The Cyclical Doula Podcast: Fertility Awareness, Charting Cycles, and Reproductive Health Education
The Cyclical Doula Podcast is a space for honest conversations about cycles, body literacy, motherhood, and what it actually looks like to live in relationship with your body. I’m Emma — Your Cyclical Doula. I’m a certified SymptoPro Instructor, fertility awareness educator, miscarriage doula, and mom of two. I teach women how to chart their fertility signs, understand their cycles, and rebuild trust with their bodies — and this podcast is where those teachings meet real life. Some episodes are personal reflections on hormones, cycle shifts, charting practices, and the messy, tender realities of womanhood. But this podcast is also deeply rooted in conversation. You’ll hear interviews with doulas, educators, clinicians, wellness practitioners, and women with lived experience — people working across fertility, birth, hormones, nervous system regulation, mental health, and motherhood. Together, we explore what’s working, what needs to change, and what women deserve to know about their bodies and their care. These conversations are grounded and human, thoughtful dialogue about cycles, embodiment, informed choice, and learning to listen to what the body is communicating. Whether you’re postpartum, trying to make sense of your chart, navigating hormonal changes, or simply tired of being told your body is too much, this space is for you. Your body isn’t broken — it’s cyclical, communicative, and worthy of care. Let’s talk about it together.
Episodes
Today’s episode is a conversation with Sarah Glenn, founder of Lactation Station & More and Mothering the Mother. Sarah is a mother of seven, grandmother of eleven, and has spent over three decades supporting families through pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding, and the often-overlooked realities of postpartum.
We talk about what many parents feel but don’t always have language for: how hormones shift postpartum, how ...
In this conversation, Emma sits down with Certified Nutrition Practitioner and Metabolic Balance® Coach Rachel Einbinder, founder of Rachel Holistic Wellness and creator of The Bloat Fix Method™.
Together they unpack one of the most overlooked truths in women’s health:
Your gut is your second hormone gland.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
✨ Why your gut is your second hormone gland
✨ How digestion impacts estrogen clearan...
In today's conversation, Emma sits down with birth doula, childbirth educator, and founder of A Brighter Birth Charleston, Natalie Karasiewicz.
In this episode, we explore:
✨ How Natalie became a doula and why she’s passionate about informed, confident birth
✨ The purpose and vision behind A Brighter Birth Charleston
✨ What families actually need from pregnancy through postpartum (and why it’s often missing)
✨ Ho...
In this conversation, Emma sits down with Laura Martinez, neuro-shamanic healer, neuroscientist, and spiritual practitioner, to explore what it truly means to heal by listening to the body.
Laura shares her powerful origin story — including discovering that her great-grandmother was a curandera who performed limpiezas and healings in secret — and how ancestral wisdom, neuroscience, and modern trauma-informed care now converge in her...
In this episode, Emma sits down with trauma therapist, doctoral researcher, and holistic practitioner Danniel Worthen Cullumber, MSW, LCSW, founder of Willow Medela Wellness. Together, they explore how trauma, chronic stress, and cultural conditioning shape the way women understand and inhabit their bodies—and how healing often begins with rebuilding a relationship with our own internal rhythms.
Danniel shares her integrated approac...
This week on The Cyclical Doula Podcast, Emma sits down with Terri Kozlowski—author, speaker, soul-centered life coach, and proud Native American woman from the Athabascan, Tlingit Raven Clan. Terri’s work blends emotional awareness, spiritual wisdom, and embodied healing to help women move from fear and self-protection into deep self-trust.
Together, we explore what it means to reconnect with your body after trauma, burnout, or...
In this episode, Emma is joined by embodiment coach Sarah Laverty, whose work helps women move out of their heads and back into the deep knowing of their bodies. Together they explore the surprising truth that procrastination isn’t a flaw or a failure of willpower — it’s a messenger offering guidance, boundaries, and information we’ve been taught to ignore.
Sarah shares how years of anxiety, OCD, and panic shaped her 20s and ho...
In this episode, Emma sits down with Gigi Hunt — a cycle alignment mentor and neurosomatic practitioner who helps high-achieving women move from burnout, spiraling moods, and “luteal rage” into grounded clarity and emotional steadiness.
Gigi shares her powerful story of postpartum depletion, chronic stress, and feeling like a stranger in her own body — and how she eventually realized that her hormones weren’t the problem. Her nervou...
In this eye-opening conversation, Emma sits down with holistic practitioner Isabelle GianDomenico, Board-Certified in Holistic Nutrition and founder of Sunrise Wellness & Holistic Health. Isabelle shares her personal experience navigating endometriosis and chronic illness, and how those challenges shaped her commitment to changing the narrative around women’s health. Together, they explore the realities of medical gaslighting, ...
In this conversation, licensed acupuncturist and women’s health practitioner Stephanie Mattrey shares her lived experience with anorexia and bulimia and how it informs her work helping women recover from food addiction and disordered eating. We explore the brain-based nature of addiction, why some 12-step frameworks help (and where rigidity can harm), and how faith became an anchoring part of Stephanie’s recovery. Stephanie explain...
Licensed therapist Dr. Ashley Hudson joins Emma to explore how purity culture has shaped sexual beliefs, body awareness, and intimate relationships and what it really looks like to reclaim pleasure, autonomy, and connection. We explore how identity shifts, hormones, and nervous-system changes impact desire after kids, and why many women actually experience better sex as they reconnect with their bodies and rewrite old scripts. ...
Today I’m sitting down with Registered Dietitian Aderet Hoch, founder of Dining with Nature, for a grounded and refreshing conversation about nourishing our bodies across the fertility-to-family continuum—without falling into diet rules, comparison traps, or perfection pressure. We talk about honoring cycles (menstrual, seasonal, and life phases), building a peaceful relationship with food, and why sustainable nourishment starts wi...
In this short and sweet mini episode, Emma drops in with a quick hello and a little update. Things have been full behind the scenes, but she’s back and excited about what’s ahead—including a lineup of incredible guest interviews coming soon!
Emma also shares two main ways to learn and grow in your fertility awareness practice with her support:
SymptoPro Fertility Education — A well-established, evidence-based sympto-thermal method ro...
Your menstrual bleed isn’t just a messy inconvenience—it’s a powerful monthly report card from your body. In this episode of The Cyclical Doula Podcast, Emma breaks down what’s considered “normal” when it comes to menstruation and menstrual bleeding, and the red flags that shouldn’t be brushed off. From heavy periods that leave you exhausted to light or irregular bleeds that hint at hormonal shifts, this episode will help you under...
In this episode, Emma sits down with Rita Johnson, NTP, to explore the powerful connection between gut health, hormones, and women’s overall well-being.
Rita shares her own journey of navigating secondary infertility, healing her gut, and discovering the impact functional medicine and nutrition have on fertility and cycles. Together, Emma and Rita discuss:
- Why gut health and hormone health are deeply connected
- How charting can ser...
Pregnancy after loss carries a unique weight—grief, anxiety, hope, and joy all tangled together. In this powerful conversation, I’m joined by Sarah Lingle, a pregnancy after loss doula, wife, and mama, who shares her story of loss, infertility, and ultimately, birth after heartbreak.
Sarah opens up about what it was like to navigate early pregnancy losses, advocate for herself in the medical system, and use fertility charting as...
Today I’m joined by Haley Yeager, FertilityCare Practitioner (Creighton), certified SymptoPro instructor, wife, and mom of three, for a grounded, hopeful conversation about PCOS, charting, and what real women’s health looks like.
Haley shares how her teen years with irregular cycles led to a PCOS diagnosis, why restorative reproductive medicine changed everything, and how charting gave her answers the pill never could. We also dive ...
In this episode, I’m mixing things up a little — sharing more about what’s been going on in my life lately and then diving into one of the questions I hear most often: How do I get my partner on board with fertility awareness?
You’ll hear about our full summer of family events, the chaos of traveling standby with little ones, starting our homeschooling journey, my current favorite clothing subscription, and even the comfort TV that’...
Your fertility chart is more than a family planning tool—it’s a monthly health report card. In this episode, Emma unpacks how cycle tracking can uncover hidden health concerns long before they show up in lab work or symptoms.
We’ll explore:
- Why the menstrual cycle is considered a “fifth vital sign”
- Common patterns in charts and what they can indicate
- The science behind how hormones, thyroid health, stress, and inflammation show up ...
Thinking about ditching hormonal birth control but worried about unplanned pregnancy? You’re not alone. In this episode of The Cyclical Doula Podcast, I’m sharing how I help individuals and couples confidently avoid pregnancy using fertility awareness-based methods—without hormones or guesswork.
We’ll talk about:
- How the sympto-thermal method (tracking basal body temperature, cervical mucus, and hormone clues) can be up to 99% ef...
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