Tending the Soil Before the Seed: How Somatic Therapy Supports Fertility
If you’ve ever planted a garden, you know that throwing seeds into rocky, depleted soil doesn’t exactly set you up for success. Healthy soil—rich, nourished, and tended—creates the best environment for new life to take root.
The same goes for fertility.
Your body isn’t just a machine with a calendar to follow—it’s an ecosystem. Your nervous system, your stress levels, and your overall sense of safety all impact whether your body feels like it’s the right time to conceive. And this is where somatic therapy can make all the difference.
The Fertile Ground of a Regulated Nervous System
When trying to conceive, it’s easy to focus only on the physical—tracking ovulation, adjusting nutrition, following all the right steps. But the state of your nervous system plays a major role in your body’s receptivity.
If your system is stuck in fight-or-flight (from stress, past trauma, or the pressure of TTC itself), your body may prioritize survival over reproduction. It’s not about “trying harder”—it’s about shifting your body into a state where it feels safe enough to conceive.
Somatic therapy helps by:
🌿 Calming the stress response – Moving out of chronic tension and into a state of ease.
🌿 Releasing held patterns – Unwinding old stress or trauma stored in the body.
🌿 Reconnecting with body’s wisdom – Learning to listen to what your body actually needs.
🌿 Cultivating receptivity – Creating the internal conditions where conception is more likely.
Breaking the “Just Relax” Myth
If you’ve ever been told, “Just relax, and it’ll happen,” you’ve likely wanted to throw a bag of organic compost at the person’s head. It’s not about ignoring the desire to conceive—it’s about supporting your nervous system so that your body feels safe to welcome new life.
Somatic therapy isn’t about forcing a specific outcome. It’s about tending to your inner soil, so no matter what season you’re in, you feel nourished, resilient, and deeply connected to yourself.
Ready to explore what this could look like for you? Let’s book a session and start tending the soil together. 🌱