Happy New Year one and all! Welcome to the first Slow Swimmers and Fried Eggs post of 2018! Wow, what a difference a year makes. I never thought I’d be writing a blog, living in a beautiful house or be facing redundancy this time last year, but here I am and all those things… Continue reading Birthday blogging – fertile thoughts as I turn another year older
Fitness and Wellness on Your Fertility Path
As a fertility coach, my mission is to help my clients prepare physically, mentally and spiritually for parenthood. Having been on the fertility journey myself, I know that it’s a road fraught with unexpected twists and turns, bumps and bobbles, and some people never reach the final destination of having a healthy baby. Since… Continue reading Fitness and Wellness on Your Fertility Path
Reprioritising life during infertility
There’s nothing like a major life event to help rock that chess board! My most recent shake up was being made redundant – and now, 1 month on, I feel like I’m in a totally different place, so much freer, excited and in control of my choices and the chance I now have to reshape… Continue reading Reprioritising life during infertility
Coronasomnia: Improving Sleep for Fertility Wellness
Has anyone been plagued by sleepless nights since the advent of the coronavirus pandemic? Usually, I have no problem finding peaceful rest at night. Yet, for some reason my sleep patterns have regressed in recent months. I’ve had more and more restless nights, finding it hard to fall off to sleep until much later… Continue reading Coronasomnia: Improving Sleep for Fertility Wellness
Powerhouse Muesli
Here’s how to incorporate Fitness for Fertility into your breakfast meals 🙂 What you need : 2 cups Oats 1 cup Sunflower Seeds 1 cup Pumpkin Seeds 1 cup Sliced Almonds 1/2 cup Dried Goji Berries 1/2 cup Desiccated Coconut Sweetners 1 table spoon x Molasses 1 table spoon x Agave syrup Flavours 1… Continue reading Powerhouse Muesli
Lessons learned from infertility
My friend just completed a “tough mudder” challenge – 5 miles, 13 mud-soaked obstacles and a lot of team work and pain…perhaps unsurprisingly when I heard about this feat of unexpected physical assertion (this isn’t her usual weekend activity!) it reminded me of when I completed my one and only half marathon run, how terrified… Continue reading Lessons learned from infertility
Art & Creativity for Relaxation on Your Fertility Journey
I really look forward those moments in the day when the tasks on my to-do list are completed and I get to just switch off and enjoy a little bit of art therapy. Creative expression has been a wonderful outlet for me since childhood, and even now in adulthood, I find it so fulfilling to… Continue reading Art & Creativity for Relaxation on Your Fertility Journey
Combatting the dirty little secret of infertility: Shame
If there’s one thing I know for sure is that being diagnosed with and struggling through infertility can bring up a whole slew of unwanted negative emotions. One of the toughest to deal with is SHAME. When we try to conceive, and bear our own biological children and have difficulty, we start to think thoughts… Continue reading Combatting the dirty little secret of infertility: Shame
Fertile meals
It’s crazy how fast this year has flown by as we are already in October ! Continuing to focus on balancing your fertility diet is extremely important for those who are new to the conception journey or who have been TTC for some time. Your fertility diet is probably one of the single most… Continue reading Fertile meals
My Three Pillars – The Very Specific Things that Get Me Through My Worst Days
Hello everyone, Eric here again. And I’m having a bad day. I mean, a really lousy day. One of those days where it feels like absolutely everything is going wrong. So in the midst of all this, I cast my mind back to the toughest days on our infertility journey, and I am reminded… Continue reading My Three Pillars – The Very Specific Things that Get Me Through My Worst Days