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Welcome to your no B.S. approach to creating the family of your DREAMS when you’re dealing with Fertility Issues, aka ”Infertility”! Whether you can get pregnant naturally or need medical assistance, Finding Fertility can help you maximise your chances of getting and staying pregnant by using science-backed Holistic Functional Fertility Health Coaching!
Friday May 07, 2021
Friday May 07, 2021
“The number one thing missing from your diet is your mindset.”
Topics Discussed:
🦩How diet affects your inflammation levels.
🦩How trauma affects your health.
🦩Secondary infertility explained.
🦩What to do for endometriosis.
In this episode, I am answering your questions and we dive into some really good ones. We dive more into diets and the importance of finding the foods you are intolerant to. In addition, we talk about timing. It can be easy to want things to happen right away when we change up our diet and lifestyle habits and when we don’t see the immediate change we can throw our hands up and tell ourselves we tried. But these changes do not happen overnight.
“You don’t have to be perfect to get pregnant.”
We have spent years adding to our inflammation problems, and unhealthy habits, and it can take time to restore our body’s health. In addition, we talk about what secondary infertility is and how it is similar and different from unexplained infertility. In addition, we dive a bit into endometriosis and what it is, and how to deal with it.
With new diet and lifestyle changes you need to keep going.”
Let's Do This Together
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Monica
🦩 Download your FREE PDF guide:: 3 Step Guide to Improving Your Chances of Getting & Staying Pregnant || https://www.findingfertility.co/free3stepguide
🌺 Get Steps Closer to Getting & Staying Pregnant with the Fertility Food Program || https://www.findingfertility.co/FerilityFood
Connect with Monica over on:
Instagram: https://bit.ly/FindingFertilityIG
TikTok: https://bit.ly/FindingFertilityTikTok
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Anything written or said about health and diet are my opinions, that I have formed over the years, through trial and error, study, reading, listening and observing. What worked for me may not work for you. I am not a doctor, nutritionist or dietician and all medical advice should be gotten from a qualified professional. Product recommendations are based on what I used during my infertility journey or wish I had.
Friday Apr 30, 2021
Friday Apr 30, 2021
“If your cycle is irregular this is a big sign that your health is not where it should be.”
Topics Discussed:
🦩Are irregular menstrual cycles normal?
🦩What is normal when you have your period?
🦩How we should approach and respond to tests.
🦩What is the best type of food intolerance tests and are they all similar?
Growing up we are not often educated on what is normal and what is not when it comes to our menstrual cycles. Our education or parental guidance can sometimes be next to none. Even doctors can sometimes tell us that the severe symptoms we are experiencing are normal when in fact they are not.
“It’s not normal to have severe menstrual symptoms.”
We have to be intentional with both learnings about our bodies and listening to our bodies. There is no one size fits and no cycle that will look exactly the same, but we have to learn what is regular for us. We shouldn’t be experiencing severe mood swings or severe symptoms when we PMS, but take that as a sign that something is off with our overall health and learn how to correct that.
“Normal is having a healthy flow that is regular for you every month.”
Like other symptoms that can flare up in our bodies, our cycle can be a tell-tale sign of how we are doing and we need to be aware of it and not necessarily take things at face value just because that’s what we were taught or we’ve been told “that’s just how it is.”
“Your gut is like a different gut every 7-8 days.”
Let's Do This Together
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Monica
🦩 Download your FREE PDF guide:: 3 Step Guide to Improving Your Chances of Getting & Staying Pregnant || https://www.findingfertility.co/free3stepguide
🌺 Get Steps Closer to Getting & Staying Pregnant with the Fertility Food Program || https://www.findingfertility.co/FerilityFood
Connect with Monica over on:
Instagram: https://bit.ly/FindingFertilityIG
TikTok: https://bit.ly/FindingFertilityTikTok
🎙 Subscribe on your favourite podcast platform:
Apple: http://bit.ly/FINDINGFERTILITYAPPLE
Google Play: http://bit.ly/FINDINGFERTILITYGOOGLEPLAY
Stitcher: http://bit.ly/FindingFertilitySTITCHER
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3eHuAKZ
🍍Support Finding Fertility & shop for your favourite fertility-friendly products over on:
Seeking Health:https://bit.ly/FFSeekingHealth Amazon:http://bit.ly/FindingFertilityAmazon
🍍
Anything written or said about health and diet are my opinions, that I have formed over the years, through trial and error, study, reading, listening and observing. What worked for me may not work for you. I am not a doctor, nutritionist or dietician and all medical advice should be gotten from a qualified professional. Product recommendations are based on what I used during my infertility journey or wish I had.
Friday Apr 23, 2021
Friday Apr 23, 2021
Infertility is all about finding that root cause.
Topics Discussed:
🦩Diets for PCOS
🦩The Importance of your thyroid health.
🦩Getting your spouse on board.
In today’s episode, I am answering questions I have received. Everyone’s journey is unique and not the same exact thing will work for everyone, but there are many commonalities and we can learn from each other on this journey. While diet is extremely important, there is no one size fits all to diets, and we have to be cautious of anyone who flat out tells us we need to be on a certain diet if we have had extensive food intolerance testing.
We don’t want just ‘fine'.
I also dive into thyroid health and how big of a role your thyroid plays in your journey to getting pregnant. I also tackle the tough topic of getting your spouse on board if they are unwilling. I share my own story of dealing with my spouse in the beginning and how I came to a breaking point and had to have a conversation with him about supporting me and the importance of doing this together.
You have to find your food intolerances.
Remember this is a journey and we can’t expect to have all the answers at once, but to slowly make steps and build upon them as we make strides to our ultimate goal of getting pregnant and carrying to birth.
You’ll need three months to improve both egg and sperm quality.
Let's Do This Together
💚
Monica
🦩 Download your FREE PDF guide:: 3 Step Guide to Improving Your Chances of Getting & Staying Pregnant || https://www.findingfertility.co/free3stepguide
🌺 Get Steps Closer to Getting & Staying Pregnant with the Fertility Food Program || https://www.findingfertility.co/FerilityFood
Connect with Monica over on:
Instagram: https://bit.ly/FindingFertilityIG
TikTok: https://bit.ly/FindingFertilityTikTok
🎙 Subscribe on your favourite podcast platform:
Apple: http://bit.ly/FINDINGFERTILITYAPPLE
Google Play: http://bit.ly/FINDINGFERTILITYGOOGLEPLAY
Stitcher: http://bit.ly/FindingFertilitySTITCHER
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3eHuAKZ
🍍Support Finding Fertility & shop for your favourite fertility-friendly products over on:
Seeking Health:https://bit.ly/FFSeekingHealth Amazon:http://bit.ly/FindingFertilityAmazon
🍍
Anything written or said about health and diet are my opinions, that I have formed over the years, through trial and error, study, reading, listening and observing. What worked for me may not work for you. I am not a doctor, nutritionist or dietician and all medical advice should be gotten from a qualified professional. Product recommendations are based on what I used during my infertility journey or wish I had.
Friday Apr 16, 2021
Friday Apr 16, 2021
Functional medicine should not be a class or money thing.
Topics Discussed:
🦩The top two things you need to commit to finding your right diet.
🦩The importance of accountability.
🦩Why you need self-love.
🦩How willpower is not enough.
When it comes to following through with things we are much more likely to stick with something when someone else is counting on us. This is why accountability is so important on our infertility journey. Both accountability to ourselves and accountability to others is a vital key to our success.
You need accountability.
One thing I have found working with women on this journey and from my own personal journey is that we are really bad with self negativity sometimes. We tell ourselves we are to blame for this, or it is punishment for past mistakes, or we aren’t fit enough. Whatever it is, we tend to talk down to ourselves. But we have to switch this self-sabotage to a dialogue of self-love with ourselves.
I love to hold myself accountable for the things I believe are going to get me to my goal.
Another thing I address in this episode is willpower. We are told that we just need more willpower to exercise, more willpower to eat healthily, etc. But in truth willpower alone is not enough. We have ingrained habits that we have developed over years and there is emotion tied to many of our eating decisions, and stress plays a role and we can’t just expect to “will” those things away all of a sudden. Instead, we have to explore and understand our patterns and make slow adjustments.
We have ingrained patterns that we have to explore and understand.
Let's Do This Together
💚
Monica
🦩 Download your FREE PDF guide:: 3 Step Guide to Improving Your Chances of Getting & Staying Pregnant || https://www.findingfertility.co/free3stepguide
🌺 Get Steps Closer to Getting & Staying Pregnant with the Fertility Food Program || https://www.findingfertility.co/FerilityFood
Connect with Monica over on:
Instagram: https://bit.ly/FindingFertilityIG
TikTok: https://bit.ly/FindingFertilityTikTok
🎙 Subscribe on your favourite podcast platform:
Apple: http://bit.ly/FINDINGFERTILITYAPPLE
Google Play: http://bit.ly/FINDINGFERTILITYGOOGLEPLAY
Stitcher: http://bit.ly/FindingFertilitySTITCHER
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3eHuAKZ
🍍Support Finding Fertility & shop for your favourite fertility-friendly products over on:
Seeking Health:https://bit.ly/FFSeekingHealth Amazon:http://bit.ly/FindingFertilityAmazon
🍍
Anything written or said about health and diet are my opinions, that I have formed over the years, through trial and error, study, reading, listening, and observing. What worked for me may not work for you. I am not a doctor, nutritionist or dietician and all medical advice should be gotten from a qualified professional. Product recommendations are based on what I used during my infertility journey or wish I had.
Friday Mar 26, 2021
Friday Mar 26, 2021
We can do ourselves a huge favor by sometimes sitting down and being still.
Topics Discussed:
🦩Steps to find your fertility.
🦩Changing your lifestyle.
🦩The importance of rest and recovery.
🦩How the Finding Fertility Program works.
When it comes to your fertility journey it can be overwhelming knowing where to start. There is so much information out there, and there are many things that contradict each other. But that doesn’t mean there are no true answers out there because there are. I really wanted to lay out in this episode some key elements that you have to be doing on your fertility journey.
“Shift the mindset.”
I lay out the beginning steps you need to be taking to adjust your lifestyle, from your mental state to your eating habits, to your physical health. We think that we have to push ourselves to our limit in order to be healthy and reach our family goals, but in reality that can harm more than it can help. I talk about finding the balance, and why it is so necessary.
“Your mindset controls your actions.”
I also talk about my fertility program and offer some insight as to what it includes how it has helped others and share how it works so that you can better decide if it is a right fit for you.
Find ways to love yourself.
Let's Do This Together
💚
Monica
🦩 Download your FREE PDF guide :: 3 Step Guide to Improving Your Chances of Getting & Staying Pregnant || https://www.findingfertility.co/free3stepguide
🌺 Get Steps Closer to Getting & Staying Pregnant with the Fertility Food Program || https://www.findingfertility.co/FerilityFood
Connect with Monica over on:
Instagram: https://bit.ly/FindingFertilityIG
TikTok: https://bit.ly/FindingFertilityTikTok
🎙 Subscribe on your favourite podcast platform:
Apple: http://bit.ly/FINDINGFERTILITYAPPLE
Google Play: http://bit.ly/FINDINGFERTILITYGOOGLEPLAY
Stitcher: http://bit.ly/FindingFertilitySTITCHER
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3eHuAKZ
🍍Support Finding Fertility & shop for your favourite fertility-friendly products over on:
Seeking Health:https://bit.ly/FFSeekingHealth Amazon:http://bit.ly/FindingFertilityAmazon
🍍
Anything written or said about health and diet are my opinions, that I have formed over the years, through trial and error, study, reading, listening and observing. What worked for me may not work for you. I am not a doctor, nutritionist or dietician and all medical advice should be gotten from a qualified professional. Product recommendations are based on what I used during my infertility journey or wish I had.
Friday Mar 05, 2021
Friday Mar 05, 2021
“Motherhood doesn’t define us.”
Topics Discussed:
🦩Focusing inward on our journey.
🦩The importance of focusing on your mindset.
🦩Finding your value.
🦩Maintaining sanity during this pandemic.
On today's episode of the Finding Fertility Podcast :: How to Deal With the Lows of Infertility
We know that this journey of infertility can be extremely difficult. It can cause us to question our very worth. It causes us to question if we have a purpose if we are unable to get pregnant and brings our womanhood into question.
But I am here to tell you in this episode that motherhood does not define you as a whole. You are worth so much, and you have so much to give outside of children. We can wrap our identities up so much into getting pregnant that we forget our value aside from that.
“The number one thing missing from your diet is your mindset.”
In this episode, I dive into the importance of recognizing our worth. In addition, I talk about our mindset. When it comes to issues that we find as we begin to take tests on why we are infertile, the root of it almost always comes back around to an unhealthy diet, mindset, and lifestyle. When we begin to focus on those three key areas, often the underlying problems relating to our infertility disappear.
“You don’t have to be perfect to get pregnant.”
It can be overwhelming when we think of taking on all those three main things, diet, mindset, and lifestyle, especially when put on top of the pandemic we are in, and our infertility. But it doesn’t have to be all at once.
Focus on one small step you can take to move towards a healthier diet or lifestyle. Get comfortable with that one thing, then add one other thing in, and begin to slow step your way towards a healthier you.
“There are simple ways you can start moving your body.’
Let's Do This Together
💚
Monica
🦩 Download your FREE PDF guide :: 3 Step Guide to Improving Your Chances of Getting & Staying Pregnant || https://www.findingfertility.co/free3stepguide
🌺 Get Steps Closer to Getting & Staying Pregnant with the Fertility Food Program || https://www.findingfertility.co/FerilityFood
Connect with Monica over on:
Instagram: https://bit.ly/FindingFertilityIG
TikTok: https://bit.ly/FindingFertilityTikTok
🎙 Subscribe on your favourite podcast platform:
Apple: http://bit.ly/FINDINGFERTILITYAPPLE
Google Play: http://bit.ly/FINDINGFERTILITYGOOGLEPLAY
Stitcher: http://bit.ly/FindingFertilitySTITCHER
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3eHuAKZ
🍍Support Finding Fertility & shop for your favourite fertility-friendly products over on:
Seeking Health:https://bit.ly/FFSeekingHealth Amazon:http://bit.ly/FindingFertilityAmazon
🍍
Anything written or said about health and diet are my opinions, that I have formed over the years, through trial and error, study, reading, listening and observing. What worked for me may not work for you. I am not a doctor, nutritionist or dietician and all medical advice should be gotten from a qualified professional. Product recommendations are based on what I used during my infertility journey or wish I had.
Friday Jan 01, 2021
Friday Jan 01, 2021
“There’s no one perfect way to health.”
Topics Discussed:
🦩How to start off your health journey.
🦩Why you have to deal with stress properly.
🦩The importance of community and accountability.
🦩Why less is more with supplements.
How to Make 2021 Your Year Increase Your Chances of Getting & Stay Pregnant
When it comes to getting healthier and building new habits, we often think that we have to find the perfect diet or nutrition plan, but in reality, there is no perfect one size fits all plan. Each of us is uniquely individual and has to find what works best for us.
“Don’t underestimate the stress you may be going through.”
Stress is another big factor when it comes to fertility health. We often sweep our stress under the rug or turn to binging a tv show or having a few adult beverages to destress, but these things can actually cause more stress. So what things should you be implementing to deal with stress?
“We have to make sure we are controlling our own environments.”
So let’s together stop wishing and start doing and make 2021 our year to take charge of our health, our stress, and our fertility.
Let's Do This Together
💚
Monica
🍍Support Finding Fertility & shop for your favourite fertility-friendly products over on:
Seeking Health:https://bit.ly/FFSeekingHealth Amazon:http://bit.ly/FindingFertilityAmazon
Friday Dec 11, 2020
Friday Dec 11, 2020
Hello Beautiful
In this episode, I sit down with Stephaine Courtney the founder of The Learning Project.
“I’m dealing with something and don’t even know where to start.”
She shares with us her own personal story of infertility as well as how she came up with the idea to start an organization that gives all children the opportunity to succeed.
“Don’t be afraid to take control of your journey.”
We dive into the feelings of guilt and shame that come when you first realize you are not able to get pregnant and how that can affect our relationship with not only ourselves but with our significant other.
Often we ignore our own needs and it is important to build ourselves up so that we can be strong and stable.
“You can know so much about nutrition and still not do it.”
In addition, we talk about stress levels and how drastically they can affect both our mental health as well as our infertility. We hope this episode encourages you no matter where you are at in your fertility journey!
Topics Discussed:
🦩The guilt of not being able to get pregnant.
🦩How stress affects us.
🦩Work and life balance and how to change your outlook.
Connect with Stephaine Courtney :
🍍Support Finding Fertility & shop for your favourite fertility-friendly products over on:
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Friday Nov 27, 2020
Friday Nov 27, 2020
When I first started off with yoga I hated it, I struggled with sitting still, and my mind fought it.
Along my journey as I continued practicing it, things finally hit for me and I saw yoga’s ability to transform my thinking, and how it allowed me to deal with difficult situations and difficult people in my life in a healthy way.
In this episode I sit down with Erin, founder of Fertile Hope Yoga.
She explains how yoga allows us to open up emotionally, and how it healed her after growing up being an unwanted child. She talks about the flow our bodies are able to get into both the physical and mental working together to shower out love and peace around us.
Yoga’s ability to help our mindset cannot be expressed enough. I also share my own hesitations and what happened when I finally “gave in” to yoga and embraced it.
Topics Discussed:
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Connect with Erin:
Website: https://fertilehopeyoga.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fertilehopeyoga/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fertilehopeyoga/
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/fertilehopeyoga/_created/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/fertilehopeyoga?reload=9
Connect with us!
🦩Download your FREE 3 Things that can make all the difference in helping you get & stay pregnant here: https://www.findingfertility.co/perfectfertilitydiet
🌺 Get Steps Closer to Getting & Staying Pregnant with a Personalized Health Coaching:https://www.findingfertility.co/FertilityHealthCoaching
Instagram: https://bit.ly/FindingFertilityIG
TikTok: https://bit.ly/FindingFertilityTikTok
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🎙 Subscribe on your favourite podcast platform:
Apple: http://bit.ly/FINDINGFERTILITYAPPLE
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Stitcher: http://bit.ly/FindingFertilitySTITCHER
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3eHuAKZ
🍍 Anything written or said about health and diet are my opinions, that I have formed over the years, through trial and error, study, reading, listening and observing. What worked for me, may not work for you. I am not a doctor, nutritionist or dietician and all medical advice should be gotten from a qualified professional. Product recommendations are based on what I used during my infertility journey or wish I had.
Friday Oct 30, 2020
Friday Oct 30, 2020
In this episode, I sit down with Melissa from Confetti and Vodka and we talk about her own infertility journey.
Her husband had battles and overcame cancer, and they battled infertility together.
From having to move out of the country to transferring sperm that was taken 10 years ago, she shares the trials that she went through.
Amidst it all Melissa shares how she was completely open about the journey she and her husband were going through and she expresses how that helped them so much in an otherwise lonely time of moving out of the country and going through all the things associated with infertility.
We also talk about having a life outside of your infertility journey and how that can be stressful in and of itself when we have to give up some of the things we love to focus on our infertility journey, but we also discuss how important it is to hold onto the things that bring us joy in life.
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Connect with Melissa from @confettiandvodka:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/confettiandvodka
Connect with us!
🍍🦩Download your FREE 3 Things that can make all the difference in helping you get & stay pregnant here: https://www.findingfertility.co/perfectfertilitydiet
🌺 Get Steps Closer to Getting & Staying Pregnant with a Personalized Health Coaching:https://www.findingfertility.co/FertilityHealthCoaching
Instagram: https://bit.ly/FindingFertilityIG
TikTok: https://bit.ly/FindingFertilityTikTok
🍍HELP SUPPORT THE SHOW 🍍
You can shop for your favourite fertility support products over on:
Seeking Health:https://bit.ly/FFSeekingHealth & Amazon:http://bit.ly/FindingFertilityAmazon
🎙 Subscribe on your favourite podcast platform:
Apple: http://bit.ly/FINDINGFERTILITYAPPLE
Google Play: http://bit.ly/FINDINGFERTILITYGOOGLEPLAY
Stitcher: http://bit.ly/FindingFertilitySTITCHER
🍍 Anything written or said about health and diet are my opinions, that I have formed over the years, through trial and error, study, reading, listening, and observing. What worked for me, may not work for you. I am not a doctor, nutritionist or dietician and all medical advice should be gotten from a qualified professional. Product recommendations are based on what I used during my infertility journey or wish I had.
