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We spend so many of our cycling years trying NOT to get pregnant - whether that's on hormonal contraception, non-hormonal IUD's, using barrier methods or with Fertility Awareness Method.

So, when we finally decide that we want to try to conceive, we just assume it will be easy -- particularly if we're younger, healthy and have no obvious conditions that would get in the way of pregnancy.

But more and more we're seeing fertility challenges. And unfortunately, it's something that many people feel embarrassment or shame around so it's not widely talked about (except in TTC communities).

I've talked to a friend and a client recently who are both currently TTC. One is 27, overall healthy and has an uncomplicated picture (but doesn't have much fertile cervical fluid and her cycles are longer than optimal). The other is 40 and has a current partner whose sperm count and motility is sub-optimal.

Everyone has a different story, and while there's no guarantee, there is so much that is possible to support optimizing fertility.

But where do you get good information to determine what actually works and what doesn't? How does stress actually impact fertility? What are the MOST important nutritional considerations to encourage egg and sperm health?

Liane Moccia, author of The Herbal Fertility Handbook, shares about all this and more on today's episode.

She experienced her own fertility journey while TTC which ended up in failed IVF cycles and eventually, after some nutritional and lifestyle tweaking, a successful cycle and her now 17 year old twin daughters!

And now she's written a book blending her embodied experience, years of fertility-focused clinical practice and current research to offer insights into what works and what doesn't to support fertility holistically.

Whether you're interested in getting pregnant someday, just curious about how to support your hormones overall or exploring assisted fertility, this conversation is perfect for you!

Resources:

• Today's shownotes: Get links to Liane's book and website
• Free - Start tracking your cycle with FAM guide
• Episode 35: A fertility story: from endo to pregnancy with Sarah Shapiro
• Episode 80: Cultivating receptivity
• Interested in Natural Contraception? Sign up for the Fall 2025 VIP list here

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We're all navigating so much right now. Collectively, relationally, personally.

This week's episode explores three different frames for understanding and tending your nervous system when it's stretched, strained, burnt out or plain dysregulated.

In addition to the collective unrest so many of us are feeling, this week I learned about the loss of John Gallagher (founder of Learning Herbs).

What has struck me most about the loss (aside from honoring his immense legacy in modern herbalism) was that he was struggling. With insomnia, anxiety, and depression.

And that the current political climate, including the potential for immense ecological loss, was part of what may have tipped his mental health struggles over the edge.

It's just so big, all of it. And so many of us are feeling it.

And whatever we're struggling with - collectively, relationally, personally - we're all navigating something right now.

I want to acknowledge that, rather than gloss over it, and offer some resources and tools that may perhaps be useful for you in these tumultuous times.

We all have to find our way, and we don't have to do it alone.

Which reminds me of Alexandra Blakely's song:

"you do not carry this all alone
no you do not carry this all alone
this is way too big for you
to carry this on your own
so, you do not carry this all alone"

It's not a song, or an herb, or a practice that will heal us. It's a collective practice that is ongoing.

But if you're interested in some powerful ways to tend your nervous system in these times, listen to the wisdom from Efan Hsieh, Kristen Timchak and myself in this week's medley episode for some inspiration.

** dedicating this episode to the memory of John Gallagher **

Resources:

• Grab the free guide: Track your cycle with FAM (and symptom tracking)
• Today's shownotes: 3 paths to nervous system tending in tumultuous times
• Episode 41: How nature connection can calm burnout w Efan Hsieh
• Episode 50: Adaptogens + hormonal health
  Episode 97: Nourish your nervous system with Ayurveda w Kristen Timchak

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It's summer solstice time!

And for some reason, when I think of the buoyancy and fullness of the sun -- the expansive expressiveness, the creative life force energy -- I also think of our breasts / chest.

This voluptuous tissue we often either fear, sexualize, or think of as nourishment for our babies. But this part of our bodies is a center of compassion and heart connection, and something we can honor rather than judge.

In today's episode, I share a medley of previous episodes including:

1) basics on fibrocystic breasts and how to begin addressing them naturally

2) some wisdom on myofascial release and healing potential with Lindsay Courcelle

3) a glimpse of herbal and natural therapies for milk production, engorgement and sore nipples in the immediate postpartum with Liz Philbrick

Resources:

• Grab the free guide: Track your cycle with FAM (and symptom tracking)
• Today's shownotes: Healthy breasts & chest!
• Episode 25: Immediate postpartum care the herbal way w Liz Philbrick
• Episode 26: Premenstrual breast / chest tenderness
• Episode 77: Myofascial care for breast, chest + pelvic bowl w Lindsay Courcelle

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Got cramps? The truth is there is not just one answer to how to relieve menstrual cramps, and my guess is that if you've got cramps you've realized this yourself.

It took me years to understand that there are many different KINDS of menstrual cramps, and they all come from different imbalances in the body and the pelvis.

Today I explore a question I received from a listener about how to stretch or support your ligaments that hold the uterus in place.

But before I dive into that, I share what I consider to be foundational ways to observe your menstrual cramps to become a detective of your own body and consider what qualities of your cramps and other symptoms might be telling you.

Then I share about my first step with almost everyone, and a little glimpse into how herbs might be allies - and why many herbs won't work, too.

And finally, I give a little insight into some of the hands on (and possibly hands in) ways you can both assess and tend to your tissues in the palace of your pelvis.

Resources:

• Grab the free guide: Track your cycle with FAM (and symptom tracking)
• Today's shownotes: Holistic & embodied approach to menstrual cramps
• Episode 19: The importance of softening the pelvis w Chaya Leia Aronson
• Episode 32: Herbal spotlight on motherwort
• Episode 176: Integrative approach to fibroids

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I get asked a lot about herbal approaches to fibroid care, and there is actually a lot that's possible!

But I also haven't personally been through the journey myself, so I'm excited to bring Kate Douglas, founder and curator of Earth Body, onto the podcast to share about her own embodied experience over the past couple years.

She shares about how she even knew she had fibroids in the first place (hint: cycle tracking was a KEY to her awareness), and the very integrative approach she's explored to both reduce the size of (and totally clear one of) her fibroids.

Her path has incorporated everything from nutrition to lifestyle to bodywork to pelvic steaming and more.

Even if you don't have fibroids, or don't *think* you do, everything Kate shares is also foundational for hormonal wellness overall, and especially useful for any estrogen-dominant conditions, too.

I hope you enjoy Kate's inspiring story.

Resources:

• Today's shownotes: Check out Kate's offerings and fibroid health class
• Grab the recording of my Uterine Tonics class at Earth Body
• Free guide: Track your cycle with FAM (get started now)

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As herbalists or herb-curious folks, we're taught to avoid poisonous plants -- and with good reason! They aren't plants to mess with. They can literally kill you.

But... what if there were ways to work with these plants safely? There are!

And today's guest, Megan Desrosiers, speaks all about it.

As you might imagine, this is NOT physical plant medicine. This is more energetic, spirit level plant medicine.

But according to Megan, it can be profoundly supportive and even transformational working with the energetic imprints of specific poisonous plants.

They can support "underworld journeys" facing the things many of us tuck away, and help us to release old patterns and even enhance ancestral lineage healing.

There's so much here, and we speak about plants like datura, foxglove, lily-of-the-valley, poison ivy and more.

Whether or not this path calls to you, I hope this episode offers a glimpse into one way of exploring some of the shadow parts that can be keys to our greater healing journeys... and perhaps inspires you to go connect with a plant today (or soon), too.

Resources:

• Today's shownotes: Get links to Megan's offerings and art
• Episode 15: What's a plant ally? And how to find yours
• Episode 171: What is vibrational medicine? with Brooke Sullivan
• Join the Natural Contraception (Fall 2025) waitlist here!
• Grab my FREE Fertility Awareness Cycle tracking guide

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How can slowing down to "body time" support your healing process?

There is a HUGE difference between the speed of your mind/emotions and your body. The mind moves quickly, and the emotions, while not as fast, are still far faster than the body itself.

So... what happens when you slow down to the rhythm of your body, your cycles, your womb, your tissues?

THIS is where healing happens.

When we move too quickly, we're forcing things. We can miss opportunities to receive the healing that's available for us.

And of course, this makes sense. We live in a world that is constantly requesting for us to be faster, do more, produce efficiently.

But the truth is, when we slow down, we can tune in, we can listen, we can hear our inner wisdom, we can receive nourishment and care and connection.

In today's episode, I share about a few different examples of body time.

Then I lead a 20 minute guided embodiment meditation to help you connect with your own personal wombspace time. Slow, present, connected.

Resources:

• Today's shownotes: The healing practice of slowing down to "body time"
• Free womb connection + clearing guided meditation
• Episode 28: Rhythms of your womb
• Episode 61: Healing trauma + womb tending with Dr Emily Wilson
• Episode 141: Uterine Unwinding with Dr Kathryn Kloos
• Episode 151: The anatomy of arousal with Juliana Rose Goldstone

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