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I get asked a lot about herbal approaches to fibroid care, and there is actually a lot that's possible!

But I also haven't personally been through the journey myself, so I'm excited to bring Kate Douglas, founder and curator of Earth Body, onto the podcast to share about her own embodied experience over the past couple years.

She shares about how she even knew she had fibroids in the first place (hint: cycle tracking was a KEY to her awareness), and the very integrative approach she's explored to both reduce the size of (and totally clear one of) her fibroids.

Her path has incorporated everything from nutrition to lifestyle to bodywork to pelvic steaming and more.

Even if you don't have fibroids, or don't *think* you do, everything Kate shares is also foundational for hormonal wellness overall, and especially useful for any estrogen-dominant conditions, too.

I hope you enjoy Kate's inspiring story.

Resources:

• Today's shownotes: Check out Kate's offerings and fibroid health class
• Grab the recording of my Uterine Tonics class at Earth Body
• Free guide: Track your cycle with FAM (get started now)

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As herbalists or herb-curious folks, we're taught to avoid poisonous plants -- and with good reason! They aren't plants to mess with. They can literally kill you.

But... what if there were ways to work with these plants safely? There are!

And today's guest, Megan Desrosiers, speaks all about it.

As you might imagine, this is NOT physical plant medicine. This is more energetic, spirit level plant medicine.

But according to Megan, it can be profoundly supportive and even transformational working with the energetic imprints of specific poisonous plants.

They can support "underworld journeys" facing the things many of us tuck away, and help us to release old patterns and even enhance ancestral lineage healing.

There's so much here, and we speak about plants like datura, foxglove, lily-of-the-valley, poison ivy and more.

Whether or not this path calls to you, I hope this episode offers a glimpse into one way of exploring some of the shadow parts that can be keys to our greater healing journeys... and perhaps inspires you to go connect with a plant today (or soon), too.

Resources:

• Today's shownotes: Get links to Megan's offerings and art
• Episode 15: What's a plant ally? And how to find yours
• Episode 171: What is vibrational medicine? with Brooke Sullivan
• Join the Natural Contraception (Fall 2025) waitlist here!
• Grab my FREE Fertility Awareness Cycle tracking guide

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How can slowing down to "body time" support your healing process?

There is a HUGE difference between the speed of your mind/emotions and your body. The mind moves quickly, and the emotions, while not as fast, are still far faster than the body itself.

So... what happens when you slow down to the rhythm of your body, your cycles, your womb, your tissues?

THIS is where healing happens.

When we move too quickly, we're forcing things. We can miss opportunities to receive the healing that's available for us.

And of course, this makes sense. We live in a world that is constantly requesting for us to be faster, do more, produce efficiently.

But the truth is, when we slow down, we can tune in, we can listen, we can hear our inner wisdom, we can receive nourishment and care and connection.

In today's episode, I share about a few different examples of body time.

Then I lead a 20 minute guided embodiment meditation to help you connect with your own personal wombspace time. Slow, present, connected.

Resources:

• Today's shownotes: The healing practice of slowing down to "body time"
• Free womb connection + clearing guided meditation
• Episode 28: Rhythms of your womb
• Episode 61: Healing trauma + womb tending with Dr Emily Wilson
• Episode 141: Uterine Unwinding with Dr Kathryn Kloos
• Episode 151: The anatomy of arousal with Juliana Rose Goldstone

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Have you ever wondered if there was a connection between your menstrual cycle, hormones and ADHD or other symptoms?

I know personally I've seen a lot more inattentiveness myself during the few days leading up to my bleed. You?

But today's guest, Adele Wimsett of Harmonise You, specializes in the link between ADHD/neurodiversity and hormones, particularly in the perimenopausal years.

And she did a small clinical trial with some of her clients, tracking their hormones alongside their traits.

While she didn't find clear patterns, she did see some evidence of the importance of progesterone in easing back some of the symptoms.

We also talk about some of the other research that's been done over the past several years showing links between ADHD and things like PMDD, postpartum depression, histamine sensitivity and menstrual cycles.

It's a quick interview PACKED with gems from Adele's clinical practice and research.

I hope it provides some insights on how cycle/hormone tracking can be a missing key to unlocking some of what's behind various mind, mood and physical symptoms!

Listen to learn:

• how ADHD and various hormonal conditions may be linked
• some of the research on estrogen and ADHD traits through the cycle
• what Adele found in her own clinical research
• why she thinks progesterone is foundational in the perimenopausal years

Resources:

• Today's shownotes: Get links to Adele's work and research
• Grab my FREE Fertility Awareness Cycle tracking guide
• Episode 47: Differentiating PMS + PMDD w Jes
• Episode 143: What is FAM? And what it can tell you about your hormones

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What comes up when you hear the term "vibrational medicine"? Does it feel appealing or repelling?

I know how easy it can be to dismiss more subtle therapies, especially because so many of us are oriented to our tangible, physical senses.

But then again, I bet you've experienced energy of place, people or experiences before. The inner knowing, or feeling, that something feels good or feels off.

The subtle qualities present when hanging out with particular plants (or people).

And what about music, song, sound healing, gentle breathwork, meditation, etc?

The truth is... vibration is E V E R Y T H I N G.

So when we think about chanting mantras, it makes sense that the words themselves matter, as does the energy we cultivate while chanting.

And then there are flower essences, which are the energetic imprint of flowers captured in water on a sunny day.

These subtle practices, according to today's guest Brooke Sullivan, are potent remedies to help transform and heal our emotions and our minds.

Personally I have had particularly significant results from working with mantras before, several times. So I wanted Brooke to come and speak to them, and also to flower essences, for these wobbly times we're in.

She shares some pretty incredible stories, and drops so much wisdom throughout our conversation. I hope you love it!

Listen to learn:

• what vibrational medicine is
• how ancestral traditions always incorporated vibrational medicine
• what a mantra is, and some potent examples and stories about them
• what a flower essence is
• four flower essences that may be supportive for you in these times!

Resources:

• Today's shownotes: Check out Brooke's offerings, flower essence course, etc
• Episode 118: How can cyclical living inform your yoga practice? with Rebecca Rankin
• Episode 163: How to find a path to power in wobbly times w Maitreya Wolf
• Join the Natural Contraception (Summer 2025) waitlist here!

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Navigating our past trauma experiences (and the recurrent stressors in our modern lives) can feel intimidating... especially if we don't have tools or methods to guide us.

Most of us didn't grow up in emotionally mature families with healthy models of what it can look like to complete waves of nervous system arousal and relaxation.

Really, very few of us have that imprinting.

But when we turn to nature and witness how animals experience what we could easily name as possibly "traumatic" events (eg one of the herd gets eaten or having to run for life to survive an attack), we also see the return to calm after the storm.

According to today's guest, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner Emma Schurink, most humans don't relax and release in this way after a jarring event (whether it's a conflict with a partner or recurrent abuse or just chronic stressors).

Instead we tend to adopt less-than-healthy patterns that help us cope, yes, but don't help us feel deeply well and resilient.

Somatic Experiencing is a trauma healing modality based on the idea that cultivating embodied awareness and incorporating practices like titration, pendulation, orienting, sensation tracking and more can help us to be less reactive, and ultimately create healthier patterns *and* resilience in our lives.

All of our bodies, including our wombspaces, hold story. And whether those stories are from this lifetime or even intergenerational, finding supportive modalities like S.E. to guide us through them in healthier ways can be helpful.

Listen to learn:

• what trauma is and how it's held in the body
• why traumatic events can have different effects in different people
• what Somatic Experiencing is
• the foundational pillars of Somatic Experiencing
• a little guided practice of titration, pendulation and orienting
• how all of this impacts culture / society overall (or could!)

Resources:

• Today's shownotes: Check out Emma's links and offerings!
• Episode 163: How to find a path to power in wobbly times w Maitreya Wolf
• Join the Natural Contraception (Summer 2025) waitlist here!

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Springtime is finally here in the northlands and I wanted to offer an episode along the theme of celebrating springtime both in our menstrual cycles and in the wheel of the year.

So, today you'll hear first about some keys to encouraging a healthy follicular phase, and how tending this springtime in your menstrual cycle has impact on the whole cycle and even future cycles, too.

And then you'll get a little glimpse into a guided 10-day Ayurvedic Spring Cleanse that Kimberly Kubicke is offering that starts this Friday, April 25th!

We talk about the energetics of Springtime, and some of the most important considerations when doing a cleanse this time of year, and also how her particular program is going to work if you're interested in joining.

I hope this exploration into how to tend springtime inside and out!

Listen to learn:

• what the follicular phase is (what's happening during it)
• why it's considered springtime in the menstrual cycle
• 5 keys to encouraging a healthier follicular phase and regular cycles
• what the energetics of Spring are according to Ayurveda
• the importance of cleansing in the Spring and Fall
• essential components of a cleanse
• what Kimberly's guided 10 day cleanse looks like

Resources:

• Check out and join Kimberly's 10 day guided Ayurvedic cleanse here*
• Today's shownotes: Springtime in our cycles and bodies
• Episode 69: Cyclical archetypes with Em Dewey
• Episode 73: Cyclical Movement w Tara Lynn Steele
• Episode 78: Your cycle superpowers
• Grab your free guide: Track your cycle with FAM

* Affiliate links!

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Have you ever wondered what the experience of endometriosis like?

Maybe felt curious about whether your own symptoms might actually be something more than common menstrual cramps?

While endo is characterized by sometimes debilitating pain -- which is a common reason treatment is sought, the amount of endometriosis tissue present in the body does NOT correspond to the amount of pain felt.

It's less about the endometrial tissue being outside of the uterus, and more about the subjective experience of the person experiencing it.

For today's guest, Mary Lauren Fraser, her endo journey likely began throughout her twenties, but she didn't realize anything was abnormal until she had debilitating pain that did not go away, which seems to have been catalyzed by an inflammatory response in her body post-Covid infection and booster shot.

It changed everything for her.

Listen to her whole story and a lot of details on the embodied experience and research she's gathered throughout her journey in this week's episode.

Resources:

• Interested in a Spring Cleanse? Sign up for this 10 day guided Ayurvedic clease w Kimberly Kubicke
• Today's shownotes: Get Endo links + Mary's links here
• Episode 35: From endo to pregnancy with Sarah Shapiro

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