I want to ask you a hard question:
How’s your relationship with your body right now?
No, really.
How are you actually treating it?
In today’s episode of the Fertile Ground podcast, I’m breaking down something that’s been on my mind for a while: how women have been conditioned to have a transactional relationship with their bodies.
We’ve ALL been taught that our bodies are like machines. That they’re here to serve us. That they somehow OWE us. To perform when we tell them to. To fit into these narrow boxes of what “healthy” and “acceptable” look like.
And when they don’t? We judge. We criticize. We ignore. We disconnect.
How many times have you caught yourself thinking things like:
- “I’ll rest only if I see everything done.”
- “I’ll love my body only if it gets pregnant.”
- “I’ll trust it only if it behaves how the doctor wants it to.”
That’s the transactional thinking I’m talking about.
It says to your body (who by the way, is a living, breathing ecosystem) “I will only be in a relationship with you, if you give me what I want”—and that’s not how I think you actually WANT to be in relationship with your body
When we stop fighting against our bodies, when we stop seeing them as broken or unworthy of love UNTIL "fill in the blank" then we open up a space for healing—physically, emotionally, and spiritually. And it’sthis healing that can have a profound impact on fertility.
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