H.E.R.

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Have you ever wished you could just sit with a woman who has been listening to women for a very long time?

Not because something is wrong… Because something is changing…

• Your cycle feels different.

• Your body feels different.

• You are thinking about becoming a mother.

• You are already carrying a baby and wondering how to prepare for the birth of more than just your baby.

• You are approaching postpartum and wondering who will care for you.

• You are moving through loss.

• You are tired.

• You are curious.

Something in you is asking a question you don’t quite know how to put into words.

And you don’t necessarily need another test.

You don’t necessarily need another app telling you when to ovulate.

You don’t necessarily need the newest prenatal, another reformer class, another supplement protocol, or another woman on the internet telling you how to optimize yourself.

Maybe what you need is to come back to the beginning.

To your body.

To the seasons.

To food that is grown where you live and eaten when your body is asking for it.

To warmth when you are depleted.

To rest when your body is asking you to slow down.

To movement that feels like nourishment rather than punishment.

To herbs, spices, oils, touch, breath, ritual, rhythm, and relationship.

To the understanding that a woman’s body was never meant to live in opposition to the natural world.

There is an older way of knowing.

Long before pregnancy became an appointment on a calendar, women knew how to prepare for motherhood.

Long before postpartum was a six-week checkup, women knew that a mother needed to be fed, warmed, held, touched, listened to, and protected while she became someone new.

Long before we had cycle-tracking apps, women watched the moon, the seasons, their bleeding, their appetite, their energy, their dreams, their breasts, their digestion, their desire.

They knew that winter asked something different of the body than summer.

They knew that a woman who had given birth needed different nourishment than a woman preparing to conceive.

They knew that grief changed the body.They knew that food could be medicine.They knew the power of a pair of hands.

They knew when a woman needed to be encouraged forward—and when she needed permission to stop.

And they knew something we are only beginning to remember:

A woman’s body does not need to be optimized into submission.

It needs to be listened to.

This is an invitation to listen.

You can come here with your fertility questions.

Your pregnancy questions.

Your postpartum questions.

Your Questions about your experience being a woman

Your questions about hormones, nourishment, bleeding, energy, digestion, pelvic health, loss, sexuality, emotional wellbeing, or the strange thing happening in your body that you haven’t been able to explain.

But we won’t begin with a checklist.

We’ll begin with you.

Where are you in your life?

What season are you in?

What season is your body in?

What are you eating?

How are you sleeping?

What are you carrying?

What has changed?

What are you longing for?

What does your body seem to be asking for?

And then we listen.

We gather the threads.

We draw from ancestral traditions, Ayurvedic principles, traditional women’s care, modern knowledge, evidence based wisdom and the practitioners and resources available to you now.

Not because one way of knowing has all the answers.

Because wisdom becomes richer when we remember that there is more than one way to understand a woman.

Sometimes that means learning how to nourish yourself differently.

Sometimes it means slowing down.

Sometimes it means changing the way you move.

Sometimes it means herbs, food, warmth, oil, touch, rest, or ritual.

Sometimes it means finding the right midwife, acupuncturist, pelvic floor practitioner, therapist, nutritionist, physician, or other skilled practitioner.

And sometimes it means bringing a question back to your medical care team with a little more clarity about what you are asking for.

There is room for all of it.

You don’t have to become better at being a woman.

You don’t need the perfect prenatal.

You don’t need to exercise every day.

You don’t need to eat perfectly.

You don’t need to track every hormone.

You don’t need to become an expert in your own body before you are allowed to trust it.

You need relationship.

Relationship with your body.

With food.

With rest.

With movement.

With the seasons.

With other women.

With the people who know how to care for you. And, perhaps most importantly, with yourself.