Fertile Ground: A mind-body approach to getting pregnant - without it taking over your life.

If you've ever hit that one-year mark and thought, "Okay. That's it. Something's wrong with me…" this episode is going to land in all the cells of your body. In today's Held in Her Stories episode, I sit down with Chelsea — one of the incredible women inside Fertility Mind-Body Mastery — and she lets you into the real behind-the-scenes of her journey: Not the polished Instagram version. The crying to a friend because it's been a year version. The buying every book, every supplement, every device version. The "I'll try anything that worked for someone else" version. You know… the human version. Inside this episode, we go there: The moment she realized she'd spent so much money trying to "do it right"… and why none of it actually touched the part of her that was truly hurting What it really means to be "in tune" with yourself when you're TTC (hint: it does not mean you're pregnant yet, and it does not mean you never have fearful thoughts) The HUGE shift that happened when she stopped outsourcing her decisions to doctors, family, and the internet — and started trusting her own channel again The wild sign she and her husband received on a hill in San Francisco… from a dog… with the exact name they want to give their baby 😭 How FMBM helped her go from critiquing her body (former dancer life, mirror always on "what's wrong") to thanking her body for a cycle and feeling her emotions as proof that she's alive This isn't a story about someone who did one mindset shift and got pregnant overnight. This is about a woman who reclaimed her self-trust, her body, her voice, her creativity, and her life while still on the journey to her baby. Meaning, you don't have to keep waiting to feel good. Listen if… You've bought all the things, done all the things, and still feel like you're failing somehow You secretly believe you have to be perfectly healed / perfectly positive / perfectly self-loving before your baby will come You're tired of fertility content that talks at you instead of making you feel less alone and less broken This episode is a love letter to the part of you that is so done performing and so ready to be loved and accepted — exactly as you are. Let it release all that tension while you go for a walk, fold laundry, or lie in bed doing absolutely nothing productive. You get to be human here. AND incredibly fertile. 👉 LISTEN NOW!

If you've ever thought… ⭐️"I should be further along by now." ⭐️"Once I finally get pregnant, then I'll feel okay." ⭐️"If I don't control this, it won't happen…" …then this week's Fertile Ground episode is for you. It's part of my Held in Her Stories series — real women, real fertility journeys — and this one with my client Macey is… a lot. In the best, most honest way. Macey got pregnant the very first month she tried. Then she miscarried two months later. She was still bleeding from her loss when her best friends announced their pregnancy — the friends she had always dreamed of being pregnant with at the same time. From there, she went straight into:"I need to get pregnant again. I need to catch up. I need that baby back. Once I get that baby, I'll be okay." Every period felt like reliving the miscarriage. Every cycle felt like proof she had "failed" again. Until she found my book Fertile Ground, and then joined Fertility Mind-Body Mastery — not because she was in a good place, but because she was miserable and would've tried anything to feel even a tiny bit of peace again. (Hint: You don't have to feel perfect to ask for help!) In this episode, Macey shares: The moment she realised her suffering was coming more from her perspective than from her circumstances. How she went from obsessively needing a baby to realising, "If I never had kids, my life is actually… beautiful." The difference between clean grief ("I'm sad this didn't happen") and dirty grief ("I messed up, I failed again"). How she stopped treating her body like an enemy and started seeing it as a teammate. The wild month she genuinely found herself looking forward to her period — not because she didn't want a baby, but because she knew she could hold herself through whatever came. Why getting a puppy instead of waiting for a "hypothetical baby" became a nervous-system-level turning point… and what happened right after. 😉 This is not a before-and-after "I suffered, then I did this program, and now everything is perfect" story. It's a story about: ✨Letting go of the pressure to prove you're worthy. ✨Taking the baby off the pedestal (without pretending you don't want it). ✨Learning that you don't have to be "doing more" to deserve love, support, or a beautiful life. ✨What it actually looks like to get your life back while you're still on the fertility journey. If your heart has been heavy lately… If the holidays amplify the ache… If you feel like everyone else is "moving on with their lives" while you're stuck in baby limbo… I would love for you to curl up with a tea, take a deep breath, and listen to this conversation. It's soooo healing! 👉 LISTEN NOW!

If we're honest… for a lot of us, TTC quietly turns our partner into a project. Did you take your vitamins? Don't get in the hot tub. Drink more water. Not that beer. Let me just manage literally everything so this can finally work. On top of tracking, appointments, and Google spirals… you end up carrying the mental load for you, your body, and your partner. And suddenly, the person you fell in love with feels more like… a fertility coworker you're constantly correcting. 😬 Today's podcast is medicine for that part of the journey. 🎧 New episode: Held in His & Her Stories — with my husband, Dan. In this episode, I bring my husband Dan (yes, the famous spreadsheet-loving money guy 😉) onto the mic to talk about: What happens in a marriage when control becomes your default survival strategy How our differences (he's a doer, I'm a feeler) almost pulled us apart… and then became our superpower Why healthy conflict is not a sign something's wrong, but the doorway to deeper intimacy What it actually feels like, from a man's perspective, when he's being micromanaged vs. trusted The quiet, very un-Instagrammable power of vulnerability — and how it made our marriage feel like a dream again (his words, not mine 🥹) We also share really honest stories about resentment, asking for what you need, emotional check-ins, and the moment I stopped being "mom" to my husband… and started letting him rise as my partner again. If you've ever thought: "If I don't control this, it won't happen." "If I let go, everything will fall apart." "I'm exhausted from holding all of this by myself…" …this episode is for you. And if your partner is open to it, this is a beautiful episode to listen to together. Let it be a starting point for one honest conversation about what you each need right now. LISTEN NOW!

Ahhh – you don't want to miss this one! The 2nd episode in our HELD IN HER STORIES series is for the woman who's smart (Like, scientist smart), resourced, doing all the things… and still feeling anxious underneath it all. Today I'm talking to a member of FMBM with a PhD who came into fertility like it was a science experiment — 5 rounds of IVF, deep in the research, treating her body like a problem to solve. And then she walked through IVF and miscarriage… and had to learn how to trust her body again after loss. This convo is raw and so, so validating. We get into: That belief: "If I don't control every detail, it won't work" — and how it actually creates more contraction in the body Anxiety and OCD on the fertility journey (we actually name it) and what it looks like to stop resisting the resistance. Moving from "I can think my way out of this" to "my body is telling me in real time what it needs" Rebuilding trust after loss And the sweetest part: creating relationship with baby before they arrive (her French blue nursery curtains are iconic) She said: "I realized how much I withheld love for myself. Once I let myself have it, I became a better wife, daughter, and future mom." And I have to say it plainly: what she learned inside Fertility Mind-Body Mastery was how to love herself before becoming a mother — so she didn't need a positive pregnancy test to give her permission to do it. The amazing news? Self-love isn't just a cute concept — it's biology. Because when you start loving yourself, your body finally feels safe. Your nervous system settles. Your hormones find balance. Your heart opens up to receive life again. LISTEN NOW!

I'm thrilled to share something brand spankin' new with you — a special Fertile Ground podcast series called HELD IN HER STORIES. These are real conversations with women inside my program, Fertility Mind-Body Mastery, who are rewriting and rewiring what it means to trust life, their bodies, and themselves. Each story is a living example of what happens when we stop trying to "get it right" and start letting ourselves be held — by the messiness of our emotions, the safety of community, and the unseen forces conspiring in our favor. In today's chat – I sat down with Amber, a returning FMBM member who got pregnant with her first baby inside the program. She came back — not because she was broken — but because she wanted to see what this fertility, this pregnancy, this baby had in store for her. In this episode, we explore the moment Amber realized she'd tied her value to a number—and how she gently untied it. We talk about why we so often think we're failing when we're really not, and the difference between shame-based self-awareness and compassionate self-awareness — how one closes you while the other opens you. You'll also hear what joy actually feels like in the body (think: grilled cheeses, pumpkin carving, laughter at the park) and why receiving your real life now isn't "giving up" but actually getting you closer. Plus, we dive into fear vs. desire — letting your desire be just a little louder so your life can change — and how modeling sovereignty for our kids helps them learn to trust themselves, too. "I stopped looking for proof that something was wrong with me, and life got a thousand times easier — even though nothing outside me changed." If you've done all the work and still secretly wonder, "What's wrong with me?" — this one's for you. LISTEN NOW!