Anisa Woodall, MS CN

11/08/2024

With so much noise out there about miscarriage and pregnancy loss, it can feel overwhelming to know what to do next. But there are steps you can take to support your body in preparing for a healthy pregnancy- whenever you’re ready.

Swipe through for simple yet powerful steps you can take after loss.

If you’re ready for a clear plan to support your body and improve your chances of getting and staying pregnant, join Resilient Motherhood where I’ll guide you through every step. Spots are limited for private coaching, so if you’re ready, comment “Resilient” and join to secure your spot today 💗

04/26/2024

This could be you!

📈Inside Resilient Motherhood I teach you how to chart your fertility signs so you can begin to understand:

👉🏼How to time conception properly
👉🏼How to confirm ovulation
👉🏼How to see if you’re producing enough progesterone to get you pregnant and keep you pregnant

🥘I teach you how to craft YOUR personalized nutrition protocol with considerations to the most important nutrients for fertility AND I teach you how to use your habits to serve your fertility, not harm it!

Just like Katherine, you too have the capacity to experience resilient fertility and a thriving pregnancy!

This is all yours for the taking! you’re ready to conceive without the overwhelm, join Resilient Motherhood today!

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12/08/2023

A newly-pregnant client of mine found me, like so many others, traumatized and frustrated from prior pregnancy and birth experiences, extremely motivated to flip the script for her new pregnancy.

Before her last pregnancy, she dove into popular health-trends: yo-yoing between keto (low carb) and pro metabolic (high carb) and, although she was finally able to conceive after 4 pregnancy losses during that time, she experienced Gestational Diabetes.

Feeling misinformed and fearful of food, she finally admitted that she needed personalized guidance to help her sift through the BS.

In our recent call, she recalled: "Following the keto diet left me fearing carbs- the fact that you're even suggesting I eat fruit or honey is stressing me out".

There are 3 takeaways I hope you gain from reading this story:

1. You don't have to feel restricted to experience a healthy pregnancy.

Eating carbs AND eating a baby-building diet CAN coexist. It may just look a little different for each woman.

2. Preconception Preparation is Prevention

When you focus on finding YOUR optimal preconception diet, it's far easier to maintain balanced blood sugar during pregnancy. By avoiding GD in the first place, you're less likely to develop GD in a subsequent pregnancy or T2 diabetes postpartum.

3. Having a guide on this journey can prevent so many traumatic experiences.

She told me, "In my prior pregnancies, I felt like I was trying to fly the plane as I was building the plane. I want to feel like I'm the pilot and I have an awesome co-pilot and that we're going to fly this plane together."

It pains me to listen to stories like this *knowing* I could have helped them prevent these outcomes. Let me be your co-pilot! Comment "Resilient" for my preconception coaching or "B&N" for pregnancy.

09/25/2023

Yoni Steaming: A Traditional Practice for Every Stage of Your Womb Continuum -

Dive into this enlightening podcast on yoni steaming with expert Kit Maloney. Learn about adjusting your practice for trying to conceive, fertility, postpartum healing, clearing uterine fibroids, period pain relief, and herb dosages for specific women wellness goals. Listen as Kit shares her journey

09/11/2023

When you sit down to eat, do you feel joy?

Do you look forward to eating or does it feel forced?

Do you feel good about the quality of your food?

Does your food feel nourishing?

Going into mealtime in a place of peace, calm and presence is not just a “nice to have”; it is a requirement for normal digestion.

The cephalic phase digestive response (CPDR) is a necessary precursor to facilitate normal digestive processes to occur such as stomach acid production, gut motility, nutrient absorption and more.

“Cephalo-“ is the root for head or brain. CPDR is a process that triggered as a result of seeing, smelling, tasting, and touching your food and joyfully anticipating eating it.

If you are eating the healthiest of foods or taking the very best supplements but you are stressed out or distracted at mealtimes or simply hate the food you’re eating, they may not serve you the way you’re hoping they will and you might just be pooping a bunch of money down the toilet.

When I look at a beautiful, nourishing meal plated on gorgeous ceramic dish ware- my sense of joy is immensely heightened compared to when it’s plated on ugly dishes.

Beauty matters in the eating experience too.

So this is permission to invest in a nice set of ceramic ware (made in Asheville, NC), I just picked these up at their seconds sale yesterday.

Other ways to enhance your eating experience:
You may also choose to
🕯️ light a beeswax candle
☀️open a window
🌲eat outside
📵put away your devices
🧎🏽‍♀️engage in a breath practice beforehand
🍴Or join your meal with a friend.

It’s not just WHAT you eat, it’s also HOW. If you are working to balance your hormones, optimize your fertility, experience a healthy pregnancy- then beginning with a healthy gut and optimized nutrient absorption is one of the best places to start.

Comment “checklist” to get my full 3-6 month preconception checklist for strategic steps you can take to prepare for your healthiest pregnancy possible.

09/10/2023

Have the risk factors to birth increased that much in the last 30+ years?​​​​​​​​
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To give you an idea of what a more accurate reflection of the true risk may be, I recall reading that in the book Ina May Gaskin’s Guide to Childbirth- that when she attended home births in the 70s with the other midwives on The Farm where they lived, their C-section rate was less than 2% (and that's even including a somewhat medically-attended home birth.​​​​​​​​
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Now of course there is risk with everything but the vast majority of things “going wrong” are because of medical intervention or a lack of preconception preparation in the first place.​​​​​​​​
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When a mother is sufficiently prepared for the sacred rite of passage that is motherhood- physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually- not only does she reduce the chances of putting herself in harms way, but she enhances her chances of gifting herself, her child, and her future grandchildren with fully-optimized imprinting at the cellular level of what it truly means to be human.​​​​​​​​
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If you want to learn:​​​​​​​​
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👉🏽Why the cultural norms you hear about surrounding pregnancy, birth and motherhood do not have to be YOUR story​​​​​​​​
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👉🏽What you should expect of your pregnancy, birth and postpartum experiences.​​​​​​​​
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👉🏽How I achieved my dream pregnancies and births​​​​​​​​
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👉🏽What’s *actually* important to focus on when you’re preparing for your birth​​​​​​​​
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👉🏽How you can approach your preconception period so you can enter into motherhood nourished and confident​​​​​​​​
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Then give my new episode, “Your First Pregnancy is Not a Trial Run” a listen. ​​​​​​​​
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Find it at the link in my bio- also linked in my stories for the next 24 hrs!

09/05/2023

As women, we have been conditioned – through media, medical influence and even through hearing disheartening birth stories – to believe that our entire motherhood journey is left to fate.
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Our culture has painted a bleak picture of pregnancy, insisting:
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that pregnancy is a miserable experience that justifies eating donuts on the couch for 9 months,
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that labor is excruciating and necessitates anesthetics,
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that postpartum depression is inevitable,
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and "as long as the baby is healthy" that's all that matters.
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However, a healthy baby should be the *bare minimum* expectation, and even that is not always guaranteed.
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Many second-time mothers seek to redeem their previous experience and avoid the same complications and trauma during their second pregnancy.
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SO many of the women I work with are drawn to my work (and are drawn to out-of-hospital birth) because they experienced challenges and complications in their prior pregnancy and birth experiences that led them to saying “I wish I did this the first time.”
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Don’t be that person wishing you prepared for pregnancy the first time. You deserve to have a *perfect* pregnancy, birth and postpartum experience the FIRST TIME.
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While it's important to prioritize the health of your second child, it's equally important to remember that your first child deserves the same level of resilient health.
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Prepare NOW. Don’t wait until you experience complicated pregnancies and birth traumas. The power is in your hands to gift yourself and your child resilient health through every stage of the most transformative journey of your life.
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It's time to break free from these societal norms and take back our power to take control of our motherhood experience. For more on what you can do to prepare for your first (or subsequent) pregnancy, listen to episode 9 of the “Your First Pregnancy is Not a Trial Run”

09/05/2023

Your First Pregnancy is Not a Trial Run -

Society often portrays pregnancy as a miserable experience and many believe that a healthy pregnancy and baby or a smooth birth are based on luck. However, you have more control over your outcomes than you may think. This episode provides insight into what you can *actually* expect during pregnancy,

08/22/2023

Navigating your PCOS Journey: From Diagnosis to Hormone Vitality and Motherhood -

Are you facing the aftermath of a PCOS diagnosis, feeling uncertain about your future? Discover how to break free from frustrating symptoms like facial hair growth, acne flare-ups, and long and irregular cycles. You deserve more than a dismissive response from your provider– you deserve empathy pa...

07/24/2023

Optimizing Preconception Health: The Impact of Male Fertility on Pregnancy and Future Generations -

Planning to start a family in the next 2 years? Don't miss this enlightening podcast episode on preconception health! Renowned fertility expert, Ayla Barmmer, shares insights and practical advice to optimize male fertility for a healthy pregnancy. Explore s***m quality, nutrition, lifestyle, and epi

07/13/2023

Do you feel like your sugar cravings, hanger low energy and cycle are out of control? What you eat in the morning can significantly shift the trajectory or your day!
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If you’re a grown woman looking to achieve hormone vitality 30g of protein is the bare minimum you need to be eating (for the average woman). Not sure what that looks like? Swipe through for some examples!
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If you're looking for a simple way to get big returns for your fertility with a small investment, I have something for you.
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My BLOOM: 28-Day Summer Meal Plan for Hormone Vitality is designed to help you FLOURISH alongside the blossoming season, while delivering tangible results like improved fertility signs, reduced period pain, and decreased PMS symptoms.
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The best part? Without the feeling of restriction that comes with other diets, this plan will guide you towards delectable seasonal foods that will nourish for fertility AND joy. If this resonates with you, this meal plan is the perfect fit!
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What's inside:
🌸 Four 7-day meal plans with shopping lists
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🌸 Fertility-supporting, Cycle-synced recipes specifically formulated for each phase of your menstrual cycle
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🌸 30-minutes or less for most meals
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🌸 The recipes are predominantly animal-based, meaning you'll find a variety of protein options from beef, to seafood, organ meats, dairy and eggs accompanied with seasonal produce, without sacrificing nutrition for flavor
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🌸 And of course, you'll find healthier treats woven throughout like brownie batter protein balls, Golden Follicular hot chocolate, blueberry yogurt bars, chocolate custard and more!
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This digital download is available immediately after purchase and is currently available for 25% through the end of JULY!
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Comment “BLOOM” below and I’ll send you the link to access yours today!

07/11/2023

So often as women we're asking the questions of "How can I get rid of period pain?" Or “How can I get more energy to live my busy lifestyle"?

Here’s the thing: sometimes the pain and the energy aren’t the acutal problems.

The problem is the box that you're trying to fit yourself into.

Perhaps your body wasn't made to go go go all day long every single day!

Men thrive with the natural 24 hour circadian rhythm, in a healthy man, his testosterone surges in the morning and he's ready to get after it and achieve his goals for the day.

As women, our natural rhythm is the 29-day infradian rhythm, the moon cycle. We shouldn't expect ourselves to wake up EVERY SINGLE morning wanting to "get after it" like our men do.

When you stop expecting your body to perform like a man’s and start to appreciate the strengths in living aligned with your feminine nature, you will find that your hormone symptoms will begin to subside! And that doesn’t mean stop striving for better energy, when you begin to live in alignment with the needs of your cycle and begin to optimize your hormone balance, your energy will SURGE especially in your ovulatory period for a solid 2 weeks out of your cycle.

So it’s not that you’re “less productive” it’s that you require rest and recovery IN ORDER to facilitate that manifestation of productivity and creativity.

Now I'm not saying diet, exercise, stress, digestive capacity, inflammation and toxic burden don't have anything to do with it, but in my experience, this lifestyle shift of “go-go-going” then intentionally S L O W I N G D O W N is a CRITICAL milestone on the journey to achieving optimal hormone balance and elimination of hormone symptoms.

Curious to hear more on this topic?

Check out the latest episode of my ,
Small Steps for Better Periods: Honoring the Needs of Your Cycle in the Modern World for even more tips on navigating your fertility journey in today’s world!