🌿 The Elemental Side of Fertility: A Rooted Approach to Healing

May 17, 2025•2 min read

In my recent conversation with Dr. Aumatma Simmons on the Egg Meets Sperm podcast, we explored a question that often gets overlooked:

What if your fertility challenge is more about imbalance than inadequacy?

The Five Elements of Chinese medicine—Wood, Fire, Earth, Air, and Water—give us a powerful lens for understanding not just your body, but your essence. Your tendencies, your emotional patterns, your strengths, and where things may have gone off course.

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When you know your element, you begin to understand:

✅ Why you react the way you do during your cycle
✅ What kind of stress wears down your system
✅ Why certain supplements or lifestyle choices work—or don’t
✅ And most importantly, how to course-correct with intention and compassion

Here’s a glimpse:

🌳 Wood: Visionary energy—prone to anger, tension, autoimmune responses
🔥 Fire: Passionate and driven—but burns out easily and may deplete ovarian reserve
🌍 Earth: Deeply nurturing—yet struggles with overthinking, weight, and PCOS
💨 Air: Sensitive, intuitive—can be grief-stricken and energetically collapsed
💧 Water: Wise and introspective—yet when out of balance can run on adrenal stress and fear

And here’s the good news: None of this is your fault.

But all of it is your opportunity.

Take the Five Elements Quiz to discover your type and what steps you can take today

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Your fertility isn’t a checklist to fix—it’s a reflection of your deeper rhythms.

By understanding your elemental nature, you can stop fighting yourself… and start flowing with your unique path to conception.

Let’s return to wisdom. Let’s heal from the root.

PS. Looking to boost your chances of conceiving? Here are three ways we can help:

Take the Fertility Quiz.
Book a free Fertile Health Assessment call to discover natural and integrative solutions that could help move you closer to your family goals.
Sign up for my signature 3-month program, Your Fertile Health. [Get your treatments in the comfort of your home!]

Dr. Susan Fox

I am a women’s health expert with a specialty in working with women and couples navigating fertility challenges for more than 20 years. I look forward to helping you realize your dream of family. I’m also a mother, a sister, a friend. I live in beautiful Northern California, where the nature of Mt. Tamalpais, the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay are my backyard. Traditional Chinese Medicine discovered me in 1978, when I was struggling with digestive complaints that flummoxed medical doctors. It wasn’t until I received my first acupuncture treatment and herbal prescription that I connected my medical condition to grief over loss of a loved one; that the stress of holding in such huge emotions was literally tying me up in knots, and I was finally able to heal. Discovering the powerful links between the physical, the mental, the emotional, the spiritual, and the environmental shifted my understanding of health and wellness forever. For more than 20 years, I’ve had the privilege of learning and implementing Whole Systems Traditional Chinese Medicine to understand the root causes of health conditions and realize optimal health and well-being. I am a strong believer in the importance of health education, for knowledge is power when you have the tools for effective self care.

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