Emily Pereira is an international retreat leader, yoga teacher, and women's coach who has, after 13 years of intensive and extensive spiritual training and exploration, amassed a treasure trove of astonishing wisdom practices – and a memoir that details it all. She's used her vast life and health experiences – from a painful drawn out diagnosis, to a surprise breakup, revealing plant medicine ceremonies, a deep dive into cellular regeneration, and so much more – to heal her own story and transform so many other womens’ lives through the magic of reconnecting with self and leaning into our inna ..read more

Today’s guest on Healing Hormones is Avanti Kumar-Singh, MD, a former ER doctor turned ayurvedic healer. Finding the ancient Indian medical practice after – you guessed it – experiencing her own health and wellness issues that traditional medicine could not address in a way that relieved her symptoms, she knew there had to be a better way. Ayurveda relies on a natural approach to physical and mental health; getting closer to nature is the goal. In this conversation, she gives us very practical tools of how we can start to implement its principles into our lives, simply, so that we can start to ..read more

Today’s guest is Tamar Samuels, a registered Dietitian Nutritionist, National Board Certified Health Coach, and the co-founder of Culina Health. In this episode, we talk a lot about how, when you're trying to heal the root cause of what's going on, whether it's gut issues, hormone health, thyroid disorders – really, whatever it is – it can cause us to have a lot of disordered eating tendencies and black-and-white thinking that actually ends up doing a lot more harm than good. We talk about the benefits of eating the rainbow and dig into some practical things you can do to get out of a disorder ..read more

Today on the show, I am talking to Courtney Babilya, who is a fitness nurse and mom of two on a mission to help women find their way out of diet culture, and back into their power, through sustainable fitness and cyclical living. We talk about her difficult rock bottom, complicated further by a misdiagnosis of bipolar syndrome and some challenging reactions to the medications she was prescribed. Constantly fighting her own body with overtraining and an eating disorder, something had to change. Her success story is as inspiring as it is educational.  Of course we touch on her experience wi ..read more

Does this sound like you? You’re considering ditching birth control and finally starting Fertility Awareness Method … but you’re feeling totally stuck. On one hand, you’re so nervous to stop the pill because you’ve been on it more years than you can count, and on the other hand, you’re terrified of getting pregnant. It feels so paralyzing! I hear these fears a lot and you’re absolutely not alone. The best way to ease the fear of transitioning to FAM (aka natural birth control) is to become more educated and confident in the method before taking the leap! In this episode, I have compiled some o ..read more

Many women who are looking towards natural birth control (aka Fertility Awareness Method) are curious about the rise in popularity of wearable thermometers. With a variety of temperature tracking devices out there, it poses the question: how do these new technologies compare in both ease and accuracy? These are important questions to ask when choosing a thermometer for natural birth control accuracy! Recently, there have been two big advancements in wearable thermometers for natural birth control: (1) the collaboration between OURA Ring and Natural Cycles, and (2) the Apple Watch series 8 new ..read more

Many women who are looking towards natural birth control (aka Fertility Awareness Method) are curious about the rise in popularity of wearable thermometers. With a variety of temperature tracking devices out there, it poses the question: how do these new technologies compare in both ease and accuracy? These are important questions to ask when choosing a thermometer for natural birth control accuracy! Recently, there have been two big advancements in wearable thermometers for natural birth control: (1) the collaboration between OURA Ring and Natural Cycles, and (2) the Apple Watch series 8 new ..read more

We’ve all heard it online and all over social media – that you can only get pregnant during a five or six day window each month, aligning with the presence of your more fertile cervical mucus. But, what if your CM is here to party most of the month? Especially for those of us practicing Fertility Awareness Method (FAM), the risks in not knowing for sure are huge.  In this solo episode, I break down this issue, why such black-and-white advice actually doesn’t apply to the incredible range of individuality in the human body, and why the answer – as it always is – is understanding yourself o ..read more

My guest today, Kitty Blomfeld, is just like so many of us, having gone through a cycle of dieting, binging, and doing things she thought were good for her body (like heavily restrictive practices), but were actively hurting it. Her health and wellness travels brought her to weight training, and then everything changed. Through regimented eating and training routines, Kitty got truly healthy. Now, she shares her learnings through NuStrength, her online program coaching women on how to get healthy, and feel healthy, while eating more and training less. It’s all about knowledge, knowing how your ..read more

Today’s well-informed guest on Healing Hormones is Jessica Drummond, DCN, CNS, PT, NBC-HWC (!). She is the founder and CEO of The Integrative Women's Health Institute and the author of Outsmart Endometriosis.  Jessica’s worked with women on their chronic pelvic pain for more than twenty years, she facilitates educational programs for women health professionals in more than 60 countries globally, and leads virtual wellness programs for people with endometriosis. It’s safe to say that Jessica is a world leader in menstrual and reproductive health.  Today, we’re tackling a much-requeste ..read more