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

"I should be more disciplined." "I shouldn't be feeling sad." "I should have more hope." "I shouldn't eat this piece of bread."   When you're TTC, the "shoulding" is endless.    …about what you should do to optimize conception.   But more deeply rooted, about how you should feel.    Although you think the shoulding part of your brain might be the voice that "keeps you on track"…   The only track w...

I'm interviewing my money coach and friend – Serena Hicks – on today's Fertile Ground Podcast.    I love her. We met and vibed a year ago in Santa Monica when we attended a Life Coaching meet-up.   We hit it off because she talks about money, the same way that I talk about fertility. It's all energy and learning how to partner with these energies to live our dream lives.    Fertility and money can...

I used to think I was "too controlling" — until I noticed my then 6 month old screaming until his face turned red, when gravity stole his ball away.   His little brain was thinking, "Nooooo…. I don't want this to be happening! I want my ball back! Why don't I have more controlll!"   It's normal for us to want control. We were born wanting control.   It's an important part of thenhuman design. It k...

"Wholeness" is so arbitrary.   What does it even mean… to achieve this state? To feel "whole" and complete and worthy of your baby?     A great example is this…    So many women try to be the "good girl" to get pregnant. To do/be/act perfect and then you'll get pregnant.    …Talk about arbitrary…perfection is impossible.   But even so — even tho we know it's impossible — we still aim for it. Which...

I'm releasing a podcast to let you in on my process of writing this magical, mystical, miraculous book on fertility.  As I previously shared, I went to Hawaii to get started on writing a book for you.  I wanna let you in on my process, because I think it's important to share with you how I continue to apply everything I learned on my fertility journey, into real life. Just because you eventually h...

On today's podcast, I'm letting go of humble and I'm boosting about the group aspect of my program Fertility Mind-Body Mastery.   FMBM is my 6-month group coaching program to take the mind-body approach to conception – without it taking over your life. You can apply now! August enrollment is now open!    The group component is what most women fear when joining – and what they end up loving most ab...

This week's podcast I'm sharing with you the 3 Basic Coaching Principals that changed the game for me, both in my life and fertility journey.  They are super simple and are based off of psychology and spirituality.  They are foundational if you wanna be happy, feel connected and unshamed in this precious life of yours — oh! Annnnnd if you wanna increase your fertility. Listen now!

Let's say hypothetically, you're a luxury car enthusiast (maybe you are, even better!) And you have decided to invest a lot of your time, money and energy into a hot, opulent car. Let's say it's a brand new Bentley SUV. Imagine yourself rolling up to a gas station to fill this baby up. The sun is shining, the sunroof open, Dua Lipa is serenading you and the luxury is exuding from every inch of thi...

Of course, if you could choose, you would prefer to let go of the tightness, the *need* and the rush to have a baby. But there may be a subconscious part of you that believes that you need the stress, to make changes. That you need the stress to create change. And without it, you'd sit in bed with a bag of doritos and do nothing. Maybe you don't yet believe that change can be created through thing...

Today I'm interviewing a Fertility Mind-Body Mastery alumni and I can't wait to get her story out in the world! Tammy's journey is fascinating. While being in my program Fertility Mind-Body Mastery, she experienced both tragedy and miracles. And we were with her through all the ups and downs and twists and turns that she went on. She's been kind enough to share her vulnerable story with us in toda...

Was there ever a point in your fertility journey when someone said: "Stop being so sensitive!" "You're too emotional." "Let it go. It's no big deal." Or when someone dares to tell you to, "Just relax! Calm down." As much as we might wanna sucker punch whoever has the balls to say it to our face, what do we usually do? We suck it up. We keep it in. We oppress the sting. We internalize the message....

I just recorded a stellar podcast with my client Kathy.  Kathy wanted to go into last summer of '22 with a strong intention to reconnect with herself. Because: She had just been through 3 FETs that didn't take. She felt like a failure. And didn't know why it didn't work after she did everything "right". She instinctively knew that she had to come back to herself.  So she signed up for my program F...

Why do you (we) get so disappointed when things don't go according to plan? Here's the 2 answers I can come up with: Because we believe that things should have gone according to plan. Because we think we know best. And here's the thing about thoughts…When they don't make our bodies feel good – like the thought, "I should know the way." cause it makes me feel super icky and shame myself – we get to...

The distractions available to us in 2023 are insane. I mean.. It's wild what we can do and how distracted we can become, with this one small device. I was reading somewhere that the superpower of 2023 in our world of distractions and insane list of to-do's is: Focus. And it has never been more challenging to do that. I spent so many years dabbling with free fertility stuff on the internet. Throwin...

Get real for a sec. There's relief in believing that maybe there's some special person out there… that has your answers to getting pregnant.  To relinquish any shame you have: I would often have this little fantasy that I would bump into a psychic on the street who would inform me that "All is well! I see you being pregnant soon!" 🔮😜 Sad to say this never happened 🤣 I looked outside of myself t...

How often do you have vulnerable conversations with your partner? I ask because here's a pattern that I often see playing out with couples while TTC. We love our partners deeply. Like a lot. And so, on this crazy fertility journey… we just tend to keep a lot of thoughts and emotions locked inside of our minds and bodies to: Prevent the other person from feeling any pain. Avoid talking about how we...

I remember so vividly wanting to NOT want the baby so bad. I wanted for it to stop being the only thing I thought about. I wanted for it to stop being the only thing I googled about. And I  wanted for it to stop feeling so tight in my body all the time. I knew I was attached the outcome. I had this level of awareness. But I didn't know HOW to shift this exhausting need to get pregnant. Here are so...

This is a peak into my life today (at the time I'm writing this email) after an 8-year-long fertility journey… Before reading, I want you to know that this is a peak into a really great day. Like every human on Earth, not every day is a great day — but I know how to accept and move through those days that often lead to this:  Today I got to:  Drive in my new beautiful car.  Massage seats are on (c...

People are always shocked to hear this… But I feel like the most opportunistic time to COMPLETELY shift the energy within your fertility journey is  when you get your period.   It sounds crazy cause it's the normally the hardest time. It's always when I would feel my heart drop into my stomach and I'd have to… somehow… garner up the courage to tell my husband not this month, yet again. It is the t...

Today I'm releasing the 100th Fertile Ground Podcast. Holy shit. To think I began this little podcast project in the midst of my fertility journey and now with my 2 boys and over 300,000 downloads later — I'm STILL practicing and living by everything I talked about in even the earliest episodes. Todays podcast is fun, short'n' sweet and impromptu. We're gonna chat about DESIRES. Do you feel like y...

If you feel like everything you do is just leading you into more desperation and farther away from yourself….If you're filling your life with to-do's that isn't even you and using that inner mean girl to try to shame yourself into doing it…If you're making certain fertility choices because you think you're SUPPOSED to and not because you fucking want to… Then listen to todays podcast. I interviewe...

When Kaitlin reached out to me, her identity was primarily her diagnosis. Her current health status -- according to many doctors and practitioner's -- had dominance over her life decisions, but mainly dominance over her thoughts and what she believed was possible for her. "I need to heal my diagnosis before I get pregnant." made her feel ashamed of her body, isolated (even from the TTC world), and...

This week's podcast is a demonstration on how I don't always call the shots in my fertility business. I've learned to listen to what fertility wants me to explore and communicate to you. And TBH I wasn't exactly down for this podcast… but once I sat with it and explored it myself. it made total sense in my mind and body. So many of my clients ALL OF MY CLIENTS + MYSELF deal with feelings of hopele...

Before joining Fertility Mind-Body Mastery, Julie was doing ALL of the things to get pregnant.  She was focused solely on the physical aspects of fertility.  Including (but not limited to) a glass of celery juice every morning — as per her acupuncturists suggestion — that made her want to barf her brains out. But she was willing to do anything she could to make her baby.  After some time, her AND...

Like so many of the women I work with, Ashley has a huge heart. Not only is she lovely, but she cares and does so much for others. And like so many women,  this highly acknowledged "good girl" behavior as a child, can easily become shaped into a people pleasing put-everyone-else-before-you mentality as an adult.   At the core, people pleasing is looking outside of yourself for worth.  Needing othe...