Leah Roshel Fellers

06/14/2026

🤍 1. Wear Your Baby
Babywearing keeps your little one close, providing comfort, security, and connection throughout the day.

🤍 2. Baby Massage
A gentle massage can help your baby relax, support better sleep, and create a special bonding ritual.

🤍 3. Co-Sleeping (Safely)
When practiced according to safe sleep recommendations, co-sleeping can foster closeness and responsiveness.

🤍 4. Make Eye Contact
Intentional eye contact during feeds, playtime, and daily care helps strengthen attachment and communication.

🤍 5. Sing & Dance Together
Hold your baby close, sing their favorite songs, and sway or dance together. The combination of your voice, touch, and movement creates a beautiful bonding experience.

✨ Connection grows through simple, everyday moments.

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10/21/2025

What is Mercier Therapy?

🍂Mercier Therapy is described as a deep pelvic‑organ visceral manipulation technique (manual therapy).

🍂It is typically applied in fertility or pelvic‑health settings: for example in women with infertility, endometriosis, prior surgeries (C‑section, laparoscopy), pelvic pain.

🍂The typical protocol: 6 one‑hour sessions over about 6 weeks (1 per week) in many clinics.
Mercier Therapy Professional Training

🍂The rationale: by mobilizing pelvic organs, freeing adhesions/scar tissue, restoring blood flow/mobility in the pelvis, the theory is that you improve reproductive organ function (e.g., uterus, ovaries), and thus fertility or other pelvic‑health outcomes.

🍂It can be used alone (natural conception) or as a preparatory adjunct for medically assisted reproduction (like IVF), according to the providers.

🍂Here’s a breakdown:
One document titled “Mercié­r Therapy Improves IVF Outcome” reports: In a five‑year study (2013‑2018) on 171 women aged 27‑42 with fertility challenges, who underwent six hours of Mercier Therapy + prenatal vitamins with methylated folate, they report a pregnancy‐rate of 87.7% (150/171). Of those, 83% (142) via IVF, and 4.7% (8) via natural means.

🍂You might be a good candidate if you…
Have been trying to conceive (naturally or via IUI/IVF) and want to help your body prepare.

🍂Have a history of pelvic surgeries (C‑section, laparoscopy), scar tissue, or pelvic pain.

🍂Have reproductive health concerns like PCOS, endometriosis, menstrual irregularities, or low ovarian reserve and want a holistic adjunct.

🍂Serving clients in Overland Park Ks , drop me a note on my website for a free consultation.

10/11/2025

🏵️What low AMH means: It indicates a lower ovarian reserve (number of eggs), not necessarily poor egg quality or infertility.Many women with low AMH still conceive naturally or with assistance.It’s a data point, not a life sentence.

🏵️Being hardworking often means high stress. Chronic stress impacts hormones.

🏵️Try:
🏵️Mindfulness
🏵️meditation
🏵️Breathe work 🏵️Regular gentle exercise (walking, yoga, strength training) no more than 3x a week . Therapy or coaching if you’re feeling overwhelmed.
🏵️ Prioritizing sleep 7-9 hours a night

🏵️A woman with low AMH may have fewer eggs, but those eggs can still be of good quality especially if she is younger or takes steps to support her reproductive health. Egg quality refers to the health and viability of the eggs, which affects the chances of fertilization and healthy embryo development.

🏵️Consider the Mediterranean diet, which has been shown to improve fertility outcomes.
🏵️Prenatal Vitamins: With methylfolate (not folic acid), iron, and B12.
🏵️Omega-3 Fatty Acids (DHA/EPA): Anti-inflammatory and hormone-supportive.
🏵️Vitamin D3: Supports reproductive hormones (check your levels).
🏵️Smoking damages eggs directly and accelerates ovarian aging
🏵️Alcohol: Limit to 0–1 drink/week if trying to conceive
🏵️Caffeine: Keep under 200 mg/day (~1 cup of coffee)

🏵️Know this ! AMH is not a fixed number and can change. AMH can change due to:
– Stress (yes, even emotional stress!)
– Hormonal imbalances
– Weight changes
– Thyroid health
– Certain medications or birth control

🌿 How Mercier Therapy Might Support AMH
✔️Improved blood flow to the ovaries may enhance follicle health and responsiveness.
✔️Reduced pelvic congestion and inflammation may help normalize hormone signaling.
✔️Support of endocrine function can indirectly influence ovarian hormone production.
✔️Some women report a slight increase in AMH or improved follicle count on ultrasound after several sessions.

Come see me as your Mercier Therapist in KC 💋

10/07/2025

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🕯️ Remembering Our Loved Ones 🕊️

As the leaves fall and the days grow shorter, October gently reminds us of those who are no longer with us.
We carry their memories in our hearts in quiet moments, in shared laughter, in the warmth of a fall breeze. 🍂

This month, we honor them.
We speak their names.
We celebrate their lives.
We hold space for love that never fades.
Tag someone you’re remembering this October. Let’s lift their names in light and love. 💛

10/04/2025

Ritu Nanos is a death doula, martial artist, poet, sacred energy mover, and deep soul whisperer.
A 5th degree black belt in Kenpo, Qigong master, and dedicated practitioner of Vipassana meditation, Ritu’s practice and study of mortality through the lens of martial and energetic arts spans the course of over 30 years. Her continuous curiosity and personal experiences of the creative dance between life and death opened this question within her: what would life look like if we learned to walk it alongside the honesty of death? Her contemplation led to training with Alua Arthur, owner of Going with Grace, and receiving her Death Doula certification in September of 2024. Through art installations, community conversations, reflective workshops, and ceremonies, Ritu opens and holds the container for people to gently explore their own relationship with death, and how by doing so, they may invite in a more authentic life and build a more compassionate world. The heart of Ritu’s work centers embodiment, empowerment, transformation, integration, movement, and compassion.

09/14/2025

Reclaiming Birth: Returning to the Wisdom of Women
For centuries, birth was sacred. It was a rite of passage, guided by women, held in the safety of home, and honored as the powerful, physiological, and spiritual process it truly is. But over time, this wisdom was pushed asideburied under fear, control, and medicalization. Today, we are being called to remember.

✨ It’s time to restore women’s rights to birth at home safely, supported, and with full autonomy. Home birth is not a trend; it is a return. A return to trusting the body. A return to honoring the mother. A return to choosing who is present, how we move, how we breathe, and how we bring our children into the world.

🌹 Or****ic birth is not a fantasy it is a mindset, a remembering of what birth can be. When a woman births free of fear, interruption, and trauma when she feels safe, loved, and fully in her power birth can be not only pleasurable, but ecstatic. Because birth and sexuality arise from the same source. Both require surrender. Both require trust. Both require us to be fully in our bodies.

🌀 And at the heart of this restoration lies the Wise Woman Midwifery tradition the village midwives, the birth keepers, the herbalists, the elders who passed down knowledge woman to woman, generation after generation. These were the caretakers of physiological birth, the holders of sacred ceremony, and the protectors of women’s autonomy.

Let us remember: Midwifery is not a backup plan. It is a sovereign, ancient calling. Midwives are not assistants to the system they are guardians of a forgotten power.

🌿 To restore home birth rights is to restore trust in women.

🌿 To embrace the possibility of or****ic birth is to reclaim joy in what has long been feared.

🌿 To revive the wise woman traditions is to heal a wound that has lived in our lineage for too long.
Birth is not a medical event it is a miracle, and every woman deserves the right to birth in safety, sovereignty, and sacredness.

🌍We are remembering. We are reclaiming. We are rising.

08/25/2025

Join us for coffee, laughter, education, and business conversation 🎉

I know if your a doula you can feel like you're on a Island 🏝️ Doing the work alone is never easy.

Come meet some of the birth community and share about your business. We would love to meet you 🙏

This months speaker is my acupuncturist is . An incredible women’s leader in health and wellness!

08/22/2025

Kids are back to school 🍂 It’s fall you’ll 🍂

Would you be interested in free book club guided by a certified fertility wellness instructor for 6 weeks mid October - November to nerd out on fertility awareness ?!! Considering the back room at pilgrims coffee / or if there is a bigger interest for those out of state we can zoom . Let me know if this idea intrigues you . I’ll be making a sign up sheet for those interested . I have books to share if you want to borrow on for this group if we meet in person .

08/20/2025