happens when we stop trying to “get it right” and start letting ourselves be held — by the messiness of our emotions, the safety of community, and the unseen forces conspiring in our favor. In today’s chat – I sat down with Amber, a...
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Let’s talk about a belief that’s quietly running the show for so many brilliant, high-achieving women trying to conceive: ✨ “If I get support… if I make this easier… then I won’t be/feel worthy of my baby.” I believed that for years. But it’s a bullshit lie — and it’s one that’s keeping way too many brilliant, sensitive women stuck in cycles of shame, burnout, and isolation. In this week’s episode, we’re naming it all. The stigma. The pressure. The perfectionism. And we’re diving into the shocking research that reveals just how...
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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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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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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...
info_outlinePerfection is a big f*cking fat lie.
I know. It’s tough. Every day, that little voice in your head whispers: “If you just do everything right, you’ll avoid pain and only feel immense pleasure.” And this belief is holding you hostage. (Just like it did to me, for years while TTC.)
This BELIEF is making your journey feel like an uphill battle – and no matter how hard you push for “perfection,” your dreams of pregnancy will always seem just out of reach.
I’m calling out the myth that has you stuck, confused and blaming yourself,, and I’m bringing in someone who cracked the perfectionist code.
Meet Eva – the woman who thought a perfect career, house, body, and even a “perfect” baby would bring her peace. For years, she ignored her nervous system’s signals, pushing for that impossible perfection.
And what did she get in return? Exhaustion. Shame. And a constant feeling of "not enough."
But then Eva joined my program, Fertility Mind-Body Mastery
(link here Vanessa), and everything (slowly) shifted.
Here’s what she learned:
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You are not broken. (Like, actually.) She realized while being a part of the FMBM community and hearing other women’s coaching, that your thoughts and struggles are normal and not a sign of something wrong with you. It's just cultural conditioning trying to sell you a lie.
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Pain is not the enemy. It’s part of life. Stop trying to avoid it – feel it, process it, and watch it pass way faster.
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You are allowed to rest. It’s not about pushing harder, it’s about listening to your body and honoring what it truly needs.
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Perfection is overrated. You’ll never be perfect. But you are already worthy of everything you want – right now.
Eva now knows how to show up for herself – even when things feel messy. (She gives plenty of examples of this in the podcast) And guess what? She got pregnant with a baby girl inside the program 
If you’re utterly exhausted striving for the unattainable and ready to finally let go of the pressure to be perfect, it’s time to get on board.
Listen to this week’s podcast now: Imperfect and Still… Got Pregnant, and hear Eva’s in depth, super vulnerable full story.
Then, make 2025 the year you stop trying to “do it all right” and start embracing the messy, powerful, beautiful woman you already are. Join Fertility Mind-Body Mastery today.
You don’t need perfection. You need you.