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Let’s talk summertime hydration! 💦 :: Staying

Let’s talk summertime hydration! 💦
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Staying hydrated is super important to help keep your hormones balanced and your body running smoothly.
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In the heat of summer it can be hard to stay hydrated, so here are my tips:
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➡️drink about half your body weight in ounces each day. If I weight 150 lbs I’d want to drink 75oz of water. More than that isn’t necessarily better (and can have negative effects) so no need to go overboard.
➡️keep your water room temperature. I know in the summer we can really crave that ice water, but cold drinks can slow our digestion and prevent us from fully absorbing nutrients. Plus it means we have to spend more energy regulating our body temp (and we want to save as much energy as possible for our reproductive health!)
➡️add fruit like lemon or lime to your water for a little flavor and to support your digestion.
➡️try to drink most of your water before 3pm. We need the most hydration in the first half of the day to replenish what we lost overnight. Our bodies are also best equipped to process our intake during the most active parts of the day. Drinking too much in the evenings can actually disrupt your sleep patterns, so try to avoid drinking anything after 8pm
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Any other summer hydration tips? Share yours below! 👇🏽

Happy Solstice my loves! I hope you had time to ge

Happy Solstice my loves! I hope you had time to get outside this past weekend and enjoy the longest day of the year on Saturday (for those of us in the northern hemisphere).
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With all that’s happening in the world, it can be grounding and healing to connect with the earth’s rhythms and cycles. And we could all use a little healing this year!
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For those of you not on my email list, my Summer Solstice offer expires today.
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As a reminder, here's what you get with the Summer Solstice pre-sale:
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✅Immediate access to the 6-week Flourish Fertility online program
✅Access to the LIVE round of Flourish in August, which includes weekly group coaching calls with me where you can ask questions and we'll dive deeper into some of the material
✅Two 1:1 private coaching calls with me, where we'll look at your individual fertility journey and I'll give you personalized recommendations and advice
✅Plus part of your sale will help support Black Mamas Matter, an organization that promotes birth equality for black women (who are 3x more likely to die from pregnancy related causes)
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[Part 3 of 3] Action is important. Stand with thos

[Part 3 of 3]
Action is important. Stand with those who need support.

Speak up, donate, listen.

As women supporting women we can make a difference in the world.

My mission has always been to elevate women’s voices, women’s stories, and empower women to create the changes they want to see in their own lives and in the world.

This includes the experience of Black women and Women of Color.

I'm an advocate for birth justice, and I've realized I need to be more vocal about the causes I support and believe in. If you're interested in joining me, here are some ways to donate and take action:

@birthequity
@birthmarkdoulas
@mamatotovillage
@blackmamasmatter
@groundswellfund

Now is the time to step up, to show up, to support one another as women.

And to the Women of Color out there:

I see you.
I hear you.
I stand with you.

[Part 2 of 3] Today, Black women are 3 times more

[Part 2 of 3]
Today, Black women are 3 times more likely to die from pregnancy related causes than any other group, and a contributing factor is systemic bias built into the medical system. Most people aren't accusing doctors and nurses of overt racism, but Black women’s concerns are often not taken as seriously as white women’s.

Serena Williams could have died after giving birth because her medical team didn't initially take her seriously when she said she was experiencing a pulmonary embolism (blood clot), which she had a history of. Women of Color should be believed and listened to in medical settings.

It’s these slight actions and decisions, which can often have an unconscious racial bias, that have an enormous impact on Black women’s health.

One thing I’ve learned from working in the field of fertility, is that dealing with our own fertility is emotionally exhausting. And when we’re exhausted, it’s harder to have space and compassion for others.

But when we dig deep through this exhaustion and reach across our common human experience to connect with others who are hurting and suffering, too, we allow our humanity to blossom, and our hearts to grow.

I encourage everyone to find the common thread that unites us all as humans, and to find your deepest wells of compassion and love. We have to reach across the divides, take a hand, and come together in love and support to seek answers. Only when we understand how and why we got here can we begin to understand the way forward.

The past is complicated and messy and none of us alive today set these things in motion, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t our responsibility to correct course and find a better way forward than the one we’ve been living.

It's our job to understand how the culture we’ve been raised in has made us complicit. We don’t always choose the social biases and culture we were born into, but we can choose to change them. To reject what we’ve learned and decide we can do better.

Let’s all do better. [continue reading @flourishfertility]

[Part 1 of 3} The recent deaths of George Floyd, A

[Part 1 of 3}
The recent deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor have brought up a lot of discussions about race and racism in our country. And if we really want to understand these issues and create change in our world we have to look at how they are affecting all areas of life--including women's health.

These issues aren't limited to police or violence; women’s health is also directly impacted by the institutional racism that is a legacy of our country, and the color of our skin shouldn’t determine whether or not we’re safe on the streets or in a maternity ward. Yet this is the reality many women face.

To throw in a little history, Women of Color are actually very familiar with infertility.

Thousands of Black, Native, and other minority women were sterilized without their consent, and often without their knowledge throughout the 20th century. This practice was legal in 32 states and lasted into the 1970’s.
Wow.

Can you imagine dealing with infertility and finding out the reason you couldn't conceive was because that time you had your appendix out the doctor just tied your tubes while he was at it? Just because of the color of your skin.

These sterilization practices were even an inspiration for Hitler’s own eugenics movement.

Yeah.

That’s why we don’t talk about it in history classes. But we should. This is the sort of thing left out of our history books, but is just an example of how even after slavery ended, the injustices to Black women’s health and bodies didn’t.

This is the legacy of our country.

It’s complex and painful, and the roots of the problems run deep. It’s not just about overtly racist people, but about the systems we’re all a part of. [Continue reading @flourishfertility]

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