Fertility is often a journey that takes us out of the body and into the mind. Rather than following our body’s cues, we start cycle tracking to know when it is the right time to conceive. Rather than listening to our heart and our gut, we follow our doctor’s recommendations and do some more research online to see how we can optimize our fertility. On this episode of the podcast, I talk to massage therapist Laura Jones about how fertility massage brings you back into the body. Laura shares about her own fertility journey and how that has influenced the work that she does today. We also touch upon ways to learn to surrender and process grief and loss.

Top quotes:

Laura Jones: “I was always very afraid to commit to my fertility journey because of my first experience of trying for two years. I felt like it was too painful to fully commit. I just wanted to be like ‘if it happens, it happens.’ But it didn’t happen.”

Laura Jones: “Even after my baby was born I was still mourning the loss of that previous baby. Which is so strange to feel those feelings, it didn’t feel like it was right or normal.”

Françoise Molenaar: “It opens a bigger portal for healing, going through something that is so difficult.”

Laura Jones: “Sometimes we just have to feel what we’re feeling without anyone trying to fix us. You don’t want a bandaid to put on your little feelings.”

About Laura Jones:

Laura is a massage therapist of 17 years residing on the Central Coast in Australia. She has had four children, one baby loss and is a bonus Mum to one. She has a passion for supporting women through life’s biggest transitions: menarche, fertility, pregnancy, birth loss, birth and the post partum period. She understands through her own experiences, how important support and nurturing is needed during these times. She is qualified and experienced in remedial, relaxation, fertility, pregnancy, postnatal, trigger point therapy, cupping therapy, infant massage, Spinning Babies Aware Practitioner and is a First Moons Circle facilitator.