Fearless Self-Love

Sarah Clark, host of the Get Pregnant Naturally podcast, shares her story of infertility and the food intolerances behind it. As a Certified Life and Health Coach, Sarah now supports women and couples in their quest to get pregnant naturally. Join us as we explore pathways to slowing down, embracing grief, change, and personal growth.

• How food sensitivities can impact fertility

• How patience for Functional and Ayurvedic medicine practices are worth while

• Why thoughts matter as much as action

Links Mentioned:

Fearless Self-Love Retreat www.fearlessselflove.com

Kripalu Yoga Retreats https://kripalu.org/stay/rr-retreats

Get Pregnant Naturally Podcast https://fabfertile.com/project/podcsat/

Integrated Health Associates (IHA) Nurse Midwives http://www.ihacares.com/locations/iha-nurse-midwives

Dr. Claudia Welch https://drclaudiawelch.com/

Sarah Clark's Book, Fabulously Fertile https://fabfertile.com/product/fabulously-fertile/

Dr. John Douillard's book Eat Wheat https://eatwheat.lifespa.com/

ShuNahSii Rose's Women's Sacred Mysteries Class https://www.insacredbalance.org/womens-sacred-mysteries/

Brené Brown's book Daring Greatly https://brenebrown.com/books-audio/

Show Highlights:

02:00 Easeful Living Practice, Dirgha Pranayama, 3 part Breath

07:01 Interview with Sarah Clark begins with Andrea's connection to supporting women in their childbearing years

11:19 Sarah's story of infertility related to food-intolerance

21:03 Sarah describes food sensitivity testing and elimination diet

26:54 Sarah's journey in life-coaching and her method of care and practice

31:00 Why eat an earlier lighter supper and how the slow science actually works quickly

34:00 Sarah's favorite self-care practices

Favorite Quotes:

"I can't keep doing it all; I have to take a step back. I can't just add one more thing on. -- Sarah Clark

"We believe in using a foundation of the testing...then you've got to actually change your diet." -- Sarah Clark

"99% of the thoughts you have today, you'll have the same ones again tomorrow." -- Sarah Clark

"A lot of people that are going through fertility, they may feel broken... there's a lot of heartache, there's jealousy, there's triggers almost everywhere...by people expanding their family, pregnant bellies, baby showers, feeling stuck, everyone's moving on that seemingly every woman should be able to do." -- Sarah Clark

"Where's your joy?" -- Sarah Clark

"We believe in it all, just not all at once, because that's super overwhelming." -- Sarah Clark

"Crying is something you can do and actually feel better after it." -- Sarah Clark

"To help others, I have to work on myself first." --Sarah Clark

Meet Sarah:

When Sarah Clark was 28 years old, she received a diagnosis of premature ovarian failure. She accepted the diagnosis and had both her children through in vitro fertilization. Years later she realized the root cause of her infertility was a food intolerance.

She is a certified life coach with accreditation from the International Coaches Federation and a health coach with training from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. She is the author of Fabulously Fertile - Supercharge your Fertility Naturally, Fabulously Fertile Cookbook and Fertility Preparation Program. Her fertility coaching program, which includes functional lab testing, supports couples to make diet and lifestyle changes that dramatically improve the chances of a healthy pregnancy and baby!

On her Get Pregnant Naturally Podcast she shares that with functional medicine and natural fertility solutions we can eventually reverse infertility. Check it out on iTunes, Stitcher and Google Play.

Sarah Clark, host of the Get Pregnant Naturally podcast, shares her story of infertility and the food intolerances behind it. As a Certified Life and Health Coach, Sarah now supports women and couples in their quest to get pregnant naturally. Join us as we explore pathways to slowing down, embracing grief, change, and personal growth.

• How food sensitivities can impact fertility

• How patience for Functional and Ayurvedic medicine practices are worth while

• Why thoughts matter as much as action

Links Mentioned:

Fearless Self-Love Retreat www.fearlessselflove.com

Kripalu Yoga Retreats  https://kripalu.org/stay/rr-retreats

Get Pregnant Naturally Podcast https://fabfertile.com/project/podcsat/

Integrated Health Associates (IHA) Nurse Midwives http://www.ihacares.com/locations/iha-nurse-midwives

Dr. Claudia Welch https://drclaudiawelch.com/

Sarah Clark’s Book, Fabulously Fertile https://fabfertile.com/product/fabulously-fertile/

Dr. John Douillard’s book Eat Wheat https://eatwheat.lifespa.com/

ShuNahSii Rose’s Women’s Sacred Mysteries Class https://www.insacredbalance.org/womens-sacred-mysteries/

Brené Brown’s book Daring Greatly https://brenebrown.com/books-audio/

Show Highlights:

02:00 Easeful Living Practice, Dirgha Pranayama, 3 part Breath

07:01 Interview with Sarah Clark begins with Andrea’s connection to supporting women in their childbearing years

11:19 Sarah’s story of infertility related to food-intolerance

21:03 Sarah describes food sensitivity testing and elimination diet

26:54 Sarah’s journey in life-coaching and her method of care and practice

31:00 Why eat an earlier lighter supper and how the slow science actually works quickly

34:00 Sarah’s favorite self-care practices

Favorite Quotes:

“I can’t keep doing it all; I have to take a step back. I can’t just add one more thing on. -- Sarah Clark

“We believe in using a foundation of the testing...then you’ve got to actually change your diet.” -- Sarah Clark

“99% of the thoughts you have today, you’ll have the same ones again tomorrow.” -- Sarah Clark

“A lot of people that are going through fertility, they may feel broken... there’s a lot of heartache, there’s jealousy, there’s triggers almost everywhere...by people expanding their family, pregnant bellies, baby showers, feeling stuck, everyone’s moving on that seemingly every woman should be able to do.”  -- Sarah Clark

“Where’s your joy?” -- Sarah Clark

“We believe in it all, just not all at once, because that’s super overwhelming.” -- Sarah Clark

“Crying is something you can do and actually feel better after it.” -- Sarah Clark

“To help others, I have to work on myself first.” --Sarah Clark

Meet Sarah:

When Sarah Clark was 28 years old, she received a diagnosis of premature ovarian failure. She accepted the diagnosis and had both her children through in vitro fertilization. Years later she realized the root cause of her infertility was a food intolerance.

She is a certified life coach with accreditation from the International Coaches Federation and a health coach with training from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition.  
She is the author of Fabulously Fertile - Supercharge your Fertility Naturally, Fabulously Fertile Cookbook and Fertility Preparation Program. Her fertility coaching program, which includes functional lab testing, supports couples to make diet and lifestyle changes that dramatically improve the chances of a healthy pregnancy and baby!  

On her Get Pregnant Naturally Podcast she shares that with functional medicine and natural fertility solutions we can eventually reverse infertility.  Check it out on iTunes, Stitcher and Google Play.

Lindsay-Jean Hard is the author of Cooking With Scraps. She has long taken action to ensure her actions promote sustainability and encouraged others to do the same. Her cookbook makes it easy to do this with your banana peels, coffee grounds, Swiss chard stems and other things you might otherwise compost or throw away.

I had a lot of fun chatting with Lindsay-Jean and reminiscing about my time in Ann Arbor, the start of my journey with local food, and contemplating what to prepare next with my food scraps!

• How to cook with food scraps you normally toss

• Why feeding ourselves is an act of self-love

• How to cook unfamiliar foods in your CSA (community supported agriculture)

Links Mentioned:

Fearless Self-Love Retreat www.fearlessselflove.com

Dr. Claudia Welch https://drclaudiawelch.com/

Workman Publishing https://www.workman.com/

Food 52 https://food52.com/

Lindsay-Jean's recipes on Food 52 https://food52.com/recipes/search?q=lindsay-jean+hard

Buy Cooking with Scraps here https://www.amazon.com/Cooking-Scraps-Scrumptious-Surprising-Recipes/dp/0761193030/

Lab-grown meat 1:https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/07/lab-grown-meat/565049/

Lab Grown meat 2: https://www.wired.com/story/lab-grown-meat/

Samantha's American Girl Doll Cookbook https://www.amazon.com/Samanthas-Cookbook-Dining-American-Collection/dp/1562471147

Real Time Farms https://blog.realtimefarms.com/

Gabrielle Hamilton's Prune https://www.amazon.com/Prune-Gabrielle-Hamilton/dp/1743790716

SELMA Café http://selmacafe.org/

What is Dolphin Safe https://food52.com/recipes/76633-potato-peel-focaccia

Potato (Peel) Focaccia https://food52.com/recipes/76633-potato-peel-focaccia

Zingerman's Bakehouse https://www.zingermansbakehouse.com/

Show Highlights:

02:00 Easeful Living Practice, Grounding Breath to ease that sense of rushing within

09:24 Interview with Lindsay-Jean Hard begins, origin of her book and all about lab-grown meat

22:17 How Lindsey-Jean eats now and how her plate/bowl looks at mealtime, including what to do with Swiss Chard Stems

25:27 Lindsay-Jean's introduction to Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)

31:30 Lindsay's journey from Japan to publishing a book, including her support of start-up company, Real Time Farms

37:10 One person's trash is another's treasure--Lindsay-Jean's history as a sustainability advocate and action-taker

41:31 Lindsay-Jean's favorite go-to recipe for Fall: Potato (Peel) Focaccia

Favorite Quotes:

"It really was, and is, a form of self-love and self-care for me, because I do love cooking and making choices that make me feel good, and I like sharing that with others, too. It's definitely a form of how I express love -- is by cooking for other people that I care about." -- Lindsay-Jean Hard

"I realized the dinner plate didn't have to look like the one main thing and two different sides, it could be a lot of different things." -- Lindsay-Jean Hard

"I remember when I was little going to subway with my mom and being really concerned if the tuna was dolphin safe or not. So I went home and wrote Subway to make sure." -- Lindsay-Jean Hard

"I made new all new signs for the Ann Arbor office to make sure people recycled all of their plastic and I would take all of that home and drive it to Grand Rapids periodically for my parents to recycle." -- Lindsay-Jean Hard

"If I'm junking all this stuff and putting back into the earth and expecting the earth to feed me and nourish me, I know there is something not quite lining up." -- Andrea Catherine

Meet Lindsay:

Lindsay-Jean Hard received her Master's in Urban Planning from the University of Michigan. Her education and passion for sustainability went on to inform and inspire her work in the garden, home, and community. The seeds of her first cookbook, Cooking with Scraps, were planted in her Food52 column of the same name. Today, she works to share her passion for great food and great communities as a marketer at Zingerman's Bakehouse. She lives, writes, loves, and creates in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Lindsay-Jean Hard is the author of Cooking With Scraps. She has long taken action to ensure her actions promote sustainability and encouraged others to do the same. Her cookbook makes it easy to do this with your banana peels, coffee grounds, Swiss chard stems and other things you might otherwise compost or throw away.  

I had a lot of fun chatting with Lindsay-Jean and reminiscing about my time in Ann Arbor, the start of my journey with local food, and contemplating what to prepare next with my food scraps!

• How to cook with food scraps you normally toss

• Why feeding ourselves is an act of self-love

• How to cook unfamiliar foods in your CSA (community supported agriculture)

Links Mentioned:

Fearless Self-Love Retreat www.fearlessselflove.com

Dr. Claudia Welch https://drclaudiawelch.com/

Workman Publishing https://www.workman.com/

Food 52 https://food52.com/  

Lindsay-Jean’s recipes on Food 52 https://food52.com/recipes/search?q=lindsay-jean+hard

Buy Cooking with Scraps here https://www.amazon.com/Cooking-Scraps-Scrumptious-Surprising-Recipes/dp/0761193030/

Lab-grown meat 1:https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/07/lab-grown-meat/565049/

Lab Grown meat 2:  https://www.wired.com/story/lab-grown-meat/

Samantha’s American Girl Doll Cookbook https://www.amazon.com/Samanthas-Cookbook-Dining-American-Collection/dp/1562471147

Real Time Farms https://blog.realtimefarms.com/

Gabrielle Hamilton’s Prune https://www.amazon.com/Prune-Gabrielle-Hamilton/dp/1743790716  

SELMA Café http://selmacafe.org/

What is Dolphin Safe https://food52.com/recipes/76633-potato-peel-focaccia

Potato (Peel) Focaccia https://food52.com/recipes/76633-potato-peel-focaccia

Zingerman’s Bakehouse https://www.zingermansbakehouse.com/

Show Highlights:

02:00 Easeful Living Practice, Grounding Breath to ease that sense of rushing within

09:24 Interview with Lindsay-Jean Hard begins, origin of her book and all about lab-grown meat

22:17 How Lindsey-Jean eats now and how her plate/bowl looks at mealtime, including what to do with Swiss Chard Stems

25:27 Lindsay-Jean’s introduction to Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)

31:30 Lindsay’s journey from Japan to publishing a book, including her support of start-up company, Real Time Farms

37:10 One person’s trash is another’s treasure--Lindsay-Jean’s history as a sustainability advocate and action-taker

41:31 Lindsay-Jean’s favorite go-to recipe for Fall: Potato (Peel) Focaccia

Favorite Quotes:

“It really was, and is, a form of self-love and self-care for me, because I do love cooking and making choices that make me feel good, and I like sharing that with others, too. It’s definitely a form of how I express love -- is by cooking for other people that I care about.” -- Lindsay-Jean Hard

“I realized the dinner plate didn’t have to look like the one main thing and two different sides, it could be a lot of different things.” -- Lindsay-Jean Hard

“I remember when I was little going to subway with my mom and being really concerned if the tuna was dolphin safe or not. So I went home and wrote Subway to make sure.” -- Lindsay-Jean Hard

“I made new all new signs for the Ann Arbor office to make sure people recycled all of their plastic and I would  take all of that home and drive it to Grand Rapids periodically for my parents to recycle.” -- Lindsay-Jean Hard

“If I’m junking all this stuff and putting back into the earth and expecting the earth to feed me and nourish me, I know there is something not quite lining up.” -- Andrea Catherine

Meet Lindsay:

Lindsay-Jean Hard received her Master's in Urban Planning from the University of Michigan. Her education and passion for sustainability went on to inform and inspire her work in the garden, home, and community. The seeds of her first cookbook, Cooking with Scraps, were planted in her Food52 column of the same name. Today, she works to share her passion for great food and great communities as a marketer at Zingerman's Bakehouse.  She lives, writes, loves, and creates in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

• How ebbing and flowing with giving and receiving is tied to well-being

• How to begin your journey of finding your passion and purpose

• How to listen to yourself as way toward healing

Links Mentioned : Ithaka, poem by C.P. Cavafy https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51296/ithaka-56d22eef917ec

Fearless Self Love Podcast on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/groundedhere/

Show Highlights:

01:59 Easeful Living Practice, Ithaka poem

05:44 Interview with Karinna of Inward to Ithaka begins, meaning and purpose of her work, how it began

12:40 Karinna's journey in the wellness world, balancing learning and teaching, balancing self-care and service

16:28 discussion of how the body changes when we begin to up-level self-care, including her battle with endometriosis

21:58 The purpose (and benefits) of giving and serving

24:18 The impact of passion and the deception that we should know it from day one

31:19 What going inward means to Karinna

34:19 Courageous Self-Care Tip" Sit with yourself for 5 minutes, ask yourself "What have you been trying to say that I haven't been listening to?"

Favorite Quotes

"Even if you're going through something, you can still help someone else." -- Karinna of Inward to Ithaka

"Don't underestimate your ability to help the people around you when you when you're in a withdraw help myself phase." -- Karinna of Inward to Ithaka

"To me, boredom, discussion lack of passion come from when we don't have a sense of purpose."-- Andrea Catherine

"When i've experienced giving as a way of receiving, it's really connected to me feeling valued and valuable." -- Andrea Catherine

"A lot of people are wandering around wondering what their purpose is and what their passion is...they know that their purpose is a big part of them, but they don't know what their purpose is." -- Karinna of Inward to Ithaka

"As humans, what creates connection for all of us, is that we inherently benefit form connecting, from giving." -- Andrea Catherine

"Feel the fear and do it anyway." -- Karinna of Inward to Ithaka

"Remember [you're] this new upgraded model that is not in a rush. You've got patience now...so embrace it. Instead of being stressed out, just relax." -- Karinna of Inward to Ithaka

"To know where [others] end and I begin is just as important as how can we collaborate." -- Andrea Catherine

• How ebbing and flowing with giving and receiving is tied to well-being

• How to begin your journey of finding your passion and purpose

• How to listen to yourself as way toward healing

Links Mentioned :
Ithaka, poem by C.P. Cavafy https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51296/ithaka-56d22eef917ec

Fearless Self Love Podcast on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/groundedhere/

Show Highlights:

01:59 Easeful Living Practice, Ithaka poem

05:44 Interview with Karinna of Inward to Ithaka begins, meaning and purpose of her work, how it began

12:40 Karinna’s journey in the wellness world, balancing learning and teaching, balancing self-care and service

16:28 discussion of how the body changes when we begin to up-level self-care, including her battle with endometriosis

21:58 The purpose (and benefits) of giving and serving

24:18 The impact of passion and the deception that we should know it from day one

31:19 What going inward means to Karinna

34:19 Courageous Self-Care Tip” Sit with yourself for 5 minutes, ask yourself “What have you been trying to say that I haven’t been listening to?”

Favorite Quotes

“Even if you’re going through something, you can still help someone else.”  -- Karinna of Inward to Ithaka

“Don’t underestimate your ability to help the people around you when you when you’re in a withdraw help myself phase.” -- Karinna of Inward to Ithaka

“To me, boredom, discussion lack of passion come from when we don’t have a sense of purpose.”-- Andrea Catherine

“When i’ve experienced giving as a way of receiving, it’s really connected to me feeling valued and valuable.” -- Andrea Catherine

“A lot of people are wandering around wondering what their purpose is and what their passion is...they know that their purpose is a big part of them, but they don’t know what their purpose is.” -- Karinna of Inward to Ithaka

“As humans, what creates connection for all of us, is that we inherently benefit form connecting, from giving.” -- Andrea Catherine

“Feel the fear and do it anyway.” -- Karinna of Inward to Ithaka

“Remember [you’re] this new upgraded model that is not in a rush. You’ve got patience now...so embrace it. Instead of being stressed out, just relax.“  -- Karinna of Inward to Ithaka

“To know where [others] end and I begin is just as important as how can we collaborate.” -- Andrea Catherine

This is a replay from S1 E8:

Do you think it's possible to build future communities of belonging and connection? Living in a culture that values the immediacy and efficiency of life has placed a strain on the importance of connection and belonging to our natural roots. Open your heart and mind with an educational and engaging chat with Brett Holmquist, co-founder and Executive Director at Ravenwood Outdoor Learning Center. Listen as we explore how to cultivate the "survival skill of belonging" and why it's important for young people to learn the beginning steps of fearless self-love in community as well as on our own.

• How nature can teach us about gratitude and belonging
• How our connection to nature relates to our level of connection within ourselves/others
• How to help our youth foster self-sufficiency and self-love

Links Mentioned : Ravenwood Outdoor Learning Center http://ravenwoodolc.org

Jon Young's "Coyote Mentoring" Book https://wildearth.org/shop/books/coyotes-guide-to-connecting-with-nature

Wilderness Awareness School in Duvall, WA https://wildernessawareness.org/about/about

Jake and Judy Swamp, http://www.thetrackingproject.org/ttp/native-communities/remembering-jake-tekaronianeken-swamp/

This is a replay from S1 E8:

Do you think it’s possible to build future communities of belonging and connection? Living in a culture that values the immediacy and efficiency of life has placed a strain on the importance of connection and belonging to our natural roots. Open your heart and mind with an educational and engaging chat with Brett Holmquist, co-founder and Executive Director at Ravenwood Outdoor Learning Center. Listen as we explore how to cultivate the “survival skill of belonging” and why it's important for young people to learn the beginning steps of fearless self-love in community as well as on our own.

• How nature can teach us about gratitude and belonging
• How our connection to nature relates to our level of connection within ourselves/others
• How to help our youth foster self-sufficiency and self-love

Links Mentioned :
Ravenwood Outdoor Learning Center http://ravenwoodolc.org

Jon Young’s “Coyote Mentoring” Book https://wildearth.org/shop/books/coyotes-guide-to-connecting-with-nature

Wilderness Awareness School in Duvall, WA https://wildernessawareness.org/about/about

Jake and Judy Swamp, http://www.thetrackingproject.org/ttp/native-communities/remembering-jake-tekaronianeken-swamp/