Join the free Receive & Conceive Challenge here: https://carolinasotomayor.com/receiveandconceive What if your womb is not blocked because something is “wrong” with you… but because you no longer feel emotionally safe enough to receive? In this episode of the Make A Baby Podcast, Carolina Sotomayor shares one of the biggest reasons women struggle to get pregnant after trying everything from IVF to supplements to endless tracking. If you feel exhausted, emotionally shut down, stuck in surv...
May 14
5 min
Are the beliefs you were handed as a child quietly running your life — and blocking your fertility? Most women trying to conceive never think to look at their inherited religious beliefs as a source of womb blocks. But if you've been taught to make yourself small, submit to others, and never ask why — your nervous system and your womb are listening. If you're healing your womb but skipping your belief system, you may be missing the deepest root of all. BY THE TIME YOU FINISH LISTENING, YOU'LL...
Apr 17
45 min
Are you doing everything right on your fertility journey but completely overlooking what's on your plate? Most women trying to conceive focus on tracking, treatments, and tests — but never get real guidance on how food directly impacts their egg quality, hormones, and chances of implantation. And the advice they do get? Just "take a prenatal." Jillian Beck-Rogers is a certified fertility nutrition and wellness coach who combines lived experience with science-based strategy to help women take ...
Apr 10
40 min
From Midwife to Witch: How Eileen March Reclaimed Her Power Through Cyclical Living and Celtic Roots
Are you feeling the pull toward something more — but too afraid to call yourself a witch? Many women sense that their healing gifts, their intuition, and their connection to nature are something powerful — but years of cultural conditioning have taught them to shrink from it, hide it, or call it something safer. Eileen March was a midwife for over a decade before burnout sent her searching for a different path. What she found was a calling she'd carried her whole life — energy healing, cyclic...
Apr 3
42 min
Are you going through IVF without truly understanding what's happening to your embryos behind that lab door? Most women pour everything into IVF but are never told what the embryologist is actually doing — so every phone call from the clinic feels devastating instead of expected. Victoria Wigley is an embryologist with nearly 18 years of experience who now consults directly with patients to bridge the gap between the lab and the treatment room. BY THE TIME YOU FINISH LISTENING, YOU'LL LEARN: ...
Mar 27
48 min
What if your diagnosis doesn't have to be your destiny? You may be accepting a frightening label as a final answer when your womb already knows the way back to wholeness. Holly Lamb was diagnosed with early menopause at 35, ditched the HRT that made her feel numb, and healed herself through womb work and cyclical living. Now she helps women clear what's energetically blocking their wombs and finally feel safe enough to receive their baby. BY THE TIME YOU FINISH LISTENING, YOU'LL DISCOVER: How...
Mar 20
49 min
Are you doing everything "right" on your fertility journey and still feeling like something is missing? Too many women trying to conceive are unknowingly working against their bodies, taking the wrong supplements, obsessing over fertility trackers, and ignoring the one thing that predicts everything: their energy. The medical system was never designed to give you the full picture, and no one has ever looked at all of you. In this episode, Carolina sits down with Kirsten Karchmer...
Mar 13
45 min
Could the emotional patterns from your childhood be the hidden reason you're struggling to conceive? So many women on their fertility journey are doing everything "right" — the tests, the supplements, the tracking — yet still feel stuck. What they don't realize is that unhealed emotional wounds, especially patterns of abandonment and neglect from childhood, may be quietly keeping their womb closed. When your nervous system was never taught that it was safe to receive love, support, or nurturi...
Mar 10
12 min
Are you doing all the womb work but still feeling stuck? Your body may be holding wounds that your mind can't reach alone. Leslie Draffin is a womb mystic, somatic coach, and trauma-informed guide who helps women heal through somatics and microdosing mushrooms as a sacred ally. BY THE TIME YOU FINISH LISTENING, YOU'LL DISCOVER: What microdosing mushrooms actually is and the green and red flags to look for when choosing a practitionerWhy you cannot gaslight your body the way you can gaslight y...
Mar 9
52 min
Have you ever wondered what your womb healer's own fertility journey actually looked like? In this special reverse interview, guest host Bethany Shipley asks Carolina the questions — and she holds nothing back. From childhood trauma and an abortion in her 20s, to losing her father and horse in the same year, to falling off a literal horse and getting one Reiki session that changed everything — this is the raw, unfiltered story behind the Make a Baby podcast. BY THE TIME YOU FINISH LISTENING, ...
Mar 8
53 min
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