The Home of Fertility with Liz Walton & Helen Zee

In this episode Sarah Willoughby and I discuss how to navigate through lost hope at the end of the year and when we're going through Christmas and the silly season. We wanted to create an episode where we share both of our journeys and reflections. What we've learned and finish off with some wonderful take home tools, for you the listener that may be going through a very difficult time now. Prayer is supports you and hopefully brings peace to your heart.

Sarah's thoughts.

1.       Acknowledge all the emotions, they can be huge and overwhelming, this supports the body and nervous system for balance.

2.       There can be emotions of guilt and shame, again acknowledge them. It is OK to acknowledge these emotions.

3.       There is such a duality of feelings to navigate through.

4.       Ask yourself what do I need? To protect my heart, and to have boundaries?

5.       This can be a good time to be aware of boundaries, for yourself, for your heart, and for your being.

6.       Sarah reflected on some of her personal journey as well.

Liz's thoughts.

1.       Reflecting on Liz’s journey at end of every  year and how I had to change my thoughts or I may lose my sanity.

2.       The gift of the healing journey.

3.       We talked about guilt and shame.

Sarah shared a personal story for her.

The fertility journey is not always about getting the baby and getting pregnant. The inner journey and finding happiness within can be one of the main paths to tread.

We talked about what being enough is. 

That you are enough!

Some questions to ask yourself.

·         Why do you really want a baby?

·         What will a baby give you?

·         What does being a mother give you?

Tools and strategies to finish off the year with.

1.       Boundaries - setting boundaries can be a lifesaver.

a.       get clear on what is acceptable for you.

b.       what is not acceptable for you?

c.       it is OK to say no!

2.       Have an exit strategy – If you must go to a party or an event.

a.       create an exit plan.

b.       have a think of things that you can do or say, that support you.

c.       know when it is a good time to leave.

d.       you can prepare responses in advance just in case people ask.

3.       Look at connecting with others that are on a similar journey, as these are your tribe.

4.       Lots of guilt may come up, it is important to protect your heart and I know it's difficult as you don't want to upset others, this can be a challenge. So, it's good to have people that are in your tribe.

5.       This can be an opportunity to educate others, let them understand the real struggles and share what you need so they know how to support you.

6.       Create a personal mantra, some words that can support you at challenging times. This can also help to keep you centred.

7.       Creating your own new tradition, making positive change. This can be fun!

8.       Meditation is always a helpful tool.

9.       Journaling your journey.

10.   Honour your emotions, they are here f

In this episode I talk with Angie Liu who is a Qigong practitioner, passionate about Women's Health I'm focusing on chronic issues hormone issues, fertility, and women's cycles. We had a wonderful talk at how she supports Women's Health. We started and finished with 2 mini meditations. I trust you enjoy.

We talked about.

1.       We started with a lovely breath meditation for vertical alignment.

2.       We discussed Angie’s journey in life, starting with her mum and dad who both did Qigong.

3.       Angie had a shoulder injury and wanted to heal it and was looking for the right modality.

4.       She discovered Shanghai university and went off on a healing journey.

5.       We discussed what Qigong is and how it supports healing.

6.       A brief history of Qigong and it being a wellbeing practise.

7.       She learned a lot of self-healing techniques.

8.       Then met an amazing person who did Qigong and working with fertility.

9.       We looked at the difference between Qigong and Tai chi.

10.   Angie's journey then focused on Women's Health especially in this modern life and connecting to our femininity.

11.   We discussed Qigong and connecting with the womb.

12.   We looked at Qigong and a way to rewrite the code to fertility.

13.   We discussed how Qigong is medicine for the soul.

Angie shares some tips on fertility and Qigong and how to unwind the nervous system.

1.       Claim your space and time.

2.       The body does listen, and words have power, choose them wisely.

3.       Rewrite your path and be positive.

4.       Look at how you talk to your body and notice if it's positive or not.

5.       Connecting with the with the womb which is your sovereignty.

6.       Do a small exercise connecting with your body and the pathways to communicate with your body.

7.       A great affirmation is - I choose to live a vibrant life.

And then we finish with another beautiful mini meditation.

I trust you enjoyed this conversation.

How to find Angie Liu

Website is www.piniri.com.au

Email is [email protected]

Mobile - 0412362301 

Also, Angie is co-hosting a Winter Retreat on the 24th of June 2024 from 1-5:30. The retreat aims to help you settle into the Water Element, a time where the kidney and bladder energy systems are most prominent. It’s a great opportunity to try a Qigong practice focused on helping you to restore your energy (especially from burn out or stress). 

More information can be found at: 

https://ambrosiaholistichealth.com.au/event/winter-restoration-mini-retreat/

I will also be running a Qigong for Stress and Burnout workshop in mid-late August and a Women’s health and Vitality workshop in September-October. Information on this is coming and will be on my website in the next coming weeks. 

This episode I talk with Ros Lockley who is a conflict coach, a breastfeeding counsellor and the founder and trainer of Communikeys.  She calls herself the coach that saves marriages and I loved that. To be able to Communicate with our loved ones is one of the most powerful things we can do. Yes, this can be one of the most challenging and difficult things to do. Lack of communication creates such breakdown between loved one and countries. We discuss all things around communication and the power of good communication.

We discuss – 

1.       communication and how to do it.

2.       The emotional problems 

3.       Anger and fear.

4.       Non-violent communication. Website - Home - NVC Australia

5.       Being emotionally literate.

6.       We can have the same values yet see the problem form different perspectives.

7.       Book Don Segal – Handy Brain

8.       Book Steven Covey - The Relationship Bank

9.       How Fertility can have a strain on a relationship and how important it is to talk about all that is happening.

10.   Self-Blame and this can lead to post-natal depression.

11.   Share tips on how to communicate with your partner when times are difficult.

Top Tips from Ros.

1.       Listen and check in with your body.

2.       Self Sooth

3.       Check in with you or use the words “I understand …”

4.       Remember is doesn’t always come easy, be gentle with yourself. It may not come naturally allow yourself time to work on this new way of connecting.

5.       Remember your doing the best you can.

How to find Ros Lockley;

www.communikeys.com.au

Mobile – 0448242101

Email – [email protected]

In today's episode I talked to a fertility acupuncturist called Holly Brocklebank who lives in Canberra, Australia. We discover what brought Holly 2 traditional Chinese medicine and acupuncture and the work she does supporting people on a fertility path.

We started off with Holly's personal story, having an alternative mother that allowed her to see things in a different way.

1.       Holly was always interested in the connection with all things, that universe the seasons the elements and how they flow.

2.       Move to support inner healing and found art therapy.

3.       Found 5 element acupuncture.

4.       Discuss what is TCM and acupuncture.

5.       Chinese medicine called her.

6.       This is a system that can heal and find balance.

7.       Then she was called to support people in with fertility

8.       Talked about how TCM can support the IVF/fertility path.

9.       It's a spiritual journey with health as we talk about five element acupuncture.

10.   It balances the constitution of the body, mind and spirit and brings it back into wisdom.

Shares 2 testimonials.

1.       An Indian couple who had been trying for six years, lots of grief, despair, family pressure and husband has low sperm issues. Worked with then for 7 months and had a wonderful positive outcome.

2.       A couple in their early 30s had a miscarriage at 12 weeks, her body was in a lot of fatigue worked with taping to support her emotional state. Another positive outcome after working together.

A new programme is coming called Fertile Flow.

A 9-week programme that compliments any other work people are doing and also honours the men.

Top tips from Holly – 

1.       We are all capable with the right support, so anything is possible.

2.       Create space to be held and acknowledged.  Allow all emotions and honour the deeper journey.

3.    website: www.innatebeingtherapies.com

4.    instagram: https://instagram.com/innatebeingtherapies?igshid=MmIzYWVlNDQ5Yg==

5.    fB:https://www.facebook.com/InnateBeingTherapies?mibextid=LQQJ4d

In today's episode I talk with Louise Siwicki on her personal story of navigating infertility, IVF, working full time and how she found peace.

Louise was a high-flying business manager for a legal transportation company, working a full-time job and life was very busy.

Today Louise shares her story,

1.       In corporate for six years, with a fertility journey in the middle of all of that.

2.       Did not have much support from her workspace.

3.       Battled for six years with unexplained infertility, the doctors could find no reason why she was not getting pregnant.

4.       At 5 1/2 years in she was diagnosed with depression, her mental health was in a very bad place.

5.       This was a turning point, and it was time to look within.

6.       She started looking at hypnotherapy, a spiritual path and using acupuncture, to find peace and balance in her life.

7.       She found she was creating a healthy crew of complementary therapists around her, that can help her in both mind and body.

8.       She got married, which was a beautiful space to create.

9.       Roughly a year later she went back to the fertility Dr, had her blood tests and urine tests taken.

10.   The next day found out she was pregnant.

11.   This was where Louise really began to understand the mind body connection for healing on the difficult path of fertility or infertility.

12.   She was very nervous about being pregnant and went back to seek the support from her hypnotherapist and acupuncturist.

13.   She knew she had family generational trauma to look at and heal.

14.   She had been bullied badly at school.

15.   She didn't feel worthy of self-care and had to learn how to love herself.

16.   She is now grateful for her fertility journey, as it allowed her to heal her past, to find herself, love herself, and welcome children into her life.

Louise is top tip are.

1.       Self-care, it's so important to understand how powerful giving yourself time to heal time to be and time to love can be.

2.       Creating space to find joy, on a fertility journey joy can be difficult to find, so creating joy is so beneficial.

3.       Go for walks on the beach or in nature, paint sing, something that allows creativity within yourself.

4.       Allow space to stop and be yourself. Louise loves to do a body scan with your eyes closed and become aware of any tension and breathe love into the body, and notice the body releasing and easing.

Also, Louise has a fertility friends Friday virtual coffee catch up.

This is free to attend, in a Facebook group.

A way of giving back to all those women on a fertility journey to connect, to grow and to realise they're not alone.

How to find Louise 
https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Flinktr.ee%2FLouiseSiwicki%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2Kr3d2w5ncNqV2QWpzPDVX0n-j6wwjm1-od-97TJAEXO6TeNdZD9Oz5bU&h=AT3sTNDaIaasEVscelqjiDk3ZC56RlsJt-93zdkEi0Il8bNyxcu-vk0p5aBE6fK25jrMi6sVEejuc0b70MJAm9is01viwk8aPrzMsgN1rWwXC-5gYyhriOFFwMwEDpYM8I_Nvr8mk50ot84MweE

In today's episode I talk with Sarah Willoughby about how we know it's time to have a baby. What is it that creates that decision and how do we know when we're ready to have a baby? We talk about our experiences, our stories and leave you with some great tips that we hope support you in knowing when you are ready for a baby and things to put into place.

We talk about

1.       how do you know when you're ready to have a baby.

2.       What is that decision to have a baby.

3.       How do you know when you're ready to have a baby.

We each give our top three tips on getting ready to have a baby.

1.       look at toxicity in your life, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and physically.

Think to be fertile.

2.       Discuss voices and language in our head.

3.       New ways of being journey to self-love.

4.       Health on all levels

a.       understanding connection with body mind spirit

5.       Time to re-create a loving relationship with your body.

a.       if we attack ourselves the body gets confused.

6.       Self-care what is that?

a.       Not feeling enough

b.       Boundaries learning to say no.

c.       Learning to connect with our bodies and ourselves.

7.       Relationship with your partner.

a.       Learning to talk on a whole new level with your partner.

b.       Couples therapy

8.       We talk about products that we put on our body and making sure they are toxic free,

9.       we usually think after the baby I'll be happy.

a.       It's finding happiness now, and then any bonus is more magic.

I trust you find lots of beautiful tips in this episode.

Working with Sarah Willoughby;

1.       Links for Sarah Willoughby

2.       https://www.sarahwilloughby.com.au/

3.       https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-willoughby-2019/

4.       https://www.facebook.com/SarahWilloughbyAustralia

5.       https://www.facebook.com/sarah.willoughby.923

6.       https://www.instagram.com/sarahwilloughbyaustralia

7.       Links for Liz Walton

8.       Fertility coaching and emotional therapy in Australia - Liz Walton

9.       (10) Liz Walton Creation Coach | Canberra ACT | Facebook

10.   Elizabeth Fry Walton (@lizwalton_fertilitycoach) • Instagram photos and videos

11.   My Podcast

12.   https://open.spotify.com/show/4VMnGcmvF1WjTM1D7U2VNo?si=217a4f4da01244ff

It was such a thrill today to talk to Mel Kovacevic who has created a magnificent product called the Seed Cycle. The seed cycle works with the lunar calendar supporting hormonal health. Mel as a functional nutritionist with a passion for health, this passion whilst seeing her clients LED her to create the seed cycle. In this episode I talked to Mel about the seed cycle, how it works with our health supports a women's ministration cycle and fertility.

We talked about.

1.       Mel’s unhealthy relationship with food.

2.       How she was obsessed with being skinny.

3.       Diet and bingeing.

4.       Took a course in nutrition.

5.       Looking at core beliefs and emotions with food.

6.       Found a course on functional nutrition, how this helps the body to thrive.

7.       Seeing food as medicine.

8.       Found a modality called EFT, also known as tapping to support her self.

9.       Helped her find peace with her emotional issues.

10.   Became a fully-fledged EFT practitioner and opened her own practise, for Nutrition when she was a mom to a three year old.

11.   Working with clients she realised she needed something more, started adding seeds for her clients.

12.   The seed cycle was born.

13.   Phase one pumpkin and flax seed, seeds.

14.   Phase two sunflower and sesame seeds.

15.   The seeds are full of minerals, essential fatty acids which help balance oestrogen and progesterone.

16.   Discussed about hormonal balance, woman cycles, fertility and conception.

Top Tips.

·         Have your crew around you!

·         Have your seed cycling!

·         Support your body. 

o   Decrease endocrine disruptors, can cause issues with thyroid, cancer and menopause.

o   No processed foods.

o   Don't heat anything in plastic!!!!!

o   Skin care that's clean and pure.

o   Always wash veggies and fruit!

·         Focus on mindful and intuitive eating, honouring the body.

·         The seed cycle is great for Men’s hormonal balance as too.

IF you want to get the Seed Cycle for yourself www.the seedcycle.com.au

My link code is LIZ20 for 20% discount to try out this fabulous product.

Mel’s Links are;

Mel Kovacevic, founder of The Seed Cycle is a Functional Nutrition and EFT Practitioner. With her expertise in functional nutrition, intuitive eating practices, and EFT Tapping, Mel has helped her clients overcome limiting beliefs and heal their relationship with food and their bodies. Her current focus is on helping women restore hormone health using food as medicine, a subject about which she is deeply passionate. Mel's dedication to empowering women to reach their full potential is reflected in The Seed Cycle, which provides a done-for-you seed cycling solution delivered to customers' doorsteps every month. With the support and encouragement of her family, The Seed Cycle has flourished.

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Today I have a great chat with Sarah Willoughby on our five top tips to find sanity, balance end piece on this very bumpy journey of fertility. We both share the top five things that saved us whilst on our journey of fertility. I hope you find them useful.

 We discussed; -

1.       Meditation – 

a.       Finding stillness in the mind how helpful this is when we become overwhelmed.

b.       Supports and helps connecting deeply with the self.

c.       Using visualisation and meditation

d.       Meditating with a candle flame, this was when Sarah so her baby girl in her meditation.

e.       I share the app called Aura

f.        I also share Marianne Williamson her meditation series cold meditations for a miraculous life. I found this helpful.

2.       Breath

a.       I talk about the detox breath.

b.       The box breath

c.       How breathing allows me to feel my body and reconnect.

3.       Music

a.       Sara talks about becoming numb on her infertility journey, and listening to music helped her to feel and then supported her to cry and release the emotions.

4.       Inner language

a.       I talk about an NLP technique called towards and away. How to be aware of where your focus are is, whether it's on what we want or on what we do not want. Becoming aware of our inner language can be a great way to start so we're not attacking ourselves.

5.       Swimming

a.       Sara talks about swimming, and it is something that helped her get it to a space of meditation and be in her body.

b.       She found swimming was so healing, and a space where she could just be.

6.       Create a new relationship with your body.

a.       Liz talks about how important it is to have a positive relationship with your body when you want to have a baby, and on a fertility journey. It's time to love the creation house.

7.       Nature

a.       Sara talks about how walking in nature can be very beneficial when feeling stressed and overwhelmed. Very good for grounding the body.

b.       And nature is a great place to call out and make your intention to have a baby.

8.       Knowing I am enough.

a.       Seeing the fertility journey as a gift, as an opportunity to heal the self. Which then helps us know we are enough to allow our baby to come through.

b.       Knowing the vulnerability and showing vulnerability can be one of the most courageous things we can do.

9.       Finding alternative therapies

a.       it's good to find your crew, the people around you who can support you a fertility journey that can support your healing. The journey can be full of stress and anxiety, so it is good to be able to see different therapists to support you at different times.

b.       Learning to trust the journey.

c.       Bringing awareness for yourself to allow you to create life and have your baby.

I had a brilliant chat with Sam Neffendorf on his journey of fertility. From infertility on a man’s perspective to living the life of his dreams supporting others in the healing journeys and feeling aligned in his life.

We talk about.

1.       Not feeling aligned in his work and life.

2.       all those limiting beliefs I've not feeling smart enough I'm not feeling fulfilled.

3.       lots of stress

4.       when the decision came to have children, it didn't work.

5.       Had himself tested from there was low mobility of his sperm.

6.       Was given the diagnosis of anti-sperm antibodies, and told IVF was the only option.

7.       The feelings of hopelessness and feeling very low.

8.       Had acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine.

9.       Had body work.

10.   Three months later things better but still sub fertile.

11.   Continued working on myself and several months later we were pregnant.

12.   Trained in EFT, known as emotional freedom technique.

13.   Became very interested in health and the mind body connection and looking at and health methodology.

14.   Having a passion of living my dreams.

15.   I became a health practitioner.

16.   So many people can feel isolated and lonely, don't express who they are and are self-medicating, it's time to find a new way to heal.

17.   Sam created a new way to find who we are.

a.       Seeing failure as steps to move forward in life.

b.       claim, shame and guilt, people are not creating and fulfilling their lives = time to see a new way.

c.       Creating a programme of how Sam healed himself.

d.       He healed his eyesight.

e.       Healed his own gastro and digestive issues and learning from that to and move forward.

18.   Sam's top tips are - allow yourself to express who you are and supporting your body to move for example going to the gym a great way to support your mental health. 

Sam’s Details;-

Sam Neffendorf breaks people out of the life-long trances, behaviour patterns and beliefs that are keeping them sick, skint and stuck. As a META-Consciousness Trainer, EFT Trainer and Matrix Reimprinting Practitioner, he inspires people to stand up for themselves, reach new levels of health and realise their potential to have an amazing life. Tapping and Energy Psychology techniques enabled him to escape from corporate life into doing something he loves and, most importantly to become a dad naturally (twice), after being told that this would be very difficult by his GP.

Sam specialises in guiding people with chronic physical and mental conditions to understand the precise root cause of their illness and then learn how to heal themselves, so that they can avoid years of suffering and wasting £1000’s on trying every cure under the sun. As well as moving to new levels of health, they realise the secrets in their symptoms that can break them free from their conditioning, enabling them to evolve into a thriving life that is truly and richly theirs.

He now spends much of the year living in a beautiful part of Spain with his family and hosts exciting retreats, as well as working online with people worldwide, both individually and in groups.

Join the waitlist to hear about Sam’s new Fearless Pursuits workshop to resolve fear of failure and self-doubt in your life here - https://eftnow.kartra

You have been told you have to do IVF, but what does that really mean.

In this episode Sarah and I, talk about our own journy with  IVF journey and how it started for us.

1.       We share how each of us found out that we had to do IVF.

2.       Dealing with all the stages of IVF and injections.

3.       Dealing with birth trauma.

4.       Dealing with daily life, IVF and the IVF medication.

5.       Talking egg collection.

6.       Sarah talks about her overstimulation and how that nearly took her life.

7.       Liz talks about her emotional journey and upheaval.

8.       And support through IVF.

9.       Then we share some tips to survive IVF and different tools that helped us.

Sarah’s book Called Infertility Saved My Life 

Infertility Saved My Life: Healing PCOS from the Inside Out by Morgan James Publishing is available now from all online retailers and global bookstores or order a signed author copy from www.sarahwilloughby.com.au/infertilitysavedmylife 

Links for Sarah Willoughby

https://www.sarahwilloughby.com.au/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-willoughby-2019/

https://www.facebook.com/SarahWilloughbyAustralia

https://www.facebook.com/sarah.willoughby.923

https://www.instagram.com/sarahwilloughbyaustralia

Links for Liz Walton

If you would like to contact me to see how I can support you on your journey of Fertility, Health and life please do connect.

I offer a free 20-minute consultation.

Here are my details – Links for Liz Walton

Fertility coaching and emotional therapy in Australia - Liz Walton

(10) Liz Walton Creation Coach | Canberra ACT | Facebook

Elizabeth Fry Walton (@lizwalton_fertilitycoach) • Instagram photos and videos

My Podcast