11/20/2025
I had a patient recently who said
“It’s wild… I walked into this fertility journey feeling like my whole body was bracing. And then one day, it just… softened.”
She wasn’t talking about a supplement or a new protocol.
She was talking about a feeling, that moment when her system finally stopped living like it was under threat.
What she didn’t realize is that what she felt was serotonin doing its work.
Not the “happy chemical” people joke about, but the messenger your body uses to say, “We’re safe. We can connect. We can create.”
And here’s the part that always surprises people:
Most of that serotonin isn’t made in your brain at all, but deep in your gut.
So the arguments, the sleepless nights, the tight chest, the bloating, the constant pressure to “relax”, all of it speaks to the same place inside you that decides whether life can grow.
When her serotonin finally shifted, it wasn’t dramatic.
No fireworks. No perfect cycle chart.
Just a quiet exhale.
A body that stopped gripping.
Hormones that started communicating again.
A relationship that felt less like survival and more like partnership.
That’s the thing no one tells you about TTC:
Sometimes the biggest fertility shift doesn’t happen in your ovaries or your labs, it happens in the moment your body remembers it’s safe enough to open again.
