Welcome back to The Brilliant Fertility Podcast! It’s been a minute, and wow—life has been a lot lately. Between finishing our new building, trips, and my kids’ soccer schedule, my nervous system has been flooded. And that’s exactly what inspired this episode: exploring how the nervous system directly affects ovarian health and fertility.

In this episode, I dive into a brand-new study from UCSF published in Science, revealing how the nervous system communicates with the ovaries—and what that means for stress, ovulation, and egg quality. You’ll learn how your emotional and physical wellbeing truly shapes your fertility potential.

5 Tools to Regulate Your Nervous System

Study Summary

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Journal Prompts:

1. What are 3 things you are grateful for today and why?
2. What is your current relationship to stress? How are you aware of stress in your mind and body?
3. What resources, people, or places feel most supportive to you? What does that support look like and feel like?

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What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

✨ Groundbreaking Study on the Nervous System–Ovary Connection: Discover how researchers identified glial cells and sympathetic nerve endings inside the ovary, showing a direct link between stress and ovarian function.

✨ Why Stress Impacts Ovulation: Learn how chronic stress hormones and “fight-or-flight” responses can suppress ovulation, alter egg maturation, and affect fertility outcomes.

✨ Understanding Sympathetic vs. Parasympathetic Balance: I break down how your body shifts between “fight or flight” and “rest, digest, and heal”—and why the latter is where conception thrives.

✨ Real-Life Nervous System Tools for Fertility Support: I share my favorite nervous system regulation practices—like journaling, tapping (EFT), and somatic awareness—to calm your body and support hormonal balance.

✨ Why Emotional Safety Matters in Fertility: We talk about how trauma, perfectionism, and people-pleasing can keep your body stuck in stress mode, and how creating a sense of safety can unlock your fertility flow.

This episode is a beautiful reminder that fertility is not just about hormones—it’s about the whole body, mind, and nervous system working in harmony.

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I’m so excited to share this beautiful conversation with Rebekah Kiger—a Trauma-Informed Master Mindset & Money Coach who helps women heal their relationship with money so they can create wealth with ease instead of burnout. Rebekah’s story is incredibly inspiring: from growing up below the poverty line and becoming a young mom at just 18, to transforming her life, building multiple six-figure businesses, and retiring from her corporate job at only 32. Today, she guides women to rewrite their money stories and step into true financial freedom.

In this episode, we dive into the energetics of money and how it connects to our nervous system, our sense of safety, and our ability to receive. Rebekah shares her wisdom on how past trauma can shape the way we interact with money and why healing these patterns is the key to stepping into abundance with more flow and less stress.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

✨ How Rebekah shifted her money story from survival to financial freedom

✨ The powerful link between trauma, the nervous system, and your money patterns

✨ Why traditional “hustle harder” approaches to wealth can keep you stuck in burnout

✨ How to reframe your beliefs around money so that it feels safe, supportive, and expansive

✨ Practical tools and mindset shifts you can use to start creating a healthier relationship with money today

Rebekah brings so much compassion, honesty, and empowerment to this conversation. If you’ve ever felt like money is stressful, overwhelming, or just out of reach, this episode will give you hope, clarity, and a whole new way to look at what’s possible. 💛

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In this episode, I’m diving into a controversy that’s been showing up everywhere lately- Restorative Reproductive Medicine (RRM) vs. IVF.

If you’ve been scrolling through your social media feed and noticed some heated debates on these two approaches, you’re not alone. It can feel confusing and overwhelming to sort through the noise, especially when what you want most is a clear path forward in your fertility journey.

So, what exactly is restorative reproductive medicine? How does it differ from IVF? And most importantly, what does this mean for you as you make decisions about your own body and family-building journey? My goal in this episode is to unpack the controversy, highlight the strengths of both approaches, and bring you back to what really matters: your empowerment, your options, and your ability to choose what feels best for you.

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What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

🌿 What is Restorative Reproductive Medicine (RRM)?: A look at how RRM identifies and treats underlying health conditions to restore fertility.

💡 The truth about IVF as a tool, not an ideology: Why IVF is a scientific miracle for many, and where it shines as the best option.

⚖️ Finding the middle ground: Why demonizing one approach over the other does a disservice to hopeful parents.

🧩 The importance of individualized fertility care: From nutrition and hormones to autoimmune conditions, there’s no one size fits all that works for everyone.

❤️ Your choices matter most: Why empowerment, compassion, and personal alignment are at the heart of successful fertility journeys.

At the end of the day, both RRM and IVF can be powerful tools. My mission is to give you clear information, grounded strategies, and the encouragement to choose what feels best for your unique path. Whether your journey includes natural fertility support, restorative medicine, IVF, or a combination of approaches, there’s room for all of it.

Sending you so much love as you navigate your journey.

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