The Emotional Alchemy Podcast
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The Emotional Alchemy Podcast
54. SOMATIC HEALING: Empowered Choices about Birth Control with Women’s Health Coach Rachel Root
One of the core values of The Empowered Curiosity Community is sovereignty over our bodies.
We cannot have body sovereignty without understanding what is actually going on with our bodies and I’ve been witnessing the non-consensual culture of how we recommend birth control to women since I became a health care practitioner over a decade ago.
This is why I wanted to have a conversation with Rachel Root who is an integrative women’s health coach, acupuncturist and herbalist. We talk about how to make empowered choices for yourself and your fertility health. This happens through education, not prescription.
What You’ll Learn:
- How your cycle can be your monthly report card of health so you can understand why...
- Your cycle is long or short?
- Your menstrual blood is dark or light?
- You are extremely tired after your menses?
- You struggle with PMS or PMDD before your menses
- The physiology and energetics of the different phases of your menstrual cycle
- How the womb holds onto trauma
- The spiritual alchemy of the fertility journey
- Practical ways to track your fertile window
- Your best synthetic birth control options
Listen to this episode if...
You are a menstruating person who wants to understand your cycle with the intention of getting off birth control or with the intention of staying on birth control in an empowered way
Resources:
- Basal Body Temperature Testing by Rachel Root
- The “Sweaty T-Shirt Study”
- Empowered Curiosity Podcast Ep. 21 Surrendering into the Metal Element
- Empowered Curiosity Podcast Ep. 52 CONNECTION
Rachel Root is an acupuncturist, herbalist, integrative women’s health coach.
She works 1:1 with people helping them to overcome their fertility, hormone and menstrual cycle struggles.
Kat HoSoo Lee is an Emotional Alchemy Coach, Spiritual Business Mentor and host of The Emotional Alchemy Podcast.
She loves playing in the space where science and spirituality converge because this is where we get to experience emotional alchemy. In her work, she educates space-holders about somatic physiology and environmental biology so they can deepen their practices of listening and presence which ultimately helps them expand their capacity to hold space for others.
As a Spiritual Business Mentor, she guides soulful entrepreneurs to approach their business as a spiritual practice. The work bridges the emotional landscape with practical tools which allow them to cultivate businesses that are rooted in conscious values, relational marketing and purposeful service.