[FAMM Practitioner Series] FFP 444 | PCOS, Fertility Challenges, & Fertility Awareness Cycle Charting | Amy Sedgwick, LMT
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🗓️ 25 November 2022
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode Amy shares her experience navigating fertility challenges related to her PCOS diagnosis within the Mormon community. In a culture with such a strong focus on building large families, Amy shares important insights about how it impacted her fertility journey.
Amy Sedgwick is a Licensed Massage Therapist, certified restorative yoga teacher and is currently enrolled in Lisa's Fertility Awareness Mastery Mentorship program. She is a 9th generation Mormon and a woman on her own 20 year fertility journey which lends her has a unique perspective on how to navigate infertility in a family centric culture where women are mainly valued by their ability to procreate. She shares this unique perspective as the co-host of The Mormon Fertility Podcast. Amy hopes to use this experience as she steps into the role of teacher and guide in helping women access their own innate body wisdom through cycle charting, nurturing body work, yoga and in creating spaces (both physically and virtually) where women can feel safe to share, connect, heal and ultimately access universal wisdom that is within each of us.
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Topics discussed in today's episode:
- Amy's menstrual cycle history and what brought her into Fertility Awareness
- How Amy's Mormon community affected her experience with menstruation and childbearing
- How difficult it is to get support for fertility issues
- The challenges to find the right practitioner
- How Amy is going to incorporate FAM into her practice
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Resources mentioned:
- The Fifth Vital Sign: Master Your Cycles & Optimize Your Fertility (Book) | Lisa Hendrickson-Jack
- Fertility Awareness Mastery Charting Workbook
- Fertility Awareness Mastery Online Self-Study Program
Related podcasts & blog posts:
- FFP 429 | Overcoming Hypothalamic Amenorrhea | PCOS/HA Replay Series | Dr. Nicola Rinaldi, PhD
- FFP 426 | 8 Steps To Reverse Your PCOS | PCOS/HA Replay Series | Dr. Fiona McCulloch, ND
- FFP 386 | Fertility Challenges & Recurrent Miscarriage | Gluten Intolerance, Celiac & Fertility | Justine Bold
- FFP 213 | Surviving Fertility Challenges | Lisa | Fertility Friday
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Music Credit: Intro/Outro music Produced by J-Gantic
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This episode is sponsored by FAMM! Are you a women's health practitioner looking for a solid way to incorporate comprehensive fertility awareness chart analysis into your practice? If yes, FAMM is the program you've been waiting for. Click here to apply now!
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| 0:00.0 | Breaking news, ladies, registration is now open for the Fertility Awareness Mastery Mentorship Program, Class of 2023, and we start the first week of January. |
| 0:10.9 | If you are a women's health professional with an existing practice and you've struggled to incorporate fertility awareness cycle charting into your client work, this is the program you've been waiting for. |
| 0:22.0 | There's nothing like it offered anywhere. Transform your practice in nine months. We start the first week of January |
| 0:27.5 | 2023. Apply now at fertility friday.com slash fam live. That's fertility friday.com slash fAMMm-m-l-I-V-E. |
| 0:38.6 | This is the Fertility Friday podcast, episode number 444. |
| 0:47.3 | Welcome to the Fertility Friday podcast, your source for information about the fertility |
| 0:54.4 | awareness method and all things fertility. I'm your host, Lisa Hendrickson-Jack. I'm the author |
| 0:59.5 | of the fifth vital sign and the fertility awareness mastery charting workbook. I'm a certified |
| 1:04.1 | fertility awareness educator and holistic reproductive health practitioner with over 20 years of |
| 1:08.7 | experience teaching women to connect to their fifth vital |
| 1:11.5 | sign through menstrual cycle charting, balancing hormone health, and optimizing the menstrual cycle |
| 1:15.8 | without hormones. I have been consistently outspoken about hormonal birth control over the past |
| 1:21.9 | two decades and its impact on fertility and overall health because you have the right to know how |
| 1:26.8 | your body works |
| 1:27.5 | and how artificial hormones disrupt that natural process. I teach women's health professionals |
| 1:32.1 | how to utilize the menstrual cycle as a vital sign in their practices, and I host live |
| 1:36.6 | coaching programs to help you achieve optimal fertility and health because it's important to have |
| 1:41.0 | healthy menstrual cycles regardless of whether or not you want to have babies. |
| 1:50.0 | I'm also a wife and mother of two beautiful boys and a brand new baby girl. This podcast is designed to empower you to take full control of your cycles, your fertility, and your overall health. |
| 1:54.6 | And I'm so excited that you're here with me today. |
| 2:07.0 | Today I'm sharing an interview with my fan practitioner, Amy Sedgwick. |
| 2:13.8 | And in today's episode, we cover a variety of important topics related to fertility challenges, |
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