In this deeply compassionate and eye-opening episode of Unlocking Fertility, Katherine Rohland—acupuncturist, classical Chinese medicine practitioner, and the Manhattan Medicine Woman— answers one of the most frequently requested topics:Why miscarriages happen and how women can support their bodies to prevent them—through the classical Chinese medicine perspective.

Katherine speaks to anyone who has experienced loss, reminding them that miscarriage is not their fault, and that healing—energetic, physical, emotional, spiritual—is always possible.

THEMES: 

Why Miscarriages Happen in Classical Chinese Medicine

How Weak Spleen Qi plays a role in miscarriages 

Insufficient Body Resources

Imbalances in the Chong Mai (The Penetrating Vessel)

How to Prevent Miscarriages  with a Classical Chinese Medicine Approach

Connect with Katherine:

🍃Instagram: @manhattan_medicine_woman

🍃Website: ⁠manhattanmedicinewoman.com⁠

🍃Fertility Consult: ⁠https://ManhattanMedicineWoman.as.me/...⁠ 

🍃Membership:⁠https://www.manhattanmedicinewoman.co...

In this powerful episode, Katherine Rohland—known as The Manhattan Medicine Woman—guides listeners through one of the most common yet overlooked fertility challenges: the short luteal phase. Speaking to women navigating IVF, hormonal imbalance, or natural conception, Katherine bridges Western science with Chinese medicine to explain how low progesterone and luteal phase issues reveal deeper patterns of depletion and imbalance in the body.

Through a lens of warmth, wisdom, and practicality, she teaches how energy, blood, yin, and yang all play vital roles in reproductive health—and why exhaustion, emotional suppression, and modern lifestyle habits often sit at the root of fertility struggles. Katherine walks listeners through the signs of blood and yin deficiency, the importance of temperature patterns, and how to restore vitality through nourishment, rest, and emotional release.

She also outlines how chronic stress impacts digestion and hormone balance and why “managing stress” isn’t the goal—resolving it is. The episode closes with tangible guidance on building back energy through warming, nutrient-rich foods, emotional awareness, and traditional Chinese medicine principles.

Key Takeaways:

Connect with Katherine:

🍃Instagram: @manhattan_medicine_woman

🍃Website: ⁠manhattanmedicinewoman.com⁠

🍃Fertility Consult: ⁠https://ManhattanMedicineWoman.as.me/...⁠ 

🍃Membership:⁠https://www.manhattanmedicinewoman.co...

In this episode of There Qi Goes, Katherine Rohland—The Manhattan Medicine Woman—opens up a conversation about one of the most misunderstood fertility diagnoses: premature ovarian insufficiency (POI).

Rather than seeing POI as “ovarian failure,” Katherine invites us to view it as the body’s gentle call for restoration. Through the lens of Chinese medicine, she explains how depletion of blood, yin, and qi can disrupt hormones—and how rebuilding nourishment, rest, and emotional balance can reignite fertility and vitality.

With warmth and wisdom, Katherine shares how simple shifts—better digestion, deeper sleep, less stress (and yes, maybe less coffee)—can help women feel hopeful again. POI isn’t the end of the story; it’s your body asking for deeper care, balance, and belief in your ability to heal.

Themes:

POI is not ovarian “failure”—it’s a state of depletion that can be reversed with nourishment and rest.

Chinese medicine views fertility through the balance of blood, yin, and qi.

Digestive health is foundational—if your body can’t absorb nutrients, it can’t make hormones or blood.

Chronic stress, overworking, lack of sleep, and caffeine all deplete kidney and spleen energy.

Supporting kidney energy (the body’s reproductive “battery”) is essential for fertility and hormonal repair.

Healing starts with compassion: your body isn’t broken—it’s protecting you.

Connect with Katherine:

🍃Instagram: @manhattan_medicine_woman

🍃Website: ⁠manhattanmedicinewoman.com⁠

🍃Fertility Consult: ⁠https://ManhattanMedicineWoman.as.me/...⁠ 

🍃Membership:⁠https://www.manhattanmedicinewoman.co...

In this episode, Katherine breaks down three foundational — yet often misunderstood — concepts in Chinese medicine: heat, cold, and dampness. These energetic patterns don’t just describe how your body feels — they explain why certain symptoms show up, particularly when it comes to reproductive health, fertility, and hormonal balance.Katherine takes what can be complex theory and makes it approachable, relatable, and immediately useful. If you’ve ever wondered why you “run hot,” feel heavy or sluggish, or can’t seem to get warm no matter what you do — this episode will help you connect those sensations to what’s really happening internally.Themes: All imbalances stem from deficiency — not excess. Heat, cold, and dampness show where the body needs support.External extremes (like cold plunges or saunas) don’t fix internal imbalances — they often make them worse.Focus on nourishing, cooked, whole foods to build Yin, Yang, and blood.Cold, raw foods (smoothies, salads) may feel refreshing but weaken the spleen and digestion over time.Your spleen energy is everything — it transforms food into blood, Qi, and sex hormones that sustain fertility and vitality.

Connect with Katherine:

🍃Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/manhattan_medicine_woman?igsh=MmF5Mmt2MHR4Zm43

🍃Website: ⁠manhattanmedicinewoman.com⁠

🍃Fertility Consult: ⁠https://ManhattanMedicineWoman.as.me/...⁠

🍃Membership:⁠https://www.manhattanmedicinewoman.co...

What if your financial reality is a direct reflection of your emotional landscape?

In this illuminating episode of There She Goes, Katherine is joined by money coach and energy healer Hannah Bier to explore the deep, often unspoken, connection between money, emotions, physical health, and energetic well-being.

Together, they unpack:

• How unresolved emotional trauma—especially around safety and worth—impacts your financial health

• Why money is not just a tool, but an expression of love

• The transgenerational energy patterns many of us carry around scarcity and survival
  How Chinese medicine concepts align with emotional healing and money flow

• How to develop a felt sense of abundance in the body, even before the external reality reflects it
  

This episode is a must-listen for anyone who feels anxiety around finances, is curious about money blocks, or wants to understand how healing your energy can radically shift your bank account, your health, and your life.

• Emotional roots of financial scarcity

• Why "playing with money" shifts your relationship to it

• The energetic difference between earning and having money

• Why traditional income goals can be counterproductive

• Healing your nervous system to invite wealth and well-being

• Money as nourishment: connecting self-worth with resourcefulness

• The role of joy and lightness in setting goals

Connect with Katherine:

🍃Instagram: @manhattan_medicine_woman

🍃Website: ⁠manhattanmedicinewoman.com⁠

🍃Fertility Consult: ⁠https://ManhattanMedicineWoman.as.me/...⁠ 

🍃Membership:⁠https://www.manhattanmedicinewoman.co...

Connect with Hannah: 

🍃Website https://www.hannabier.com 

🍃Close More Sales Challenge Waitlist https://hannabier.kit.com/challenge 

🍃Apply to work with Hanna https://www.hannabier.com/apply

🍃Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hannamoneybliss/

Hanna Bier teaches the art of making money with elegance, excellence, and ease. Her work turns what once felt confusing or intimidating into something thrilling, repeatable, and profoundly freeing.

Sales becomes noble. Money becomes kind. Success becomes inevitable.

On her way to becoming a corporate fashion girlie, Hanna switched careers and found her true calling: helping women discover the power of financial mastery. 

Hanna believes that a woman isn’t truly free until she’s deeply secure with money.

Through her work, she invites you to become unrecognizable. To create your own luck. To dress to the nines and walk into every room like you belong there. Because you do.

The side effect of being fully in your power is outrageous financial success.

Join the thousands of women who’ve worked with Hanna and step into the Wealthy Girl™ version of yourself. You can find her signature challenge and private coaching options at hannabier.com

In this episode of There Qi Goes, Katherine Roland takes a deep dive into one of the most common yet misunderstood women’s health conditions: PCOS (Polycystic Ovary Syndrome). But this isn't your average Western medicine take—Katherine unpacks the emotional and energetic imbalances behind PCOS through the lens of Chinese medicine, helping listeners understand how the body, mind, and spirit all contribute to hormonal health.

You’ll learn:

• How PCOS is diagnosed in Western medicine

• The Chinese medicine perspective on PCOS, including concepts like dampness, heat, cold, and spleen qi deficiency

• Why stress, trauma, and anxiety are major drivers of PCOS—and how to start healing them

• What kinds of foods to avoid to reduce dampness and heat in the body

• Why raw foods, sugar, coffee, and over-exercising may be sabotaging your hormones

• How to tell if you’re ovulating (naturally!) and what to do if you’re not

• How to prep your body for fertility and conception

• Whether facial hair, acne, and fatigue can go away (yes, they can!)

Connect with Katherine:

🍃Instagram: @manhattan_medicine_woman

🍃Website: ⁠manhattanmedicinewoman.com⁠

🍃Fertility Consult: ⁠https://ManhattanMedicineWoman.as.me/...⁠ 

🍃Membership:⁠https://www.manhattanmedicinewoman.co...

In this heartfelt episode, Katherine Rohland explores the often-overlooked energetic and emotional reasons why IVF may not be successful, and what your body is actually communicating when fertility treatments don’t work.

Drawing from Chinese medicine, mind-body healing, and her personal fertility journey, Katherine reframes the IVF experience with deep compassion, clarity, and practical tools for healing and restoration.

If you’re feeling hopeless, stuck, or questioning your body — this episode is here to guide you back to hope and strength.

Themes

• Why IVF may not work — and what your body is really trying to tell you

• The connection between resource depletion and fertility struggles

• How yin, qi, and blood influence your ability to conceive

• What AMH and FSH actually mean — and why they don’t define your fertility

• How to stop the energetic "leaks" in your life that are draining your reproductive potential

• Practical ways to restore your fertility energy through food, lifestyle, and emotional healing

• The difference between managing stress and truly healing the root of it

Themes: Connect with Katherine:

🍃Instagram: @manhattan_medicine_woman

🍃Website: ⁠manhattanmedicinewoman.com⁠

🍃Fertility Consult: ⁠https://ManhattanMedicineWoman.as.me/...⁠ 

🍃Membership:⁠https://www.manhattanmedicinewoman.co...

In this episode of There Qi Goes, Katherine and Kat Daou, Family Constellation Therapy Facilitator, dive deep into the intersection of the spiritual and the physical—from spirit babies and soul contracts to fertility, loss, and entrepreneurship. We dive into what spirit babies are and how they communicate to the ways spirit babies can manifest—not just as children, but as ideas, businesses, or creative projects

Themes:

Spirit baby energy and communication

Non-linear timelines in conception and soul arrival

Reincarnation within the family system

Energetic agreements and soul contracts

How and why spirit babies wait for “the right time”

Spiritual patience vs. human urgency

The intersection of trauma, fertility, and nervous system regulation

Miscarriage, loss, and the misconception of “something is wrong with me”

IVF, surrogacy, and assisted fertility from the spirit baby’s perspective

Endometriosis and epigenetic influence on reproductive health

Businesses as spirit babies

Business development as soul working tool

Writing letters to your spirit baby

Grounding intuitive insight through trauma-informed awareness

Exploring ancestral trauma and lineage healing

Themes: Connect with Katherine:

🍃Instagram: @@manhattan_medicine_woman

🍃Website: manhattanmedicinewoman.com

🍃Fertility Consult: https://ManhattanMedicineWoman.as.me/... 🍃Membership:

https://www.manhattanmedicinewoman.co...

Connect with Kat:

🤍  /https://www.instagram.com/kat_daou/

🤍  /https://www.tiktok.com/@healwithkatpod

🤍  /https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCix2tpYqYdRcMNNAqKfYJew

🤍  / https://www.katdaou.com

In this episode of There Qi Goes, Katherine Rohland, founder of Manhattan Medicine Woman and a Chinese medicine fertility specialist, challenges one of the most common and frustrating labels in reproductive health: unexplained infertility.

Katherine explains why "unexplained" is not a true diagnosis, but rather a reflection of the limitations within conventional medicine. With over eight years of experience supporting women on their fertility journeys, she shares how she uncovers root causes that are often missed by standard lab work.

Themes:

Why unexplained infertility is often a misinterpretation of underlying symptoms

The critical connection between the nervous system, emotional health, and reproductive function

How chronic stress, anxiety, and lifestyle patterns can block fertility

What standard lab tests are missing and why results that appear “normal” may still indicate imbalance

The importance of treating the whole person—not just isolated symptoms or numbers

Katherine also offers guidance on how to begin identifying what’s really going on in the body, and how to start creating a more supportive path toward conception—whether naturally or with assisted fertility.

Details on working with Katherine one-on-one, including remote sessions

Connect with Katherine:

🍃Instagram: @manhattan_medicine_woman

🍃Website: manhattanmedicinewoman.com

🍃Fertility Consult: https://ManhattanMedicineWoman.as.me/?appointmentType=77763835

🍃Membership: https://www.manhattanmedicinewoman.com/membership

In episode of the There Qi Goes Podcast,, we dive deep into how acupuncture and Chinese medicine support women's health and fertility—not just during IVF, but throughout all stages of a woman’s reproductive journey. We learn that chinese medicine goes much, much deeper and that its a complete system of healing that encompasses not just acupuncture, but also:

• Eastern nutrition and food energetics

• Lifestyle and exercise balance

• Emotional well-being and mindset

• Herbal and supplement support

• Energetic harmony through yin and yang balancing

Themes: 

Why acupuncture isn't just for IVF support—and how it can prevent the need for assisted reproductive technologies.

How Chinese medicine works to treat the root cause of reproductive issues, not just symptoms.

What qi (energy) is and the three layers of energy in the body: wei qi (external), nutritive qi (internal), and yuan qi (constitutional).

The vital role of the nervous system and how Chinese medicine calms it for deep healing.

The connection between emotions, trauma, mindset, and menstrual health.

How to balance yin and yang to restore harmony in everyday life.

Connect with Katherine Rohland: 

🍃  /https://www.instagram.com/manhattan_medicine_woman/

🍃  / www.ManhattanMedicineWoman.com

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