Nourishing The Mother

In this episode, Julie sits down with Fertility Coach Liz Walton to redefine what fertility really means. Liz, founder of the Australian Fertility Summit, brings her own lived experience - ten years of “failed” IVF rounds, deep personal healing, and eventually conceiving her daughter naturally at 46 - to shine light on what so many women long for but rarely hear: that fertility isn’t just medical. It’s emotional, relational, spiritual, and deeply personal. Together, we explore how to hold women through infertility, loss, and longing with compassion, and what it really means to nourish the mother before she becomes one.In this episode we discuss:* Redefining fertility beyond doctors’ offices and treatments* What women truly need on this journey - body, mind, relationship, and self* Holding space for the woman, not just the patient* Emotional struggle, self-attack, and how mainstream care overlooks it* Surprising blocks to conception - emotional, and subconscious scars* Unexplained infertility and the hidden ro