Unexplained Infertility: When All Your Tests Are Normal
All your tests came back normal, but you're still not pregnant. Unexplained infertility is one of the most frustrating diagnoses because it feels like there's nothing to fix. But "unexplained" doesn't mean "untreatable." It means we need to look deeper.
Acupuncture & IVF: How to Support Your Cycle Before, During, & After Transfer
If you're preparing for IVF, you've probably wondered whether acupuncture can actually improve your chances. The research says yes, and the benefits go beyond what most clinics tell you. Here's what the science shows and how to time your treatments for maximum impact.
PMS and PMDD: Why You Feel So Bad Before Your Period
The week before your period arrives and you become someone you barely recognize. The irritability, the anxiety, the feeling of being completely overwhelmed. You've been told this is just hormones, but severe PMS isn't something you have to accept.
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.
Perimenopause Hot Flashes: What's Really Happening and What Helps
It comes without warning. A wave of heat, flushing, sweating, and then it passes, leaving you damp and sometimes chilled. Hot flashes aren't just a hormonal glitch to manage. Like every symptom of perimenopause, they carry information about how you've been living and what your body can no longer sustain.
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.
How Does Thyroid Affect Fertility?
Your thyroid affects every cell in your body, including your reproductive system. But thyroid issues often go undiagnosed in women trying to conceive, even when they're the hidden cause of infertility or miscarriage. Here's what your doctor might be missing
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.
Perimenopause Diet: What to Eat for Hormone Balance
You've heard that diet matters during perimenopause, but the advice is overwhelming and contradictory. The approach that actually works isn't a restrictive diet or complicated protocol. It's learning to nourish yourself in a way that stabilizes blood sugar, supports your nervous system, and reduces inflammation.
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.
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.
Perimenopause Brain Fog: What's Happening and What Helps
You walk into a room and forget why you're there. You search for a word you've used a thousand times and it's gone. Many women fear they're developing dementia. Perimenopause brain fog is real, it has causes, and for most women, it improves. You're not losing your mind.
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.
Male Factor Fertility: What Men Can Do to Improve Sperm Health
When couples struggle to conceive, the focus is usually on the woman. But male factor contributes to nearly half of all infertility cases. If you're trying to conceive, here's what men can do to improve sperm health and why it matters more than most couples realize.