The Heart of Fertility

I’d love to hear from you Episode 12 Safe Enough To Finally Exhale Over the past 12 episodes, we've explored the emotional side of fertility struggles that often goes unspoken. The loneliness. The survival mode. The grief that has no name. The questions that change everything. And the quiet ways we can begin to find ourselves again. In this final episode of Series 1, I'm talking about so...

I’d love to hear from you Walking Through The Fire "Healing is walking through the fire and then coming back carrying water for the women still trapped inside." When I first heard that quote, it stopped me in my tracks. In this episode, I'm exploring what it means to be changed by experiences we would never have chosen. Not because infertility, loss or heartbreak are gifts. Not beca...

I’d love to hear from you Staying Silent: The Year I Lost My Voice For years, I believed I just needed to find the right answer. The right treatment. The right appointment. The right piece of information. I was so focused on fixing what felt broken that I never stopped to ask how I was really doing. Then a virus changed everything. After years of struggling with infertility, I suddenly lost my voi...

I’d love to hear from you Throughout my fertility journey, I spent years searching for answers. Answers about treatments. Answers about symptoms. Answers about what would happen next. I thought finding the right answer would help me feel better. But what ultimately changed my life wasn't an answer at all. It was a question. In this episode, I share one of the most difficult moments from my fe...

I’d love to hear from you Episode When Your Body Feels Like The Enemy Fertility struggles have a way of changing the relationship we have with our bodies. Appointments. Tests. Scans. Results. Over time, it's easy to move from: "This is something I'm experiencing." to "Something is wrong with me." In this episode, we're exploring what happens when your body starts...

Episode Why This Work Matters To Me Before I was a fertility coach and doula, I was a midwife. I spent years supporting women through pregnancy, birth, loss and some of the most significant moments of their lives. I understood the clinical side of fertility and reproductive health. But what I didn't yet understand was what it felt like to live it. In this episode, I'm sharing more of my...

Episode Why We Need Sanctuary More Than Solutions Fertility struggles can quietly become a full-time job. The research. The appointments. The symptom spotting. The supplements. The endless search for the thing that might finally make a difference. And whilst information, treatment and support all have an important place, what happens when we become so focused on solving the problem that we forget...

You're Not Falling Apart.  You're Carrying Too Much For Anyone to Bare. There is a kind of grief that often goes unspoken during fertility struggles. Not the grief of a single loss. But the grief of loss that accumulates over time. The waiting. The uncertainty. The hopes that rise and fall daily, weekly, monthly. The version of life you thought you'd be living by now. In this episod...

Why We Hide So many of us become experts at hiding during fertility struggles. Hiding our disappointment. Hiding our grief. Hiding our fear. Sometimes even hiding our hope. In this episode, we're talking about why we hide, how hiding can become a form of self-protection, and the loneliness that can come from carrying something so important in silence. If you've ever smiled and said &quot...

This Is The Podcast I Needed During My Fertility Journey Welcome to The Heart of Fertility. This isn't just a podcast about fertility. It's a space for the emotional side of the journey that often goes unspoken. In this first episode, I share why I created this podcast, what you can expect from future episodes, and the message I wish someone had shared with me during my own fertility str...

One of the hardest parts of fertility struggles isn't always the appointments, treatments or waiting. Sometimes it's the loneliness. In this episode, we're talking about the invisible side of fertility struggles and why so many of us can feel alone, even when we're surrounded by people who care about us. If you've ever felt misunderstood, isolated, or like nobody quite und...

What Survival Mode Really Feels Like During Fertility Struggles Have you ever felt like you're constantly waiting, analysing, hoping, worrying, and bracing yourself for what might happen next? You may be spending more time in survival mode than you realise. In this episode, we're exploring the emotional toll fertility struggles can have on our minds, bodies and nervous systems, and why f...