Jessie Johnson

Infertility andFeminine Tao

The Queen Mother of the West (西王母) is an ancient Chinese goddess whose origin can be traced back to oracle bone inscriptions of the fifteenth century BCE that record sacrifices to a "western mother". (Cahill, 1993) Even though these i... Read >

In Countries Where Women Don't Know Age Is A Fertility Issue, It Isn't

In countries where women don't know age is a fertility issue, it isn't. Certainly as we age, there are changes in the hypothalamic pituitary ovarian axis. There are changes in the biopotency of the FSH molecule. Women don't respond as well to FSH drugs, a... Read >

Infertility, Does The Oserver Dicate The Outcome?

Here are some of the diagnosis I see in my patients’ reproductive medical records: “Clomid Failure," “High FSH," “Poor Responder," “IVF Failure," “Poor Egg Quality," “Advanced Maternal Age," and “Donor Egg Candidate." These are the most devastating repr... Read >

In Vitro Fertilization And Aupuncture

Chinese medicine has been the treatment of choice for infertility in Asian countries for thousands of years. The World Health Organization of the United Nations has alsorecognized acupuncture’s utility in treating conditions like infertility, impotence, p... Read >

Honoring Our Inner Wisdom

My fifth grade daughter can fit into my shoes now. Much more developed than I was at her age, Kyra’s ten year old body is already getting curvy, and I can sense that she is nearing her transition into puberty. I recently came home from one of my “Fertile ... Read >

Relax and Open Up to Limitless Abundance!

Are you ready to receive? I don’t mean can you accept a new handbag or a compliment, but are you really ready to receive into the depths of your being? Just imagine what life would be like if, within your deepest self, all you would have to do is recogn... Read >

COMING THROUGH GRIEF

No grief so great as a dead heart. —Chinese proverb When you’re in the midst of pursuing a baby, everything is overwhelming. All you know is that you want to be a mother, and you can’t be. For women who have been on the infertility “treadmill" for yea... Read >

Letting The Management Go

Anyone who works in the corporate environment these days has been impacted by cut backs in personnel and management. The personnel change often gives rise to a sense of insecurity, fear, chaos and resulting overwork. The energetic impact of this type ... Read >

CONCEPT OF LETTING GO

The concept of “letting go" doesn’t make a lot of sense in fertility circles. I remember at one retreat a few years ago, a woman said, “I didn’t come here to learn to let go; I came here to learn how to have a baby!", like one would preclude the other. ... Read >

INQUIRY FOR THE SOUL

The physical blueprint provides a dense pattern through which the child’s life will unfold, according to the genetics passed on through the parents’ ancestry. Yet this is only a starting point. What the being does with this blueprint will determine the ex... Read >

How Dr Lewis' Retreats Alleviate the Pain of Infertility

The first order of business for those who are having difficulty conceiving is, of course, to remove obstructions to reproductive health and to enhance fertility. When I started the Fertile Soul retreat process, this was, of course, our primary motive. O... Read >

The School of Unlearning: The Road to Learning Traditional Chinese Medicine

I remember when, fresh out of med school and my own fertility challenges, I enrolled in a Masters program in Oriental medicine. Eager to begin my studying early, I asked the academic Dean what I could do to enhance my ability to learn Chinese medicine. Ex... Read >

ROMANTIC IDEAS OF LIFE

This morning I awoke to the soft sound of raindrops hitting the tin roof of my new log cabin, curled up in a quilt, alone. Not so long ago that romantic image alighted the fantasy of living by myself in a log cabin in the mountains. It is now a reality, a... Read >

Resolution - Dr. Randine Lewis Talks about fertility and infertility

NO RESOLUTION. Have you ever taken notice of the ongoing cycle of tension and resolve? One needs the other. In Chinese medicine, we discuss the concept of the interdependence of the seeming opposites, yin and yang. Cold cannot exist without comparing it t... Read >

Taking the Romance Out of Baby Making, Writings of infertility specialist, Dr. Randine Lewis

Introduction: Removing mental and emotional obstructions, such as romantic notions about becoming pregnant, supports fertility. Living with the wisdom behind Chinese medicine can raise the chances of life's ability to come through you, and end periods of ... Read >