with Nicole Lange | AWLS Podcast
“When you help, you see life as weak; when you fix, you see life as broken — but when you’re in service, you see life as whole and beautiful.”
Reimagining Women’s Health Through a Holistic Lens
In a world dominated by symptom-focused treatments, Nicole Lange, founder of Life Healing Life, offers a transformative, whole-person approach to women’s health. As a trauma-informed acupuncturist, she guides women through fertility struggles, emotional trauma, and metabolic challenges using the wisdom of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and modern science.
Rather than “fixing” the body, Nicole helps women recognize their body’s messages, uncover underlying imbalances, and foster long-term healing from the inside out.
The Mind-Body Connection: Ancient Wisdom, Modern Science
Nicole’s methods highlight the powerful mind-body connection, a core principle in Chinese Medicine and increasingly validated by Western research.
She uses vivid analogies — like the “fire under the kettle” — to illustrate how stress, digestion, and unprocessed emotions build pressure in the body, leading to chronic symptoms when not released.
Science says:
The gut-brain axis is a two-way communication system linking emotional and digestive health. It affects everything from fertility to mood regulation and metabolic function (Mayer et al., 2015; Carabotti et al., 2015).
Fertility & Emotional Trauma: A Hidden Link
Fertility challenges are rarely just physical. Nicole explores how past trauma, especially unprocessed emotional pain, can manifest as hormonal disruption, immune imbalance, or digestive issues — all of which affect reproductive health.
Data shows:
Adverse childhood experiences and prolonged stress are linked to increased infertility risk and metabolic issues like obesity and PCOS (Felitti et al., 1998; Choy et al., 2018).
By integrating trauma-healing practices with acupuncture and TCM, Nicole addresses the root causes of reproductive imbalance rather than masking symptoms.
Integrating East & West: A Modern Healing Paradigm
Nicole champions a non-binary approach to medicine — combining the evidence-based tools of Western medicine with the personalized insight of Eastern healing. This integrative strategy supports women using IVF, navigating hormonal challenges, or managing post-surgical recovery.
“The best medicine is the one that meets YOU where you are — not one locked in ideology,” Nicole says.
Her person-centered philosophy helps patients make empowered decisions in their healing journeys.
Eating with the Seasons: Food as Functional Medicine
One powerful tool Nicole uses is seasonal eating, which TCM aligns with different organs and emotional states. For example:
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Spring supports liver health and emotional release
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Summer benefits digestion and circulation
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Autumn aids the lungs and grief processing
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Winter nourishes rest and reproductive vitality
Emerging research shows seasonal diets can enhance microbiome health, immune resilience, and metabolic efficiency (D’Amato et al., 2019).
Trusting Your Body’s Wisdom
Nicole emphasizes that healing doesn’t require perfection. Instead, it’s about building self-awareness and compassionately responding to your body’s needs.
“You don’t need to be perfect to heal,” she says. “You just need to be in tune with your body’s wisdom.”
In a world that often rewards over-control and self-criticism, her approach is a radical return to trust, softness, and embodiment.
Resources to Deepen Your Healing Journey
Nicole Lange offers a rich library of online education, programs, and mini-courses designed for fertility, trauma healing, and nervous system regulation:
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🎟️ Use code LHLPOD10 for $10 off any online course
Follow Nicole on:
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Instagram: @notafixer
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YouTube: The Baby You Want
Listen to the Full Episode
🎧 Healing Beyond the Diagnosis: Fertility, Trauma & the Wisdom of the Body with Nicole Lange
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Source References:
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Mayer, E. A. et al. (2015). The Journal of Clinical Investigation
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Carabotti, M. et al. (2015). Annals of Gastroenterology
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Felitti, V. J. et al. (1998). American Journal of Preventive Medicine
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Choy, J. T. et al. (2018). Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology
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D’Amato, G. et al. (2019). Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
