The Cyclical Doula™ Podcast
The Cyclical Doula™ Podcast is a space for honest conversations about cycles, body literacy, motherhood, and what it actually looks like to live in relationship with your body.
I’m Emma — your Cyclical Doula™. I’m a certified Fertility Awareness Educator in both the SymptoPro Method and Fertility Knowledge Collective Protoco, miscarriage doula, and mom of two. I teach women how to chart their fertility signs, understand their cycles, and rebuild trust with their bodies — and this podcast is where those teachings meet real life.
Some episodes are personal reflections on hormones, cycle shifts, charting practices, and the messy, tender realities of womanhood. But this podcast is also deeply rooted in conversation.
You’ll hear interviews with doulas, educators, clinicians, wellness practitioners, and women with lived experience — people working across fertility, birth, hormones, nervous system regulation, mental health, and motherhood. Together, we explore what’s working, what needs to change, and what women deserve to know about their bodies and their care.
These conversations are grounded and human, thoughtful dialogue about cycles, embodiment, informed choice, and learning to listen to what the body is communicating.
Whether you’re postpartum, trying to make sense of your chart, navigating hormonal changes, or simply tired of being told your body is too much, this space is for you.
Your body isn’t broken — it’s cyclical, communicative, and worthy of care.
Let’s talk about it together.
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Discover how chiropractic care affects women's health, particularly during pregnancy. Learn from Dr. Taylor Dempsey's insights on gentle techniques and holistic health.
38. Cyclisity: A Different Kind of Fertility App (And Why That Matters)
In this episode, I’m joined by Sabrina Nowicki, CEO and co-founder of the Cyclisity app and niece of Toni Weschler, author of Taking Charge of Your Fertility.
We dive into what fertility awareness actually is (and what it’s not), why most cycle tracking apps miss the mark, and how charting your cycle can become one of the most powerful tools for understanding your health.
This conversation goes beyond “trying to conceive” or “avoiding pregnancy.” We’re talking about body literacy, informed consent, and learning to interpret your own data instead of outsourcing it to an algorithm.
36. Learning to Breathe Again: Sobriety, Survival & Humor with Sarah Marie Shoulak
In this deeply honest and unexpectedly light conversation, I sit down with Sarah Shoulak—speaker, artist, and author of the memoir Dead Serious: How Death Made Me Laugh at Life. Sarah shares her story of choosing sobriety at 27, navigating toxic environments, and learning how to feel again after years of numbing.
35. The Rebellion That Changed Her Life: Kourtney Rider on Cycles, Fertility & Finding Answers
In this episode, I sit down with reproductive health educator and fertility awareness teacher Kourtney Rider for a deeply honest conversation about what happens when you finally start listening to your body.
Kourtney shares her journey through anovulatory PCOS, infertility, birth control use, and the long process of learning what was actually happening inside her cycle. What unfolds is a story about unlearning, rebuilding trust in the body, and stepping into fertility awareness education from lived experience.