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
In this episode, Emmamma shares insights on choosing a fertility awareness-based method, covering biomarkers, tracking techniques, and support options to help women make informed decisions about their reproductive health.
In this episode, I’m joined by Sabrina Nowicki, CEO and co-founder of the Cyclisity app and niece of Toni Weschler, author of Taking Charge of Your Fertility.
We dive into what fertility awareness actually is (and what it’s not), why most cycle tracking apps miss the mark, and how charting your cycle can become one of the most powerful tools for understanding your health.
This conversation goes beyond “trying to conceive” or “avoidin...
In this first Real, Raw, Charted Life of Emmamma episode, I’m sitting down for a candid check-in—sharing what the past month has actually looked like behind the scenes.
April was full in every sense of the word. From family time and travel to St. Martin, to a pilgrimage through Italy, to navigating personal stress and a major shift in my day-to-day rhythm…this season has stretched me.
And like so many of you, my charting practices di...
What does it actually look like to rebuild your life—one decision at a time?
In this deeply honest and unexpectedly light conversation, I sit down with Sarah Shoulak—speaker, artist, and author of the memoir Dead Serious: How Death Made Me Laugh at Life. Sarah shares her story of choosing sobriety at 27, navigating toxic environments, and learning how to feel again after years of numbing.
We talk about the moments that don’t make it ...
In this episode, I sit down with reproductive health educator and fertility awareness teacher Kourtney Rider for a deeply honest conversation about what happens when you finally start listening to your body.
Kourtney shares her journey through anovulatory PCOS, infertility, birth control use, and the long process of learning what was actually happening inside her cycle. What unfolds is a story about unlearning, rebuilding trust in t...
In today's fast-paced world, many women find themselves grappling with persistent physical symptoms that seem to have no clear cause. If you've ever felt overwhelmed by neck pain, tension headaches, or emotional stress, you're not alone. In this post, we explore the journey of healing through a holistic lens, drawing insights from Nicole, an occupational therapist and health mentor. You'll learn about the mind-body connection and p...
The conversation with Justine covers the topics of body literacy, reproductive choices, fertility challenges, miscarriage experiences, massage therapy for fertility support, and supporting women during pregnancy and postpartum. The conversation covers a holistic approach to women's health, including advocacy for informed decision-making, seeking alternative healthcare providers, and open conversations and support groups for women's...
In this conversation, Dr. Penni discusses her work in integrative medicine, her personal journey with chronic illness, and the importance of understanding menopause and hormone balance. She emphasizes the need for a holistic approach to health and the misconceptions surrounding menopause symptoms and hormone deficiencies. The conversation covers a proactive approach to perimenopause, empowerment in women's health, challenges of men...
The conversation with Athena, a family nurse practitioner and functional medicine provider, delves into the intersection of functional medicine and women's health. It explores the understanding of the female body, the evolution of exercise routines, the collaborative approach to wellness at Stat Wellness, common symptoms and hormonal health in women, practical approaches to hormonal health, and the monitoring of hormonal levels and...
In this episode of The Cyclical Doula Podcast, Emma sits down with Kim Foss, founder of Magnetic Wellness, to explore a healing modality called biomagnetism. This therapy uses therapeutic magnets placed in pairs on the body to help restore internal balance, regulate the nervous system, and support the body’s natural healing processes.
Kim shares how discovering biomagnetism during her own postpartum health challenges shifted the way...
In this episode, Emma sits down with Karen Klein, founder of Talk About Your Period, to unpack why period stigma still shapes everything from school hallways to workplace policies. Karen shares how activism + storytelling became her lane, how raising kids (especially sons) can shift the next generation, and why simply being louder about periods is a real form of change. We also get into the big vision: menstrual leave, and what “pe...
In this episode of The Cyclical Doula Podcast, I’m joined by Alyssa Chavez — functional nutritionist, life coach, and former professional ballet dancer — for a grounded conversation about endometriosis, infertility, miscarriage, and what it can look like to rebuild trust with your body after years of pain.
Alyssa shares her personal story: coming off birth control, escalating symptoms, being dismissed, receiving an endometriosis dia...
Parenting can feel like living in survival mode… and if you’re not careful, “I’m surviving” starts to sound like who you are, not just what you’re in.
In this episode, I’m joined by Mitra Cummins (parent coach + entrepreneur, mom of two, 4 months postpartum at the time of recording) from My Introspective Solution. Mitra shares how she supports overwhelmed parents—especially postpartum families and neurodiverse households—in building...
What if pregnancy, birth, and postpartum weren’t something to “get through” — but an experience you could move through with confidence, intuition, and support?
In this episode of The Cyclical Doula Podcast, I’m joined by Shauna Hall, a spiritual energetics herbalist, postpartum doula, hypnotherapy practitioner, and host of the Align Your Glow and Soul podcast. Shauna shares how her own pregnancy, birth, and postpartum experience res...
Motherhood doesn’t come with a user manual… and for so many moms, the hardest part isn’t loving their kids—it’s feeling resourced enough to stay grounded when everything is loud, sticky, overstimulating, and deeply triggering.
In this episode, I’m joined by Sami Garrett, founder of Good Enough Matrescence, a global collective where moms come to expand joy, peace, and presence—and redefine what modern motherhood support can actually ...
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 breastfeeding c...
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 clearance, PMS, and per...
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)
✨ How doulas shift the emoti...
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...
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