I'm Carly, a crunchy mama, a low-tox living expert, an educator, and a Holistic Reproductive Health Practitioner and Certified Fertility Awareness Educator (accredited through the Association of Fertility Awareness Professionals). I have a passion for educating people on simple ways to improve their health through clean swaps and taking steps to support their hormones. I am also insanely passionate about true informed consent with all medical decisions, including decisions made during pregnancy and birth and decisions around hormonal contraceptives. I believe strongly in full body autonomy and will always empower you to make the best choices for you and your family.

I got started on my own journey to clean up the products I was using and support my hormones and reproductive health more than a decade ago now. After growing frustrated with conventional medicine and being told that I'm fine when I knew I wasn't, I sought a second opinion from a functional doctor and my life was completely changed. I was dealing with a severe hormone imbalance and hypothyroidism, and only then did I learn just how much of an impact the products I was using on my body and in my home had on my health.

I started switching to less-toxic and safer products and noticed huge improvements in my sleep, my mood and my immune system, but I wanted to do more for my hormones. So after a lot of research, I decided to come off of birth control, which I had been on for almost 15 years at that point. I started using a fertility awareness method to track my cycle and learn about my body and everything changed.

Charting my menstrual cycle has opened up a whole new world for me and it’s connected me with my body in ways I never could have imagined. I celebrate my body each month when my period starts and I respect my menstrual cycle for the fifth vital sign that it is. I’m so glad I connected with my body before getting pregnant because it made for a beautiful and empowered birth and is the reason we got pregnant naturally on our first try.