Blog
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The Foundations of Fertility: Sleep
On a physical level, sleep is so beneficial for our fertility. Our body has time to heal and rejuvenate when we sleep. Sleep supports the balancing of cortisol levels which impacts all of the hormones involved in reproductive health. -
Deepening Into Your Yang Phase
Yang is related to the Element of Fire, to your heart. It relates to joy and excitement and passion for life and your ability to love and receive love. This energy of the heart needs to connect down to the womb for pregnancy to occur.
Many of us become burdened by the day to day stressors of life that we forget about the importance of fun and joy and inspiration. Many women in my practice have become frustrated and depressed or defeated by their fertility struggle that they've lost the sense of joy in their lives, in their marriage, even in sex. -
Deepening Into Your Qi Phase
Especially if you've been diagnosed with anovulation, PCOS or unexplained Infertility, understanding and healing this phase of your cycle is incredibly important.
The Qi phase occurs in the few days around ovulation, so after the Yin Phase and before the Yang, Phase, or approximately Days 12-15 of your cycle.By the time you reach this phase, your follicles are nice and juicy and one will have grown to be the plumpest of all and become the one you ovulate.
Here, we need a burst of energy for that ripe and juicy follicle to be burst forth from your ovary, and to have the energy to travel along the length of the fallopian tube and burrow into your uterine wall. -
Deepening into Your Yin Phase
Yin is responsible for uterine lining health, follicle growth and health, estrogen balance, cervical fluid and so much more. I believe it is the number one most important aspect of fertility, and often the phase that is the most out of balance.
During this phase, we focus on cooling, nurturing and nourishing your follicles to support the quality of your eggs. One of these nurtured follicles will be ovulated in the next cycle phase, the QI Phase.
This time is about gestation, of receptivity and growth, of waiting and patience and being in the not-doing. -
The Six Elements of Healthy Fertility, #6: HOW
Trusting that when we heal ourselves, we heal our entire ancestral line, we will explore our own internalized patriarchalized feminine, to heal those wounds related to being a girl and a woman in this sometimes harsh but also beautiful world.
Honoring our Elders, we will become our own Wise Woman, and a Mother in the most positive sense of the word:
A woman who can embrace and create life.
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The Six Elements of Healthy Fertility, #5: WHY
It’s important to understand that infertility is just a symptom. Trying to “heal” infertility can be a bit like trying to fix a tree that isn't flowering by looking at the branches instead of focusing on the roots.Whether you have high FSH, Endometriosis, PCOS, Fallopian Tube blockage, POF, or even unexplained infertility, it’s important to uncover the root cause in order to heal.Each woman has her unique complex of needs required to bring her into perfect balance.When those needs aren’t perfectly attuned to, the resulting imbalances will contribute to her underlying root cause. -
The Six Elements of Healthy Fertility, #4: WHERE
The element of Where is all about Embodied Presence. "Where" is within you and all around you. It begins when we recognize that our body is a microsystem of the universe. And maybe we hold an entire universe within our womb.
"Where" is about connection. When we connect with our head with our heart, our heart with our womb, we can feel present. But when we connect our womb to the Earth and all the way up to the stars, to include the abundance of the Great Mother and the presence of our ancestors, that’s where the magic happens.
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What Should I Do About My High FSH Diagnosis?
It may sound dire, but it is possible to improve the quality of your follicles, thereby lowering FSH. I’ve had patients with FSH levels above 50 reduce their levels to within healthy range. I’ve even had patients who were officially diagnosed with low ovarian reserve and early menopause who have improved the quality of their follicles. These women not only conceived, but also carried their pregnancies to full term.
