19. AN HERBALISTS APPROACH TO FERTILITY with VERONICA RICKSEN, RH | Cycle Tracking for Greater Autonomy, Body Literacy, + Empowerment

Have you ever considered freezing your eggs? Are you curious about cycle tracking, but feel clueless about how to start? Do you want to optimize your hormone health, regardless of where you're at in life? 

Join herbalists Kelsey Conger, MS and Veronica Ricksen, RH on PLANET SPOONIE, the podcast for lymies and spoonies healing themselves and the world. 

On this week's episode, I am honored to welcome Veronica, an herbalist, fertility awareness educator, and author! She shares about how her own health struggles led her to herbalism and eventually supervising an herb clinic in Berkeley. She also discusses how she discovered fertility awareness methods, after becoming frustrated by years of feeling uninformed about her contraceptive options. Now she has a private herbal practice where she helps other women learn to chart their fertility signs to develop a deeper connection with themselves and nature, while also preventing pregnancy or encouraging conception!

Ultimately, we explore why informed consent and access to CHOICES that suit your needs are the most important at the end of the day.  You know what's best for yourself, your body, and your life, and learning how to track your cycle is an incredible tool to empower you with greater self-knowledge, body literacy, and autonomy.

As always, remember, our bodies are a direct reflection of the ecosystems we inhabit, and just like this earth, our bodies know how to heal.

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Veronica Ricksen, certified Fertility Awareness Educator and Registered Herbalist, is a mentor who teaches women to chart their fertility signs for natural contraception, conception, and more! Veronica has a private practice named Kapu, LLC, and her 2nd edition of Menstrual Calendar Journal: Go with the Flow is scheduled to release Spring 2024.

Get your copy of the journal here!

Find Veronica on:
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This episode is meant to be empowering and educational, but it is not medical advice. Please seek the support of your primary care provider or a qualified healthcare practitioner before making any changes.

As you navigate life with chronic health conditions, my goal is always to provide you with foundational tools to support you and help you feel your best. In addition to these educational episodes, working with clients 1:1 is one of the most powerful ways to initiate change - ensuring that you receive deeply personalized, compassionate, and inclusive care.

If you’re living with lyme disease or complex chronic illness and you feel ready to take your power back, begin healing, reconnect to yourself + nature, and find your *SHINE* again…

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Acknowledging that this podcast was recorded on the unceded land of the Kumeyaay (Iipai-Tipai-Diegueño) people, who have called this land home for 600 generations. This is now commonly called San Diego County in Southern California.