Practically Fertile

Today, we're going to be talking about a healthy diet vs a fertile diet and I'm going to shock you by talking about one hormone that's the most crucial for fertility (hint: it's not estrogen.)

Anytime I post anything about nutrition or diet, the posts always generate the most responses. I think this an area that most people struggle with. Food across all cultures bring up emotions for everyone, whether it's joy, sadness, anger, fear, whatever. Humans have such deep emotional connection to food because we have to eat to live.

But what I find is that there are lots of misconceptions around nutrition and what's healthy what's not. I have a dramatically different viewpoint on nutrition than a lot of other practitioners and coaches. I don't believe a healthy diet is necessarily a fertile diet, but type in fertiles diets in google, and your eyes might pop out from the number of results and also the different people telling you different things.

So the purpose of this episode is not to convince you that what I recommend is the best, or which diet you should be following. But I hope this episode can really explain how nutrition plays a role to help you get pregnant or how it can actually be preventing you from getting pregnant if you're not eating a fertile diet. I'm a firm believer that knowledge is power, if you truly understand a concept then it becomes easier to make changes and stick to a plan.

Episodes mentioned:

Ep 55 - Overview of Male Fertility

Links mentioned:

adriennewei.com/freebies

Today, we’re going to be talking about a healthy diet vs a fertile diet and I’m going to shock you by talking about one hormone that’s the most crucial for fertility (hint: it’s not estrogen.)

I don't know if this sounds like you...but, in my ten years of coaching women on how to get pregnant, I've seen this plenty of times.

At some point of your journey, you're going to get to a point where you feel defeated because nothing you're doing is working. At times you may even question your own will power, maybe I'm just not cut out for this. This happens so frequently, and it's not your fault.

So in today's episode, I want to talk about how to regain your motivation when you feel defeated. I want to help you to get back to when you first started trying-to-conceive, to that level of excitement you had before any of the heartaches and disappointments started to take over.

I know how hard it can be to keep charging forward when you feel like the odds are stacked up against you, when you feel alone, when you feel sad and depressed.

There is no magic pill that you can take to go from" one minute laying on the floor crying" to "the next minute you're ready to conquer the world." But I'm going to share with you my tips and tricks to help you get back on the horse, and keep moving forward towards your goal.

Let's dive right in.

Episodes mentioned:

#26 - Ask this one question if you feel defeated

#49 - How to overcome limiting beliefs that are preventing you from pregnancy (Part 1)

#50 - How to overcome limiting beliefs that are preventing you from pregnancy (part 2)

Links mentioned:

www.adriennewei.com

www.practicallyfertileclub.com

At some point of your journey, you’re going to get to a point where you feel defeated because nothing you’re doing is working.

Today, we're going to talk about male fertility because guess what, it still takes two-to-tango, and you need a sperm and an egg to get pregnant.

Male fertility sometimes gets overlooked. And I don't know if it's something deeper but when a couple is having trouble conceiving, the woman is the presumed person with the problem. But here is the scary thing, male fertility issues now account for 40% of all infertility cases.

So in this episode, I'm going to give you an overview of male fertility, from a western point of view and from a chinese medicine perspective. When it comes to male fertility, the nutrition, lifestyle, and supplement requirements are slightly different than female fertility. We're going to get to all that eventually in upcoming episodes, but today we're just going to be looking at the bigger picture of male fertility. I also get a lot of questions about how to read semen analysis results so I'm going to go over that as well.

I firmly believe that the more information you have, the more empowered you will be and the better decisions you will make. So let's dive right in.

Links mentioned:

www.adriennewei.com

www.practicallyfertieclub.com

Today, we’re going to talk about male fertility because guess what, it still takes two-to-tango, and you need a sperm and an egg to get pregnant.

Today's guest is Hilary, a member of the Practically Fertile™ Club.

Hilary reached out to me on one of our group coaching calls, and I decided to offer her the honor coaching opportunity because I needed more information about her situation to be able to answer her questions. I also thought it might be helpful to some of you who are in the same situation.

Hilary has been trying-to-conceive for 5 years. She's currently in between IVF cycles and her major challenge is getting the uterine lining to the optimal thickness for a frozen embryo transfer.

In this coaching call, I help Hilary make tweaks to her nutrition plan and exercise plan to boost the amount of blood flow to the uterus.

Keep in mind that even though everyone is different and Hilary's plan isn't necessarily the right plan for you, you're still going to gain new understanding and learn tips and tricks whether you're on the IVF journey or you're trying to conceive naturally.

Let's dive into my live 1-on-1 honor coaching call with Hilary.

Links mentions:

www.adriennewei.com

www.practicallyfertileclub.com

I'm so excited for 2018 because there are just so many things to look forward to.

This episode is a facebook live interview that I conducted with Shannon Schultz-Wooten. Many of you are familiar with Shannon. She is a life coach with a speciality in helping others with fertility challenges move the blocks out of the way that are preventing them from moving forward and achieving future goals. She is also the author of "Infertility sucks, you don't."

Shannon was my guest for episode #29 where we talked about how the fertility journey has so many similarities with the five stages of grief. I thought the facebook live interview I did with Shannon would be the perfect episode to round out the year 2017. As we head into 2018 and as many of you reflect on the year 2017, you might be feeling a bit down on yourself if you didn't get pregnant this year. You may feel like a failure. I don't want you to head into 2018 with this type of mindset.

As mentioned before, Shannon is known for taking the 5 stages of grief and applying that to the TTC process. In this interview, Shannon and I specifically discuss the final stage which is acceptance.

Here are some of what we discussed:

1. What it means to accept your situation and/or yourself and how it's the beginning of a world of possibilities and opportunities.
2. Why acceptance is not failure.
3. Why our self-worth is not dependent on our ability to have children.
4. Why you shouldn't rush the process to get to acceptance.

My purpose with this episode is to let you know there is light at the end of the tunnel whether or not pregnancy is the outcome. When you've been trying to conceive for a while, it seem like it's never going to happen. But I want you to trust yourself, trust the process, and know that you're going to be OK no matter what happens.

Episode mentioned:

#29 - Interview with Shannon Shulz-Wooten: Infertility Sucks, You Don't

An Interview With Shannon Schultz-Wooten

Today's episode is part 2 of How to overcome limiting beliefs that are preventing you from pregnancy.

To quickly review, limiting beliefs are show stoppers. They stop us in our tracks and prevent us from moving forward. Just by having these beliefs, we do not think, do or say the things that the beliefs prevent us from thinking, doing or saying and we totally sabotage ourselves.

Limiting beliefs can be "I am not very good at this," "this is too hard," "I can never do this," "I'm never going to get pregnant," " I'm that annoying person," "people are going to laugh at me."

And the ways we come up with these limiting beliefs is through life experiences, what others have said, our fears, and our assumptions that we know what others will do, think or say .

So in today's episode, we're going to talk about how to actually overcome limiting beliefs whatever they might be.

Let's dive right in.

Links mentioned in this episode:

www.practicallyfertileclub.com

Episodes mentioned:

Episode 49: How To Overcome Limiting Beliefs That Are Preventing You From Pregnancy (Part I)