Healing Hormones

Dr. Cleopatra Kamperveen is a scientist and university professor who specializes in reproductive health and the transference of health from parents to children. Her personal story of growing up without a mother and feeling like she was meant to do something in her life with that experience led her to doing the work she does today as Fertility Strategist and Executive Director of the Fertility and Pregnancy Institute. Dr. Cleopatra pioneered the field of fertility biohacking and creating what she likes to call “Superbabies.” She provides fertility and pregnancy consulting to women and families nationally and internationally through her signature In Bloom programs, inner circle, and personalized, comprehensive one-on-one consulting. She’s conducted research on tens of thousands of women of all colors, ages, shapes and sizes, socioeconomic backgrounds, religions, language preferences, and professions to examine how they transmit physical health and emotional wellbeing to their children. This is not all about food and supplements—we talk a lot about the mindset shifts that need to happen in order for our bodies to be ready to conceive. 

We literally have the power to change the quality and the expression of the genes that we pass down to our babies!

We Chat About:

• Why there’s so much variance in fertility
• The role of negative self talk
• All about epigenetics
• How the term “infertility” is often misleading
• The importance of fertility in our overall health
• What the Primester program entails

Resources:

• Learn more: drcleopatra.com
• Free Fertility Checklist: fertilitypregnancy.org
• Primester Protocol: drcleopatra.com/protocol
• Instagram: @doctor_cleopatra
• Instagram: @fertilitypregnancy
• The Primemester Protocol: drcleopatra.com/protocol

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

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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).

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Georgie Kovacs is the founder of Fem Power Health, which was founded after her first-hand experience with infertility. Using her personal experience and 20 years in the biopharmaceutical industry and consulting, she leads this movement to empower women who are also going through fertility challenges. With limited research dollars and women being conditioned to “grin and bear it,” both women AND doctors are in an impossible position to diagnose and treat conditions with so little information. Women deserve to know more and better information, which is why Georgie started her platform, podcast, and website.

So many women are struggling with fertility challenges and it is invaluable to hear from someone who’s been there, gone through it, and come out on the other side. This is an empowering conversation about how to handle your own health journey, being your own advocate, and staying hopeful.

We Chat About:

• Georgie’s fertility journey
• Being patient with the process
• Being diagnosed with endometriosis
• Taking ownership of your healthcare
• Artificial insemination
• Being vocal about the lack of education

Resources:

• fempower-health.com
• instagram.com/fempowerhealth
• fempower-health.com/podcast

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

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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 Victoria has such a similar philosophy to me when it comes to women’s hormone health and fertility. She is a holistic nutrition practitioner and women’s health and hormones coach, and like many people that get into the field, her interest in hormone health started with her own health issues  and realizing the potential side effects of birth control. When she quit taking birth control, she developed post-pill amenorrhea and didn’t start having her period for over two years after she came off the pill. She began to document her journey on Instagram, including her pregnancy, and the rest is history. We touch on several topics, including syncing your habits to your cycle, why she doesn’t do diet plans, and not following strict rules—but it always comes back to tuning into and listening to the body. And that’s the central takeaway from all of this: That overly specific rules can do more harm than good, and the best course of action is to take in what information you can, try it for yourself, and see what feels good to you and gets you the results you’re looking for.

We Chat About:

• Helping women understand their bodies
• Syncing to the different phases of your cycle
• Not believing in food rules
• Getting your fertility on track
• The importance of keeping stress levels down
• Not following prescriptive advice
• The danger of labeling yourself

Resources:

• jvictoriahealth.com
• Instagram: @jvictoriahealth

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

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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

Vaginal steaming is a topic that I’ve wanted to discuss in-depth for a while now, and Kit Maloney is the perfect person to dive into it with. She’s the founder of Kitara, a consumer brand for honest and holistic menstrual and uterine health products. If the thought of vaginal steaming still weirds you out, you’re in good company—Kit was a skeptic herself! But after diving into its history and hearing story after story of it’s healing properties, she became hooked and made the transition from skeptic to trained specialist. She breaks down why there is so much fear around the practice of vaginal steaming, how to practice it safely and effectively, and what it can be used to treat. You are going to learn so much about this often misunderstood practice.

Kit is also generous enough to offer a gift to the Healing Hormones audience! If you want to see what vaginal steaming is all about, click this link to get FREE universal healing herbs gifted with your purchase of a sauna!

We Chat About:

• How Kit overcame her skepticism and fell in love with vaginal steaming
• Why there are so many myths around it
• The risk of burning in vaginal steaming
• What is happening when you steam
• Knowing what herbs to use
• Vaginal steaming while trying to conceive
• Helping with stagnation
• Making vaginal steaming go mainstream

Resources:

• kitaralove.com
• Instagram: @bykitara

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

There’s one therapy I’ve been absolutely loving lately: Mayan abdominal massage!! I can’t say enough good things about it—it helps with period pain, stagnation, fertility, and more. Nicole Karass is my therapist, and she’s incredibly knowledgeable on the subject. She’s a licensed massage therapist and lifelong student of 20 years. She graduated from the University of Natural Medicine, she participated in a mobile health unit in Nepal, and she worked beside a massage therapist who set her on the path to creating her current practice. She discusses what this therapy is, why it’s so amazing for women’s health, and the various issues and symptoms within women’s health it can help relieve. 

We Chat About:

• How Mayan abdominal massage works
• Why the uterus moves around and how it gets stuck
• What you will experience during a session
• Self-care techniques you can use after your session
• Who might benefit from Mayan abdominal massage
• Symptoms you may be experiencing

Resources:

• Learn more: innerwisdomhealingcenter.com/team/nicole-karras-lmt
• Email: [email protected]

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

Le’Nise Brothers has helped SO many women with their hormonal issues, ranging from PMS, PCOS, fibroids, endometriosis, heavy, painful, missing, or irregular periods, postnatal depletion, and more. She covers the hormone bases! Le’Nise is a registered nutritionist, a yoga teacher, the host of the Period Story Podcast, and a women’s health, hormone, and menstruation coach. You will find so much wisdom in the way she approaches women’s health, helping women connect to their bodies, reduce their stress levels, and get to the root of what’s going on.

We Chat About:

• Focusing on where you can make an impact
• The importance of a good night’s rest
• Using your breath to move through stress
• Finding the root cause of your period pain
• Supplements for period pain
• Using CBD for period pain

Resources:

• Learn more: eatlovemove.com
• Instagram: @eatlovemove
• Facebook: facebook.com/eatlovemovenutrition
• Podcast: eatlovemove.com/period-story-podcast
• graceslondon.com
• ohana-cbd.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

Dr. Dyan Haspel-Johnson is a psychologist and hypnosis expert, and she joins us today to discuss hypnosis—specifically, how you can use it to regulate your sleep and hormones. We talk about what hypnosis is, how it is different from meditation, and how you can use your subconscious and conscious mind to begin to regulate your body and system. As a treat, the last five minutes of the episode features a guided hypnosis session. You will learn so much about hypnosis from this discussion!

We Chat About:

• The importance of rest
• The difference between meditation and hypnosis
• What hypnosis can help with
• What sleep architecture is
• The difference between our conscious and unconscious mind
• Being specific with your unconscious mind

Resources:

• https://www.drdyan.com
• FREE ebook and video course: www.selfhypnosisforhealing.com/nina
• Instagram: @drdyanhj

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

Samantha Kellgren is a mind-body fertility coach helping women take control of their fertility through the mind-body connection so that they can uplevel their life. After being diagnosed with hypothalamic amenorrhea, she found out that it is possible to be too fit to get pregnant, ended up undergoing IVF to have her son, and made drastic changes to her unhealthy relationship with exercise and eating. 

Now she helps coach women through the massive mindset shifts it takes to stop over-exercising and under-eating so that they can regain their cycles without going crazy. We talk about what hypothalamic amenorrhea is, why there’s such a stigma around women wanting to gain weight, why you need to learn how to release control, and how you can learn to re-identify who you are aside from fitness or diet. This is an important conversation that more women need to hear.

We Chat About:

• Having to switch up your identity to reclaim your health
• How over-exercising and under-eating can have negative impacts on your health
• Adjusting your mindset for a healthier lifestyle
• Finding your healthy weight range
• Choosing a sustainable lifestyle for yourself
• Not worrying about others’ opinions
• Not always being positive but finding the positive

Resources:

• Learn more: simplywellcoaching.com
• Instagram: @simplywellcoaching
• Facebook: facebook.com/Simplywellcoaching

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 want to focus on how you can prepare yourself to get off birth control. I’ve had people reaching out to me asking what they can do to better prepare their bodies for getting off the pill and how to give themselves the best experience possible, so I wanted to share my top five tips for making this transition as smooth as possible. Even if you are off the pill, these tips are still going to serve you and your body to help repair the damage the pill may have done to your body.

Also, a quick update: I’ve registered to become a fertility awareness educator, and I’m so excited to add this certification to what I am doing! I’ve realized that my passion lies in helping women to transition off the pill, or if you are already off the pill, helping to support your body and teaching you how to connect intuitively to your cycle, how to track your period to prevent or achieve pregnancy, and giving you the tools to get to the root of your hormone issues. I will always be here to support women through their hormone journey.

We Chat About:

• What the pill is doing to our bodies
• When to choose to get off the pill
• How to prepare your body for the transition
• The importance of balanced blood sugar and hormones
• Loving the gut and microbiome
• Getting in tune with your body

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

Amanda Montalvo is a women’s health dietician and THE hormone queen. She knows so much about the body and how to get to the root of women’s hormone imbalances, and he’s helped me get in touch with what’s going on with my hormones and my fertility by helping me get some tests done, including the GI-MAP and hair mineral test. We go into detail about all the different types of testing you can do and how to interpret what they mean. I really wanted to share this to dive deeper into my healing journey and my story to expand on what we discussed a few weeks back, and to offer some clarity on when you may want to do some testing yourself if you’re trying to get to the root of your own hormone imbalances.

We Chat About:

• Why the GI-MAP, hair tissue mineral analysis, and DUTCH tests are the three primary tests
• What you should do when your hormone levels are low
• The correlation between immune system and getting sick often
• My test results
• Deciding whether you have a gluten sensitivity
• How to read the mineral tests
• Understanding your mineral balances
• What we should be supplementing
• How long it takes to boost your minerals

Resources:

• Learn more: hormonehealingrd.com
• Instagram: @hormonehealingrd

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