Postpartum Anxiety: When You Can't Stop Worrying
You thought you’d be tired, yes, but also happy. Instead, you feel like a stranger in your own life, or maybe you feel nothing at all, and that absence frightens you more than sadness would. Postpartum depression affects up to 1 in 5 women, and that number is likely higher because so many cases go unreported. It responds to treatment, and you don’t have to wait it out.
Morning Sickness and Acupuncture: Relief That Actually Works
You waited so long to see that positive test, and now that you’re finally pregnant, you feel terrible. The nausea hits in waves, sometimes in the morning, sometimes all day. Acupuncture is one of the most effective and well-researched treatments available for pregnancy nausea, working through the nervous system to calm the heightened nausea response without any risk to you or your baby.
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.
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.
Postpartum Depression: Signs and Support
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.
Signs of a Dysregulated Nervous System (And Why It Matters for Fertility)
You're exhausted but can't sleep. Overwhelmed by things that shouldn't be a big deal. Running on a frequency that feels slightly off. If you're also trying to conceive, this matters more than you realize. Your nervous system directly affects your fertility.
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.
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.
Burnout and Your Nervous System: The Road Back to Yourself
Burnout isn't just being tired. It's a bone-deep exhaustion that doesn't lift no matter how much you rest. If you're also in perimenopause, these symptoms overlap and amplify each other. Recovery requires addressing your nervous system, not just your hormones.
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.
Perimenopause Insomnia: Why You Can't Sleep Anymore
You used to be a good sleeper. Now you lie awake for hours, or wake at 3am with your heart racing and mind spinning, unable to fall back asleep. Sleep disruption during perimenopause is one of the most debilitating symptoms of this transition, and it responds to intervention when you understand what's driving it.
Perimenopause Heart Palpitations: What's Happening and When to Pay Attention
Your heart is racing, pounding, fluttering in a way that doesn't make sense. You weren't exercising or anxious, and now your heart is doing something it's never done before. Heart palpitations during perimenopause are common and usually harmless, but they're also frightening. Here's what's actually happening.
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.
Embodied Fertility: Why Your Nervous System Matters for Conception
You've probably heard that stress affects fertility, but being told to "just relax" isn't helpful. The real issue isn't stress. It's what happens when your nervous system gets stuck in survival mode. Here's why your body might not feel safe enough to conceive, and what actually helps.
Reproductive Trauma: What It Is and How It Affects Your Body
When reproductive experiences are painful, frightening, or marked by loss, it can be hard to name what you’re carrying. You might not think of it as trauma, might think you should be over it by now. But your body knows, and your body is keeping score. What makes something traumatic isn’t the event itself, but how your nervous system responded and whether it was able to recover.
Sleep and Your Nervous System: Why Rest Is the Foundation
You've tried the apps, the supplements, the bedtime routines, and still, sleep eludes you. If this sounds familiar, your sleep problem may actually be a nervous system problem. Until you address that, no amount of sleep hygiene will fix it.
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.