Wholly a Woman

Whether you are a Catholic or not, you may have wondered why the Catholic Church promotes natural family planning (and disagrees with birth control). Dr. Emily shares what the Bible and the Catholic Church have to say about natural family planning. Do you want Dr. Emily to come speak to your church? Email her at emily@nfppharmacist.com Take-aways: -The Church’s teaching is based on a Biblical foun...

What is working with an herbal clinician like? How can herbal products support your body’s natural functioning? I got to sit down (virtually) with my friend and colleague, Phyllis Jaworski, and she gave us a look into her practice with Sacred Ibis Botanicals. Take-aways: -Get to know the company/seller behind the products you are looking at -Herbs that may be good for hormone regulation (NOT for u...

I intended this audio to just be for those who signed up for my vision board event tonight, but one of my friends had trouble accessing the file, so I decided to upload it as a podcast episode and share it with all my listeners! It’s not too late to sign-up to make your vision board with me tonight (1/1/21 at 7pm CST): https://www.eventbrite.com/e/131814989181 What you will hear: -Asking God to sh...

What are you planning for 2021? In this episode, I share my vision for the next year. Where I am heading: -Having more conversations about the value of knowing your body through natural family planning for HEALTH -Working on an online course with a midwife all about using natural family planning for health monitoring -Active at The Wellness Boutique in Osseo MN: establishing a local presence -Prov...

How do you live your true north? How do you know yourself better and then show up as that person you know you are? Rachel and Jenell, hosts of The True North Collective podcast, and I discuss all things authenticity in this week’s episode. Take-aways: -Be brave enough to present your ideas to others -Don’t be afraid to say “yes” to others’ ideas -Try things. Take what works and leave what doesn’t...

Are you a planner? I love a new calendar year to start planning out where I’m going. Have you ever stopped to ask yourself where you are in your menstrual cycle and how that could affect your productivity? What if you worked with your body and planned with your cycle? In this episode, Dr. Emily shares insights from “In the Flo” by Alissa Vitti and the “Do Less Planner” by Kate Northrup on how to p...

Are you passionate about your life? Are you living your life in a way that aligns with your top priorities? This week I talk to LuAnn Buechler about how to live a life you are passionate about. Here are the takeaways: -Want people to live in JOY and ENJOY their lives -Passion test: a process that helps you identify your passions and set a course to living your life focused on them -Align yourself...

**Note after publication: I was informed that the Catholic church does not approve of the use of crystals. See this article: https://aleteia.org/2019/09/10/can-catholics-use-or-wear-crystals-for-healing/ Have you used crystals before? Do you know what crystals are used for? Jessica Hoch is an expert on crystal healing and is the owner of Moxie Malas. She creates beautiful jewelry with a specific i...

Do you sleep enough? I know I am very guilty of staying up too late to get one more thing done and then skimping out on sleep. I used to throw around the phrase “I’ll sleep when I’m dead.” Well, after hearing from sleep consultant Zeke Medina, I learned that getting limited sleep could actually lead you quicker towards death! Heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer’s - these are all things I would like t...

Short and sweet update about what I have going on and more places you can find me! 1) The Wellness Boutique in Osseo. I joined the team of practitioners there and will be seeing patients by appointment only in their space, as well as providing education (online and/or in-person). https://www.thewellnessboutiquemn.com/ 2) Pharm To Table. I am part of a team of functional medicine pharmacists having...

Did you know it takes 3 months for a new egg to develop and be ready for ovulation? If you’re thinking about becoming pregnant at some point in the future, it is so important to be nourishing your body NOW. Fertility dietician Kristen Jensen came on the podcast this week to share with us some wisdom about how to eat well to take care of the bodies God gave us. Here are the take-aways: -When you st...

Are you thinking about going off birth control? Maybe you’re like me and you didn’t have side effects with birth control, but you want to go off it to start trying to get pregnant. Or maybe you’re like many of the women I see as a pharmacist and natural family planning educator who have experienced physical and mental side effects of birth control and want to use natural family planning to avoid p...

What do you like when it comes to touch? Are you even aware of your relationship with touch? Dawn Bennet, author of “The Touch Crisis,” shares with us about how we can use awareness and communication to help resolve the current touch crisis. Here is what you will hear in this week’s episode: Touch is any kind of intentional and consensual physical contact Ask yourself what you like and want, and c...

How do you take care of yourself when you are going through a hard time? Whether or not you are dealing with something as painful as the loss of a loved one, it’s important to know how to care for yourself when you do go through a hard period. Here are some of things I am doing right now that are helping me: -Getting at least 7 hours of sleep -Allowing others to help me -Starting my day with a hea...

Have you ever been able to talk to someone who you have been looking up to and inspired by? Maybe you’ve been following someone on Instagram or listening to their podcast and think of them as a mentor even though they don’t know who you are. That is exactly who today’s podcast guest was for me. I have been listening to Tonie Restrepo on the Wholly Woman podcast ever since I launched this podcast i...

Emily is going through a really difficult time right now and shares her reflections on feeling incredibly sad but also choosing to find the good and that it’s perfectly okay and good to feel both joy and pain

Are you a pharmacist, physician, naturopath, or other healthcare professional caring for menstruating women? Has your patient ever asked you about natural family planning? Maybe she hasn’t used this term exactly, but maybe she has asked about an alternative to hormonal birth control, or maybe she’s inquired about ways to enhance her fertility, or maybe you are helping her work through irregular pe...

What does being whole mean? That’s up to you! Have you stopped and asked yourself, what is MOST important to me right now? What would help me live the life I want to live? Listen in to this week’s episode of the Wholly a Woman podcast to hear Sunjay Vyas with Stay Whole share his wisdom on how we can take small steps to stay whole ourselves. We never “get” whole. Instead, we keep going on our jour...

Dr. Emily shares an adaptation of a presentation she gave for the MN Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists (MSHP) on having a growth mindset and being engaged in your growth. You CAN be wholly the woman you want to be. Here are the take-aways: -When everything else feels out of your control, what you can control is your mind -If you have a growth mindset, you believe you have the ability to change...

I was thrilled and honored to have Anna Saucier, someone I have looked up to for a long time, on the podcast. Here is what you will hear in this week’s episode: -How Anna heard a calling and leaned into making a bigger impact -Changing a culture: focusing on women’s HEALTH and helping charting instructors / fertility coaches / women’s health professionals be accepted as a profession -Helps these p...

In this week’s episode, Karen Schultz, a FertilityCare Practitioner at the Twin Cities Fertility Care Center and instructor in the Creighton Method of natural family planning, tells us about her experience with NFP and this method. The Creighton Method is a mucus-only method of natural family planning. There is a branch of Creighton called NaPro Technology, which trains medical providers to addres...

Do you go to therapy? Me too! God gave us our minds along with our bodies, so we need to take care of our minds too! There is so much focus on improving our physical selves, which is important, but I don’t see enough focus on improving our mental health too. In this episode, I get real honest about my experiences related to others’ mental health and then my experiences working on my own mental hea...

Lisa Smithen, founder of the UnCaged Phoenix Academy, came on the podcast to share with us how we can get our of our own way and take the steps to transform our lives. Here are some of the take-aways from this powerful episode: -Some of the common blocks women face: doubt, fear, self-sabotage, comparison, listening to others opinions -You might run away first, but trust that God will lead you the...

Are you considering stopping birth control? Have you believed that it is the only effective way you can avoid pregnancy? Are you struggling with wanting to support your body naturally but not knowing where or how to start? On this episode of the “Wholly a Woman” podcast, hear Dr. Emily get interviewed by Dr. Marina Buksov (Dr. Book) on the Rawfork podcast. Dr. Buksov is a pharmacist, herbalist, an...

I was BLOWN AWAY by the wisdom of this 16-year-old young woman. I think it is critical that women need to support other women, especially young women, in being our real selves and celebrating our whole selves. I was blessed to have Jigyasa reach out to me on Instagram Here are some of the take-aways: -Curiosity is the spark of life -Ask yourself: Do I accept myself? Am I being my real self? -Teens...