Fertile Ground: A mind-body approach to getting pregnant - without it taking over your life.

Have you ever caught yourself wondering if all the actions you're taking—doctor visits, acupuncture appts., constant diet adjustments, or endless google/instagram research — is truly helping?  Or… are they just distractions from deeper feelings you might have about yourself and your fertility?  I spent 8 long years caught in that loop, thinking that if I just did more, I'd finally get what I wante...

I was coaching my radiantly pregnant (45 year old) mama inside of our FMBM coaching call, and she had been sold the same lie that I was while TTC.    That pregnancy (and motherhood) are a walk in the park and that you should be beaming with gratitude 24/7 and that everyday you should feel like you're JLo in the middle of one of her romance movies. Cute, bubbly, daily blow-out hair style and almost...

One of the main teachings inside of my book, Fertile Ground, is that:    There are 1000's of different paths you can take to conceive your baby   The problem is that we get caught up in how we're supposed to do it according to culture and the mainstream fertility industry.    For example, think about how people usually talk about getting ahead in education and business. Most people will tell you t...

As you're reading this email, I'm most likely sleeping, meditating, oracle card reading or listening to 528 Hz beats while going pen to paper   This mama needs a break. I need a break away from producing, promoting, posting, doing, blooming.    And I ain't got no shame.    After my book launch and a recent death in my family which has left me quite heart broken, my body is feeling burnt out. And t...

My husband Dan attended a work conference a couple weekends ago in Banff, Alberta.    It was a gathering of female physicians with a focus on mental health.    I wasn't there. But it was a shock to Dan that so many women are struggling getting their partners on board with the day to day tasks that make adulting feel so hard.   Women do so much.  It's called the "invisible workload" and it encompas...

I see you. Way more than you know.    You have done so much to try and create this baby.    You are so determined, so passionate and so brilliant. You deserve to be celebrated on this day (if not MORE) than a mother with 3 kids.    In my eyes, Mother's day is for YOU!   To make you feel special and seen, I recorded a special podcast with one of my favorite people in the world… my mama! Tracy Lucas...

Boy oh boy does it sound fancy AF to say this but…   I decided to hire a publicist to get the word out about my book, Fertile Ground, that'll be released in a week! A WEEK!    She's worked with Vogue, Serena Willliams and Ralph Lauren. She's a feminist. And gorgeous. I love her.    Her name is Liz Dennery and she asked if she could interview me on the Fertile Ground podcast.    I said duh, of cour...

  I got a little (a lot) spicy in this weeks podcast I'm unleashing a lot of pent up emotions I have about the fertility industry This week's podcast is called: 3 things that drive me crazy about the fertility industry.  If you don't yet know this already — with the exception of a handful of fertility experts — I loathe 90% of fertility advice out there. It DID NOT work for me. In fact, it made me...

It might be hard for you to believe this right now… but ➡️ there will be a day when your fertility journey will be over ⬅️   One day in the future, this chapter of your life will be completed 📕 All your current questions will have answers ✅ You will know HOW you finally got pregnant. Hallelujah! 🙏🏽   You'll know what astrological sign your baby is. Your pregnancy will have lined up with some c...

We all want to love ourselves. But have we ever thought to ask WHY?   The truth is that "self-love" isn't just about you being a good girl who should be nice to herself.   There's waaaayyyyyy more of an exciting benefit to self-love than that — which is why I recorded this weeks podcast on this particular topic that you're NOT going to want to miss.    It's important for you to know the fertility-...

Chances are, there's a totally untrue hierarchy between you and your baby that's swirling around in your head.     Here's how the ego's playing this mental story out: Your baby is HIGH up on the pedestal. Maybe even wearing a crown with jewels sipping on the most delicious nectar of milk. And you're at the bottom, exhausted, trying to claw your way up with all the energy you have. You're looking u...

I used to think my shame was a reaaaallllly good protector of judgment. I used to think, "If I just listened to the orders of my shame – stayed small, pretended everything was fine, kept it all inside – then I wouldn't have to face judgment." Meaning, if I silenced my true thoughts and feelings, then no one would know how broken I am.    But I was never broken, despite shame making me feel that wa...

Today's new Fertile Ground podcast is a free gift for you!  A free meditation: How to cultivate a feeling of enoughness.    Listen if you want to feel enough and worthy of your baby, now. No more proving. Let's embed this truth into all the cells of your body. You can listen to it here.   I wanna ask a favor of you…   If you appreciate the Fertile Ground podcast and how it's helped you, it would b...

Vulnerability share: I had a really hard few days last week. For the first time in what felt like forever, I had a lot bubble up inside of my body. At first, I resisted. I pouted. I complained. (Like any other human does at the feeling of deep feels.) But then… eventually…  I surrendered. It got me thinking…   My God… us human beings have this massive capability of feeling emotions inside of our b...

Time is at the core of so much suffering when you're TTC. So it only makes sense for me to devote an entire free podcast to it, to alleviate the panic it's causing you. My view point:    I'm probably the world's most impatient person. When I want something, I want it now. I'm even annoyed at it needing to take a whole damn day for Amazon to send me my shit!    But… I've learned to both accept and...

I watched the Super Bowl with my family a couple weekends ago and I noticed that the members of my family that were cheering for San Francisco (Not Taylor Swift's BF's team) had to go on and on about how much air time Taylor got and how she was annoyingly interacting with her friends. (HOW DARE SHE?!) Me, my mom and my husband were cheering for Kansas City. So we were loving watching her celebrate...

Of course you have a HUGE, valid  desire to get pregnant and have a beautiful, healthy baby. I would even guess that you had goals BEFORE your TTC journey and you will have goals AFTER it. (Believe it or not, this chapter of your life will not last forever. Phew! ) Culturally, we talk a lot  about desire. But we haven't been taught to value our capacity  to pursue our desires .  Capacity is your b...

I think many women (myself included) have had this perfectionist fantasy that you'll someday have this AHA moment and you'll be like… "Omg. Yes! This is HOW I'm going to conceive my baby!" …But it doesn't come. I certainly did not have this level of certainty as to HOW it was going to happen.  Neither do my clients. Yet, we've found a way to let go of the "how drama."  Because you are not meant to...

Are you super self-aware? Like, you've learned what you like about yourself and you've learned what you don't like — but still feel so stuck and can't seem to change? Rewind back a few years and this was so me. So self-aware yet so stuck.  This is a frustrating place to be on the fertility journey. Because I would see people who were so unaware, so unreflective, so inconsiderate… get pregnant easi...

I'm over the moon to share with you my interview with my remarkable client Sumathi. She's TTC, she's a physician AND she's deeply spiritual.  It's the most refreshing conversation for any woman trying to conceive, because we deep dive into the topic of bridging the gap between the obsession over the physical body and the spiritual magic and mystery that exists on the journey to your baby that you...

Remember the dating world? What would you do with someone you really liked, but then they called you 5 times the next day and you noticed that they liked the last 20 pictures you posted on instagram?    OR What would you do after walking into a store you adore but then became followed by a pushy sales person trying to convince you get something you didn't even like?  Anyone and everyone would run...

It was about 4:30pm and I decided to go for a freezing cold walk to move the energy that gathered up inside me through the day.    In Edmonton, Alberta Canada where I live, it actually begins to get dark at this time of day. And it was a weekish before Christmas so the neighborhood decor was starting to light up. Kinda perfect.    On this very normal, very unsexy, very "so what, it's just a walk"...

Sarah says, "I came into the program with this story. This heavy story of someone who's failed. I completely closed my heart off to what's possible so that I didn't have to open my heart up to more loss." – and omg I don't know about you… but I could totally relate to that statement.    Before the program, Sarah thought she was feeling things. She thought she was present. She was meditating/journa...

I interview my client Kristen on today's Fertile Ground podcast and you just GOTTA listen to her story!     When Kristin joined Fertility Mind-Body Mastery, her brain was so loud that she couldn't even hear herself think.   She was filled with anger. At herself. At her fertility journey. She was mad at the world for not having her baby easily and as fast as everyone else she knew.     She had so m...

Have you heard that Tony Robbins' quote: "Most people overestimate what they can do in a year, and underestimate what they can do in 2 or 3 decades."?   Here's my version, tailored for you, the strong and determined woman on the path to motherhood:   Most women TTC overestimate what they can do in 1 or 2 months, and underestimate what they can do in 1 year.    If you're a sensitive visionary who c...