In this episode I speak with Nicole Lange, founder of Life Healing Life, about the hidden link between trauma, stress, and the mind-body connection in fertility. 

We explore why so many women experience IVF and infertility as deeply traumatic, and how unhealed stress patterns can disrupt the body’s natural reproductive balance.

Nicole shares a compassionate, science-backed approach that blends Traditional Chinese Medicine with modern psychology, helping women move from burnout to body trust. You’ll learn why it’s not the stress itself that harms fertility, but how you relate to it.

You’ll learn how:

1. Trauma and fertility are deeply linked.
2. Repeated emotional stress (like failed cycles or seeing others fall pregnant) can create complex PTSD patterns that affect hormones and the nervous system.
3. It’s not the stress, it’s how we frame it.
4. Research shows reframing stress and speaking emotions aloud moves the body from fight-or-flight into a state where it can rest, digest, and reproduce.
5. Healing is more than protocols.
6. Fertility thrives when mind, body, and community are aligned. Nicole’s salutogenic approach focuses 75–80% on creating health, through joy, safety, connection, and authentic self-expression.

 Mentioned in this episode

TED TALK (making stress your friend)

The Artist’s Way (available for purchase many places)

Nicole’s Fertility Freebies

Tasha’s Your Fertile Pantry Program

Work with Tasha