Best Supplements for Fertility: An Evidence-Based Guide
Which fertility supplements actually work? An evidence-based guide to CoQ10, vitamin D, folate, omega-3s, and more, plus how to build a protocol that fits your situation.
Acupuncture During Pregnancy: What's Safe and What Helps
When someone suggests acupuncture during pregnancy, your first question is probably whether it’s safe. The short answer is yes. Acupuncture is safe throughout pregnancy when performed by a practitioner trained in prenatal care, and it can help with many of the discomforts that come with each trimester, from nausea and back pain to anxiety and labor preparation.
Acupuncture and Fertility: A Complete Guide
You've never been an anxious person. But now there's a buzzing in your chest that won't settle, a sense of dread you can't explain. You're wondering if something is wrong with you. What you're experiencing has a cause, and that cause isn't a character flaw or a mental breakdown.
Chronic Stress and Your Body: What's Actually Happening
Chronic stress is a physiological state that affects your hormones, digestion, immune function, sleep, and fertility. Here's what's actually happening in your body.
How to Improve Egg Quality: What the Research Shows
You've been told your egg quality is declining and there's nothing you can do. That's not the whole story. While you can't change your age, research shows you can influence the environment where your eggs develop, and that matters more than most women realize.
The Vagus Nerve: Why It Matters for Your Health
The vagus nerve is the main communication line between your brain and your body. When it functions well, you can digest, rest, and recover. When it doesn't, everything suffers.
Anxiety and Fertility: Breaking the Cycle
If you’ve been told to “just relax,” you know how unhelpful that advice is. The relationship between anxiety and fertility is real, but the solution isn’t forcing yourself to calm down. We work on anxiety because you’re suffering, and you don’t have to suffer this much, and because when your nervous system settles, your body often responds in ways that support conception.
How to Regulate Your Nervous System: A Beginner's Guide
If you've realized your nervous system is dysregulated, the next question is: what do you actually do about it? The internet is full of vagus nerve hacks, but most are missing the bigger picture. Here's where to actually start.
Painful Periods: What Your Body Is Telling You
You've been told painful periods are normal and to just push through. But there's a difference between mild discomfort and debilitating pain. If your periods are disrupting your life, your body is trying to tell you something, and it's worth listening to.
Women's Health and Hormone Balance: An Integrative Approach
Your hormones affect everything: your energy, mood, sleep, weight, and cycles. When they're balanced, you feel like yourself. When they're not, something feels off, even if you can't pinpoint what. Here's how to understand what your body is telling you.
Perimenopause Symptoms: What Your Body Is Actually Telling You
You're lying awake at night, gaining weight despite not changing anything, and feeling like a stranger in your own body. If this sounds familiar, you're likely in perimenopause. These symptoms aren't random. Your body is trying to tell you something.
Somatic Healing: What It Is and How It Works
Somatic healing works with the body directly, helping resolve patterns that talk therapy and thinking alone can't shift. Here's what it is and how it actually works.
Trauma and the Body: How Unresolved Stress Affects Your Health
Many people carry unresolved stress in their bodies without realizing it. They come to us with physical symptoms that don’t have clear medical explanations: chronic pain, digestive issues, hormonal imbalances, difficulty conceiving. They’ve had tests, everything comes back normal, but they don’t feel normal. Often, the missing piece is the nervous system, and often, the nervous system is holding something it hasn’t been able to let go of.
Co-Regulation: Why We Heal in Connection
Co-regulation is the process of one nervous system helping another find calm. It explains why isolation makes stress worse and why healing often happens in relationships.
Secondary Infertility: When Conceiving Again Feels Hard
You got pregnant before. Maybe it happened easily, maybe it took some time, but it happened. Now you're trying again, and it's not working. Secondary infertility is more common than most people realize, and there are reasons why it happens. Understanding those reasons opens the door to addressing them.
Perimenopause Rage: Why It Happens and What Your Anger Is Telling You
You used to be patient. You used to let things go. Now the smallest things send you over the edge, and you feel ashamed of it. Your rage isn't a malfunction or a character flaw. It's information, and if you're willing to listen, it might be one of the most important messengers of this transition.
Fertility Diet: What Actually Helps
You’ve heard diet matters for fertility, and the advice is overwhelming and often contradictory. What the research actually shows is that the way you eat can reduce your risk of ovulatory infertility by up to 66%, but not through restriction or complicated protocols. The approach that works is simpler and more sustainable: eat in a way that stabilizes blood sugar, reduces inflammation, and gives your body what it needs to support conception.
Egg Freezing & Acupuncture: Preparing Your Body for Retrieval
You've been told your egg quality is declining and there's nothing you can do. That's not the whole story. While you can't change your age, research shows you can influence the environment where your eggs develop, and that matters more than most women realize.
Fight, Flight, Freeze: What's Happening in Your Body
Fight, flight, and freeze are your body's survival responses. Learning to recognize what each feels like in your body is the first step toward regulating your nervous system.
Fertility After 40: A Realistic and Hopeful Guide
You've heard the statistics about fertility decline after 40, and they're discouraging. But statistics are averages. They don't tell your individual story. Here's a realistic look at what's possible and what actually improves your chances at this stage.