FFP 248 | Abdominal Therapy for Fertility, Conception, and Emotional Healing | Andrea Thompson
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🗓️ 8 March 2019
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Andrea Thompson, LMT, has been a licensed and practicing massage therapist in Oregon. Her passion is utilizing modalities, such as Craniosacral Therapy and Arvigo Techniques of Mayan Abdominal Therapy ®, to bring a deep sense of awareness to the body while tapping into its inherent healing capabilities. Although she enjoys working with all ages and genders, her main focus is working with female-bodied people to assist them in the process of attaining healthy menses and natural conception, as well as aiding them through the physical changes of pregnancy.
Today’s episode is sponsored by The Fifth Vital Sign: Master Your Cycles & Optimize Your Fertility. The Fifth Vital Sign is available for purchase on Amazon, and you can head over to thefifthvitalsignbook.com to download the first chapter for free.
- The benefits of massage therapy and body work modalities for a woman’s fertility
- How body awareness can change your health and mindset
- What is Craniosacral Therapy?
- How can vaginal steaming help with your menses?
- Castor oil pack benefits
- The importance of having your cervix and uterus aligned
- Why having a healthy and clean womb not only helps with fertility and your menstrual cycle, but also helps your baby in the long run
- How pregnancy massages and prenatal yoga are beneficial to your ever changing body
- How body work can be healing for women (or any individual) who has been through trauma, whether physical or emotional
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Resources mentioned
- Andrea Thompson, LMT - AJA Family Health
- Fertility Awareness Mastery - 10 Week Group Program
- The Fifth Vital Sign: Master Your Cycles & Optimize Your Fertility (Book) | Lisa Hendrickson-Jack
- Get The First chapter of The Fifth Vital Sign for FREE | thefifthvitalsignbook.com
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- FFP 198 | The Balance Plan for Healthy Cycles | Angelique Panagos
- P 191 | Cervical Health & Fertility Awareness Charting | Lisa | Fertility Friday
- FFP 173 | Reclaiming Menstruation | The Wisdom and Power of Your Menstrual Cycle | Lara Owen
- FFP 018 | Arvigo Abdominal Therapy | Vaginal Steaming | Traditional Maya healing for Fertility and Menstrual Cycle Irregularities| Dr Rosita Arvigo
- FFP 050 | Journeys in Healing | Arvigo® Therapy for Fertility and Pregnancy | Donna Zubrod & Diane MacDonald
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A Special Thank You to Our Show Sponsor:
The Fifth Vital Sign: Master Your Cycles & Optimize Your Fertility
This episode is sponsored by my new book The Fifth Vital Sign: Master Your Cycles & Optimize Your Fertility. Click here to buy now.
Fertility Friday | Fertility Awareness Mastery Live Group Program
This episode is sponsored by my 10 Week Fertility Awareness Mastery Group Program! Master Fertility Awareness and take a deep dive into your cycles and how they relate to your overall health! Click here to apply now!
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| 0:00.0 | You are officially invited. Yes, you. You're invited to join us in fertility awareness mastery. |
| 0:06.5 | This is my 10-week program designed to help you gain confidence using fertility awareness. |
| 0:11.1 | Whether you're actively avoiding pregnancy or looking to optimize your cycles for conception, we have a spot for you. |
| 0:16.9 | We start on April 23rd. Are you ready to jump in? Head over to fertility friday.com |
| 0:22.2 | slash group program to reserve your spot today. That's fertility friday.com slash group program. |
| 0:28.1 | This episode is brought to you by my very first book, The Fifth Vital Sign, Master your cycles and |
| 0:32.6 | optimize your fertility. With over 1,000 research citations, it is the most comprehensive resource on fertility |
| 0:38.7 | awareness and the menstrual cycle to date. The fifth vital sign is available for purchase on |
| 0:43.3 | Amazon in ebook and paperback formats. Audio is coming. And you can grab the first chapter for free |
| 0:48.9 | over at fertility friday.com slash vital sign. That's fertility friday.com slash vital sign. This is the |
| 0:55.7 | fertility Friday podcast, episode number 248. Welcome to the 248 episode of the fertility Friday podcast. |
| 1:09.0 | Thank you for joining me today. I'm Lisa from |
| 1:10.8 | fertility fruity.com, and this is your source for information about the fertility awareness |
| 1:14.8 | method and all things fertility. I've got a great episode for you today. In today's |
| 1:23.2 | episode, our guest, Andrea Thompson, is talking about abdominal therapy modalities. And this is a topic |
| 1:30.1 | that has come up on many of our previous episodes. And it's kind of like a thread, a theme that's |
| 1:36.2 | thread through a number of different episodes over the years. And one of the reasons why abdominal |
| 1:41.4 | therapy modalities, if you're not familiar with them, |
| 1:44.5 | so I've interviewed our Vigo practitioners. |
| 1:47.2 | I've interviewed practitioners of Mercierge therapy and fertility massage therapy. |
| 1:52.5 | And the common thread that goes through these abdominal therapy modalities and even pelvic |
| 1:57.5 | floor physiotherapy, but the common thread that goes through these modalities |
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