EP35: Dr. Katherine Zagone on Fertility is Health and Life

What You'll Hear: The relationship between holistic health and optimal fertility What's missing from the current medical approach Dr. Zagone's unique, holistic work combining environmental, physical and emotional components How the fertility journey can be a process of internal growth and maturity Success stories from her practice What Dr. Zagone Shares: Her definition of fertility (1:56) What's missing from the current conversation about fertility (3:40) How cultivating health is cultivating fertility (4:39) Kimberly's "foundation of okay-ness" and how it relates to fertility (6:45) Self-responsibility vs. self-care (7:56) Physiological stress and its effect on fertility (9:28) We have a built in compass for how our fertility is doing (11:40) "How much of our biology are we willing to push against?" (12:45) Age and fertility (14:20) What traditionally defines an infertility diagnosis (14:50) How genetics and epigenetics play a role (16:00) How we make a "problem" out of fertility (16:54) The role of environmental toxins in shifting rates of fertility (18:15) The importance of talking about sex with her couples (21:45) Tapping into what is really true in the moment, finding the creative power which is the fertility (23:20) Why it's important to work with the couple as a unit. Fertility is a team sport! (25:46) The holistic components to fertility that Dr. Zagone examines with each couple (27:38) "If the baby is meant to come it will come." (30:00) What goes on in the forest!? (31:45) It's important that all women understand postpartum health, whether they have kids or not, because we have all experienced some kind of loss (37:15) How the fertility journey helps women and couples cultivate the skills that will help them in parenthood (39:30) Her success rate with women under 40 (45:00) How the medical model focuses on managing symptoms instead of total healing (46:28) The importance of honoring the body and the emotions in the same context (47:20) The importance of working on your relationship (51:45) The first two questions Dr. Zagone asks her couples (53:55) Where you can find her work online (54:43)   http://www.theholisticfertilitymethod.com/