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An integrative approach to menstrual health, fertility, + perinatal care. Supporting your body, mind, and spirit.

Because you deserve to reclaim your vibrance, vitality, + inner magic✨

01/21/2026

When HA develops from intentional food restriction and/or excess exercise, the solution of “eating more and exercising less” is short-sighted at best.

Undereating and over-exercise aren’t at the root, dare I say aren’t the root cause, of developing HA…

They’re ineffective solutions to something deeper.

Sure, down-regulation of the HPO axis and resultant missing periods is in large part due to low energy availability typically driven by these behaviors.

But, what many conventional approaches fail to recognize is undereating and over-exercise are often protective strategies adapted in response to perceived threat.

At some point, you may have learned…

Your worth is tied to your appearance.
Thinness + perfection=Safety, love, approval.
Control over food + movement=Control over life.
Existing in a larger body = unsafe.

Your nervous system adapted to keep you safe–by controlling food and movement.
By controlling your body.

The protective behaviors adapted, and resultant physiological stress, contributed to the manifestation of HA.

These behaviors are serving you in some way. They are providing a false sense of safety.

Removing them without recognizing the ways in which they are serving you has the potential to send messages of danger/threat and extreme overwhelm, missing the opportunity for deeper healing and addressing the root.

Opportunities for exploration📔

Do I believe I am inherently enough, regardless of my body weight/shape/size?
Am I seeking external validation to feel worthy?
What do I fear will happen if I release control?
What other areas of my life do I feel out of control?
Where/when did I learn that a smaller body is safer?
What did younger me need to hear? To feel? To see?

Your healing is not just about food and exercise–it’s about exploring the layers, the imprints, beneath your *relationship* to food + exercise.
Remembering who you were before you felt unsafe to be her.

Nourishing your body is a key step, and often prerequisite to the deeper work…but healing your *relationship with your body* is what leads to true recovery.

The magic lies in shifting from fear-based restriction to embodied safety.

Rooting for you, always🌻 Em

12/29/2025

A gentle invitation to get curious about your approach to recovery and healing.

This is something I have pondered on for quite some time…

And, the more I learn about the female nervous system, especially through embodied and experiential learning as opposed to learning about the nervous system as a concept, I see how:

The fast track approach to recovery does not serve every woman.

(Note: by does not serve I do not mean is ineffective. The all in approach is often extremely effective in restoring ovulation and menstruation)

For so many women, their bodies already know intensity. She already knows urgency. She already knows control.
These are well-worn, well-grooved, comfortable pathways.

Deep, sustainable, healing often happens in the less familiar, the slower, the softer, the more gentle path.
Deep, sustainable, healing asks for safety…*felt* safety.

Science🤝Embodiment.

This post and caption does not illustrate all of the nuance this topic carries. And there IS a lot of nuance. The comments/DMs are always open and I welcome all perspectives and opportunity for greater depth.

Reflection offerings–

•What has my approach to recovery looked like? What has it FELT like?
•Have I found myself stuck in quasi-recovery, even if my period has returned?
•Was/is repairing my relationship with my body a cornerstone of my recovery journey?

Here to encourage curiosity and, as always– rooting for you🤎
Em

11/17/2025

It feels really nice when science/research supports what women have always *felt* and known to be true in their bodies and lived experience.

Tending to the uniqueness and complexity of your female nervous system, to your natural rhythms, is sacred and potent work.

It is the forgotten medicine amidst the biohacking, quick fixes, and over-riding.

The permission to move slowly when your body asks.

The gentle softening of your belly as you sip your warm drink that reminds you of home.

The sensation of sunlight on your bare skin and eyeballs, your feet on the earth.

Meeting your edges, your symptoms (body's communication), with gentle compassion and curiosity.

While not suppressing the very real, very human expansive range of emotions.

My gentle invitation to you:

What might it feel like to come back to remembering, to listening, to what your body has always known?

She is so wise. You are so wise.

I absolutely love holding and walking alongside women through this journey.

Rooting for you, always✨ Em

P.s. are we surprised by this?

08/04/2025

I remember a long while back listening to someone (though I can't recall who) share how trying to recover from an eating disorder in the society/culture we live in is near synonymous with an individual battling alcoholism trying to recover living in a bar.

And woooo-ee did that hit.

Many moons later, here is my rendition.
Both ice cream, but different flavors.

If you take one thing from this post, I hope it is this-

The invitation to come back home is always there for you🌷

It doesn't matter how long it's been.
It doesn't matter how deep the wounds.
It doesn't matter how broken you feel.
It doesn't matter if you can't feel that as truth right now.

She remembers. Your body remembers.

Wishing you a life of FULLness, ALIVEness, and one that is EMBODIED🤝

It is only going to get harder in the world we live in, I fear.

But we can choose it for ourselves- one small choice at a time, one hour, day, week at a time.

Healing generations before and after us🌱

Rooting for you, always🌷
Em

06/01/2025

It's time for a remembrance...

Of a woman's body as her compass.
Of a woman's intuition as science.
Of a woman's cycle as sacred.
Of a woman's lived experience as evidence.
Of a woman's knowing as truth.

Somewhere along the way, a woman's lived experience, her values, her BODY, seem to have been removed from evidence based medicine.

Dismissal of worry surrounding absent menstrual bleeds— "it's normal" she's told, "we will have you start birth control to regulate your cycles".

Something within her feels unsettled. She knows.

A diagnosis of unexplained infertility— "your only option is IVF".

The whisper within says "there's something more". She knows.

Inner turmoil, angst, emotional rollercoasters, PMS, something isn't quite right— "let's start you on an antidepressant".

She feels a disconnect. Is this truly the answer? She knows.

Low desire, absent libido, pain with s3x— "this is normal in long term relationships...drink some wine, just relax".

Her v***a tells a different story. There's an inner voice within. She knows.

It's time to call out the systems that dismiss the wisdom of a woman's body.

Systems trained to fear what they don't understand.

A woman who is fully embodied, fully alive, fully connected to her life force...

Is powerful.
Is untamed.
Is a threat.

It's time to come back home to your body, to her.
It's time to listen to the whispers.
It's time to reclaim your power.

It's time to remember...

Your body is the evidence.

🖤🖤🖤

03/24/2025

There is no black + white.
There is nuance.
There is benefit to a variety of approaches/care.
This is not polarizing.
This is a call for more *curiosity*.

This is a call for deeper attunement in your conception journey.

Relationships, intimacy, pleasure, receiving.
The wisdom and communication of your body.
Congruence between what you say, and how you live.
Processing, tending to, integrating unresolved emotions, trauma, wounds.

All of this ^ *deeply* matters and is deeply impactful.

But, you probably haven't been asked about nor explored it.

Does this resonate with you? Do any of the questions in particular hit home?💭

I would love to hear.

Rooting for you, always🌱
Em

03/14/2025

Let's talk about true root cause.

Simply removing the very behaviors you adapted to keep you safe can lead to more felt sense of *threat* in the body.

Re-nourishing and coming to a place of energy abundance + availability is a non-negotiable, but how you get there can either support and nourish your nervous system in feeling SAFE, or further perpetuate a fight/flight/freeze response.

It can be the difference between temporary recovery vs. finding yourself back in the throes of HA months or years down the road.

How do you want to reclaim your magic?

Does this resonate with you? I'd love to hear⬇️

Rooting for you, always🕊️
Em

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