Navigating Fertility
The experience of what it means to have a womb is complex and ever-changing.
Having a womb is wild
Fertility is a multi-faceted + dynamic experience that is all your own — totally unique, though in many ways universal.
Most of us live in societies that restrict our reproductive rights + amidst multi-billion dollar fertility, pregnancy, + parenting industries. There is a lot of noise + a lot of constraint.
Despite this, the reality of your fertility — and your experience — is much more layered, emergent, + expansive. You deserve to be reminded of this. You deserve spaciousness to process, navigate, + feel all of it on your own terms, in your own time.
Work with Jess
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Our work together
Navigating fertility can be a long, wild, + complex experience, but it doesn’t have to be a lonely one. You deserve space to be witnessed in all that you’re holding + loving support in your navigation forward.
Jess Mack has been holding heartfelt, rights-based space for others for nearly 20 years. She is a Buddhist meditation teacher, prenatal yoga teacher, reproductive justice advocate, miscarriage doula, + former abortion counselor.
Jess offers spacious + creative support sessions, meeting you where you’re at to hold the full complexity of your fertility experience— whether that is grief + loss, uncertainty + ambivalence, overwhelm + anxiety, fear, excitement, or anything else.
She draws from a deep well of training, education, + lived experience, listening deeply, while offering thoughtful accompaniment + practical tools as you navigate forward.
In addition to psychosocial support, sessions may integrate such modalities as mindfulness meditation, healthcare navigation, supportive movement, ritual design, + other frameworks for meaning-making.
Sessions are confidential + tailored specifically to you, as practical or esoteric as you need, but may touch on such themes as:
Staying grounded + embodied during fertility treatment—
the potentially long-term + highly medicalized nature of fertility treatment can be disembodying + dissociative, fraught with both TMI + countless unknowns. Support to process + cope with unwanted outcomes or the overall intensity of it through meaningful rituals, supportive movement, visualization, or simply space to share.Moving through in-betweens + ambivalence— not every pregnancy or birth brings pure joy + not every loss brings pure grief. TTC can feel like being suspended in time. Complex emotions that don’t fit into others’ expectations or tidy narratives can stir up shame, confusion, + loneliness. Find neutral space to be affirmed as you are + practical support to navigate the in-between.
Honoring loss + sitting with grief— losses stay with us, whether we are actively experiencing or grieving them or not. Offering bereavement + miscarriage doula services for recent losses, including practical support navigating the healthcare system, adjusting to new physical + emotional realities, or designing rituals. For historic or latent losses (infertility, prior miscarriages, etc.) offering space to process even though you may have moved forward.
Working with fear— fear often accompanies the unknown + the out-of-our-control, which is the very nature of fertility. We can’t banish or avoid fear, nor should we, but we can deepen our awareness, get curious, + cultivate “fearlessness” to be with it through frameworks that reorient us toward clarity + practices that re-establish our agency.
Navigating information, choices, + boundaries— when it comes to our bodies + our fertility, there is an overwhelming amount of information, opinions, + judgments to contend with, 24/7. Offering a supportive, unbiased sounding board for you to clarify decisions or actions, + find ways to articulate that effectively during fertility treatment, pregnancy, loss, or postpartum.
Custom placenta art to commemorate a birth— inspired by your unique pregnancy + birth experience, Jess paints bespoke placenta paintings using watercolor + mixed media. Read more about her process and how to order on here. See gallery of paintings here.
Session options
Single sessions and ad hoc support
Session packages and ongoing support
For more comprehensive + flexible support during big transitions + peak moments, which offers a unique container of support tailored to you. Includes 1:1 sessions, ritual design, supportive practices, + more flexible + timely contact in the form of voice notes or texts as you navigate something. You can also purchase a package of individual sessions for a cadence of support.
Jess Mack is a feminist, a mother, a long-time reproductive justice advocate, a certified perinatal yoga teacher, mindfulness teacher, miscarriage doula, + former abortion counselor. Her writing has covered both the policy + personal side of reproductive justice. Her watercolors have served as creative art therapy approaches to navigating birth + postpartum. Her approach is heartfelt, rights-based, + “hollow-boned,” informed by years of space holding, decades of Buddhist practice, a belief in the holiness of humor, + grounded in her own experiences of loss, infertility, fertility treatment, + pregnancy complications.