That Fertile Feeling

If you’re anything like me, you probably started the year off with a set of fertility intentions. But we all know that setting intentions is a hundred times easier than sticking with them. On this episode of the podcast, I share the three steps that will help you set intentions that will help you approach conception from a place of love, trust and surrender, but that will also end up healing somet...

One of (in)fertility’s hardest lessons is that - however hard you may work to get pregnant - you’re ultimately not in control of your life. And that is not an easy lesson to learn. On this episode of the podcast - which was originally recorded as part of the Law of Positivism podcast series - I am interviewed by integrative healer Shereen Öberg. Shereen just completed a thesis on how women use spi...

The end of the year can be a difficult time when you’re trying to conceive. Another year has gone by without you having a baby to show for it. You’re surrounded by ads and movies that show you what real domestic bliss looks like. And you may be dreading the parties and family gatherings where the conversations revolve around everyone’s kids and where you can expect intrusive questions about your o...

As we’re slowly making our way to the end of 2023, it’s important to reflect on how your year has been - fertility wise. What were some of the times you felt really supported and nourished and what were times where you felt really depleted and moving along along, dark road? On this episode of the podcast, I discuss how this will help you set your fertility intentions for 2024 and why that’s so imp...

How can you make sense of your fertility journey - and process everything that’s happening along the way? Especially when you haven’t (yet) made it to the other side. For writer Eveline Broekhuizen, the answer was writing a book. On this episode of the podcast I talk with Eveline how writing a book helped her understand and deal with the challenges of fertility treatment. We also discuss the impor...

Do you feel like you’re trapped on a runaway fertility train? Like everything that you are doing is focused on getting pregnant and that there is hardly any space left for yourself and your own needs. On this episode of the podcast, I tell you how I learned to work with my intuition to break this negative spiral. I describe how you can tune into your physical wisdom, your inner wisdom and your hig...

How can you use food to increase your fertility without making it feel too restrictive or obsessive? On this episode of the podcast, I talk with fertility dietitian Catherine Chong on the effect your food may be having on the quality of your eggs and how you can incorporate dietary choices into your life that truly nourish you. We also touch on the topic of supplements. About Catherine Chong: Cath...

When I was trying to conceive, I sometimes heard these stories of people who would just connect to their baby’s soul and get pregnant right after. It felt like an impossible feat - connecting to your baby’s soul. How could other people have so much confidence in their ability to conceive? On this episode of the podcast, I talk with spirit baby and fertility guide Emma Moon about how to connect to...

Last week, I organized three panels on improving women’s medical experiences at the Dutch Design Week. We had some amazing medical experts and designers on the panels, who all reiterated that it’s unfortunately still up to us to make sure that our needs and boundaries are respected when undergoing procedures such as IVF. One typical physical outcome that occurs when our bodies and boundaries are n...

What does Maya wisdom tell us about fertility? I’m revisiting this topic with Rosita Arvigo, who’s made it her lifelong quest to find out about the medicinal qualities of plants. On this episode of the podcast, we discuss the mechanics behind traditional Maya abdominal massage and how this may be beneficial for fertility, as well as the more spiritual or emotional dimension. We also touch upon the...

When getting pregnant didn’t come easily, yoga instructor Nikola Hájková turned to tools such as fertility yoga and the fertility awareness method to improve her chances of getting pregnant. What she discovered along the way is that these tools also really allowed her to open up to her intuitive voice and to deal with any challenging emotions that she encountered along the way. On this episode of...

(In)fertility can really damage your most important relationships: those you have with your partner, your family, your closest friends. Maybe they don’t know how to give you the support you need, maybe they are moving on with their lives in a direction where you cannot follow them, maybe they are really insensitive. Or all of the above… On this episode of the podcast, I discuss how the relationshi...

I was 14 years old when I was put on birth control by my family doctor. I can’t even remember what the reason was - something with acne or period pain maybe. If I’d been born on the other side of the world, chances are that my mother and grandmothers would have introduced me to the healing power of herbs instead. On this episode of the podcast, I talk with Susana Puelles, a physician of Asian medi...

Bianca lost her son Danté during childbirth. “He was a beautiful baby”, she tells me, “born with a full head of black hair, really long feet, really soft cheeks.” On this episode of the podcast, we discuss how life has been for Bianca after losing Dante. Bianca shares how important it was for her to be able to be with Dante in the hours after his birth/death and how lactating and donating breast m...

Have you ever felt that you might be blocking yourself from getting pregnant? And that you might subconsciously be holding on to certain beliefs or traumas that are preventing conception from happening? If so, Emily Wilson is your ‘go to’ gal. On this episode of the podcast, we discuss how she combines her medical knowledge with her intuitive gifts to help patients address trauma and emotional blo...

My podcast can feel a bit paradoxical. I try to help you start trying so hard to get pregnant, yet many of my podcast guests will talk about all the things you could be doing to improve your fertility. I can imagine that it feels overwhelming at times - like I’m adding even more stuff to your fertility todo list. On this episode of the podcast I break down all of the information that I’ve received...

When you enter fertility treatment you figure that your doctors will know what the right course of action is for you, right? That wasn’t what Instagram user @fertilitytroubles experienced. On this episode of the podcast, we talk about how - after a series of missed abortions and early miscarriages - she took her journey across four different countries. It wasn’t until her final clinic in the Czech...

This week’s podcast guest Tamara has experienced a lot of trauma in her life (trigger warning: we talk about pregnancy loss, sexual abuse and post-natal depression). Together, we discuss how healing is a process - not some end-goal that you need to achieve. We also touch upon the importance of having healthy relationships and how small practices can help you create space for healing. I admire Tama...

Manifestation and visualization practices were definitely not my thing when I was trying to get pregnant. I always felt like I wasn’t doing it right and that I was thereby blocking my chances of getting pregnant. I’ve since come to learn that manifestation can be a great tool to improve the quality of your life, but only if you stop focusing on the outcomes you’d like to achieve. On this episode o...

Fertility is often a journey that takes us out of the body and into the mind. Rather than following our body’s cues, we start cycle tracking to know when it is the right time to conceive. Rather than listening to our heart and our gut, we follow our doctor’s recommendations and do some more research online to see how we can optimize our fertility. On this episode of the podcast, I talk to massage...

Because the fertility journey can be an extremely clinical one, it is so important to retain a bit of magic and space for reflection in your life. That’s where rituals come in. They help you slow down, focus on the type of energy that you’d like to call in or release, and process any emotions that present themselves. Ritual helps you say ‘I matter, my experience matters.’ On this episode of the po...

The fertility journey would be so much easier if you knew that you’d eventually get that baby. The ‘not knowing’ can be crushing: not knowing if and when you’ll conceive, not knowing what is the right course of action for you, and not knowing how long you’ll have to carry this burden. On this episode of the podcast, I talk to trust guide Fenja Sepers about how to find trust in such an uncertain si...

Learning how to connect to my womb is one of the most important skills I’ve ever learned. It helps me ground myself, it allows me to tap in to a profound source of inner wisdom and it empowers me and shows me how to step into my most authentic leadership and authority style. Developing that womb connection is especially important for women who are on a fertility journey. Every time you consciously...

Truly connecting to the body can be very difficult when getting pregnant doesn’t come easily. Your womb becomes a means to an end rather than a place in your body that stores your feminine power, creativity and life force. On this episode of the podcast, I talk to pelvic healer Kinga Sidor about the importance of looking at all the trauma that you are carrying with you in your womb space - especia...

When creative designer Lotte Vergouwen decided to stop fertility treatment, she didn’t realize that the hardest part of her journey was still to come. On this episode of the podcast I talk with Lotte about the importance of agency - both in designing your treatment process and in designing your life when things don’t work out the way you planned them to. Although you cannot control whether you wil...