FFP 622 | Healing Your Cycle From the Inside Out with | FAMM Practitioner Series | Carol da Selva
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🗓️ 17 April 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Fertility Friday Podcast, Lisa sits down with Carol da Selva — founder of Sacred Womb Rites and a practitioner completing her Fertility Awareness Mastery Mentorship (FAMM) certification — for a candid conversation about spiritual approaches to menstrual cycle health and where they intersect with evidence-based practice. Carol shares her personal journey with irregular cycles, painful periods, and the role that ancestral and spiritual practices played in her early healing path, alongside the limitations she encountered when those approaches alone were not enough. Together, Lisa and Carol explore why grounding spiritual and intuitive frameworks in peer-reviewed research may lead to more consistent, predictable results for both practitioners and their clients. Carol reflects on how foundational factors — including nutrition, blood sugar stability, and addressing environmental contributors such as mold and histamine — supported meaningful improvements in her own cycle over time. This episode is part of the ongoing FAM Practitioner Series, offering insights for women's health professionals who are looking to integrate fertility awareness and menstrual cycle literacy into their existing practice with greater confidence and clinical depth.
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| 0:00.0 | It's officially here. Early Bird registration for our fertility awareness mastery mentorship program is officially open. |
| 0:09.3 | We officially start on the 13th of May, but early bird registration is only open for a short time. |
| 0:17.3 | As a woman's health professional, you already know that you're seeing an increasing |
| 0:21.5 | number of clients come to you asking about their menstrual cycle, asking about charting. |
| 0:27.1 | Some of them may already be tracking their cycles in one way or another. And even if you have |
| 0:33.0 | personal charting experience, if you have any clients who are sharing their charts with you, you've |
| 0:38.2 | already discovered that most of the charts your clients share with you look nothing like yours. |
| 0:43.9 | And your training certainly hasn't prepared you to support clients who have abnormal cycles |
| 0:49.4 | and complex charts. That's exactly what we do in FAM. |
| 0:59.4 | We teach our practitioners to interpret even the most complex menstrual cycle charts and confidently guide your clients through their hormonal and reproductive health challenges |
| 1:04.5 | using our evidence-based strategies and practitioner-facing protocols. |
| 1:10.4 | Head over to fertility friday.com slash VAMLive to apply today. |
| 1:15.7 | That's fertility friday.com slash f-a-m-m-l-I-V-E. |
| 1:21.0 | This is the Fertility Friday podcast, episode number 622. |
| 1:34.7 | I'm excited to share today's episode with you. |
| 1:40.6 | We have a brand new episode in our fam practitioner series, and I am sharing my interview with Carol DeSelva. |
| 1:43.6 | She is one of our fan practitioners towards the end of her |
| 1:48.0 | program. Today we cover a topic that I haven't covered as much on the podcast, and it's the topic |
| 1:55.1 | of spiritual approaches to menstrual cycle issues. And what's really interesting about our conversation today |
| 2:02.5 | is we touch on the limits of some of those things and when we actually need to dive into |
| 2:08.8 | the peer-reviewed research when we're not getting the results that we want. Carol shares her |
| 2:13.7 | experience as someone with a deep connection to the spiritual side of things, but came up against |
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