Jane is a mindful strength and movement coach, a trauma informed embodied resilience expert and a Jungian Analyst in training.

Her bio states:

“You would probably agree with me that we're all healing from some past hurt or loss. That doesn’t mean we're broken. In fact, our past struggles, traumas or health issues don’t have to be a life sentence. I believe we have the power to free ourselves from the shackles that limit our recovery process and our potential for more happiness and joy."

In today's episode we discuss using fertility awareness for either preventing pregnancy or using it to get pregnant! There are SO many different misunderstandings and so much empowering science to back up this strategy, I don’t want to give too much away, but I love diving into the topics and questioning the assumption that we really aren’t capable of being the experts of our own bodies.

My journey towards healing and moving from surviving to thriving actually started in my mind. Perceived authorities and assumptions can strongly affect our beliefs and our views of reality. Over time we can become confined and limited by our unquestioned and subtle beliefs. It’s so important that we take the time to slow down to analyze and question them by looking at the “story I tell myself” about various parts of life. Join me as a share insights and anecdotes along with wisdom from some trusted gu

After years of battling her own health struggles and infertility, she eventually unlocked her happy place to finally THRIVE and welcome a beautiful healthy baby girl into the world. Regaining her health was a long, laborious, and frustrating process where she knew she needed to help other women to finally THRIVE. This is why she started Thriving Vitality LLC. She want YOU to be thriving and full of vitality so YOU can live the life that YOU want for YOURSELF and your FAMILY!

Friends! I'm SO thrilled to present my dear friend Jen Gleeson Blue to you today! She's had a huge impact on my own healing journey!

As a certified life coach and a restorative exercise specialist Jenn guides women to find their freedom, reinitiating their connection to their sacred bodies. In her online programs, group coaching, and workshops, she utilizes a powerful blend of consciousness work and natural movement to unleash the intuitive self while tending very practically to the physical body.

Anietie Ukpe-Wallace, also known as: Tia, has had a life-long fascination with the human body and its inner workings. Beginning with a formal introduction to movement in college and now as a yoga teacher of 8 years in the East Bay, her practice morphed from one of structure and ego to one of humility and independent thinking. After her own struggles surrounding her pelvic floor, she has grown a love for learning about this part of the body that is rarely talked about and sometimes even misunderstood.

After giving birth to my fourth son, my body fell apart. I was frustrated, exhausted, dealing with postpartum depression, and felt like there was no path to true healing for my condition. Join me as I share my journey toward healing with the specific steps that I took 5-6 finger gap over the course of a year.

Annemarie Everett, DPT. WCS is a pelvic floor physical therapist who works primarily with perinatal clients. Haley Shevener, CSCS, is a perinatal exercise specialist and mom with POP (Pelvic Organ Prolapse). Annemarie and Haley share a passion for evidence-guided information, supportive resources and community. Together, they formed POP UP with the intension of changing the narrative on POP.

The Functional Pelvis, a private practice specializing in pelvic floor therapy “house calls” for prenatal and postnatal women. She graduated from NYU with a Master’s of Science in Occupational Therapy. She has dedicated her career to empowering women to find relief from conditions such as bowel and urinary incontinence, constipation, dyspareunia, pelvic pain, prolapse and pre and postnatal complications.

Dr. Erin Bowe is a Clinical & Perinatal Psychologist and coach in Victoria supporting birth workers through birth work. After watching her own Doula struggling to process the unfolding of her second traumatic birth it occurred to her – where is the support? where is the trauma informed practice?