In this episode Tara and I discuss…
- Why we don’t have this conversation
- How the inner critic and shame get involved
- Tara’s journey to get pregnant
- Why asking for what you need is so important and how to do it
- How to reconnect and develop a relationship with your body
- Monitoring and gathering your energy back to yourself
- How to nourish yourself as a mother before becoming a mother
- How to determine what foods will nourish you and serve your body well
- What nesting is
- Turning on and off genes
Meet Tara:
Tara McCann is a women’s health coach specializing in preconception health and fertility. Tara struggled for over 2 years to get pregnant with her first child. All through that journey, Tara learned to trust her body’s intuition, nourish herself with food and speak up for what she knew her body needed. After having her children, Tara found health coaching and immediately knew this was the support she had needed on her fertility journey. She was so inspired, that she became a health coach herself in 2014 when she graduated from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. Tara has been empowering women to nourish themselves and optimize their health for fertility ever since. To learn more about Tara, visit her website, taramccannwellness.com.
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Links:
- Taking Charge of Your Fertility
- The Period Repair Manual
- Real Food for Pregnancy (great for preconception too)
- Gifts of Imperfection
- I Thought It Was Just Me
- Dirty Genes
Journal Prompts:
- What are your needs?
- What small steps can you take to start advocating for your needs?
- How can you mother yourself this week?
- What nurtures you?
Quotes:
- Learn to trust yourself – Tara
- Know your body well – Tara
- Be your own best advocate – Tara
- Ask for what you need – Tara
- You are allowed to have needs and ask for them – Joanna
- Celebrate the small steps you make – Tara
- Wear your radical self-care as a badge of honor – Tara
- Practice mothering yourself first – Tara
- You can’t supplement your way out – Tara
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