Period Recovery and Fertility Podcast

Jenna Werner is a registered dietitian, nutritionist, and owner of Happy Strong Healthy, a weight-neutral, behavior-focused, health-first, mindful eating private practice that works to help clients heal their relationship with food, fitness, body, and self. Jenna is also the co-host of the What the Actual Fork podcast, a platform that uses research, experience, and fun to help all humans realize t...

Haley Pope is originally from Virginia but is currently deployed in the U.S. Navy. She loves Jesus, the beach, baking, yoga, and spending time with loved ones. She has also been a fitness and nutrition junkie her whole life. So much so that her friends, family, and co-workers all referred to her as a “health freak.” Unbeknownst to them, this was masking an eating disorder that turned into HA. Hale...

Welcome to a new episode of the Period Recovery and Fertility Podcast. In today's episode, we are going to talk about Exercise Addiction. In this Episode Understanding what exercise addiction looks like Why Exercise Addiction isn’t a stand-alone issue How exercise addiction plays into period loss Red flags for exercise addiction When a full exercise break may be necessary My approach for heali...

Natalie lives in Winter Garden, Florida, where she works in marketing strategy for Disney. She also teaches barre3 classes at a local studio. Natalie spent her life as an athlete and had always struggled with body image as a tall, athletically built girl. After suffering a severe back injury, Natalie had to adopt a strict physical therapy regimen to keep pursuing her dream of playing college volle...

Layla is a legal marketing professional who lives in San Diego, CA, with her husband and dog. Her issues with food and exercise began at a young age when she was put on countless diets starting around age 9. Her issues got worse when she started law school when she started restricting food and exercising obsessively as she struggled to cope with the stress of school. These issues were compounded w...

Lauren Sams is a Pediatric Registered Dietitian and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant. She received the majority of her training while working in the NICU at a children’s teaching hospital in South Carolina. Lauren struggled to breastfeed her son, who is now 5 years old, and it was through this journey that her passion to support ALL moms and ALL their feeding decisions was born....

Sam is a registered sports dietitian in Massachusetts whose HA journey began over 10 years ago. She battled disordered eating and excessive exercise under the guise of health for years. When she finally sought out help for her missing period, she was assured by several doctors that she was on the right track and needed to give her body more time. Sam stopped all intense exercise and tried increasi...

Reilly has been a Sports Dietitian for the last 4 years and helps athletes meet their performance goals on and off the field with easy and simple nutrition. A previous college soccer player, Reilly now specializes in soccer players and other athletes. She contracts with teams all throughout the United States and also provides virtual support through the Performance Fueling Club. In this Episode: P...

Dr. Miranda Naylor is an Osteopathic Doctor, board-certified in Family Medicine and Functional Medicine. She uses a root-cause approach to help women get to the bottom of symptoms and optimize their health from the ground up. Dr Naylor specializes in women’s health, particularly preconception, fertility, pregnancy, and motherhood.

Healing from Eating Disorders and Disordered eating with Natalie Rose, MPysch RP Natalie Rose Allen is a Toronto-based Registered Psychotherapist who specializes in treating eating disorders and body image issues. She works primarily with adolescents and adults using a biopsychosocial approach. Natalie also provides intuitive eating and emotion coaching to individuals worldwide. Natalie is passion...

Chelsey lives in Pennsylvania, where she was born and raised and got married to her “Kindergarten sweetheart”. She is a professor at her local community college in the education department, but her main job is being a mom to 4 kids under 4 years old. Chelsey shares her story about overcoming exercise addiction and how she healed her relationship with food so that she could get pregnant naturally w...

Deanna is a nationally recognized registered dietitian nutritionist and founder of Dietitian Deanna, LLC. Deanna is a pioneer in the online space, creating a loyal community through her Instagram @DietitianDeanna TikTok @dietitian.deanna, blog dietitiandeanna.com and podcast DEATS and Deanna (ranked top 10 in mental health) where her community trusts her with sound non-diet nutrition advice and in...

Stephanie Lauri is a Registered Dietitian, Certified Lactation Educator, and a mom two girls (ages 2 and 4).  Throughout her first pregnancy she was surprised at the minimal focus there was on nutrition during this critical life stage. As a dietitian, she was sought out by other pregnant friends for her guidance. It was then she knew she wanted to become a resource for pregnant women worldwide to...

Carlee lives in Canada with her husband Jordan and their French bulldog Elmer. Carlee works as an accountant by day and a personal trainer in the evenings and on the weekends.    Carlee has come a long way on her food freedom and her fertility journey. After a long journey of fertility treatment not working, she decided to address the root cause of her missing period. In the process, she drastical...

Colleen Christensen is a Registered Dietitian, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor and non-judgy educator, here to free you from diet culture once and for all! Through her proven 5 step No Food Rules approach to intuitive eating & nutrition she has helped thousands of women all over the world break up with dieting and make peace with their bodies.  In this episode we unpack: What is Intuitive...

Kelly is a former division I collegiate volleyball player. She finished medical school in June of 2022 and matched for her dream program for residency in emergency medicine.  As a previous athlete, Kelly came from a lifestyle where exercise was part of her daily routine. As prep for her wedding Kelly continued to exercise at a high level while engaging in dieting. This led to weight loss and ultim...

Brooke Boskovich is a Registered Dietitian, a functional & integrative practitioner, the founder of The Fertility Dietitian and the creator of the Master Your Fertility & Foundations for Optimizing Your Fertility Programs. The Master Your Fertility Program is individualized to each couple's fertility journey, meeting them where they are & helping them work with their bodies to opti...

Understanding our cycles is confusing! If you're like me, you maybe haven't thought much about periods, ovulation, or how the menstrual cycles works. It wasn't really until I started trying to recover my period and get pregnant that this even became much of an interest to me so if you're feeling lost today- you're not alone! In this Solo Short episode, I am going to walk throug...

Jess Hodge is a wife, mom of two with one on the way, and a recent graduate of the Nutritional Therapy Association program.  After years of being on hormonal birth control, restricting her food intake, over exercising, and trying to control her body...she went off the pill when her and her husband were ready to grow their family, and her period never showed up.  Those next years were spent misdiag...

Whitney lives in Greenville, SC and mother to one and one on the way! Right before starting IVF for a second time she found Lindsey while scrolling Instagram one day. Whitney struggled with an eating disorder and over-exercising in her early 20's, but with the help of her family and professional support, she was able to recover for the most part. However, she never recovered her period. Becaus...

Cynthia is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist with over 10 years experience in the field. Serving women with Hypothalamic Amenorrhea (HA) & helping them get their period back, restore their health & find balance with food & exercise is her passion & her main focus in her practice. Since founding the Eat to Regain Your Period Program in April 2020, She’s worked with  hundreds of wo...

Lauren spent 6 years as an ICU nurse and recently her my dream job as a cardiology nurse practitioner. She lives with her husband Ryan and is a proud dog mom to sweet 7 year old pointer/hound rescue Bonnie.  Prior to joining the Food Freedom Fertility Society, she was certified group fitness instructor at Orange Theory and had longstanding history of over exercising and under eating, which was pra...

Kyle is from Austin, TX and played college baseball for the University of Texas for 4 years. After hanging up his cleats, Kyle moved to Dallas to take his first job out of college which is where he met his now wife, Lindsey. Kyle and Lindsey have been together for 10 years, married for 6. We live in Waco, TX now with our 2 toddlers and 3 dogs. Connect with Lindsey Lusson:  Instagram:   ⁠⁠@‌food.fr...

Dr. Heather Finley is a  Registered Dietitian, gut health specialist and sought-after speaker on the topics of constipation, bloating, gut health, disordered eating and how all of these topics intersect. Her clients often come to her as a last resort, after feeling like they’ve tried everything. Dr. Heather loves helping clients go from restricted with food and frustrated with their symptoms to em...

Nicole is a mom of two beautiful girls and a personal trainer. She  grew up in Birmingham, AL and graduated from Auburn University with a degree in Kinesiology / Physical Education. She also cheered at all throughout high school and college which had a big influence on her desire to help others enjoy fitness. She currently lives in Dallas, TX and enjoys training clients physically with exercise an...