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A positively fertile mindset
We spend most of our younger years trying desperately to avoid getting pregnant This actually sends a powerful message to the body that we don’t want to be pregnant. This message is further reinforced by all the fear around teenage pregnancy that is fed to us from parents and teachers when we are growing up. …
An inspiring lecture on letting go
This is a lecture from Gabrielle Bernstein at a fertility show in New York. She discusses how when birthing anything in this life we need to be calm and at ease. We need to be in a relaxed state where we trust and are at peace. If however, we are in a place of disbelief…
Why is coffee so bad for Fertility?
Some studies have actually shown a link between high levels of caffeine consumption and delayed conception. So why would that be? Well, there are several reasons. Firstly, caffeine is a diuretic. This means that it will increase the frequency of your urination and this can cause a reduction in your body fluid levels and ultimately…
The fear to fail
Does this sound familiar…. As each month passes I feel overwhelmed, a fear has taken over me. Maybe I’m not fertile enough, maybe we can’t have children. It’s become an obsession, I’m crying all the time, I haven’t felt this anxious or depressed in my life before. I feel like I’m spiralling down hill. It’s…
healthy sweet treats 4 Fertility
Sugar is not your Fertility Friend I’m sure you will have all heard me say how refined sugar is definitely not your fertility friend. There are many reasons for that, namely that sugar causes inflammation in the body. Sugar can also negatively impact hormone balance. So it’s really important that you cut sugar out of…
A Fertility Miracle
This is such a beautiful ted talk about a couple who’d been on a very long fertility journey. They’d done rounds and rounds of Fertility Treatment without success. In fact, they’d even done IVF with the doctor who had invented IVF in the first place. This story really shows us that sometimes the ‘how we…
Are you mothering YOU?
Are you mothering YOU? This is a question I ask my clients a lot. What do I mean by mothering you? Are you looking after your needs, as you would for a crying baby? Taking the time you need to keep yourself balanced and happy on this journey to motherhood is so important. Most of…
The Livers role in Fertility
You might be thinking what’s the liver got to do with my fertility? The answer’s actually a great deal. The liver acts just like the post office in the body, everything that goes in or on the body has to be processed by the liver. Even the mosituriser you put on your skin. In fact…
Is infertility making you feel powerless?
Are you acting out of fear or faith? So often the women who come to see me are the type of women who achieve everything they set out to in life. Intelligent go-getters, you might say. When they aren’t falling pregnant, no matter what they do, they often feel a huge sense of failure and…