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- 65. FCC: Giving Yourself Permission During Fertility Treatments
As part of the Fertility Clinic Confidence series of episodes, this episode will help you to have a more empowered and confident experience while you are going through your fertility treatment process.
In this episode, we will be talking about the three ways you can give yourself permission during your fertility treatment process, to create the best possible experience for yourself.
IMPORTANT LINKS
Connect With Michelle On Instagram
Work With Michelle
Grab The Infertility Stress Relief Toolkit For FREE
Book Your Acupuncture Treatment With Michelle
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10 min - 64. What To Do When Your Expectations Don’t Match Your Reality During Fertility Treatments
Expectations not matching the reality of outcomes?
Let’s face it, if you live in a human body, you will experience this in the context of your health at some point in time.
During the fertility treatment process and IVF, this is a theme that we often face over and over and over again.
In this episode, I talk about what to do and what not to do when this happens.
By the end of this episode, you will have a few ideas to help you find some relief when you’re inevitably faced with that theme of “Oh yeah… Sometimes human bodies do weird things and don’t respond in the way we want them to”.
IMPORTANT LINKS
Episode 47 - Dealing With Painful Feelings
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17 min - 63. Fertility Shame and Trauma: A Conversation with Social Worker and Life Coach Emily Ginn
Today Emily Ginn is on the podcast for a conversation about shame, trauma and fertility. Emily is a social worker, life coach and IVF warrior and she is with me today to share her wisdom, experience and colourful analogies!
My favourite “we put a lot of mustard on our thoughts”! - very enlightening moment for me.
If you are doing fertility treatment of any kind - this episode is for you. We discuss:
- Her story and how she came to do this work
- Trauma: what it is and how it occurs in the context of fertility treatments
- Shame: what it is and where it comes from
- Therapy vs coaching and how to know which one to choose
- And many MANY amazing analogies and metaphors.
About Emily: Emily is a certified life coach and a masters-level Social Worker based in Austin, TX. Her cognitive-behavioural approach brings awareness, clarity, and support for her clients. Emily works with women considering, seeking, or undergoing fertility treatment who want to enjoy their lives even in the midst of infertility.
Emily on Instagram
Emily on Facebook
Emily’s Podcast
Emily’s Website
IMPORTANT LINKS
Join The Pineapple Collective
Connect With Michelle On Instagram
Work With Michelle
Grab The Infertility Stress Relief Toolkit For FREE
Book Your Acupuncture Treatment With Michelle
Sign Up For Michelle’s Email List
38 min - 62. 5 Signs That You Might Be Experiencing Fertility Treatment Related Burnout (And What To Do About It)
In today’s episode, learn the five signs that you may be experiencing fertility treatment related burnout. And more importantly, what you can do to begin to heal from burnout or prevent it from happening in the first place.
IMPORTANT LINKS
Join The Pineapple Collective
Connect With Michelle On Instagram
Work With Michelle
Grab The Infertility Stress Relief Toolkit For FREE
Book Your Acupuncture Treatment With Michelle
Sign Up For Michelle’s Email List
17 min - 61. The Five Things I Wish Everyone Knew When Starting Fertility Treatments
Are you new to fertility treatments and IVF? Or maybe this isn’t your first rodeo but you’re curious about the title of this podcast? This is the episode for you!
In my 12+ years of clinical experience, helping thousands of people during their IVF experience, I have found that I have the same conversations over and over again with my patients and clients.
I almost wish that there was a manual for how to do IVF - but we all know that wouldn't work because everyone is different!
This episode outlines the top 5 things I think every human should know before they embark on their fertility treatment process (particularly IVF)
IMPORTANT LINKS
Join The Pineapple Collective
Connect With Michelle On Instagram
Work With Michelle
Grab The Infertility Stress Relief Toolkit For FREE
Book Your Acupuncture Treatment With Michelle
Sign Up For Michelle’s Email List
14 min - 60. FCC: The Most Important Questions To Ask When You Are Offered A New Fertility Treatment Protocol
Today is the first instalment of a new series called Fertility Clinic Confidence Episodes. During this series of quick and easily digestible episodes, we will be sharing bits of knowledge and questions to ask to help you feel more confident, while navigating your fertility treatment process.
This episode is all about the most important questions to ask your care provider when you are offered a new fertility treatment protocol. Today we will cover why you need to know:
- What is the reason for recommending this next step?
- What are the risks and benefits of this next level of treatment?
- What are the risks and benefits of sticking with my current treatment protocol for now?
- What will the entire cost be for this next level of intervention?
- How will I know if this treatment protocol is working?
- How long do you suggest I try this intervention before we know it is time to move on?
- Are there any alternatives to this suggestion?
To download the PDF and print these questions, download the Fertility Stress Relief Toolkit
IMPORTANT LINKS
Join The Pineapple Collective
Connect With Michelle On Instagram
Work With Michelle
Grab The Infertility Stress Relief Toolkit For FREE
Book Your Acupuncture Treatment With Michelle
Sign Up For Michelle’s Email List
15 min - 59. How Fertility Acupuncture Can Help During Your Fertility Treatment Process
Today on The Infertility Stress Podcast, we are taking a deep dive into fertility acupuncture and acupuncture for IVF. During the episode, I will answer questions like:
- What is acupuncture?
- How does it help with fertility and conception?
- How does it help with stress and regulating the nervous system?
- How often do people need to come for treatment?
- How do I know that the treatments are working?
- Is acupuncture safe if I am doing medical treatments with a fertility clinic like IVF?
- How do I find the right practitioner?
IMPORTANT LINKS
Connect With Michelle On Instagram
Book Your Acupuncture Treatment With Michelle
Join The Pineapple Collective
Work With Michelle
Grab The Infertility Stress Relief Toolkit For FREE
Sign Up For Michelle’s Email List
28 min - 58. One Essential Thing That Is Missing From The Fertility Treatment Experience
Today on The Infertility Stress Podcast, we are talking about the ONE thing that is missing from most people’s IVF or fertility treatment experience. We live in a time when we have access to incredible fertility doctors and medical technology. We have the ability to work with amazing allied health professionals. And there has been no other time in history where we have had unlimited and infinite access to so much information for how we can take our health outcomes into our own hands with lifestyle practices.
But there is still something missing for many folks going through IVF and fertility treatments. The community aspect.
Fertility treatments can be a lonely and isolating experience for many people. In today’s episode, Michelle is going to share some ideas on how to fill that gap.
IMPORTANT LINKS
Episode 43 - The Problem With The Fertility Wellness Industry
Join The Pineapple Collective
Work With Michelle
Grab The Infertility Stress Relief Toolkit For FREE
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14 min - 57. Body Literacy and Fertility/IVF101 With Embryologist Lucy Lines of Two Lines Fertility
Today Michelle is speaking With Lucy Lines of Two Lines Fertility. They talk about:
- What information is missing in sex ed in highschool
- Why it is so hard to get pregnant
- Egg quality, egg reserve and what happens to eggs over a person’s lifetime
- Lifespan on eggs and sperm
- Ovulation timing with sex
- Embryo health, quality and rating (and if that actually matters)
- Advice for people navigating the IVF experience
Lucy’s Bio
As a fully trained and clinically experienced embryologist Lucy has had the good fortune to travel the world practising her craft in IVF labs in Australia, Sweden, Ireland and the UK.
Over her first 17 years in the fertility ‘industry’ she became increasingly frustrated over the ‘business’ aspect that was creeping into the large IVF companies and the huge gaps that was creating for patients accessing those services.
After a redundancy at 37 weeks pregnant, (and at 44 years of age) she saw an opportunity to fill those gaps - with education, care, support, guidance and space for women and couples experiencing difficulties with their fertility - totally independent of the big businesses!
She now offers her services through Two Lines Fertility - with her signature program; IVF WTF, her website and blog, e-courses and, of course, 1:1 support, she now helps women and couples feel empowered, and more importantly EDUCATED and in control of their fertility, whether they are right at the beginning of considering growing their families, in the depths of IVF treatment, or anywhere in between
LUCY’S LINKS
Lucy’s Website
Lucy on Instagram
Lucy on Facebook
IMPORTANT LINKS
Work With Michelle
Grab The Infertility Stress Relief Toolkit For FREE
Sign Up For Michelle’s Email List
32 min - 56. Fertility Healthism and The Perfect Potion
Have you ever had that moment where you thought to yourself “if I could just figure out the right foods and the right exercise and the right way to meditate and the correct supplements and avoid all of the wrong things, I would get pregnant”?
Have you ever commented on a person’s BFP celebration post in the Fertility Support Facebook Group and asked “what did you do during your cycle”? with the hopes that if YOU do those things, you’ll get pregnant too?
This is classic perfect potion seeking and it happens to so many people during their fertility treatment process.
This is rooted in healthism, which is the idea that a person is wholly responsible for their health outcomes - and therefore morally inferior if they experience health challenges.
IMPORTANT LINKS
Become a founding member of The Pineapple Collective (limited spots available)
Work With Michelle
Grab The Infertility Stress Relief Toolkit For FREE
Sign Up For Michelle’s Email List
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About The Infertility Stress Podcast
From the publisher's feed
Welcome to The Infertility Stress Podcast - where we talk about how to care for your mind and your nervous system during your fertility treatment process, with your host Michelle Kapler - Fertility…
Acupuncturist, Board Certified Reproductive Specialist and Mindset Coach.