I know you don't want to hear it, but unless you address the major areas of stress in your life, your chances of becoming pregnant and staying pregnant are slim! It’s a bold statement, but a true one. As we’ve started talking about, stress is the number one reason for most of our dis-ease, and, I believe is the perhaps the root cause of your infertility.

It’s time to consider if work is getting in the way of getting pregnant.

Work stress for women can create a pressure cooker like effect as women try to balance everything on their plate. Work-life balance? What’s that? Striving for success in the workplace can often take priority over our relationships and our person desires because the need to succeed and be financial stable is so great. Not to mention, there’s still no equality in the work place. Not only are women trying to make a living to support their dream of growing their family, they are competing against men who have unequivocal privilege and opportunity in the workplace. Balancing the intricacies of personal and professional life becomes an art, and the toll of work stress on women's well-being wreaks havoc on the womb space and hormonal health.

Your body diverts resources to cope with stress away from pregnancy

Your body will divert all of those juicy resources into coping with your stress levels, trying to bring them down, instead of creating that lovely harmonious flow of hormones that create a lush lining and cascade of beautiful biological events that come together to create life.

I know! It's sort of annoying advice, but we're going to keep talking about this and unpacking HOW it messes with your reproductive health, why, and what you can do to keep your stress response within a reasonable zone so you can reach those pregnancy dreams.