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What if it's not your hormones? What if your hormones are actually alerting you to something deeper going on?

Because, they essentially always are.

Today's guest, Rapid Transformational Therapy practitioner Natalie Ryan Hebert, speaks to the drop in estrogen in the luteal phase as a time when deeper truths (including core stories, trauma wounds, childhood imprints) may show up more prominently.

Without that soothing, moist, blanket of estrogen the "rocks" are revealed.

Resources:

• Get started tracking your cycle: Track Your Cycle (FAM) guide
• Sign up for the Fall 2025 waitlist here: Natural Contraception Fall 2025 waitlist
• Today's shownotes: Get Natalie's links here
• Episode 47: Functional medicine for PMDD w Jes

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Wait? So contraception can fail?

I'm sure we've all heard the stories of folks using some form of contraception and still ending up pregnant, or maybe this has been you!

It was a little uncanny to hear that my last two guests on the podcast BOTH had the experience of becoming pregnant while using contraception in their early years of sexual activity.

So I thought it would be a great topic to cover at the foundational level.

What does it mean for contraception methods to fail? How does that happen? And what should you be aware of to enhance your pregnancy prevention practice?

In today's episode, I explore:

• the proper use of condoms
• how to effectively practice withdrawal
• some basics on working with cervical caps, diaphragms, spermicide, Phexxi
• how your pelvic floor muscles may play a role here
• why PIV sex during menstruation is NOT reliable birth control

and more!

Resources:

• Get started tracking your cycle: Track Your Cycle (FAM) guide
• Sign up for the Fall 2025 waitlist here: Natural Contraception Fall 2025 waitlist
• Today's shownotes: When contraception fails!
• Episode 90: Effective Non-hormonal birth control options
• Episode 146: 5 benefits of practicing natural contraception
• Episode 185: Enhanced orgasms + the path to lifelong pleasure

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DISCLAIMER: This podcast is for educational purposes only, I am not providing any medical advice, I am not a medical practitioner, I’m an herbalist and in the US, there is no path to licensure for herbalists, so my role is as an herbal educator. Please do your own research and consult your healthcare provider for any personal concerns.

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So many of us are taught to feel shame around our sexuality, orgasms, pleasure.

What happens when we shake a little of that shame and modesty off and start to explore what's really possible?

The truth is, there is SO MUCH MORE than most of us have any idea about.

Today's guest, intimacy expert Susan Bratton, is a 64 year old woman who says she's juicier than she's ever been, and her pleasure potential just continues to expand!

We're taught we're going to dry up, shrivel up and our libido is going to wither away as we get older. As if we've gotta get it all out and live up our 30's and 40's while we can.

But that's not truuuuuue! It's all wrong.

Pleasure is a continuum and getting to know YOUR unique body, your erectile tissue, what YOU like, and how to enhance your full-body, full-being pleasure sensations as you continue to grow and change is a lifelong path.

Susan shares all about her marriage where all she had was dutiful sex (where she had never had an orgasm w intercourse) until she was 42, and her marriage was a mess.

Over the past 20+ years she's devoted her life to to passionate lovemaking for own self, and teaches how you can do that too.

We talk basics on orgasmic meditation, tools, lubes, and even how certain probiotic strains can support your oxytocin levels.

This is a pretty packed interview, a good foundation if you're interested in enhancing pleasure anytime from TTC through menopausal years.

Susan brings it! In a big way.

Resources:

• Free Womb Connection + Clearing guided visualization
• Interested in Natural Contraception? Sign up for the Fall 2025 VIP list here
• Today's shownotes: Grab all the links to Susan's offerings, free course etc!

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