Healing Hormones

Emily Watson is the founder of MyNestwell, an online platform that connects new, expecting, and hopeful new moms to trusted wellness professionals both locally and virtually. Emily herself is the mom of a rainbow girl, and this is what inspired her to start MyNestwell. After hitting rock bottom in her own motherhood journey—going through IVF and fertility treatment—she realized that there needs to be a space where women can go to get the resources and support they need in all areas of motherhood. This is an open, candid conversation about what it’s like to surrender to the process, to not be afraid to ask for help.

We Chat About:

• Emily’s fertility journey
• Incorporating eastern medicine
• Building a relationship with yourself
• Being your own advocate
• Finding the support you need

Resources:

• mynestwell.com
• Instagram: @mynestwell

Connect With Me:

• FREE WORKBOOK - How to Intuitively Connect to Your Menstrual Cycle
• Learn more about the Heal Your Period online program
• Book a Reiki Session
• Book a Tarot Reading
• Private Hormone Coaching
• Let’s be friends on Instagram: @nourishedwithnina

Healing Hormones is a production of Crate Media

Mentioned in this episode:

FAM Training

Learn how to prevent pregnancy naturally and ditch birth control without fear. This training is for women who have been thinking about getting off birth control and have questions about fertility awareness method (FAM).

Join my FREE FAM Training

I’ve been getting a lot of questions lately about improving your chances to conceive and how to track your cycles effectively. I wanted to focus on the best things to do when you’re trying to conceive, and more specifically what we can do to time up conception and some of the tools I use with my clients to help us track our cycle and become as precise as possible around ovulation. I also offer some tips on how to naturally increase your level of fertile cervical mucus which will help with overall fertility!

• LH testing strips
• What to look for in your cervical mucus
• Testing basal body temperature
• Tips for increasing your cervical mucus naturally

Resources:

• Mommed Ovulation Test Strips and Pregnancy Test Kit
• Read: "The First Forty Days"
• Read: "Awakening Fertility"

Connect With Me:

• FREE WORKBOOK - How to Intuitively Connect to Your Menstrual Cycle
• Learn more about the Heal Your Period online program
• Book a Reiki Session
• Book a Tarot Reading
• Private Hormone Coaching
• Let’s be friends on Instagram: @nourishedwithnina

Healing Hormones is a production of Crate Media

Mentioned in this episode:

FAM Training

Learn how to prevent pregnancy naturally and ditch birth control without fear. This training is for women who have been thinking about getting off birth control and have questions about fertility awareness method (FAM).

Join my FREE FAM Training

Victoria Albina is a certified life coach and breathwork meditation guide with a passion for helping women realize that they are their own best healers. Her work focuses on helping women break free from codependency, perfectionism, people pleasing so that they can reclaim their joy. There’s so much beyond nutrition and supplementation that we don’t even consider when it comes to healing our body and our hormones, but our thoughts have such an effect on our body.

We Chat About:

• The role our mind plays in our health as a whole
• Why New Year's Resolutions usually fail
• Accessing your parasympathetic system
• How to re-source and ground yourself
• Making internal work as important as our physical health

Resources:

• victoriaalbina.com
• Instagram: @victoriaalbinawellness

Connect With Me:

• FREE WORKBOOK - How to Intuitively Connect to Your Menstrual Cycle
• Learn more about the Heal Your Period online program
• Book a Reiki Session
• Book a Tarot Reading
• Private Hormone Coaching
• Let’s be friends on Instagram: @nourishedwithnina

Healing Hormones is a production of Crate Media

Mentioned in this episode:

FAM Training

Learn how to prevent pregnancy naturally and ditch birth control without fear. This training is for women who have been thinking about getting off birth control and have questions about fertility awareness method (FAM).

Join my FREE FAM Training

Ambi Kavanagh is the founder of Alchemy with Ambi, where she does a number of things in service of creating positive change in people’s lives. We talk about a number of things including motherhood, work-life balance, energy work, spirituality, astrology, and so much more. She’s the perfect person to have these conversations with because over the last decade she’s studied with spiritual teachers and visited holy sites across the world, undertaking training and taking certifications which have resulted in her becoming a life coach, reiki master, astrologer, and sound healer. Energy plays such a key role in healing our bodies, and Ambi’s going to key us into how it works in our body and she even gives us some insight into what we can expect heading into the new year.

We Chat About:

• Enjoying life for what it is
• How to make the changes you want in your lives
• Struggling to get into astrology
• Taking time off work after pregnancy
• What we need to do for our mind, body, and soul

Resources:

• alchemywithambi.com
• Listen: Alchemy with Ambi
• Soulstrology Membership
• Read: "Chakras & Self-Care"

Connect With Me:

• FREE WORKBOOK - How to Intuitively Connect to Your Menstrual Cycle
• Learn more about the Heal Your Period online program
• Book a Reiki Session
• Book a Tarot Reading
• Private Hormone Coaching
• Let’s be friends on Instagram: @nourishedwithnina

Healing Hormones is a production of Crate Media

Mentioned in this episode:

FAM Training

Learn how to prevent pregnancy naturally and ditch birth control without fear. This training is for women who have been thinking about getting off birth control and have questions about fertility awareness method (FAM).

Join my FREE FAM Training

Jessica Kapusta is a good friend of mine and recipe creator and food stylist for natural food brands who has a passion for health, wellness, and empowering women. She recently started a new venture, John & Jane’s Sauces, where she makes sauces, dressings, and condiments that are free of the most common allergens. She took her personal experience and put all of her heart and soul into these sauces! She’s also recently released a cookbook that can teach you how to make these sauces at home, as well as some delicious dishes to accompany them.

Every time we talk, we get into long conversations about health, wellness, body image, and more—and this is no exception! We really get into the double-standard that comes with how we talk to women about the way their body is changing when they’re pregnant versus when they are not. Our bodies are changing ALL the time, and there’s no reason to think that should be exclusive to pregnancy or that’s the only time we can appreciate women’s bodies. Let’s extend that body love and acceptance to all people!

We Chat About:

• How Jessica got into the health food space
• Talking to all women like we talk to pregnant women
• How healthcare is geared towards women having kids
• Caring for women’s whole bodies, pregnant or not
• The struggles of identity that women face
• Why Jessica started John & Jane’s Sauces

Resources:

• Instagram: @jessica_cabbage
• johnandjanessauces.com
• Buy: "JOHN + Jane's Sauces" Cookbook

Connect With Me:

• FREE WORKBOOK - How to Intuitively Connect to Your Menstrual Cycle
• Learn more about the Heal Your Period online program
• Book a Reiki Session
• Book a Tarot Reading
• Private Hormone Coaching
• Let’s be friends on Instagram: @nourishedwithnina

Healing Hormones is a production of Crate Media

Mentioned in this episode:

FAM Training

Learn how to prevent pregnancy naturally and ditch birth control without fear. This training is for women who have been thinking about getting off birth control and have questions about fertility awareness method (FAM).

Join my FREE FAM Training

Taylor Merritt is a personal trainer, an educator, and the founder of Sweaty as a Mother. She joins us to talk about movement and fitness within pregnancy. There’s a lot of information out there, both good and bad, and it’s hard to separate the two, so sometimes you just need to hear from someone who knows what they’re talking about. Before her first pregnancy, she thought her knowledge as a trainer would be fine to practice during pregnancy, but she ended up causing health issues and making things worse. She ended up getting certified in prenatal training, which was an incredibly eye-opening experience, and her second pregnancy went completely differently. She talks about what she learned during training, as well as personal experience, and what she teaches women now about staying healthy during pregnancy.

We Chat About:

• The ways you have to train your body differently during pregnancy
• Diastasis recti, the separation of the six-pack muscles, and exercise do’s and don’ts
• Opening up the baby instead of restricting the baby
• Working out for the right reasons during pregnancy
• Running and cardio during pregnancy
• Addressing myths about working out while pregnant

Resources:

• sweatyasamother.com
• Sweaty as a Mother Workout Program
• Instagram: @sweatyasamother
• functionalpelvis.com

Connect With Me:

• FREE WORKBOOK - How to Intuitively Connect to Your Menstrual Cycle
• Learn more about the Heal Your Period online program
• Book a Reiki Session
• Book a Tarot Reading
• Private Hormone Coaching
• Let’s be friends on Instagram: @nourishedwithnina

Healing Hormones is a production of Crate Media

Mentioned in this episode:

FAM Training

Learn how to prevent pregnancy naturally and ditch birth control without fear. This training is for women who have been thinking about getting off birth control and have questions about fertility awareness method (FAM).

Join my FREE FAM Training

We’ve talked a lot about pregnancy and fertility on this podcast before, but there’s a whole segment out there that doesn’t get discussed as much: The child-free-by-choice women. Emma Criswell knew from a very young age that she did not want to have children. She’s a marketing executive out of Columbus, Ohio, but she spent her 20’s in New York City advocating for agency over her body and making her own decisions. After nine doctors and 14 years, she was finally able to get the elective sterilization surgery. This is a serious decision but one that is within a woman’s right to make, and often women are not given the agency over their bodies to make these decisions without doctors pushing back. Emma’s story is sure to resonate with those of you that feel unheard and, regardless of your stance, you’re sure to get some important takeaways.

We Chat About:

• Making the decision to not have kids
• The right to have agency over your body
• Finding a doctor who will give you what you want
• The insensitivity of expecting women to have kids
• Fighting for your bodily autonomy
• Hormone results after elective sterilization

Connect With Me:

• FREE WORKBOOK - How to Intuitively Connect to Your Menstrual Cycle
• Learn more about the Heal Your Period online program
• Book a Reiki Session
• Book a Tarot Reading
• Private Hormone Coaching
• Let’s be friends on Instagram: @nourishedwithnina

Healing Hormones is a production of Crate Media

Mentioned in this episode:

FAM Training

Learn how to prevent pregnancy naturally and ditch birth control without fear. This training is for women who have been thinking about getting off birth control and have questions about fertility awareness method (FAM).

Join my FREE FAM Training

Violet Hategan is a psychic medium, Reiki master, and intuitive healer. She has an incredibly diverse toolset in her practice, from numerology, tarot, oracle, and more. We’ve talked about reiki before, but Violet is fascinating in that she specializes in reiki for infertility, pregnancy, and birthing, as well as hormonal balance. I love that her practice contains so many different aspects, and it makes her have a really unique voice in this space.

We Chat About:

• How Violet got started doing reiki
• What reiki is
• How reiki can help with balanced hormones
• Finding balance in our body and mind
• How reiki can support fertility
• The different chakras and how they resonate with us
• Tools to stay grounded

Resources:

• wildvioletoracle.com
• Instagram: @wildvioletoracle
• Facebook: facebook.com/WildVioletOracle

Connect With Me:

• FREE WORKBOOK - How to Intuitively Connect to Your Menstrual Cycle
• Learn more about the Heal Your Period online program
• Book a Reiki Session
• Book a Tarot Reading
• Private Hormone Coaching
• Let’s be friends on Instagram: @nourishedwithnina

Healing Hormones is a production of Crate Media

Mentioned in this episode:

FAM Training

Learn how to prevent pregnancy naturally and ditch birth control without fear. This training is for women who have been thinking about getting off birth control and have questions about fertility awareness method (FAM).

Join my FREE FAM Training

Today on the podcast we are talking all about anxiety! Anxiety is so tied to our hormonal health, along with many other factors, so I am so glad we are chatting about this subject on the pod. Anxiety was really the catalyst for me getting into this work. I am so passionate about mental health and how nutrition, hormones, lifestyle, and energy work ALL play an integral role.

This is why I am excited to have Anne Brady on the show today. Anne is a social worker and business owner with a private therapy practice here in Columbus, OH. She specializes in treating anxiety and trauma, and has a passion for helping people connect back to themselves, and find their way to wellness.

I can’t wait for you all to tune-in to this very helpful episode and learn some amazing tools for anxiety relief.

We Chat About:

• My story with anxiety
• Being open and honest about anxiety and mental health
• How to get out of bad anxiety habits
• Understanding you’re not broken
• Factors that can contribute to anxiety
• The mental health stigma

Resources:

• https://www.psychologytoday.com/
• https://www.therapyden.com/
• https://www.annebradylisws.com/
• https://www.annebradylisws.com/events

Connect With Me:

• FREE WORKBOOK - How to Intuitively Connect to Your Menstrual Cycle
• Learn more about the Heal Your Period online program
• Book a Reiki Session
• Book a Tarot Reading
• Private Hormone Coaching
• Let’s be friends on Instagram: @nourishedwithnina

Healing Hormones is a production of Crate Media

Mentioned in this episode:

FAM Training

Learn how to prevent pregnancy naturally and ditch birth control without fear. This training is for women who have been thinking about getting off birth control and have questions about fertility awareness method (FAM).

Join my FREE FAM Training

Jessica Ash is a functional nutritionist who coaches and educates women on all things hormones, primarily working with women who’ve struggled with PCOS and thyroid issues, teaching them how to nourish their bodies and master their metabolism. We have these blanket statements of what we should do or what we should cut out of our diet, and it doesn’t always work. Why is it that when someone is doing all the “right things,” they can still not feel their best? Because there’s a new way to look at our body, and that’s from the angle of serving and supporting our metabolism. Jessica explains why healing the metabolism is so important in an easy to digest way.

We Chat About:

• How Jessica ditched the standard hormone advice
• Eating for your metabolism
• Testing out the gluten free diet
• Taking a HTMA test
• Fiber: take it or leave it?
• The carbs you’re encouraged to take
• Food combining or eating a balanced meal
• Dealing with PCOS
• Intermittent fasting
• How you should feel during your luteal phase

Resources:

• jessicaashwellness.com
• Instagram: @jessicaashwellness
• Fully Nourished

Connect With Me:

• FREE WORKBOOK - How to Intuitively Connect to Your Menstrual Cycle
• Learn more about the Heal Your Period online program
• Book a Reiki Session
• Book a Tarot Reading
• Private Hormone Coaching
• Let’s be friends on Instagram: @nourishedwithnina

Healing Hormones is a production of Crate Media

Mentioned in this episode:

FAM Training

Learn how to prevent pregnancy naturally and ditch birth control without fear. This training is for women who have been thinking about getting off birth control and have questions about fertility awareness method (FAM).

Join my FREE FAM Training