The Rooted Business Podcast

54. SOMATIC HEALING: Empowered Choices about Birth Control with Women’s Health Coach Rachel Root

August 19, 2021 Kat Lee Episode 54
The Rooted Business Podcast
54. SOMATIC HEALING: Empowered Choices about Birth Control with Women’s Health Coach Rachel Root
Show Notes

One of the core values of The Empowered Curiosity Community is sovereignty over our bodies. 


We cannot have body sovereignty without understanding what is actually going on with our bodies and I’ve been witnessing the non-consensual culture of how we recommend birth control to women since I became a health care practitioner over a decade ago. 


This is why I wanted to have a conversation with Rachel Root who is an integrative women’s health coach, acupuncturist and herbalist. We talk about how to make empowered choices for yourself and your fertility health. This happens through education, not prescription.


What You’ll Learn: 

  • How your cycle can be your monthly report card of health so you can understand why...
    • Your cycle is long or short?
    • Your menstrual blood is dark or light?
    • You are extremely tired after your menses?
    • You struggle with PMS or PMDD before your menses
  • The physiology and energetics of the different phases of your menstrual cycle 
  • How the womb holds onto trauma
  • The spiritual alchemy of the fertility journey 
  • Practical ways to track your fertile window
  • Your best synthetic birth control options


Listen to this episode if...

You are a menstruating person who wants to understand your cycle with the intention of getting off birth control or with the intention of staying on birth control in an empowered way 


Resources: 


Rachel Root is an acupuncturist, herbalist, integrative women’s health coach.
She works 1:1 with people helping them to overcome their fertility, hormone and menstrual cycle struggles.





Kat HoSoo Lee is a trauma-informed Spiritual Business Mentor and host of The Rooted Business Podcast. She uses the tools of somatic and emotional alchemy to guide soulful entrepreneurs to approach their business as a spiritual practice. This allows them to cultivate businesses that are rooted in conscious values, ethical marketing and purposeful service.

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