The Holistic Health And Hormones Podcast
Jun 28, 2026 · 48 min · 12 segments
Miscarriage and infertility are more than medical experiences—they can profoundly affect a woman's identity, relationships, mental health, and sense of hope. Yet too often, these experiences are…
Kayla BranstetterGuest
Eli HuangHost
What did you find some of the common themes were like amongst all the women that you interviewed?
I felt like Even if they were upper middle class or poverty, just the lack of resources and lack of education, that seemed to be universal.
It wasn't, it was a, I interviewed a woman who from New York City, Upper East Side, worked in the fashion industry and her ex-husband was addicted to painkillers.
So that idea of like addiction and domestic violence, financial abuse was, fairly universal in this idea of gaslighting ourselves.
I had women, again, well-educated upper middle class who chose to formula feed.
I get that because I chose to formula feed and just that feeling like a failure as a mom because you chose not to breastfeed your child and you went to formula.
Sexual assault was pretty common across the board, regardless of what a woman's socioeconomic or education background was.
I mean, from an energetic perspective, because obviously as a natural health practitioner myself of over 15 years, I see common themes of people going through a lot of that.
But for one thing, it's like if your body is not feeling safe and, you know, you come from a background, even if you had inner child wounds, like you went through a lot with your mother, going through a lot growing up and you've done well educationally.
Having a baby is not like it looks all fine on paper, but there is so much more to bringing a life into this world.
Like for me, I'm always teaching about not only the physical, but the mental, emotional, spiritual and energetics is actually much more important when it comes to having a baby, making sure you're feeling safe, that, you know, both couples, like both you and your partner on the same thought, the same wavelength, you know, you're supporting each other.
The woman is doing a lot of it and they're not having a supportive partner in a lot of cases.
And I know so many women felt dismissed of their concerns or they didn't feel heard with their traumas.
And I think that was universal as well, wanting to make sure that they were feeling heard, feeling safe, feeling safe.
It's such a lonely journey too, I think for many, because even though they can't speak to their partners about it, you know, they don't want to burden friends and family and parents and all sorts of things.
So when they go through things like miscarriage, they feel very alone in all of that.
What did you find some of the common themes were like amongst all the women that you interviewed?
I felt like Even if they were upper middle class or poverty, just the lack of resources and lack of education, that seemed to be universal.
It wasn't, it was a, I interviewed a woman who from New York City, Upper East Side, worked in the fashion industry and her ex-husband was addicted to painkillers.
So that idea of like addiction and domestic violence, financial abuse was, fairly universal in this idea of gaslighting ourselves.
I had women, again, well-educated upper middle class who chose to formula feed.
I get that because I chose to formula feed and just that feeling like a failure as a mom because you chose not to breastfeed your child and you went to formula.
Sexual assault was pretty common across the board, regardless of what a woman's socioeconomic or education background was.
I mean, from an energetic perspective, because obviously as a natural health practitioner myself of over 15 years, I see common themes of people going through a lot of that.
But for one thing, it's like if your body is not feeling safe and, you know, you come from a background, even if you had inner child wounds, like you went through a lot with your mother, going through a lot growing up and you've done well educationally.
Having a baby is not like it looks all fine on paper, but there is so much more to bringing a life into this world.
Like for me, I'm always teaching about not only the physical, but the mental, emotional, spiritual and energetics is actually much more important when it comes to having a baby, making sure you're feeling safe, that, you know, both couples, like both you and your partner on the same thought, the same wavelength, you know, you're supporting each other.
The woman is doing a lot of it and they're not having a supportive partner in a lot of cases.
And I know so many women felt dismissed of their concerns or they didn't feel heard with their traumas.
And I think that was universal as well, wanting to make sure that they were feeling heard, feeling safe, feeling safe.
It's such a lonely journey too, I think for many, because even though they can't speak to their partners about it, you know, they don't want to burden friends and family and parents and all sorts of things.
So when they go through things like miscarriage, they feel very alone in all of that.
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