here's my story

Spiritual awakenings aren’t nearly as glamorous as they seem in movies like Eat, Pray, Love.

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I was 27 years old and had quit my career as a public school teacher to move to Morocco and find myself. While visiting home one summer and going through old boxes in my mom’s attic, I picked up the heavy bible my now estranged father had given me on my 16th birthday. Its thin-as-air pages fanned into my hands as I lightly massaged the buttery black leather cover with a custom embossment of my name in gold. I was not yet the womb witch I am today, but was no longer the good girl of my past when the awakening hit…

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But first for context: about 9 months earlier (9 years into my personal wellness + Yoga teacher era) I had been added to a facebook group called Pussy Posse where women freely offered support to one another. I was desperate to find a solution to my skin rashes, and someone commented “I wonder if it’s hormonal…have you heard of Fertility Awareness charting?”

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Huh? 

I’d had painful periods and irregular cycles my whole life, but never paused once to think about how my cycle could be related to the rest of my life. My bleed was just a nuisance I’d been dealing with since puberty.

And once I’d deprogrammed from Christian purity culture and started having sex, avoiding pregnancy was a subtle yet constant background stress because the idea of IUDs felt too invasive, and by that point my friends had been through the ringer with The Pill and I wasn’t gonna go there!

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So when I discovered this “Fertility Awareness Method” (FAM) charting thing through some instagram accounts and podcasts…my mind, heart and womb were blasted open by this lost body knowledge. 

How come no one had taught me that pregnancy was only possible 6 days per cycle? That my mood and energy change when I ovulate, and it’s **normal and ok** to want to take it easy in the days leading up to my bleed? That I needed a womb massage, not more painkillers!

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Rediscovering cycle literacy is both joyous and filled with sacred rage.

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…I started down at the bible many months into my early exploration of womb reclimation, and I realized that my entire upbringing was based on a creation story of a women fucking up the whole damn world because she curiously explored her own garden. 

Because Eve tasted what she desired. 

Because after being told anything was allowed except that one tree…she still bit into “knowledge”. 

 

What a way to scare us away from our personal power.

And from there, I doooooove into knowledge about my body…first jotting down little notes in my calendar like “clear discharge today” or “feeling more sleepy”...and noticing my body’s very own rhythms like the waves of a moon. 

After skimming a charting book I’d bought, I still had questions and knew using FAM charting for contraception would need some more guidance, so eventually learned how to chart from a Certified Fertility Awareness Educator who took my understanding from “generally correct-ish” to tangible and trustworthy. 

I immediately knew this was my calling and started teaching before I was even done with my own certification training (because people insisted on wanting me, even though I tried referring them to my mentors)!!!

I've been exploring the sacred revival of womb wisdom and the science of reproductive health for over 10 years now, still inspired by my direct experience with the transformational power of body literacy.

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Because this journey has not been just a clinical one of only extracting data points from my fertile signs for charting. It’s been a sensual one. A remembrance of my confidence, inner power and voice. A journey home to my mature self who not only understands, but worships, her cycle as an emotionally grounding compass that’s there to point me back to my deep knowing. 

I’ve become who I needed growing up: a woman educated and in touch with womb health. You can read all my professional credentials below, but more than anything, my personal journey of rediscovering the unique me for a life filled with more depth and joy has been my greatest teacher.

Take a deep breath, close your eyes for 10 seconds and ask yourself: what did you need as a teen going through puberty?

Maybe you didn’t get what you needed, but you can give it to yourself now. Whatever magical road led you to reading this, is the very proof that your birthright of body knowledge has been looking for you too.

If you feel like you’re on a similar path and could benefit from guidance in connecting to your body and charting your cycles, download my free guide here for the next destined step of your journey. 
 

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University Of Alberta, Bachelor Degree of Education
Completed April 2010

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Mahi Yoga School In India, 200 Hour Multi-Style YTT
Completed July 2018

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Womb Sciences Immersion with Womben Wellness
Completed August 2019

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Sattva School of Yoga, Finding The Teacher Within 200 Hour YTT
Completed March 2021

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FEMM Health, Fertility Awareness Educator Certification Training
Completed March 2021

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Miscarriage & Abortion Support Course with Samantha Zipporah
Completed December 2021

Period Positivity for Pre-teens, Teens & Parents Facilitator Training w/ Chloe Skerlak

Completed August 2024