Welcome to Episode 79!

In episode 79, I interview Ayurvedic practitioner, Heather Grzych, about how Ayurveda can helps us understand our bodies and our fertility from an Eastern medicine perspective. I know there are a lot of people out there who really resonate with a more Eastern approach to health and I wanted to bring someone on that could share more about it. Heather just released a book called The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, which shares the principles of Ayurvedic medicine and how you can use it to optimize your health and fertility as you prepare to conceive. In this episode, you'll learn:

• What Ayurveda is and how it approaches health and fertility

• The Dosha system of evaluating body types and categorizing health imbalances

• How our mindsets around our menstrual cycles and reproductive systems impact fertility

• The 4 fertility factors in Ayurveda and how these impact our ability to conceive

• Our intellectual mind versus our primal mind and why we need to find balance between the two

• More about Heather’s book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility

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Links to Heather’s Work

Website: https://www.heathergrzych.com/

Book: The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility

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Show Notes:

4:05        What Ayurveda is, where it came from, and how it approaches health

13:45     The Dosha system of evaluating body types in Ayurveda

14:25     Vata Dosha

16:00     Pitta Dosha

17:40     Possible to have more than one type of Dosha imbalance

21:55     Kapha Dosha

25:10     How an Ayurvedic practitioner would evaluate and address imbalances for a patient/client

30:40     Balancing Doshas/energies with the people you spend the most time with

40:50     Heather’s very different experiences trying to conceive at different times in her life

34:15     Factors that contribute to Dosha imbalances and becoming more intuitive about how your environment affects you

43:15     Taking an individualized approach to figure out what each person needs to support their body

47:55     Damaging conditioning we have around our menstrual cycles and inherent femininity

56:05     The 4 fertility factors in Ayurveda and how these impact our ability to conceive

60:30     Our intellectual mind versus our primal mind and why we need to find balance between the two

69:25     More about Heather’s book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, and what to expect from it

71:35     Heather’s top pieces of advice for women on the fertility journey