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What if your womb is not blocked because something is “wrong” with you… but because you no longer feel emotionally safe enough to receive?

In this episode of the Make A Baby Podcast, Carolina Sotomayor shares one of the biggest reasons women struggle to get pregnant after trying everything from IVF to supplements to endless tracking.

If you feel exhausted, emotionally shut down, stuck in survival mode, or like your nervous system never gets a break, this episode is for you.

Carolina breaks down how emotional safety affects the womb, why resistance blocks receiving, and what your spirit baby may actually need from you before conception happens.

She also invites you into her free 3-day Receive & Conceive Challenge happening May 18–20.

BY THE TIME YOU FINISH LISTENING, YOU’LL DISCOVER:

• Why emotional safety affects your ability to receive a pregnancy
• The hidden ways survival mode and stress shut down the womb
• How to begin opening your womb to receive joy, softness, and your spirit baby

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Are the beliefs you were handed as a child quietly running your life — and blocking your fertility?

Most women trying to conceive never think to look at their inherited religious beliefs as a source of womb blocks. But if you've been taught to make yourself small, submit to others, and never ask why — your nervous system and your womb are listening.

If you're healing your womb but skipping your belief system, you may be missing the deepest root of all.

BY THE TIME YOU FINISH LISTENING, YOU'LL DISCOVER:

• What faith deconstruction actually means and why questioning inherited beliefs is one of the most powerful things you can do for your fertility
• How to use the BITE model to identify whether your faith environment is empowering you or keeping you small and compliant
• How purity culture creates shame and nervous system dysregulation — and why those patterns don't just disappear once you're married

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Are you doing everything right on your fertility journey but completely overlooking what's on your plate?

Most women trying to conceive focus on tracking, treatments, and tests — but never get real guidance on how food directly impacts their egg quality, hormones, and chances of implantation. And the advice they do get? Just "take a prenatal."

Jillian Beck-Rogers is a certified fertility nutrition and wellness coach who combines lived experience with science-based strategy to help women take back control through food — without restriction, overwhelm, or a Whole Foods budget.

BY THE TIME YOU FINISH LISTENING, YOU'LL LEARN:

• Why skipping breakfast and drinking coffee on an empty stomach could be quietly disrupting your hormones — and the simple swap that makes a big difference
• How to eat for fertility on any budget, including why frozen and canned foods count and how to make 1% better choices even on your busiest weeks
• The truth about seed oils, inflammation, and why women who eat fast food four times a week have double the risk of infertility — plus easy swaps that don't require cooking from scratch

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Are you feeling the pull toward something more — but too afraid to call yourself a witch?

Many women sense that their healing gifts, their intuition, and their connection to nature are something powerful — but years of cultural conditioning have taught them to shrink from it, hide it, or call it something safer.

Eileen March was a midwife for over a decade before burnout sent her searching for a different path. What she found was a calling she'd carried her whole life — energy healing, cyclical living, and the reclamation of her Celtic witch lineage. Now she guides women back home to themselves.

BY THE TIME YOU FINISH LISTENING, YOU'LL DISCOVER:

• Why midwives are the original witches — and how the demonization of wise women was a deliberate tool of patriarchal control
• How slowing down and getting quiet is the most radical and powerful thing you can do when you feel stuck but don't yet know what's next
• What cyclical living really means and how embracing your bleed as sacred — instead of shameful — can transform your relationship with your body and your fertility

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Are you going through IVF without truly understanding what's happening to your embryos behind that lab door?

Most women pour everything into IVF but are never told what the embryologist is actually doing — so every phone call from the clinic feels devastating instead of expected.

Victoria Wigley is an embryologist with nearly 18 years of experience who now consults directly with patients to bridge the gap between the lab and the treatment room.

BY THE TIME YOU FINISH LISTENING, YOU'LL LEARN:

• Why only 4% of sperm in a normal male sample are morphologically healthy — and how 90 days of lifestyle changes can dramatically improve sperm DNA fragmentation before your next cycle
• What actually happens to your eggs and embryos from retrieval to transfer, and why a drop-off at each stage is completely normal and mirrors natural conception
• The truth about egg freezing that pop culture never tells you — and why it's a backup plan, not a guarantee

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What if your diagnosis doesn't have to be your destiny?

You may be accepting a frightening label as a final answer when your womb already knows the way back to wholeness.

Holly Lamb was diagnosed with early menopause at 35, ditched the HRT that made her feel numb, and healed herself through womb work and cyclical living. Now she helps women clear what's energetically blocking their wombs and finally feel safe enough to receive their baby.

BY THE TIME YOU FINISH LISTENING, YOU'LL DISCOVER:

• How Holly healed from an early menopause diagnosis through womb work and cycle syncing
• Why safety, worthiness, and belonging are the root causes of every womb wound — and how your father relationship may be blocking your ability to conceive
• What happens when a soul from a past miscarriage is still held in your womb space, and how releasing it opens the path to a new pregnancy

How to Connect with Holly: 

Email: [email protected]

https://www.instagram.com/wombwitchholly/

https://www.facebook.com/wombwitchholly

https://www.tiktok.com/@_hollylamb

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Are you doing everything "right" on your fertility journey and still feeling like something is missing?

Too many women trying to conceive are unknowingly working against their bodies, taking the wrong supplements, obsessing over fertility trackers, and ignoring the one thing that predicts everything: their energy. The medical system was never designed to give you the full picture, and no one has ever looked at all of you.

In this episode, Carolina sits down with Kirsten Karchmer, TikTok's most trusted fertility expert, board-certified reproductive acupuncturist, and founder of Conceivable, to reveal what is really standing between you and your baby.

BY THE TIME YOU FINISH LISTENING, YOU'LL DISCOVER:

• Why popular supplements like Vitex, myo-inositol, and pomegranate juice may actually be hurting your fertility
• The simple 1 to 10 energy check that reveals the true root cause of why your body is not ready to conceive yet
• Why you were born worthy of motherhood and how rewriting the stories your nervous system holds is the most powerful fertility tool you have

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This podcast is for informational and spiritual purposes only and does not constitute medical or any professional advice. Review our full Privacy Policy here and Disclaimer here.

Could the emotional patterns from your childhood be the hidden reason you're struggling to conceive?

So many women on their fertility journey are doing everything "right" — the tests, the supplements, the tracking — yet still feel stuck. What they don't realize is that unhealed emotional wounds, especially patterns of abandonment and neglect from childhood, may be quietly keeping their womb closed.

When your nervous system was never taught that it was safe to receive love, support, or nurturing, it can't suddenly feel safe enough to receive a baby. In this episode, Carolina walks through a real client case study and a powerful Reiki-infused sovereignty meditation to help you call your power back.

BY THE TIME YOU FINISH LISTENING, YOU'LL DISCOVER:

• How childhood emotional abandonment shapes your nervous system — and directly impacts your fertility
• Why you may be choosing emotionally unavailable partners and accepting less than you deserve
• How to restore safety to your womb through a guided breathwork and sovereignty practice so you can finally receive your baby

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Are you doing all the womb work but still feeling stuck?

Your body may be holding wounds that your mind can't reach alone.

Leslie Draffin is a womb mystic, somatic coach, and trauma-informed guide who helps women heal through somatics and microdosing mushrooms as a sacred ally.

BY THE TIME YOU FINISH LISTENING, YOU'LL DISCOVER:

• What microdosing mushrooms actually is and the green and red flags to look for when choosing a practitioner
• Why you cannot gaslight your body the way you can gaslight your brain with affirmations and mindset work
• How one of Leslie's clients cleared a suppressed sexual trauma during a womb journey and conceived her baby girl just weeks later

Connect with Leslie Draffin:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lesliedraffin/

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thewombmystic

Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-light-within/id1554915881

Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/lesliedraffin/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@lesliedraffin

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/leslie.draffin

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Have you ever wondered what your womb healer's own fertility journey actually looked like?

In this special reverse interview, guest host Bethany Shipley asks Carolina the questions — and she holds nothing back. From childhood trauma and an abortion in her 20s, to losing her father and horse in the same year, to falling off a literal horse and getting one Reiki session that changed everything — this is the raw, unfiltered story behind the Make a Baby podcast.

BY THE TIME YOU FINISH LISTENING, YOU'LL DISCOVER:

• How grief physically settled in Carolina's womb and kept her from conceiving — and how one single Reiki session unlocked everything
• Why guilt, shame, and anger are the heaviest blocks to conception, and how rewriting your story about past losses can transform your ability to receive
• The simplest fertility hack Carolina swears by: what feeling safe in the micro moments of your day has to do with your ability to conceive

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This podcast is for informational and spiritual purposes only and does not constitute medical or any professional advice. Review our full Privacy Policy here and Disclaimer here.