EP134: Fertility awareness, Cycle literacy & reclaiming trust with Guest Emma Goff
If you have ever felt the ceiling in your practice — or lived the gap in pregnancy loss support yourself — The Missing Piece is a free three day masterclass where we name what traditional grief support has been missing and build the framework bereaved mothers actually deserve.
Starts 1st June - Join HERE
What if your menstrual cycle had been trying to tell you something for years, and no one ever taught you how to listen?
In this episode, Sharna sits down with Emma Goff, certified fertility awareness educator, miscarriage doula, and host of the Cyclical Doula Podcast.
Emma works at the intersection of cycle literacy, body trust, and reproductive loss, and this conversation is one of the most practically empowering episodes we've recorded.
Emma shares her own journey into this work — including growing up as the child of a mother who experienced multiple pregnancy losses — and how that shaped the deeply attuned, cyclical support she now offers women navigating fertility, loss, and everything in between.
In this episode we cover:
- Why your menstrual cycle is a vital sign — and what it might be telling you about your reproductive health right now
- The impact of long-term hormonal birth control on ovulation and cycle health — and what "coming back online" actually looks like
- What to expect from your body after pregnancy loss (including the often-overlooked postpartum experience that follows every loss)
- How to begin tracking your cycle after loss using cervical fluid and basal body temperature — and why this can be profoundly empowering
- Why that first bleed after loss doesn't have to blindside you — and how cycle awareness can help you prepare emotionally and physically
- The fertility window, subsequent pregnancy anxiety, and trusting your body to show you when it's ready
- How Emma walks beside her clients through pregnancy, loss, and beyond — as a cyclical doula, not just a birth professional
- Using fertility awareness methods to avoid pregnancy after loss without returning to hormonal contraception
This episode is for every woman who was handed a pill and never once asked how her cycle actually worked. It's for the woman who felt something was wrong for years and was told she was fine. And it's for the woman standing on the other side of loss, wondering how to find her way back to her body.
Connect with Emma:
