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Nicole is an Edmonton based Acupuncturist and Traditional Chinese Medical Doctor (TCMD) specializing in Sexual and Reproductive Medicine. Using Acupuncture, Chinese Medical Herbs, a Spiritual foundation and Western medical advances, Nicole strives to effectively treat and care for people on their fertility journey and helps them restore their health and vitality.

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Infertility Awareness Week I am always so so hesi

Infertility Awareness Week

I am always so so hesitant to post much about my own experiences. Especially raw moments throughout my journey, it’s easier for me to speak about them in a “learning” or when I’m trying to explain something

But going through Infertility has many faces. Every single woman and couple I have seen has their own unique experience, and yet, there are many shared experiences amongst us when we are trying for our little ones

I was diagnosed with premature ovarian failure and poor ovarian reserve over 2 years ago (almost 3)
I have gone through MANY different phases since, and these are some of them.
I have felt;
Angry
Confused
Scared
Powerful
Purposeful
Lost
Disconnected
Apathetic
Divinely connected to my sexuality
Completely disconnected from it too
At one point I even wanted to pack everything up, leave a letter for loved ones, and move away somewhere secluded
I have also felt like I needed to let everyone know that they are not alone if they are going through the same thing!

The process of infertility is so not linear
So whatever phase you are in right now, I really fucking hear you

And, you’ve got this mama
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#infertility #infertilityawareness #infertilityawarenessweek #infertilitysucks #infertilityjourney #fertile #fertilityjourney #fertilityjourneystories #fertilityawareness #ttc #ttccommunity #ttcjourney #ttcsupport #ttcsisters

Infertility Awareness Week MALE FACTOR INFERTILIT

Infertility Awareness Week

MALE FACTOR INFERTILITY
is the number ONE contributing factor to couples having difficulty conceiving

Yet, where are the options? Where are the tests? Where is the support?

When my partner and I were referred to the fertility clinic my testing included:
- day 3 and 16,18,20 blood tests
- Ultrasound (internal) w antral follicle count
- HSG test
- Routine blood work
- Taking OPK’s to confirm ovulation
- Cycle tracking
His testing included
- routine blood work
- Semen analysis

Most argue that a woman’s reproductive system is more complex and therefore needs more detailed investigation. I call bullshit

Men get seriously left behind in this entire process. From starting to try and conceive until the baby comes, and most times afterwards as well

Men, we NEED you. Women, we need you to be the gateway for them to enter and be involved in this process. Don’t force, push, or nag. Don’t get angry because you know more than them and they are less informed in the process. It is designed for them to be! It’s not ALL their fault

Areas of Men’s health to tend to when trying to conceive:
- emotional health (do you feel well supported, taken care of, powerful, and like you have spaces to express your fears, doubts, and questions?)
- Heart Health / (considered cardiovascular health in western medicine) this includes things like blood pressure, and heart rate and regular rhythm, it also includes anxiety, grief, depression, connection
- Sexual health
- Cut out pop and marijuana (two things that strongly affect sperm health)
- Immune system (do you catch colds and flus often, do you feel run down frequently?)
- Spiritual Health. In a lot of cultures the man is in charge of upholding the spiritual presence and guidance in the home. Your connection with something bigger than yourself is important. You are also helping guide your baby here

They want it as much as you, trust me
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#infertility #infertilityawareness #infertilityawarenessweek #infertilitysucks #infertilitywarrior #malefactorinfertility #menshealth #fertile #fertilemen #ttc #ttccommunity #ttcjourney #ttcsupport #ttctribe

Infertility Awareness Week Today I want to talk a

Infertility Awareness Week

Today I want to talk about what it means to be fertile

Randine Lewis wrote “Being fertile and fruitful can mean giving birth to a child -- but to have a fertile soul means to give birth to the true self a woman wants to be: to live a life filled with passion, strength, joy, and adventure.”

When I first started treating fertility, my main focus was always getting someone pregnant. I would feel like I failed anytime I had a client tell me they got their period. Much like you feel each month trying to conceive

Now, although I look at lab results, your day 3 and 21 blood tests along with hormones and OPK’s, getting pregnant is rarely my main focus anymore

Because we have mastered the physical realm as humanity. So we no longer can force a pregnancy

That is why IVF has only a 26% success rate
Why Metformin doesn’t bring every women’s cycle back
Why acupuncture doesn’t get everyone pregnant
Why you feel depressed every time you get your period

But why “miracles” happen when women “stop trying”
Because they didn’t actually stop trying. They refocused and got right with the things in their life that were unsettled
They shifted the mental, emotional, sexual, spiritual, relational, or energetic aspects of themselves and their body followed suit
They held space for a baby to come instead of forcing one

You were never taught how to do this. And the fertility system is designed to take you further away from this. Based on the fear that if you don’t “keep trying” then you will miss out on your baby

All of the physical and scientific things will work, IF and WHEN you also give birth to the TRUE woman you are meant to be
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#infertility #infertilityawarenessweek #infertilityawareness #infertilitysucks #infertilitywarrior #infertilitysupport #infertilityjourney #fertilesoul #fertilityacupuncture #yegacupuncture #fertilityawareness #ttc #ttccommunity #ttcjourney #ttcsupport #medicine

Infertility Awareness Week Over the five years of

Infertility Awareness Week

Over the five years of being in practice and treating Fertility and working in Reproductive Medicine, I have learned a lot. Come across countless methods, tools, techniques, and learnings to help people grow their family

This week, I want to share some of those learnings

But for today, I just want to hold space

For the 1 in 8 couples who are having difficulty conceiving
For the women who feel like mothers without children
For the ones who cry when their period comes
For the ones who feel sorrow when they see another negative pregnancy test
For the ones who buy baby clothes and fill and empty room while they wait
For everyone who is trying for their little ones and it just hasn’t happened for them yet

I hold space for all of you
Lay down whatever has become too heavy to carry, in the comments
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#infertility #infertilityawareness #infertilitysucks #infertilitywarrior #infertilitysupport #infertilityjourney #fertile #fertilityawareness #fertilityjourney #fertilityjourneystories #fertilitytips #fertilityacupuncture #fertilityacupuncturist #yegbusiness #yegacupuncture

You’re missing opportunities to optimize your fe

You’re missing opportunities to optimize your fertility

Let me ask you;
How is your fertility journey going? Truthfully!
Do you feel like you’re on a roller coaster each month?
Do you obsessively test or feel fixated during your two week wait?
Do you feel anxious each month you get a negative test or aunt flow comes to town?

If any of this sounds like you, I’ve got you
Over the past 5 years I’m my private practice I have witnessed miracles

People get pregnant that were told they never would
Women reclaim their lives after being in a cycle of anxiety and desperation waiting for their babies
Mammas reverse medical conditions that were hindering them from getting pregnant and rebalancing their hormones

The Creation Series was built with all of the same methods, tools, and support I used to help these women get pregnant and bring their babies into this world

If you’re wanting to reclaim your fertile potential and optimize your fertility, now is the time to sign up

Go to the link in my bio to sign up
You’ve got this Mamma!
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#fertility #fertilityjourney #fertilityawareness #fertilitysupport #infertility #infertilityawareness #infertilitysucks #infertilitysupport #infertilityjourney #ivf #ivfjourney #ivfcommunity #ivfsupport #tww #dpo #ttctribe #ttccommunity #ttccommunity #ttcjourney #ttcsisters #ttcsupport

Do you feel so overwhelmed with food? It seems li

Do you feel so overwhelmed with food?

It seems like every corner you turn there is a diet or eating plan that seems to contradict the last one you just learned about

PCOS diets
Medical Medium diets
Diets for high blood pressure
Eat salt
Don’t eat salt
The list goes on and on

A while back I started having dizzy spells and feeling nauseous quite frequently
I started where I usually do, western medicine. We live in a physical realm, so that’s usually the easiest place to start - nothing abnormal showed up in my blood work

So I turned to #Chinesemedicine

Dizziness and nausea can be a few patterns of imbalance (wind, yin deficiency, yang deficiency, blood deficiency etc)

And I kept feeling a connection with food. Yes I had cravings and some of them I knew were not conducive to me feeling better and some of them made total sense when I looked at it from a Chinese medicine view

So, that’s where I’m starting
Eating foods that tonify yin and balance my liver

The great thing about Chinese medicine is if you’re treating a pattern of imbalance you end up getting a lot more benefits than just treating a symptom. So for now my goal was to treat my dizziness and nausea, but because I’m treating a pattern it all helps my infertility, balancing blood sugar and hormones as well

Killing two birds with one stone
Side benefits
Instead of
Side effects
What a beautiful medicine it is
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#chinesemedicine #chinesemedicinepractitioner #fertility #fertilitysupport #fertilitydiettips

Have you ever gone to your doctor because you’re

Have you ever gone to your doctor because you’re not feeling well and they do tests and everything comes back normal?

What do you do now?

I notice a lot of pressure and frustration towards doctors and western medicine, and what I want us all to understand is we Co-Create our systems. This includes our medical system

When do you go see your doctor?
Usually when you’re at your wits end and you need some answers and our body is screaming at you

So what options do your doctors have? Something that works NOW and QUICK

And we get frustrated when all of their tools come back with no answers. Doctors have a scope of practice. This is a stream of knowledge they have in a certain area. And then methods of which they can treat you. If that area doesn’t have answers, you do not stop and throw up your arms

Take this as an opportunity to then begin to look in other areas

Mental
Emotional
Sexual
Spiritual
Environmental
Energetic

These are all places to start
And yes, they will take exploration, willingness, determination, and trial & error

Take some responsibility and become a bit of a detective
Your health depends on it
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#healthandwellness #medicinewoman #medicine #healingisaprocess #healingcoach #acupunctureworks #fertilityissues #fertilitywarrior #fertilityhealth

My partner and I got into a big fight, about 3 mon

My partner and I got into a big fight, about 3 months ago. It quite literally was a screaming match. Which is quite out of character for us, we often are so focused on making sure we understand the other person that we usually don’t lash out.

However, after this fight we both felt…..like….REALLY good. We felt more connected, we both felt like we could breathe a little better and like something had lifted. I felt a little more ok with being my true self and that it wouldn’t hurt him & vice versa. It was a noticeable shift. So, naturally I was fascinated.

How could something that I have learned to be “bad” in a relationship be something that brought such good?

And The other day it finally hit me.

3 years ago, I was in the most “conscious” environment I could have imagined. Surrounded by, what I thought, were some of the most spiritual people I had come across, trying to be the most healed version of myself. And I was, truthfully, the most unhappy and unwell I have ever been in my entire life.

I was swallowing my authenticity frequently and being rewarded for it, I was scared to be assertive or speak loudly and with conviction, I was scared to fight or say rude things, or gossip, or hate someone, or not be compassionate, or choose my patterns. I was always trying to be the most conscious version of myself I could possibly be.

And I started to look at my patients, the ones that are seemingly “woke” and trying to be conscious of others and the world. They seem to carry the most amount of physical pain and disease.

And you know what I realized?

You cannot be “Healed” every single second of the day. Part of this spiritual work is becoming more human. And part of being human is being petty, and getting angry, and fighting with your partner, and gossiping with a friend and not liking someone you come across, and eating that fucking donut.

Because if you keep stifling your natural reaction, it causes a lot of disease within your body, mind and spirit.

So, I ask you this;
How much of your natural reaction have you stifled in the name of being “conscious”?
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#acupuncture #consciousness #thenewage #healingisnotlinear #growthanddevelopment

Infertility I read part of a poem the other day t

Infertility

I read part of a poem the other day that said “it’s hard making space in your heart for something that seems to never come”

I’ve always struggled with this. Growing up I remember wanting things SO badly it felt like it consumed me. Desire was strong for me. And I often felt disappointed and hurt

I don’t remember when or why but I had a few experiences that made me feel like if I just acted like I didn’t want something it usually would happen for me

Frustrated and unconscious, I created the belief system that if I wanted something too badly then it would never happen for me. It would repel it

Later in life, and through the past two years, I’ve started to understand that when I come back to my self and refocus my energy back to me, it allows life to flow THROUGH me and to me

So it wasn’t about “not caring” or “not wanting / longing for something”

I still long for a child. Deeply. I get caught up in analyzing every symptom in my body, I still dream about our child and speak to it. I still long for the day of being a mother and seeing my partner as a father

AND I’m still coming back to myself intentionally, so that life can flow through me

What are you struggling with in your journey so far, let me hold space for you in the comments. You’ve got this Mamma
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#infertility #infertilityawareness #infertilitysupport #infertilitycommunity #ttcsupport #fertilitydoctor #fertilityacupuncture #fertilityacupuncturist #fertilitysupport #createanewworld #creation #future

The definition of insanity – “Doing the same th

The definition of insanity -

“Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result”

If you want something different
DO something different

There is not end point. It is a continuation of learning, exploring, expanding and contracting

Create something NEW
If it is not HARD, it ain’t it. I can assure you that
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#fertility #infertilitysupport #mentalhealth #mentalhealthrecovery #changeyourmindsetchangeyourlife #newfuture

Pregnancy Tests So I’ve been pondering this tri

Pregnancy Tests

So I’ve been pondering this tricky little thing for the past while. Taking a pregnancy test, negative pregnancy tests, waiting to take a pregnancy test. Ugh the anxiety seems like it never ends!

When you’re going through fertility treatments, the dreaded 2 week wait is what really messes with people, same with after ovulation when you’ve been trying to conceive naturally

The wait can be SUPER uncomfortable

And truthfully the only thing I have found to be effective is preparation and distraction

Preparation is empowering. Being prepared for something you know can cause your stress, equips you with tools to navigate that stress
Distraction is necessary. You know you’re going to have to wait, and just sitting there waiting for the time to pass is hard. So filling some of your time with things that empower you and bring you joy allows you to put your mind and body at ease

Know you are not alone in experiencing this anxiety and stress
And remember; You’ve got this Mamma
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#infertility #infertilityawareness #infertilityjourney #infertilitysupport #infertilitycommunity #fertility #fertilityjourney #fertilityawareness #fertilitysupport #fertilitytreatment #yegacupuncture #yegacupuncturist #fertilityacupuncture #chinesemedicine

An enormous part of my practice is guiding people

An enormous part of my practice is guiding people back to themselves

You were never lost or something to be found. You just strayed a little too far

We utilize all of our innate gifts for SO many things:
Our loved ones
Our businesses/jobs
The injustices we see in the world
Our children
Etc

and I’m here to tell you to come back to yourself and offer all of those gifts and that love to YOURSELF too

Come back to your self
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#fertilitytreatment #infertilitycommunity #fertile #infertilitysupport #yegacupuncture #yegacupuncturist #fertilityacupuncture

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