Welcome to this mini episode of The Fertility Podcast, where Natalie is joined by author, adventurer, and fertility campaigner Jessica Hepburn to explore the powerful role of nature in healing during fertility struggles. Natalie and Jessica recently spent the weekend together at the Love Her Wild North event embracing the power of community in the natural world.

What we discuss:

-The outdoors and your mental health when you are in a fertility hole

-Love her Wild and the benefits of it for the fertility community. Love her Wild is about women who love the outdoors or want to get to love them - there were people talking about massive adventures and those sharing their little adventures. 

-Jessica touches on her fertility journey involving multiple losses, 11 rounds of IVF

-How nature saved her life after Project Baby and at age 43 she made the decision to pursue adventure and nature. 

-How the outdoors merges with the fertility world with Natalie and Jessica 

-Nature is a healer, from looking at the birds in your garden or learning about trees to going on journeys. 

-The importance of living in the wait rather than waiting to live and how nature can be enjoyed for FREE

-Getting into green will shift things - it won’t change what you are going through right now and the hardness or the outcome but it will help you find those pockets of joy.

-How starting a blessing book really helped her during the hardest times of her treatment

-Going for a walk, listening to a podcast, or walking in silence with a friend you can connect with or talk about anything. 

-Jessica talks bout her 2nd book 21 days and how she found acceptance and found other ways to be happy yet she will always carry a sadness from not being a mother. 

-‘Melonjoy’ - that feeling when someone tells you that they’re pregnant and you are not and it’s what you want more than anything. You feel happy for them but sad for you at the same time.. a fusion of melancholy and joy and it’s a real thing you can feel both at the same time… 

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