7 Things I Would Prioritize for the Rest of the Year If I Wanted to Get Pregnant

If you’re trying to conceive, there are probably a LOT of rules you’ve been told you need to follow. Don’t drink this. Don’t eat that.. Don’t exercise too hard. Or too little. Don’t think negatively. Stay positive. Trust the process. And whatever you do… definitely don’t stress! But today, I want to talk about a different kind of fertility rule. The invisible rules. The ones that tell you how you’re supposed to behave, how you’re supposed to feel, what you’re supposed to prioritise, and ...

There is SO much fertility advice out there. What to eat. What not to eat. How to sleep. What supplements to take. How to exercise, how NOT to exercise. What time to wake up. How positive you need to be… And honestly? It’s exhausting. Because a lot of the fertility advice women are being given is doing more harm than good. Not because all of it is wrong. But because so much of it leaves us feeling like if we just do everything perfectly, we’ll finally be able to control whethe...

Struggling through fertility challenges and pregnancy loss changes you in ways that are impossible to explain to anyone who hasn’t lived it. How do you actually keep going when the life you thought you were going to have has completely changed? How do you make space for grief and joy? How do relationships change? And perhaps most importantly if you’ve been through loss, how do you begin to build a life that you genuinely want to live again, without feeling like you’re leaving your baby...

One of the things that helped me the most when I was struggling through my fertility journey was creating a few tiny rituals throughout the month that had nothing to do with tracking, testing, analysing or trying to control the outcome. So today we’re getting a little more spiritual. And I’m sharing some of my favourite fertility rituals to help you connect with your baby, create space for possibility, and bring a little more magic into what can sometimes feel like a very clinical and exhau...

What do you do when you’ve simply run out of hope on this journey? Not when you’re having a bad day. Not when you’re feeling a little discouraged. But when you genuinely think, “I don’t know if I can believe this is ever going to happen for me” If that’s where you are right now, I want you to know something before we go any further. You never have to force yourself to be hopeful. You don’t have to convince yourself that this is going to work. You don’t have to visualise a positive preg...