The Whole Self Fertility Method™
Earth
Spleen / Stomach
Ambiguous Self Becomes Nourished Self
You’ll especially benefit from this section if you’ve been diagnosed with or have experienced PCOS, hypothyroid, any type of auto-immune condition, food sensitivity or allergy, irritable bowel syndrome, Chrohn’s disease, chronic fatigue syndrome, or recurrent miscarriage.
This includes
What nourishing yourself looks like on all levels, especially as a queer, trans, or non-binary person of color (QTNBPOC) and what it has to do with preventing miscarriage
How digestion affects the fertile environment in your body and how to improve yours
The importance of boundary setting to increase your fertility, especially if you struggle with auto-immune disorders, digestive issues, or food sensitivities, plus tools to start setting healthy boundaries now
Culturally sensitive fertility enhancing food recommendations
How to eat throughout your cycle to support your fertility in each phase
My recommendation for prenatal supplementation
How to determine if you are Qi (“chee” means energy) and/or Blood deficient and easy ways to replenish both in order to hold a pregnancy
Metal
Lungs / Large Intestine
Lost Self Becomes Soulful Self
You’ll especially benefit from this section if you’ve been diagnosed with or have experienced “unexplained infertility,” depression and/or anxiety, frequent respiratory issues like colds, asthma, bronchitis, or pneumonia, chronic skin conditions like eczema, sensitivity or rashes, or feelings of disconnection from your Soulful Self.
This includes
How to honor and grieve your Lost Self; the full authentic expression of yourself that wasn’t seen, honored or valued, and maybe still isn’t, in order to clear the energetic pathways that connect to your Soulful Self, and to new soul/s that want to come into your life
Valuable practices to honor other types of loss you’ve experienced, including miscarriage and abortion, so that you can move forward in your fertility journey with more lightness and hope
Effective techniques to clear any known or unknown emotional blockages or resistance around pregnancy, birth, or becoming a parent
Tips to improve your bowel movements, thereby encouraging literal and metaphorical “letting go,” and toxicity build up in the body that can lead to a sub-fertile internal environment
Strategies to protect your fertility from environmental pollutants that surround us every day
water
Kidney / Urinary Bladder
Thwarted Self Becomes Authentic Self
You’ll especially benefit from this section if you’ve been diagnosed with or have experienced “unexplained infertility,” poor egg quality, anovulation, short follicular phase, perimenopause, adrenal fatigue, low libido, low back pain, early hair graying, night sweats, or hot flashes.
This includes
The significance of your Kidney Essence, also known as your “fertility blueprint,” as it relates to your fertility and the full expression of your Authentic Self
Exploring your relationship to resources, especially as a QTNBPOC, and strategies to resource yourself that will increase your fertility
Exploring your relationship to your own sexual energy, pleasure, and desire, especially as a QTNBPOC, and how to bring all three into your fertility journey in order to have more access to your creative potential
The importance of a “premester” and tips to increase egg health and quality
How to nourish and keep in balance Kidney Yin and Kidney Yang, which is crucial to achieving the right hormone balance to conceive and prevent early menopause
The role that things like constitution, genetics, and birth order play in your inherent fertility and how to boost it if it’s deficient
How to replenish and maintain your reserves, from a Chinese medicine point of view, in order to protect your fertility
Wood
Liver / Gallbladder
Stuck Self Becomes Powerful Self
You’ll especially benefit from this section if you’ve been diagnosed with or have experienced PMS, irregular cycles, endometriosis, PCOS, clotting factors, polyps, cysts, growths in or around the reproductive organs, high blood pressure, or high stress levels.
This includes
Exploring your relationship to power, especially as a QTNBPOC, and how to connect with your Powerful Self on your fertility journey
Stress and anxiety reduction techniques to address the emotional exhaustion of pursuing parenthood and the extra efforts of conceiving, especially as a QTNBPOC
Techniques to quit fertility blocking vices (like coffee and alcohol) and replace them with fertility supporting practices in order to reduce inflammation and optimally balance your hormones for conceiving
The role anger plays in your fertile health, and how to safely express it so that it doesn’t contribute to hormone imbalances
How to instantly signal your body that it’s safe to conceive (a crucial step that most people don’t know about)
Simple, yet powerful, trauma healing techniques to create feelings of embodied safety as a QTNBPOC in order to positively influence your ability to conceive
How to stop feeling stuck in the future, always anticipating the next step in the process, and ground yourself in the present moment and thus improve your fertility
How much exercise is too much when trying to conceive, and how to discover the right amount for you
Fire
Heart / Small Intestine
Anxious Self Becomes Joyful Self
You’ll especially benefit from this section if you’ve been diagnosed with or have experienced anxiety, heart palpitations, perimenopause, hot flashes, night sweats, vivid dreams, chronic UTIs, or insomnia.
This includes
How to restore connection with your Joyful Self, especially as a QTNBPOC, and why that’s important to create a more fertile environment in your body
How to improve the communication between the Heart and the Uterus, from a Chinese medicine point of view, in order to improve your chances of conceiving
The art of “Vertical living” (vs. “Horizontal Living”), according to Chinese medicine, and how this method positively affects your fertility
Just how important sleep is to your fertility (very!) and how to improve yours
Bonus Resources
How To’s:
How to prepare for egg retrieval
How to prepare for IUI or ICI
How to prepare for embryo transfer
How to track your cycle and ovulation
NEW! How to use acupressure to increase your fertility
Additional Resources:
A list of QTNBPOC inclusive practitioners
Timeline + price estimates for egg retrieval, embryo transfer, IUI, and ICI
Your exact Traditional Chinese Medicine diagnosis
NEW! Personalized Fertility Worksheet to consolidate your learnings at a glance for yourself or for your clients
NEW! Complimentary 5 weeks in my Paid Qmunity with access to additional fertility webinars and bonus podcast content
All for $2,800*
Self-Paced
No LIVE SESSIONS
*To acknowledge the reality of economic access and privilege that exists, I offer four price points for folks to join Fertile. Click here to view sliding scale.
Your partner(s) can join for free!
When You Register for Fertile, You Will Receive:
Immediate Access + Varied Learning Tools
As soon as you register, you’ll get immediate access to all of the program content in the form of downloadable handouts, worksheets, reference guides, and private, easy-to-access videos with closed-captioning and transcripts available.
Lifetime Access
Once you’re in, you’re in. As long as I’m offering Fertile, you’ll have access to the entire course, our Qmunity, and any upgrades or additional content I add to Fertile over time. So you can take your time and go through everything at your own pace--no need to worry about “getting behind.”
Private Qmunity
Lifetime access to our private Qmunity (queer + community) where you can connect, ask questions, share challenges and successes, gain inspiration and get support from me and the rest of the group.
Bonus Resources
How-To’s: How to prepare for egg retrieval, how to prepare for IUI or ICI, how to prepare for embryo transfer, how to track your cycle and ovulation, a NEW Personalized Fertility Worksheet to consolidate your learnings, and a NEW resource on how to use acupressure to increase your fertility!
Additional Resources: A list of QTNBPOC inclusive practitioners, a timeline and price estimates of egg retrieval, frozen and fresh embryo transfer, IUI and ICI, and your exact Traditional Chinese Medicine diagnosis.