Conscious Conception

In this episode: - Tampon trouble at summer camp - Medical communication with kids - Fertility conversations as a teenager - What is a Fully Septate Uterus? - Going to warehouse parties with ankylosing spondylitis - "Self healing" slipping into isolation and eating disorder - Shifting from individual healing to community care - Wellness purity culture - There's no way to fully prepa...

In this episode, we give our livers a little love. A solo ep about my liver health journey over the last year. We talk about emotional bitterness and anger reflecting liver congestion. We make the link between estrogen dominance and an overburdened liver. We cover the balance between bile production and stomach acid (the root of the gut-liver connection), HTMAs, supplementing with bitters and TUDC...

Casc Tonics Daily Bitter has launched (hey hey, Liver Support!!)- use code LAMT 2025 for a 20% discount On Fertile Ground   retreat doors are still open- 3 spots left in the LOFT Get in touch on IG: @phoebeelyman   In this episode we uncover four layers of tension that most women experience that lead to poor gut health, imbalanced hormones, mood issues, and general discomfort. There are MANY reaso...

Casc Tonics Daily Bitter has launched- use code LAMT 2025 for a 20% discount On Fertile Ground   retreat doors are still open Get in touch on IG: @phoebeelyman   In this episode: -Why is baby-making so secretive? - impromptu marriage during LA wildfires - Doors to conception opening wider - Birthing a new business - Shower downloads - If you're talking about something all the time, why don&ap...

On Fertile Ground   retreat doors are still open!  Get in touch on IG: @phoebeelyman   In this episode: - I've been pregnant 7 times, I do not have 7 children.  - Pregnancy is not the priority in medical school - Fighting for dyslexia accommodations - Begging for a labor induction, vacuum, anything to "rip her out"  - Diagnosed miscarriage that led to live birth - You birth how you...

Pulling up earth energy from the soil, calling in spirits from the ethereal realm, and integrating those powers into our wombs. Kerry, Justine, and I talk about the potency (in our physical bodies) of community, of deeply held containers to share stories, and the requirement to be grounded in order for our spirit babies to arrive.  On Fertile Ground Retreat  My podcast episode with Kerry My spirit...

On Fertile Ground   retreat doors are OPEN!  Follow me @phoebeelyman on IG for updates and announcements! In this episode: - Blending allopathic medicine, bodywork, and TCM  - Five pregnancy losses including Blighted ovums, and a ruptured ectopic pregnancy before her daughter  - "You're on a rollercoaster, you can't let it throw you around" - A pregnancy despite an unclear LH s...

On Fertile Ground   retreat doors are OPEN!   Follow me! @phoebeelyman on IG for updates and announcements! Find Kate Saffle's world over at Happier in Motherhood   and her own podcast, Fully In It   In this episode: - Wanting one child (if any) and her husband wanting six - Healing a prolactinoma (and getting pregnant!) with diet and lifestyle - Building her own dream business rather than so...

On Fertile Ground   retreat doors are OPEN!   In this episode: -- An ovarian cyst rupture after IUD insertion -- Grain-free autoimmune diet to manage endometriosis -- Receiving messages from her ovary through bodywork and overcoming pelvic floor tension -- TRULY finding safety at a cellular level through therapy and personal growth -- Ditching fertility tracking and data obsession and choosing fun...

Reach out! https://www.instagram.com/phoebeelyman In this episode: - The philosophical foundational differences between Maya and Mercier - Whole-person preventive and wellness nurturing v. corrective techniques - What it feels like to receive Maya Abdominal Massage versus Mercier Therapy

Reach out! https://www.instagram.com/phoebeelyman In this episode: -- Internalizing fear projected by doctors -- Kissing a lot of frogs to find her prince -- A year-long endometriosis flare --Fear-based conscious conception -- Confronting and repatterning anger with family of origin -- A gnarly, but ultimately *super* positive experience with laparoscopic endometriosis excision surgery -- Her firs...

Reach out! https://www.instagram.com/phoebeelyman You can find more about Stevie's work at Weaver+Rose . What's in the conversation: - Stevie’s rapid shift from adamantly not wanting kids, to making space for their spirit babies - Feeling the lower half of your body for the first time through pregnancy - The power of deep listening  - the ceremony of Birth and Postpartum - Incubation and...

Reach out! https://www.instagram.com/phoebeelyman What's in the conversation: -- Lifelong health changes sparked by endometriosis -- Obsession around tracking, supplementation, and trying to "de-stress" -- Saying yes to "Counting your chickens before they hatch" despite fears of letdown -- Becoming a better parent because of fertility challenges -- Unlearning gender expect...

Reach out! https://www.instagram.com/phoebeelyman In this episode: - Resisting grind culture through forging community - Reclaiming (simple) skills through mutual support - What is the "Practical Hang" and why its important in preconception - Breaking down the Fun Zone Barrier with your friends - Expanding your friendships' capacities to include practical support

Reach out! https://www.instagram.com/phoebeelyman In this episode, we answer your questions about WHEN to do fertility massage... - For natural cycles (follicular phase? during ovulation? during menstruation?) - For IVF cycles - Differences in the two week wait between natural and medicated cycles - Risks of ovarian torsion - Special considerations for egg quality

Reach out! https://www.instagram.com/phoebeelyman - The real, (but also fabricated) form of infertility - Economy, Economy Plus, Business Class, and First Class visions and versions of the childhood you want to create for your future kids - How capitalism is preventing natural, mammalian functions - Resisting elitism to cope with financial infertility - Disentangling financial anxiety from other h...

How to stop fumbling around your period tracking app and start understanding what the heck you're looking AT and what you're looking FOR. For the rest of the module on how to chart your cycles,  get the FREE Pillars of Preconception Video Course Reach out! https://www.instagram.com/phoebeelyman -The basics on your fertile window -What BBT actually is and why you should care about it if y...

Reach out! https://www.instagram.com/phoebeelyman - The two phases of Conscious Conception - Yin/Yang of Preparation and Celebration - Applying the two phases to the Fertility Awareness Method - How Conscious Conception is like a picnic

Reach out! https://www.instagram.com/phoebeelyman - How to do a pelvic castor oil pack - Coopting the term 'Rewilding' from ecology to our bodies - Fear of bringing children into this harsh world (What am I leaving my kids?) - Rediscovering respect for nature that will translate to our children - Supporting a bonded motherbaby dyad starts in preconception - Which parts of the overculture...

Reach out! https://www.instagram.com/phoebeelyman A short case study of one of my favorite (and super common) scenarios.  TLDR: - She's on the pill for decades,  - She goes off the pill to get pregnant - She has awful periods and isn't getting pregnant - She does (MANY) rounds of IVF - They don't work - A doctor thinks she might have endo - She gets surgery - She seeks out manual th...

Reach out! https://www.instagram.com/phoebeelyman In this episode: - An invitation to think critically about the romanticism of homesteading, #vanlife, and going off-grid - Digging down to WHY we crave the trappings of homesteading, LIKE... - Desire for freedom and time freedom - Desire for communal care - Escapism from harsh daily life under urban capitalism - Desire for clean environment, and  -...

A super special, super intimate recording of my own spirit baby reading with Spirit Baby Medium, Justine Cohen. In this reading, Justine and I talk about: Meeting my spirit baby during my pregnancy termination ( CW ) How conception is a contract in which everyone says YES Trusting that babies choose their parents Orienting toward simplicity and moving away from martyr mindset Practical questions l...

Stephanie Colantonio, MD   https://www.colantoniomd.com/ https://www.instagram.com/herbal__md/ Reach out! https://www.instagram.com/phoebeelyman In this episode: - How the wrong type of work can be driving your chronic symptoms - Time constraints and efficiency in conventional medicine leads to prescription-only healthcare - Practical tips for feeling into a career shift - Plants and people as com...

Reach out! https://www.instagram.com/phoebeelyman Pillars of Preconception FREE Course where you can find videos for abdominal self massage instruction  In this Episode: - Mercier Therapy, Visceral Manipulation, and Maya Abdominal Massage to boost fertility - Why blood circulation, while obvious, is a foundational piece of fertility to GET RIGHT - How fertility massage can help you get pregnant, b...

Reach out! https://www.instagram.com/phoebeelyman Book recs: What Your Food Ate , Anne Biklé and David R. Montgomery Pastoral Song: A Farmer's Journey , James Rebanks In this episode: - the problem with tilling soil - the loud silence of our agricultural fields (and what that means for nutrition) - humans' well-intentioned, but often shortsighted technology - deep wisdom of nature, and h...