THE WHOLESOME FERTILITY PODCAST
EP 161 Is a Positive OPK Enough? | Dr. Amy Divaraniya
Dr. Amy Divaraniya is the CEO and Founder of Oova, a women’s health company. She has more than 10 years of experience as a data scientist and has both led and published original research in the areas of personal genomics and biomarker discovery. Her solid understanding of biology and being able to apply complex analyses have led to innovative projects in the healthcare space. In 2017, Dr. Divaraniya chose to pivot her career as a data scientist and devote herself to improving women’s healthcare. After facing her own struggles with conceiving her son, Dr. Divaraniya decided to build a solution to help women having difficulty getting pregnant. Today, she and her team have built the first at-home test, Oova, that measures multiple hormones through urine samples and provides personalized results and insights on a woman’s fertility. As a response to COVID-19, Oova has done an early release of their product. Oova has resonated with many women and clinicians and is now being adopted by fertility clinics and hospitals across the country.
https://www.oova.life
https://www.facebook.com/OOVAlife/
https://twitter.com/oovalife?lang=en
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#160 What It Means To Honor Your Womb | Rebecca Wilson
Rebecca Wilson facilitates Shamanic Womb Healing & Rites Blessings. She is the Founder of Womb Connection- Healing- Awakening, which has been birthed from her personal journey of Womb Awakening.
Rebecca is a Womb Keeper, Womb Healer, Wise Womban, Spirit Baby & Birth Doula.
She holds a powerful Earth filled Medicine which naturally infuses all her work and offerings, she is deeply connected to nature and finds her inspiration within the elements. Rebecca is a channel for the sacred energies of Divine Mother Frequency, connecting heaven on earth through the new earth templates and earth line grids she holds a healing transmission for the birth of the New Earth.
Her passion is to lovingly hold a space for participants to express themselves fully and creatively. By allowing them to feel comfortable and safe when dipping their toes in vulnerability, Rebecca encourages self expression through embodiment healing which provides a space for each individual to explore and awaken deep energies throughout the physical, emotional and spiritual body.
Rebecca encourages each individual to take their own journey through her offerings, creating a space to tune into their own intuition and inner wisdom.
https://www.rebecca-wilson.com
https://www.facebook.com/Rebeccawilsonyoga
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSKCpkaTHda74b_LhKdEfj71_EFiRlURg
https://www.instagram.com/rebecca_wilson_/?hl=en
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#159 “One Pound, Twelve Ounces”, a Story of Tragedy, Strength, and Triumph | Melissa Harris
Doctors told Melissa Harris she may never have another child. After nine surgeries, years of fertility treatments and a heartbreaking miscarriage of twins, she brought micro-preemie Sam into the world. His fight for survival, alongside his persevering mother's, is the subject of inspiration in Melissa's new memoir ONE POUND, TWELVE OUNCES (Nov. 2, 2021, She Writes Press), a non-medical, non-religious look at premature birth and miscarriage.
Melissa is now a work-from-home account manager for two virtual creative agencies in the Bay Area. In her free time, she drives kids from activities to appointments to playdates, volunteers at the neonatal intensive care unit at Alta Bates Hospital where Sam was born, and helps her congresswoman fight for better health care for all Americans.
For more information, visit Melissa’s website, https://melissaharrisauthor.com/ .
https://www.facebook.com/melissaharrisauthor
https://www.instagram.com/melragent/
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#158 Can a Past Life Trauma Influence Fertility? | Ainslie Macleod
Ainslie MacLeod is an internationally acclaimed past-life psychic, spiritual teacher, and award-winning author of The Instruction, The Transformation, and most recently, The Old Soul’s Guidebook. Ainslie specializes in exploring past lives to reveal your life’s purpose, and has been a featured guest on Oprah’s SuperSoul Conversations Series. He lives on a tranquil island in the Pacific Northwest.
www.ainsliemacleod.com
www.ainsliemacleodart.com
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#157 Fertility Coaching Episode: Healing After Loss
On today’s episode, I had a fertility coaching session with a woman who experienced secondary infertility with a pregnancy loss after getting pregnant a second time. She shared about the heart wrenching loss she experienced and how alone she felt in the process. I know her story will resonate with so many who have experienced loss in the fertility journey. Listen in to find out more!
Links / resources mentioned on this episode:
https://miscarriagehopedesk.com
https://pregnancyafterlosssupport.org
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#156 Navigating The Challenges of Secondary Infertility
On this episode, I gave a fertility consultation to one of my listeners. She had one son with no challenge, so when she tried to have a second child, she was surprised at the challenges she faced. When she went to various doctors, she began uncovering many different conditions. Listen in to hear more on her story as well as our coaching session.
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#155 Can Your Furniture Be Disrupting Your Hormones? | Deborah DiMare
Deborah is a renowned interior design consultant, author, educator and pioneer of the ethical/wellness design movement. She has been executing beautiful living and sensory environments that contribute to the mental and physical health and well being of people and the protection of animals and the planet for nearly 20 years. Her company, DiMare Design, is the only 100% cruelty-free design consulting firm specializing in the creation of organic, optimal spaces, and sourcing vegan textiles and sustainable furniture that bear zero-to-low toxins.
Deborah also heads VeganDesign org, where she educates consumers and designers about humane & healthy design through virtual courses, a blog and a full online shop of cruelty free, vegan and low toxin furniture, décor & curated spaces.
The code Deborah mentioned on the episode is WHOLESOMEFERTILITY25 - you will get 25% off course. Here is the link for more course info https://vegandesign.lpages.co/vegan-safe-nursery-design-course/
Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/designforahealthyhumanehome
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/deborahdimare/?hl=en
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#154 Should Age Define Your Fertility? Dr. Elizabeth Cherevaty
Dr. Elizabeth Cherevaty ND is a Naturopathic Doctor, Perinatal and Pediatrics Wellness Expert and Feminine Leadership Mentor. She is the creator of the Well-Conceived Fertility Method™, an evidence-based program helping women & couples to enhance their fertility, empower their journey, and enrich the health of their future children. She’s also the founder of Fempowered Global™ a community that inspires women globally to embrace their feminine power and create their own definitions of “having it all.”
Her first book, IVF Meal Plan, invites women and couples to discover the power of food to nourish their fertility success.
Website
www.tworivershealth.ca
https://www.instagram.com/dr.elizabeth.cherevaty/
Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/groups/fertilityboostcamp
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# 153 How Heather Askinosie of Energy Muse Used Crystals to Help Her Fertility
Heather Askinosie is a leading influencer on the power of crystals, feng shui, and holistic healing. For over 25 years, she has had the privilege of studying with the best healers from all over the world, who have passed down ancient teachings on how to utilize energy technology. Heather is a co-founder of Energy Muse with business partner Timmi Jandro. Energy Muse is a crystal lifestyle company, providing tools of empowerment, inspiration, and hope in the form of jewelry and crystals. Together, Heather and Timmi are helping people reconnect with the energy of the Earth to align with their highest self, realize their true calling, and tap into their own personal magnificence. You can visit them online at www.energymuse.com.
https://www.instagram.com/energymuse/
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#152 The Spiritual Side of the Fertility Journey | Nancy Weiss
Nancy Weiss is an Intuitive Coach and Reiki Master who supports women in reawakening their intuition and spirituality by empowering them with energy, mindset and manifestation techniques so they can experience profound transformation, trust themselves and feel confident in making their dreams a reality.
Over the last 30 years, Nancy has cultivated her psychic abilities and spiritual practices like using the Law of Attraction, which has enabled her to become a master manifester. She's also helped hundreds of women who are struggling to conceive with 1:1 psychic energy healing and intuitive coaching sessions to help them release blocks, eliminate fear and bring their babies into the world.
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#151 Navigating Pregnancy After Loss | Lindsay Henke
Lindsey Henke is the founder and Executive Director of Pregnancy After Loss Support, a writer, clinical social worker, wife, and most importantly a mother of two beautiful daughters and one sweet-smiling little boy. Tragically, her oldest daughter, Nora was stillborn after a healthy full-term pregnancy in December of 2012. After the safe arrival of her second child, Zoe, in March of 2014, Lindsey was inspired to create a sacred place for other bereaved moms like herself to find support during their pregnancies that followed a loss, and Pregnancy After Loss Support, an online magazine and peer-to-peer support organization, was born. Knowing the journey to and through motherhood is not easy, Lindsey also provides professional support to other mothers struggling with loss, pregnancy after loss, and parenting after loss as a maternal mental health therapist in her private practice in Minneapolis. Lindsey's writing about life after loss has been featured on Scary Mommy, Healthline, Pregnancy & Newborn Magazine, and The New York Times. She is currently working on her first book.
https://lindseymhenke.com
https://pregnancyafterlosssupport.org/
Bereavement Supports: https://pregnancyafterlosssupport.org/get-support/emergency-other-support/ (scroll down to the bottom of the page)
App: https://pregnancyafterlosssupport.org/pregnancy-after-loss-app/
https://www.instagram.com/themotherhoodtherapist/
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#150 How Family Constellation Therapy Can Help Fertility | Natalie Berthold
Natalie Berthold is a leading therapist and teacher of family-systemic therapy (also known as family constellation therapy) and specializes in unlocking trans-generational patterns to free people from what’s holding them back in life. Unresolved family traumas can keep people repeating patterns and unable to move forward in all areas of their life. Natalie helps her clients to lovingly leave those in the past and to move forward unabashedly! Natalie specializes in any and all health issues, couples and relationship issues (or lack thereof) and financial woes. She also combines these skills with a deep spiritual knowing of individuals on a soul level. She really truly believes nothing is impossible and holds that space for each and every client. In fact, Natalie has witnessed countless miracles in her life and those that she works with. It is also not uncommon for Natalie’s clients to claim so much relief in one session that would have taken years in traditional therapy.
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# 149 Navigating Grief with After Chloe Founder Melo Garcia
Melo Garcia, a grief specialist, assisting those who have lost what isn't replaceable by creating After Chloe, an online community and resource space that provide support, resources, and assistance through the difficult grief journey. And to find a way not only to process the pain of loss and grief but to incorporate grieving and living to find a life of living after loss. Melo started and cultivated After Chloe in 2015, with the idea to give the griever a feeling of community and to know that his/her opinions are, in fact, not only valid but that anyone can create a roadmap to find his/her way after the loss.
Melo created AfterChloe.com in honor of her daughter Chloe who passed away in 2011, and after losing both her parents.
And felt it necessary to help others deal with the grief and losses life present from death, divorce, identity, age, fertility, and empty-nesting by creating various types of solutions that the grieving finds a life worth living and to speak your grief in your way, a way that will assist you and inspire you to live and grieve
https://www.instagram.com/afterchloe/
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#148 Are Spirit Babies Trying to Communicate with You? | Nikki Novo
Nikki Novo is a Cuban-American, best-selling author, spiritual teacher and intuitive healer who guides inquisitive souls to find clarity and purpose in all areas of their lives.
A certified hypnotherapist with the International Association of Counselors and Therapists, ThetaHealer(r), and Reiki healer, her work is focused on providing spirituality seekers a community for their hearts and spirits to flourish.
Her ability to hold space for her students in a gentle and powerful way has paved the way for thousands to be enlightened, awakened and activated by Soul Academy™, on-demand courses with live group coaching; heart-centered through her #1 best-selling book, “The Final Swipe;” and certified as a Soul Teacher in her proprietary certification program.
Dedicated to holistic health and wellness, Nikki has been commissioned to speak by organizations like Equinox, Yahoo, Bumble, Aveeno, Macy’s, and many others. She has been featured in Oprah Magazine, Marie Claire, NBC, and Telemundo as well as on popular podcasts like Almost 30, Balanced Blonde and That’s So Retrograde.
http://nikkinovo.com
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#147 Navigating the Unknowns of the Fertility Journey | Alice Rose
Alice Rose is a mindset mentor for anyone longing for a baby. After going through many rounds of fertility treatment to have her two IVF children, she knows how isolating the experience can be but also how to find a new perspective, even while going through the pain and grief of failed rounds and negative tests. Alice's mission is to support and empower people at any stage of their journey and whatever happens in it, through her memberships; one to one coaching, online courses and meditations. She also works on changing the social narrative around fertility by sharing stories on her podcast, writing for publications like Red magazine and Harpers Bazaar as well as getting commissioned to create a week of fertility content for the UK's biggest radio station Radio 2, working both as producer and as their fertility communications consultant to offer insight and advice and encourage better media representation. She is also a big fan of a kitchen disco and a good cup of coffee!
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thisisalicerose
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#146 Born Without a Uterus, Jennifer Gobrecht Found a Way to Become Pregnant!
Jennifer Gobrecht was told by doctors at age 17 that she was unlikely to have a child because she was born without a womb. This was because Jennifer has a rare genetic condition referred to as MRKH and occurs in 1 in every 14,500 women. Jennifer signed up for a trial at Penn Medicine to received a uterine transplant in 2018 which was a very complicated procedure that took 10 hours. After her long and difficult journey, Jennifer became pregnant and welcomed a beautiful baby boy. I am so excited for you to hear her miraculous story!
https://www.instagram.com/delcomrkhjen/
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#145 Preparing Your Body for Conception | Nora Debora
Nora DeBora is a Preconception Health Coach, Holistic Nutritionist and Fertility Awareness Practitioner who helps women prepare their bodies for pregnancy and have a healthy baby after 30. Through her signature program, Master Your Cycle To Get Pregnant, she teaches women how to optimize their hormones and fertility by harnessing the power of their menstrual cycle with nutrition and self care practices. When she’s not coaching, you can find her indulging in gourmet burgers, sweating in a yoga class, or on long hikes with her husky.
www.naturallynora.ca
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#144 PCOS & Fertility Health | Caitlin Johnson
Caitlin Johnson is a registered dietitian who loves great food– and people even more! She started her own family naturally in spite of a PCOS diagnosis. Now she uses her experience, evidence-based nutrition, and expertise to guide other women with PCOS into healing and fertility. You can find her on Instagram @PCOSFERTILITYNUTRITION.
#143 Stesha Reukauf | Conceiving naturally effortlessly
Stesha Reukauf is a Holistic Fertility Practitioner, Board Certified, focused on aligning the body, mind and spirit for optimal health & fertility for women. Through her signature course, Holistic Fertility Method, Stesha teaches women who have been struggling to conceive on their own or who are at the end of the road of what conventional medicine can offer them, to get to the root of their fertility challenges and create a holistic body-mind-soul practice to drastically increase health & fertility.
www.steshareaukauf.com
Instagram: @stesha.reukauf
Facebook: @steshaRcoaching
#142 Are Your Hormones Imbalanced? | Candace Burch Discusses Saliva Tests, Hormone Balancing, and Fertility!
Candace Burch is the founder of Your Hormone Balance and a founding member of Women in Balance, one of the first nonprofits in the country to advocate for women’s hormone health. Her goal is to help people naturally rebalance their hormones to relieve symptoms and restore balance in their lives. Candace has spent the last 30 years as a health educator, journalist, and women’s health advocate raising public awareness about natural hormone health, including lobbying senators on Capitol Hill for safe access to bio-identical alternatives to hormone replacement therapy.
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Instagram: @yourhormonebalance
Podcast: “WTF: Women Talking Frankly”