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- Bekah: I get so many people who come to me and they're like, this app told me that I ovulated, or this app is predicting when I'm gonna ovulate. And I'm just like, my gosh, I try not to roll my eyes because I'm like, no, please do not rely on an app to know if you ovulated or not. Bekah Yawn: Hey sister, welcome to For the Love of Hormones. Have you been trying to get pregnant and are struggling to trust God's timing? Has a miscarriage made you question if you can carry a healthy pregnancy? Hey, I'm Becca. I'm a wife, stay-at-home mom, and daughter of God. I have four children here on earth and three babies in heaven. After our third miscarriage, I left the doctor's office feeling hopeless and really helpless. Until God revealed what I was missing, understanding my cycle and his design and how to support it naturally. Since my healing journey, God has blessed us with two more healthy daughters. In this podcast, you will find answers to your hormone, cycle, and holistic health questions so that you can get pregnant naturally with God and the driver's seat. So for the love of hormones, put that pregnancy test stick down because it's time for a come to Jesus in hormones meeting. Bekah: Angela, thank you so much for your review. Sister, you have been such a joy to work with over the years and supporting you your fertility journey. So thank you for allowing me the honor. I'm also going to read a review. I don't know who what the name is of this one. It's not listed, but she said, blessings in the hurt. My dad passed away earlier this year, and then I had a miscarriage two months ago. This podcast has blessed me in many ways. doing what I can to ensure this doesn't happen again, helping me trust in the Lord with things completely out of my control. All the fertility help has greatly impacted me already. I love this podcast and Becca. So whoever you are, I'm so sorry for all of the great pains that you have endured with your dad and then with losing your child. I'm so sorry. And I'm so thankful that this podcast has been an encouragement to you. So thank you for your review. If you have not left a review yet, I would love to see what you think about the show and I would love to read it and connect with you in that way. reading your reviews for me encourages me, but more importantly, it helps others to see this podcast. And so if you've gotten any encouragement out of it, I just ask of you that quick favor to leave a review. if you have already left a review, thank you so much. And hey, if you wouldn't mind sharing this. Episode or sharing the podcast with a friend via a text message that would also just bless me greatly and it could bless someone else in a great way as well. So before we get into today's episode, are you ovulating? Here's how to know. I have to just share that there's a free resource for you that is very connected to today's episode. It is a hormone quiz. So obviously, our hormones are very connected to our ovulation. So Go to beccayawn.com slash quiz and take that quiz and see if it tells you if your hormones might be off, which ones might be off, or if not, like it says your hormones are totally healthy. Obviously, this is not diagnostic, but it can give you a really good indicator as to what your hormones are doing and that 1 million percent impacts ovulation, as you're gonna hear more today. But first, let's ground ourselves spiritually. Before we get into today's episode, because this is a very physical episode. It's very physiologically based. And so it's important that we kind of ground our spirits and our hearts in the word of the Lord before we get into all of the fun, nerdy fertility science that we are graced with today from God. So we are going to read Matthew 6, verses 25 through 34. I've really been enjoying reading some longer passages lately. obviously the the the verse that I thought of for this episode was Matthew 6 33. We highlighted on that a little bit in last week's episode. but I wanted to just give more of the context in this passage, just to help you know how much the Lord sees you and how much the Lord cares for you and how he cares for all of the details of your life. And How he asked us not to worry about it. So, so let's get in. Let's dive in. Matthew 6, verses 25 through 34. This is Jesus talking to you. Therefore, I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the year. They neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you, by being anxious, can add a single hour to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They neither toil nor spin. Yet I tell you, Even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you? O you of little faith. Therefore do not be anxious, saying, What shall we eat or what shall we drink? Or what shall we wear? For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. Therefore, do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for this day is its own trouble. Lord, we thank you for your word. We thank you for the powerful reminder of just letting you take control and reminding us to let go. To let go of these worries and deep concerns and some anxiousness tied in with that to our bodies, connected to our bodies and connected to desiring a baby and wondering, you know, if is this what I'm eating impacting me, getting pregnant, or is what I'm drinking impacting me, or is what I'm putting on impacting me? God, you're you're asking us to let all that go. You're asking us to seek you first And that is the way that you are asking us to go. And so I pray for my sister in Christ. Bless her with today's message. Speak through me, Holy Spirit. In Jesus' name. Amen. All right. So now that we're spiritually grounded, I am going to go into some fun, nerdy fertility physiology here. So when it comes to ovulation, obviously the reminder is God has given us an incredible gift of knowledge very recently. It was in about the nineteen fifties that God graced some scientists who who loved him with this incredible knowledge of the woman's physiological, hormonal, and ovulatory cycle. So we are so graced. Like it's just been within this these last 75 years of all of Earth's history that. we get to know about more so of how God created us fearfully and wonderfully. And we can learn about these incredible gifts of knowledge through courses or through some kind of instructor like myself, who teaches these beautiful things called fertility awareness methods. They can also be called natural family planning. and so I am certified in one of these methods. There's several of them out there. Okay. There's like six to eight different fertility awareness methods, but they're all based on the same science that God revealed to these scientists back in the 1950s. it was a response to legalized prescriptive birth control. And it was the Catholic Church who was like, we gotta figure something else out because we We do not approve of this prescriptive birth control. We we want to find a different way. And so God revealed to them this beautiful science of hormones and ovulation, basal body temperatures, all of these incredible things that happen around ovulation and helping us to understand when a woman is fertile and when a woman is not fertile in a regular manner. And of course, the science has increased and the studies have continued over these. the span of 75 years, and we know so much more now even than we did 75 years ago. but all of the fertility awareness methods, they're based on that same science. Studying cervical mucus, basal body temperatures, ovulatory pain called middle schmerz, studying different cycle phase lengths, identifying what are the different cycle phases, what are they called, what does it mean about your ovulation and your hormones, studying the impacts of progesterone, And this particular hormone on the impacts of conception health and when a baby is present and how that progesterone hormone supports the life of the baby. it's really incredible. It's it's absolutely incredible. So I'm certified through one of these methods. It's one of the newer methods, and the goal behind this one is to just make charting, which is where we learn this science. And we apply it to our lives and we learn what it is, like how to chart these different things that I have mentioned, like that whole list that I just gave you. It's how it's how you learn what it is and how do you observe that in your own body? And how do you write it down on paper or put it down in an app? And then how do you observe that and interpret it to understand what your body specifically is doing in regards to ovulation and its hormones? So I'm certified through FEM. It stands for fertility education and medical management. And this fertility awareness method does a great amount of focus on educating the woman in depth about all of these things and what they mean. The PowerPoint slides are really cool and you learn so much from it. The FEM method has three education sessions, and they typically last for an hour and a half to two hours each. So they're pretty in-depth, and they have. Charting exercises and practices. So you practice charting, you practice interpreting what a chart means. And it's just it's really beautiful how much you can learn. And that is that is the way that you can understand more of mi ovulating. You have to take one of these courses or work with an instructor of a fertility awareness method. To really, really be able to know. And with that caveat, we can never 100% know if we ovulated. The only way to 100% know is by getting an ultrasound, like pretty much the day after ovulation, to see if we can observe the follicle that has ruptured in ovulation. but with learning all of those different biomarkers that I mentioned, the survey. Mucus, basal body temperature, middle schmerz, cycle phase lengths, hormone levels by observing all of those things from the comfort of your home, from the knowledge of your brain that you would learn from through these methods, you can get a pretty good idea of if you ovulated for sure without having to go get an ultrasound. And it's very, very empowering as a woman to know what your body is doing and when your body is doing it, how to live in that. And how to time intercourse with it, honestly, especially if your goal is to get pregnant. If your goal is to get pregnant, yeah, girl, you want to know when your body is approaching ovulation and when to time sex. It's very important. so that is that is how to know if you're ovulating. It's to learn through an education-based program or course, one of those fertility awareness methods that goes in depth into all of those things. that I have mentioned. there's even other things that you can learn to to identify where your body is at. in the FEM method that I teach, you know, we focus mainly on cervical mucus. We focus on one of the hormone tests called LH, the luteinizing hormone. So we keep it really basic in FEM just so that it's very accessible and easily understandable. But inside of my program fertility framework, it's it's geared for those who are trying to get pregnant. And so I do definitely bougie it up and I teach you even more than what FEM teaches you about your cycle, about your hormones, about your biomarkers, and just to empower you to give you as much data and information as you want to be able to chart and be able to put into this storybook of what your body is doing and how you can support it naturally. So you guys can go check out that program and check out that course at beckayon.com slash course. Currently I am doing some revisions and some really cool updates. so you'll want to join the wait list and it's going to reopen this fall. so get on that wait list, go to becca yawn.com slash course. It won't be too long. you will definitely be able to get the information pretty quickly and get that education and support. So that way you are the brain behind your body. because here's here's my problem. All right. I get so many people who come to me and they're like, this app told me that I ovulated, or this app is predicting when I'm gonna ovulate. And I'm just like, my gosh, I try not to roll my eyes because I'm like, no, please do not rely on an app to to know if you ovulated or not. These apps and these algorithms and even these fertility tracking devices, oftentimes they're not accurate. Okay. You have to take some kind of program, get some kind of education through one of these fertility awareness methods is based off of that science that was revealed to those scientists in the 1950s. You've got to get thorough education in that. it's it's seriously like learning a language. And you wouldn't expect to just think that you could go speak fluent Chinese because an app told you what to say. in the same way, you can't expect that the app knows what your body is doing. It just doesn't. It doesn't. There are so many things that go into understanding your hormonal patterns and your ovulation. the apps are not gonna cut it. and they can be, they can bring great confusion. And great frustration because they're they're just not going to be accurate and it's going to be really frustrating and annoying. I could tell so many stories about that one, but I will spare you. and I just challenge you to sign up on my wait list or go find someone else. I don't care. I mean, I would love to serve you. that would bring me great delight and joy, but ultimately, like this knowledge is a gift from the Lord. So find it and learn it and apply it. because it's a huge blessing to your life and to your fertility story and your fertility journey. even to any future daughters the Lord would give you, like you you gotta know this stuff. Okay. Unfortunately, it was not taught to us in you know growing up and it's time for us to learn it. So go to Becky On.com slash course, get on my wait list, and you will be the first to hear about when fertility framework is reopened. let me pray over you. Lord Jesus, we just come before you. We thank you so much for the incredible ways that you have designed our female womanly bodies and how unique it is, how incredible it is, how maternal it is. Even if we have not yet conceived, Lord, we praise you for the maternal gifts that you have given to all of us to bless your kingdom. And Lord Jesus, I just speak over this gift of ovulation that you have given to us. And I know my sister listening. She might be having some struggles with this gift and it might be broken right now. So Lord, I just pray that you would guide her into wisdom, guide her into knowledge, guide her into understanding, and guide her into next steps for what she can do to support her body ultimately, Lord, for her spiritual surrender in this process to you and in this journey. I pray for healing and restoration over her, Lord, and that you would give her and her husband the precious gift of life to further and expand your kingdom. We pray all these things in your holy name. Amen.