Friends of the FAM Podcast

In today's episode, my lovely co-host Kristen has taken up the mantel of interviewer so that I could have a chance to share my FAM story. This ended up being pretty deeply personal and vulnerable, and humbling to say the least. I've never publicly shared so much of my story, since parts of it are somewhat unsavory. I talk a bit about an abusive relationship from my early 20s that had a significant...

This episode marks a very special moment in the history of this podcast, as I am joined by the lovely Kristen Fernandes. A colleague turned bestie, Kristen and I became fast friends when we connected in a peer review session held by our alma mater over our obsession with German New Medicine. Flash forward a couple weeks, and she flew all the way from Poland to California where we spent a week toge...

I'm joined by the lovely Cree from Salt Lake City, Utah in todays episode. Also an educator and graduate from The Well, Cree's journey began like most of ours -- divorced from connection with her womb and her cycles, but a moment of presence with her own blood changed everything. We discuss her path forward into the natural health space as a massage therapist and eventually a cycle wisdom educator...

In today’s episode, I talk with Chanana, a mother of two and FAE from Arizona. Chanana began walking a more holistic path around age 19, but found that birth control was the missing piece after an unplanned pregnancy. After a long period of celibacy, Chanana emerged having learned and dialed in her FAM practice before becoming an instructor herself. We discuss the physical and spiritual significan...

In today’s episode I sit down with my dear friend Daphne, an FAE from Utah. Being the close friends that we are, our candid and vulnerable conversation takes some meandering twists and turns. Our talk reveals the importance of imprints in creating your life path and Daphne shares about her journey towards greater self-responsibility, living a lifestyle of preparing for conception, serving women in...

In today’s episode, Hannah, a psychotherapist from Las Vegas, shares with me her journey through the darkness of bipolar disorder linked to the copper IUD, and how a brave decision to remove her own IUD without medical assistance saved her life and led her to finding FAM. We cover the challenges women face in the medical system when it comes to mood instability and how birth control is often overl...

In today’s episode I’m joined by Jasmin, a Swiss transplant to the states who became a SymptoPro educator after the allopathic route of using hormonal birth control to treat painful periods led to an ovarian cyst and subsequent surgery. We discussed our shared experiences of medical gaslighting, as well as the amazing feeling of having the veil lifted and finally seeing female physiology clearly f...

Today I’m joined by Kristin Hauser to explore her FAM origins and the powerful work behind her offering,The Blood Mysteries School. A Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioner and women’s health coach, Kristin—alongside co-facilitator Nancy Lucina—offers a deep, ritual-infused path of womb and menstrual cycle healing. As a 2023 graduate, I’ve experienced this work firsthand and am honored to share...

In today’s episode, Chloe from Tel Aviv shares how Fertility Awareness Method became more than a charting practice—it became a guiding light in her work, her relationship, and her devotion to women’s health. As a naturopath rooted in the wisdom of physiological birth, Chloe speaks to how FAM has helped her embody the very intimacy, sovereignty, and deep body-trust she now helps other women cultiva...

In this episode, Bailey sits down with one of her dearest friends, Lucia, an FAE from Tijuana/San Diego as she shares her story of discovering FAM as a pathway to freedom from anxiety induced by her legalistic, Catholic upbringing, and how this freedom allowed her consciousness to expand towards choosing to love her sacred body. You’ll hear how Lucia broke free from fearful dependence on hormonal...