Badass Fertility

By Kathryn BregmanAlternative Health Health & Fitness

Badass Fertility episodes

August 21, 2024 Ep. 62 - Manifest Your baby in 2024: 4 Tips to Get and Stay Pregnant
2024 is halfway over, but there’s still time left to make this the year you get pregnant. You’ve probably done all of the practical things to try and make it happen. This
episode is going to cover some highly effective tips that you may not have considered. These may seem a little “woo-woo” but I’ve seen them work wonders for the women who apply them (including myself), and I’m excited
to see what they can do for you! After all, what have you got to lose by putting one or two into practice ASAP?

After listening to this episode drop me a DM on Instagram and lmk what you thought of the tips and which one you’re going to try first! Find me @badassfertility

Want to learn more about what might be blocking your baby? Grab my Free E-booklet: 3 Surprising
Habits that Block Your Baby while it’s available.
22 min
August 14, 2024Ep. 61 - Is Energy Work for Real? The Energetic Fertility Method in Action with Kathleen Magnus
On today’s show we sit down with Kathleen Magnus. Kathleen has an incredible fertility journey that involves being pregnant 11 times in 8 years, including one stillbirth. Today she has two healthy kids (with another on the way).
Kathleen has studied under a line of energetic fertility experts and now uses what she learned to serve other women on the path to their babies.
When she found the renowned author of the book Spirit Babies, Walter Mikichen, Kathleen was at her lowest point.
She was consumed with questions like: Why me? Am I being punished? And she was genuinely depressed.
As a former corporate world-woman, she’d never done anything like a spirit baby reading before, but what she learned completely changed her life.

Join us as we talk about:
Reiki

Energy blocks

How to connect with your sprit baby

Quantum physics

The importance of stretching your comfort zone

How the seemingly worst things in life can become our
greatest opportunities for growth and healing.
Want to do a reading with Kathleen? Click here:
Interested in learning more about her “Introduction To
Spirit Babies” course? Click HERE
Looking for high vibe inspiration and down to earth information from an authentic, supportive source who's been there? Follow me on Instagram @BadassFertility
Interested in learning more about what could be blocking your baby? Grab my Free E-Book, 3 Surprising Habits that Block Your Baby
47 min
August 07, 2024Ep. 60 - What's 5 Element Acupuncture and Can it Help with Getting Pregnant?
On today’s episode of the Badass Fertility Podcast we sit
down with Dr Susan Fox. As a practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine and 5 Element Acupuncture for the last 23 years, Dr. Fox specializes in women’s health and fertility.
We dive deep into the mind body connection exploring how
everything from our personalities to our periods can be explained, understood and optimized using this 5,000+ year old system
Dr. Susan shares her decades of experience in this field. Among the top insights we cover are:
Demand your right to grieve. Grief is the flip
side of love. When something you love is missing or threatened grief is natural. Honor your grief.

Why infertility is an overused and inaccurate
term.

Why clinical sub-fertility is a more accurate and helpful term to describe most women's struggle to get or stay pregnant

The Western medical model is great for many
things, but it divides the human body into inaccurately discreet parts without accounting for the whole.

Traditional Chinese Medicine looks at body-mind and spirit to paint a richer picture of the patient and diagnose treatment on all levels.
Links to Dr. Susan:
Take the FERTILITY QUIZ
Learn more about the Health YOUniveristy
Visit Dr. Susan's WebsiteBadass Fertility:
For high vibe inspiration, down to earth information and authentic support from someone who's been there, follow me on Instagram @BadassFertility
Want to learn more about what's blocking your baby? Grab my Free E-booklet: 3 Surprising Habits that Block Your Baby while it's still available.
52 min
July 31, 2024Ep. 59 - First IVF Cycle? Here's How to Prepare
It’s totally intimidating when you’re heading down the IVF path and don’t know what to expect or even how you got to this place. You have a lot of questions and are probably turning to Dr. Google more than you expected asking:
What are the odds of
conceiving on the first IVF cycle?
What are the odds of
having twins with IVF?
What age is the best age
to get pregnant with IVF?
Is _(fill in age)__ too
old to get pregnant with IVF?
How much does IVF cost?
What are IVF success rates by age?
How many cycles does it take to get pregnant with IVF?
These are all really valid questions that you can and will find answers to..., somewhere else.
This episode is about giving you answers to questions that that many women don’t even think to ask. We’re looking at the underbelly of the IVF experience. Learning from other women’s success stories and using their hard won wisdom to improve your experience and your odds.

To really ensure you're doing everything to succeed, you've got to take a look at blocks you may not even be aware of. My Free E-book, 3 Surprising Habits that Block Your Baby will give you more insights and hard won wisdom to help you bring home your baby. Click HERE for your copy while it's still available.

Looking for high vibe inspiration and down to earth information from an authentic, supportive source who's been there? Follow me on Instagram @BadassFertility
25 min
July 24, 2024Ep. 58 - Could Functional Medicine Help Unlock the Block Between You and Your Baby?
On today’s episode of the Badass Fertility Podcast we sit down with functional fertility expert and nutritionist, Olivia Mitchell. Olivia brings a wealth of wisdom and critical insights on how to get and stay pregnant even if you've been given an infertility diagnosis.

In fact, she challenges that term arguing it’s medically inaccurate and prefers the term “sub-fertility” because it indicates the truth: your fertility can be improved.

Olivia looks at fertility from a “whole body system” perspective. She teaches her clients how to get into what she calls “welcome baby mode” Olivia does this
by looking for the roots causes of sub-fertility of which she says there are three main ones:
overlooked thyroid issues (even if you’ve had the panel
tested),

nervous system dysregulation,

gut inflammation.
From there, we dive deep into topics like:
1. Why does the standard approach to fertility fail to help every couple?
2. What's the most powerful thing a TTC couple can do to support fertility?
3. Is TTC for a year before asking for support still good advice?
4. What's the deal with all the supplements out there for fertility?
5. What testing should someone get when starting to search for better answers?

If you’ve been trying all. the. things to get pregnant: done the standard testing, tried the standard approach (clomid, IUI, IVF, etc) and you’re still not pregnant or suffering
miscarriages, this show will provide enlightening info, in a non-scary way, for you.

To learn more about Olivia or her programs follow her on Instagram @yourfertility.yourfuture

For high vibe inspiration, down to earth information and authentic support from someone who's been there, follow me @BadassFertility

Grab my Free E-book, 3 Surprising Habits that Block Your Baby
50 min
July 17, 2024Ep. 57 - Preparing for Pregnancy? 7 Things I want You to Know Before You Get Pregnant
There are a lot of books out there giving you advice on how to prepare for pregnancy. But I guarantee none of them are talking about it in quite the same way as we are on today’s show.
If you’ve been
struggling to get pregnant,

diagnosed with “infertility”

or “unexplained in fertility”

if you’ve experienced miscarriage

or are just starting out in this journey and want
expert advice from someone who’s been there,
This show is for you.
We’re talking about All. The. Things they don’t tell you when you’re expecting (or hoping) to expect. But these 7 things make a huge difference in how you live your journey and, therefore, the results that you get.

So if you’re living your life:
in two week segments,

tired of feeling small at your clinic,

finding it hard to believe that you’ll ever bring home this baby,

finding yourself in self-sabotage mode whenever you get your period
Then this show is for you my friend. Enjoy!!

Ready to dig deeper and get to core of what's going on? Start by downloading my Free E-book, 3 Surprising Habits the Block Your Baby Click HERE to grab your copy while it's still available.
Looking for daily hits of high vibe inspiration and down to earth information form an authentic supportive source who's been there? Follow me on IG @BadassFertility
32 min
July 10, 2024 Ep. 56 - Double Your Odds of Pregnancy the Badass Way: Part 3
Struggling to conceive is one of the most lonely and isolating experiences women endure.
All of the women I've met on this journey struggle to share about it with most or even all of the close people in their life. In fact, around half of the women I’ve met on this don’t tell their mothers or their mothers-in-law what’s going on. There’s no right or wrong or good or bad there,
but the consequence of keeping it to yourself can be high.
But how do you know who to
keep in and who to keep out? How can you tell if someone will be trustworthy and not make you feel worse? Harvard researcher and infertility expert Alice Domar has a system called the ECAD that can help. On today’s show we dive into it and look at how it can benefit your journey for the better.

Want to go deeper with what you heard? Grab a copy of my Free E-book while it's still available. You'll learn 3 Surprising Habits that Bock Your Baby Click HERE

Want daily hits of high vibe inspiration, down to earth information from an authentic, supportive source who's been there? Follow me @BadassFertility on IG
27 min
July 03, 2024Ep. 55 - Double Your Odds of Pregnancy the Badass Way: Part 2
When the stakes are high, and you’re being told your “odds” are low, it feels impossible to believe you’ll ever bring your baby home. You may look around and find yourself trapped in an awful state of mind that you never expected to be in.
Maybe you’re:
Crying everyday (or for several days in a row)

Wondering if you’re being punished

Questioning whether you have any good eggs left at all

Wondering if your partner/husband/wife would be better off with someone "more" fertile.
These thoughts are completely normal, but that doesn’t mean they are necessary. In fact, when you learn how
to think differently, your beliefs shift, your actions change and your results change too.
If you know you’ve been stuck in this cycle of constant negative self-talk and you want it to stop, then you’re in the right place my friend.
Today’s episode will go into all of that and give you a few insights you can take away and apply immediately.

If you want high vibe inspiration and own to earth information from an authentic, supportive source (someone's who's been there!) Follow me on IG @BadassFertility

If you want more details on how to work on rewiring your mindset check out this FREE E-Book. It's short and sweet and packed with 3 essential secrets you've GOT to know.
Click HERE for the Free E-Book, 3 Surprising Habits that Block Your Baby
29 min
May 22, 2024 Affirmations don't work, unless you do this ONE thing.
For today's episode we're diving back into the Badass Fertility Podcast archives to share one of my all time favorite episodes. We're talking about the power of affirmations to support OR sabotage your efforts to get and stay pregnant. We hear a lot about positive thinking to help you through the struggle to conceive. But we often get misled about exactly why and how it works... and when it doesn't. Or worse yet, when it backfires. Today's episode is critical if you want to learn how to use the power of words to support, not sabotage your success on this journey.

For daily hits of high vibe inspiration, down to earth information and authentic support on your journey to your baby, follow me on Instagram @BadassFertility
23 min
May 15, 2024 Double your odds of pregnancy the BFP way: Part 1
When we think about getting pregnant, it’s always focused
on the physical body. But what about the role the mind plays in the body? We forget the tremendous toll that stress, anxiety and depression play upon our nervous system. And we pay a high price for that forgetfulness.
Women diagnosed with (my least favorite word) “infertility” experience stress, anxiety and depression levels much higher than in the mainstream population. This is cause for concern in itself. But what
makes things worse, is that those mental states have physical repercussions that negatively impact fertility. So,
women given this diagnosis are now at a double disadvantage because they’re already struggling, but being labeled “infertile” makes it even harder to
conceive because of the observable impact that diagnosis has on the nervous system.
It’s like a total catch 22.
Thankfully, there’s a science backed way out of this mess, and I’m going to break it down for you on today’s podcast.
This is Part One of a three part series where I’m breaking down the 3-pillars behind the BFP's 60% pregnancy rate
in our most recent cohort.

If you’re ready to hop off the hamster wheel of never-ending conception chaos and master the tools behind our incredible pregnancy rate, click HERE and join the BFP
Doors close May 21st or once it's full. Imagine, on May 22nd you could be in an entirely new, inspiring and resource rich world of badass mamas in the making. You in?

Questions? I have answers! And I loooove to chat on
IG. DM me “BFP” to get the convo going. (Find me on Instagram @BadassFertility)

References (cause, you know... science :)
The Mind Body Program for Infertility: A New
Behavioral Treatment Approach for Women with Infertility.
(https://doi.org/10.1016/S0015-0282(16)53275-0)

Impact of a group Mind/Body Intervention on
Pregnancy Rates in IVF Patients
(https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fertnstert.2011.03.046

The impact of stress on fertility treatment DOI:
10.1097/GCO.0000000000000261

(Rodney, K. L. & Domar, A.D. (2008) The
Relationship Between Stress and Infertility. Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience
20(1), 41 -47)

(Roozitalab, S. et. al. The Relationship Between
Infertility, Stress and Quality of Life with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in
Infertile Women. Journal of Reproduction and Infertility, 2021 10.18502/jri.v22i4.7654)

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