After over 40 years living and breathing Fertility Awareness, I’m now in the throes of rewriting the book for the 30th anniversary edition of Taking Charge of Your Fertility, to be released in 2025. So unfortunately, I have to stay completely focused on the book before I can even allow myself a well-deserved breakdown. 🥺 Please know that [...] The post As I slip into a stress-induced coma… appeared first on Taking Charge of your Fertility.| Taking Charge of your Fertility
Hello everyone, I’m so excited to announce that come 2025, we will be replacing the current OvaGraph app with an entirely new one with a new name, built from the ground up. We are designing a fresh and sleek app to fully integrate with the 30th anniversary edition of Taking Charge of Your Fertility, also [...] The post We are developing an incredible new app to be released in 2025! appeared first on Taking Charge of your Fertility.| Taking Charge of your Fertility
One of my favorite letters to receive are from women who were able to tell they were pregnant just by charting alone, even before a pregnancy test confirmed it. One of the first signs that many women who chart will notice is implantation spotting, a type of light bleeding that occurs when the fertilized egg [...] The post Early Signs that You May be Pregnant Based on Charting Alone appeared first on Taking Charge of your Fertility.| Taking Charge of your Fertility
I’ll be honest. I’m a weenie. Oh sure, I may seem like I have my act together, but if truth be told, there’s a valid reason I chose to not have children. Don’t get me wrong. I love, love, love kids. I love their pudgy little legs when they are just infants, and their [...] The post How Giving My Kitty a Pill Reminded Me Why I Don’t Have Children appeared first on Taking Charge of your Fertility.| Taking Charge of your Fertility
I certainly never set out to write a 500+ page book on women’s reproductive health over 25 years ago. Truth be told, I would’ve just as soon sat around eating bonbons and playing Scrabble. But I felt compelled to after my zillionth passionate Fertility Awareness student asked why this invaluable information wasn’t readily available anywhere [...] The post THE BOOK PROPOSAL OF AN AMATEUR appeared first on Taking Charge of your Fertility.| Taking Charge of your Fertility
I have a friend who was so utterly overwhelmed with the 5-year process of researching and writing her book, that when it was finally published, she couldn’t wait to escape to another country where she wasn’t tethered to computers, fax machines, phones, and utterly stressful jaunts to the airport Fed-Ex office during rush hour to [...] The post When Facing Your Fears Goes Awry appeared first on Taking Charge of your Fertility.| Taking Charge of your Fertility
We as women are so used to experiencing various types of pains and discomforts during our cycles that we may lose sight of what is normal versus what merits seeing a health practitioner. Of course, the benefit of learning about Fertility Awareness and charting your cycle is that you become acutely aware of what signs [...] The post When to Trust Your Gut appeared first on Taking Charge of your Fertility.| Taking Charge of your Fertility
I just had my mammogram a few days ago, and I can honestly say that for the first time in over 25 years, it was, (wait for it) . . . almost pleasant! Now don’t get me wrong, I’d still rather scrub toilets than have my breasts squished between two hard cold plates, but [...] The post Advocating for Yourself appeared first on Taking Charge of your Fertility.| Taking Charge of your Fertility
If you’ve ever written a book, you know that it can be one of the most challenging, exasperating, and frustrating experiences. And those are the positive aspects of such a huge project. So after my first book was released, I thought, why not write another book? Won’t that be fun? So one day well into [...] The post When the Bees in Spring Lose Their Charm appeared first on Taking Charge of your Fertility.| Taking Charge of your Fertility
Who knew that the chicken scratch that I scribbled onto the back of a piece of paper from my recycling bin nearly 30 years ago would one day form the basis for my 536-page tome, Taking Charge of Your Fertility? I had already been teaching Fertility Awareness for years at that point, buoyed by the [...] The post From a Scribble to a Book Translated Into 11 Languages appeared first on Taking Charge of your Fertility.| Taking Charge of your Fertility