Staying Grounded During the Fertility and Pregnancy Journey: Tips and Techniques
Have you ever wanted it meant to be grounded? Are you trying to conceive or are you pregnant? The need to ground is very real.
In this episode, Carolina will take you through exact methods on how to get aligned, how to ground, and never be off centered again. These methods can be applied to your daily life, such as going outside, moving your body, or family time.
Being grounded in pregnancy and fertility is essential to achieve our goals and connect to baby. Carolina will share the benefits of how being grounded and how it will change your healing journey. This episode is for any person trying to conceive or currently pregnant!
What you’ll learn:
02:26 What does being grounded means?
03:45 What happens when you are anxious
04:00 How does it feel like to be grounded?
04:17 Feeling grounded
10:06 Why would being grounded help with your fertility
13:42 What is womb breath?
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The Carolina Sotomayor Podcast is brought to you by Carolina Sotomayor and the Fertility Foundation.
Carolina Sotomayor is an Expert Womb Healer who helps women conceive by removing physiological blockages with Reiki. She is the host of the Carolina Sotomayor Podcast, a show that covers everything from fertility to postpartum to motherhood, and the creator of Fertility Foundation Collective, an online membership that helps women heal at their own pace to boost their fertility.
Carolina has served over 500 women from around the world to heal. She is passionate about helping women create their families. As a result, there are over 60 reiki babies in the world.
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Full episode transcript:
Now is the perfect time to remove all blockages from your body with Reiki. That’s why I have created the Fertility Foundation Collective. We now have over 60 Reiki babies. To join, go to carolina soor.com.
Hi, I’m Carolina, your podcast host an expert wound. Over the past five years, I’ve served over 500 women to remove physical blockages in their bodies. We achieve this with Reiki. I believe healing doesn’t have to be done alone, nor should I be. We will hear stories of healing methods to heal with and guest speakers covering taboo topics you won’t hear anywhere else.
Let’s continue this journey of wound healing together. Hi, I am Caroline, your wiki master and womb healer, and welcome back to the podcast. This episode is sponsored by the Fertility Foundation Collective Membership, and that is our monthly membership that helps women have access to high quality. And fantastic Rey healing and to allow yourself to heal at your own pace.
And we have monthly zoom meetings where you get live healing Oracle card pulls and all of that wonderful natural boost with Reiki to help you conceive and allows you to be part of a community that’s unlike anything else on the internet. And we’ll carry you through from trying to conceive all the way through your pregnancy, birth, and postpartum.
So let’s dive in. We are doing an episode about being grounded and what does staying grounded mean during your fertility and pregnancy journey, and what techniques can actually be done. We already know fertility is hard enough. We already know pregnancy is hard enough, and if you’ve been trying to conceive for a while, And then you finally get pregnant.
Often not. You might have fertility trauma that might be contributing to a very anxious pregnancy. Hopefully that doesn’t happen to you. But with a lot of my clients, after they spend a year trying to conceive, then they’re pregnant, and then there’s this anxiety and there’s stress. What’s gonna happen next?
What does that movement mean? What does this pain mean? Why do I feel this way? What. with sensation mean, so a lot of their energy is in their chest and their crown in exiting their body with stress with. Racing thoughts, overactive thoughts. So how do they get grounded and what does it mean to be grounded?
So let’s start with the definition of being grounded. Really just meaning being grounded means to feel collected and to put all of the energy back into your physical body. So if you could imagine. You had all of this energy in your body and your crown truck is at the top of your head. So imagine that you are having an anxious moment.
All of your energy that’s in your body, kind of like think of it as racing lights, all of it’s gonna shoot up out of your head. Because that’s where the most activity is happening in your body. It’s your mind is the most active thing. So all of your energy is going to leave and be in that chakra area. So that means there’s.
Too much activity in one part of your body and none enough in your feet, your legs, your pelvis, your core, your chest, your arms, and your fingers in your neck. So like there’s too much in one area and none at the bottom. So it’s very top heavy energy and none enough. And the lower half, therefore you have.
And out of body experience. You might go down a road and you’re like, how did I get here? What did I come down to the kitchen for? Or why did I end up here? So it’s very common occurrences when you’re anxious or preoccupied and you have too much energy that’s in your head and you’re crown chakra to not know why you ended up somewhere.
So you are not grounded. To be grounded means to collect all of that energy and put it back in your. So that means other words that could be used, foregrounded are centered, aligned at home in my body, , I’ve heard a client say, I feel at home in my body. So feeling grounded just means to have an increased calmness in your mind, your body, and your physical self.
At the same moment. So how does one get grounded? That’s probably the next question. Ways to get grounded are to move your body, exercise, walking, but the number one way is to get outside to connect with nature if you can. Barefoot is best. And they say for at least 15 to 20 minutes, put your feet in the grass.
Get your hands in the dirt gardeners, and getting their hands in the dirt and touching the plants. That’s gonna be really magical for their being that’s gonna effortlessly ground them. My second number one tip to get grounded is to get reiki. Either give it to yourself if you’re attuned to Reiki, or get a Reiki session, or listen to a Reiki guided meditation.
Reiki will collect all of your energy and then put it back where it’s supposed to, so you’re balanced in all of your energies in one place in your body where it’s supposed to be. The next one is, Do breath work. Breath work will slow down that racing mind and move the energy through. And usually if you’re doing breath work, you might be listening to some guidance.
There’s a lot of breathwork meditations on YouTube. Fantastic. And breathwork techniques vary. So if you’re pregnant, make sure you are doing safe breath work because not all breath work is safe for you during p. , you can listen to solo music or frequency music or rainforest music. You can also change your routine.
So in that case is like groundedness can come from destruction, meaning for example, if you’re anxious about something, you can then go ahead and change a routine, meaning like you might implement a new habit that’s gonna require effort. So it’s actually distracting you a little bit and you’re putting your effort into something and you can become obsessed with that for a second.
A second one is clean. Your home cleaning is a very grounding activity. Sometimes we can feel anxious and our environment can contribute to anxious feelings if it’s cluttered. So decluttering or purging of clutter in your home can be very grounding experience. Because you are taking control of something.
And control sometimes is a very common thing to make people feel grounded. Control is an illusion, but some things you do have control over, like control over completely ever every aspect of your life. No, that’s an illusion. , but can you contribute and control how much extra clothes you have or get rid of the shoes that you’re not gonna wear this season that are torn up?
Or, in our case, I had to throw away so many old clothes that just no longer fit or were tattered. That was really great to see that everything was organized and I had space. The next thing. My favorite of all besides getting reiki, this may not be for everyone, but for me is spend time with the people who really see my soul.
My number one favorite thing besides my husband and my son, but there’s a woman named Rosa and she’s my second mom, and she used to be my boss when I worked in Miami at this pharmaceutical company, and. She . Even when I worked for her, people said, Rina is Rosa’s baby. This woman I have such a connection with, she and I are so close, and when she says something, I listen.
My mom may say something and I question it, and I’m like, uh, I’ll think about it. But if Rosa says something, I’ll do it. This woman sees me, sees my soul. She sees. All the things that I am, all the things I was seizes, the things I’ve created, and the way that she loves me and the way that she embraces me, grounds me in ways I can even describe, you know, I don’t have the easiest of upbringings, but I imagine that’s what must feel like to have a very unconditional, loving.
Maternal relationship, rose says my second mom. It’s a choice. It’s a choice that she and I have this deep relationship, but the groundedness that I feel of being unconditionally loved by her is so special because I haven’t found it often in my life. So that is also a very grounding experience. And when I get to spend time with her, usually it’s just once a.
I savor those moments. So spending time with people who are really gonna see you and really love on you and really hold space for you, come as you are and I will take care of the rest. That’s really special. And I think those people are really rare, but she’s one of those people for me, so, and I didn’t realize that until my husband pointed it out.
He goes, when you spend time with Rosa, Boy does it ground your whole being. The way that you light up your eyes, your skin, you glow. It is a beautiful experience to watch. You told me and I was like, that’s one of the most beautiful things anyone has ever said to me. So now why would you want a ground?
Like why would this make a difference in your fertility, your pregnancy journey? Great question. When you’re grounded, you’re gonna make different. Decisions than if you were not grounded. So when you’re grounded, you are essentially whole. All parts of you are in your physical body. All parts of you are collected.
And think of it as if you were to eat a full meal, have had a full night’s rest. Had a cup of coffee, that feeling like you were all taken care of and you were to make a big decision if you were grounded like that, and so well taken care of versus you were anxious and nervous and you had to make the same decision, guarantee you, you, you’ll not be making the same, you would not be making decisions from the same place.
The perspective. Are very different. When you’re grounded, you have the ability to have a higher vibration, therefore a higher consciousness, and see things from different angles. You can see things from different. Perspectives and evaluate pros and cons. This feels good. I trust my body. So where does my body feel good?
When I think of this perspective and this option? Maybe you’ll see this option when you’re grounded versus if you weren’t. So why does it matter that you’re grounded? So if you’re making decisions in your fertility, if you’re making decisions in your pregnancy, It can make a big difference on how you handle situations.
It can make a big difference in the choices that you make. Instead of making decisions out of fear, you’re making them grounded with confidence, and you have the potential to move forward with empowerment and make sometimes very stressful situations very, very powerful for you, very transformative for you, and I’m always going to push.
and ask, is this a positive experience? Is this empowering? Or are we making decisions with confidence? Or are we making decisions out of fear? Because a lot of decisions have to be made, especially if you’re doing fertility and you have fertility treatments. You know, if you have infertility. This is not just, oh yeah, we’re having sex and we’re gonna get pregnant on the first try.
This is not that. So there’s a lot of decisions and a lot of things to be consider. and things that are only that you can decide. So if you can come up with a grounding ritual or practice that you have established, and I would come up with at least three and those practices should be different. I have one that I have a track of angel music I listen to on YouTube.
I can play that anywhere. I can listen to that in my headphones anywhere. I can’t always go barefoot in my backyard. It’s Nebraska. I live in Nebraska, so that means in the middle of the country. It’s cold half the year, so I can’t go barefoot. I also don’t have dirt in my house, so I can’t go digging around in the dirt.
And also not a gardener. And I live in an hoa, so I don’t, I don’t exactly have a garden. So in this case, I will listen to solo music, angel music on YouTube. I also like to listen to rainforest music. . I will also give myself reiki, cuz I’m Reiki attuned, of course, and I also will do womb breaths. So if you’ve ever part of been any of my reiki circles or have done Reiki with me, we will do what’s called womb breaths.
And womb breaths are where we breathe in through our nose. We go over overhead, down our spine into our wounds. We hold it for a certain count and then exhale through amounts. And we do that through different counts and hold it for different lengths of. To have different effects on the body, and that’s a very grounding exercise as well.
So breath work is really great. It’s the mobile breath is free. YouTube free reiki if you know how to do it. Amazing. YouTube. You can go on my YouTube. and there’s Reiki on there that’s free. So I just like, depending on the situation, I’m not always home. And if I am on the go, I want something that’s portable with me.
I think if you’re in the doctor’s office and you’re waiting to get an i u i, I think it’s great to have a meditation you can listen to or a favorite track. We offer that in the Fertility Foundation collective. We have specific meditations. For every situation through IUI and I V F. The two week wait, during, we had a client and she requested a meditation for when she’s going to get inseminated.
She wants to listen to Reiki meditation, so I wrote her one. You recorded it. When you’re pregnant, it’s so much, your body’s changing. You’re preparing for birth, you’re planning your postpartum. Hopefully you’re connecting to baby. You’re buying things, you’re going to doctor’s appointments, you’re navigating.
This new part of your relationship with your partner with that being grounded will also allow you to move those through those situations with more calmness. I think that calmness is the greatest asset you can ever have is a skill. I’m definitely not a calm person all the time, but during pregnancy, I think if you can.
Have a grounding practice that will allow you to move through all of those transitions, because that’s essentially all they are is transitions and decision making with calmness. So you can observe process and then make a decision to let anyone rush you if you have to make a decision. Don’t let anyone push you around if you.
DM me. We can have conversations, but that’s what being grounded can do for you is it can allow you to move through things feeling like very like. In control. Very empowered and very powerful. If you are moving through your pregnancy, anxious and fearful and hopeless, we need to talk. There is definitely things we can do to shift it.
You have to be open to wanting to shift your energy. Some people don’t wanna heal, and some people are fine with that, or they don’t know that. Life doesn’t have to be that way, but it all starts with what you want. So just to recap, grounded just means to collect your energy and your physical. It just means to put it all back in.
If you’re anxious and nervous and ungrounded, you’re gonna feel like you don’t know how you got somewhere and you’re gonna feel out of control versus like feeling grounded. Well being like you’ll feel complete. You feel whole, you feel serene and calm. You can make decisions better if you’re ground. You are also going to have better health if you’re grounded.
Also, you’ll be able to make better decisions and feel and see things at different perspectives when you’re grounded versus if you’re not, fertility and pregnancy are hard enough. You shouldn’t have to make it harder by being ungrounded, and the most popular ways to get grounded are to move your. Get outside, get reiki.
Do breath work. Listen to frequency music. Change your routine, clean your home. Purge clutter. Or spend time with people who really see you. Until next time, my friends know that you’re loved and you know that I am rooting for you. It was an honor to connect and serve you this week. If you were a spiritually curious person wanting to conceive, inhale blockages in your fertility, click the link in the episode description to learn more about the Fertility Foundation collective.
Until next time, my friend, know your love.
