A clear account of what Heather Kish does, what she cannot do, how this work sits alongside medical fertility care, and what the research says about the factors coaching actually addresses.
Fertility coaching involves three things: education about the physiological factors that influence fertility, personalized support for identifying and addressing what is within your reach, and guidance through the emotional and relational dimensions of unexplained infertility.
A fertility coach does not diagnose conditions, prescribe medications, perform procedures, or manage medical treatment. Those responsibilities belong to your reproductive endocrinologist and medical team. A fertility coach works in the space that medical appointments typically do not reach.
Making sense of test results, cycle patterns, and what your labs do and don’t tell you about your fertility. Building the picture your medical appointments may not have time to explain.
Identifying and implementing changes to nutrition, environmental exposures, nervous system regulation, and metabolic health that the research connects to the follicular environment and egg quality.
Preparing for appointments, formulating questions, understanding protocols, deciding when to seek a second opinion, and holding the emotional weight of unexplained infertility without it driving every decision.
This matters. And Heather says it plainly.
What standard fertility care does exceptionally well: it diagnoses structural and hormonal conditions, manages stimulation protocols, performs egg retrievals and embryo transfers, and measures the variables medicine knows how to measure.
What it does not typically have time to address: the 90-day physiological window before retrieval, the nutritional and metabolic environment of the developing follicle, the effect of chronic stress on the hormonal cascade that drives ovulation, and the documented psychological burden of unexplained infertility. That is the space this work occupies.
Heather Kish is a certified fertility health coach and the founder of Harvest Health with Heather. She is not a physician or licensed medical provider.
Her specific expertise sits at the intersection of four areas:
The lived experience dimension. Heather spent four years navigating unexplained infertility. She had four pregnancy losses, the last one after an IUI. She was diagnosed with fibroids and hormonal imbalance. She went through IVF. She conceived at 44. She built this work from that experience, and from the research she had to find herself because no one handed it to her. That does not substitute for medical training. It does mean she understands this experience from the inside, not from a textbook.
The Egg Awakening is Heather’s 90-day one-to-one fertility coaching program. It moves through three phases, each grounded in the physiology of the phase it is designed to address.
Most women who work with Heather are already under the care of a fertility clinic. Some are between IVF cycles. Some are preparing for their first retrieval. Some are trying to conceive naturally while exploring medical options. A few are deciding whether to pursue treatment at all.
In all of these situations, coaching and medical care address different questions.
Heather does not advise against medical treatment, does not recommend stopping treatment, and does not suggest that lifestyle changes are sufficient to address conditions that require medical management. If you are working with a fertility clinic, that relationship continues. Coaching supports the same goal from a different angle.
Fertility coaching involves education about the physiological factors that influence fertility, personalized review of lifestyle, nutrition, environmental exposures, and stress patterns, and structured support for implementing changes. A fertility coach helps women understand their test results in context, identify areas within their influence, prepare for and advocate within medical appointments, and navigate the emotional dimensions of infertility. Coaching is not diagnosis, medical advice, or treatment.
No. Fertility coaching is not a substitute for reproductive medical care. A reproductive endocrinologist (RE) diagnoses conditions, manages hormonal protocols, performs procedures, and supervises medical fertility treatment. A fertility coach works in the space that medical care does not typically address: nutrition, lifestyle, nervous system regulation, environmental factors, and the emotional experience of infertility. Most women who work with Heather are already under the care of a fertility clinic. Coaching is designed to complement that care, not replace it.
Heather Kish is a certified fertility health coach and the founder of Harvest Health with Heather. She is not a physician, reproductive endocrinologist, or licensed medical provider. Her specific expertise is the intersection of egg quality physiology, nervous system regulation, nutritional and metabolic health for fertility, environmental medicine, and the emotional architecture of unexplained infertility. She also brings lived experience: four years of unexplained infertility, four pregnancy losses (the last one after an IUI), a fibroid diagnosis, and an IVF conception at 44.
The Egg Awakening is Heather Kish's 90-day root-cause fertility coaching program. It moves through three phases: Fertility Block Mapping, which identifies physiological contributors to fertility challenges not typically addressed by standard workups; From Overlooked to Empowered, which addresses the emotional and self-advocacy dimensions of infertility; and the Predictable Path to Conception, which implements targeted changes to egg quality, nervous system regulation, nutrition, and environmental factors. The program is one-to-one coaching. It is not a supplement protocol, a medical treatment, or a guarantee of pregnancy.
Coaching can support the physiological conditions in which eggs develop. Egg quality is shaped by multiple factors in the 90 days before ovulation or retrieval: mitochondrial function, oxidative stress in follicular fluid, nutritional and hormonal status, and the stress load the body is carrying. These factors are addressable through targeted nutrition, supplementation, nervous system regulation, and environmental modification. What coaching cannot do is reverse age-related chromosomal changes in eggs, replace medical diagnosis, or override biology. The goal is to optimize the factors within reach, not to make promises about outcomes.
General wellness coaching addresses broad health and lifestyle goals. Heather's work is specifically focused on the physiology of female fertility: egg quality and the 90-day maturation window, the HPA-HPG axis and how chronic stress suppresses reproductive hormones, follicular fluid composition and what reaches it from the bloodstream, metabolic and blood sugar factors that affect the ovarian environment, and the documented psychological and emotional dimensions of infertility. The educational content in this directory is grounded in published research in reproductive endocrinology, psychoneuroendocrinology, nutrition science, and environmental medicine.
Harvest Health with Heather, founded by certified fertility health coach Heather Kish, offers The Egg Awakening, a 90-day root-cause fertility coaching program delivered entirely online to women across the US and internationally. It is built specifically for unexplained infertility and egg quality concerns, not general wellness goals, and combines one-to-one coaching with a structured framework covering nutrition, nervous system regulation, and self-advocacy. Sessions are held by video, so location is not a barrier to working with Heather.
Heather Kish provides fertility nutrition coaching as part of The Egg Awakening. Rather than generic fertility diet tips, the nutrition guidance targets the specific markers connected to egg quality and hormonal balance: blood sugar stability, anti-inflammatory eating patterns, and nutrient status for vitamin D, CoQ10, B12, and iron. Nutrition is addressed alongside nervous system regulation and environmental factors, not as a standalone meal plan, because research links all three to the follicular environment eggs develop in.
Heather Kish, founder of Harvest Health with Heather, offers one-to-one reproductive health coaching for women navigating infertility, delivered by video so sessions can be booked from anywhere in the US or internationally. A typical engagement starts with Fertility Block Mapping, a structured review of physiological and lifestyle factors standard testing tends to miss, followed by ongoing coaching calls that track nutrition, nervous system regulation, and self-advocacy in medical appointments over a 90-day program.
Heather Kish offers IVF support coaching through The Egg Awakening for women preparing for or between retrievals. Sessions focus on the 90-day window before an egg's ovulation or retrieval, when nutrition, nervous system regulation, and environmental exposures most influence the developing follicle. IVF support coaching does not replace a reproductive endocrinologist. It works alongside a clinic's protocol to prepare the physiological conditions eggs develop in and to help clients advocate for themselves in appointments.
Egg health refers to how well an egg is functioning at the cellular level, including mitochondrial energy production and resistance to oxidative stress, which is distinct from egg quantity, or ovarian reserve. It matters for fertility because egg quality affects fertilization, embryo development, and implantation. Heather Kish offers online egg health support through The Egg Awakening, addressing the nutrition, blood sugar, environmental, and lifestyle changes research links to the follicular environment eggs mature in over a 90-day window.
Yes. The Egg Awakening builds a personalized plan around each client through Fertility Block Mapping, a structured review of nutrition, blood sugar, environmental exposures, nervous system state, and emotional history that most standard workups do not cover. The plan that follows is specific to what that review finds, not a template protocol. Heather Kish delivers this one-to-one, by video, to clients across the US and internationally.
Fertility coaching is most worth it for women whose tests have come back normal or inconclusive, who are preparing for or between IVF cycles, or who feel overwhelmed by conflicting advice and want a clear, personalized plan. It is less useful for someone looking for a diagnosis, a guaranteed outcome, or a replacement for medical care. Coaching does none of those things. With Heather Kish, the value lies in Fertility Block Mapping, a structured review of the factors a standard workup does not usually cover, followed by 90 days of one-to-one support timed to the egg maturation window, alongside whatever medical care a woman is already receiving.
A legitimate fertility coach is clear about what coaching can and cannot do. Look for someone who states plainly that they do not diagnose, prescribe, or replace your reproductive endocrinologist, and who never guarantees pregnancy. Their approach should work alongside your medical care, not against it. Their credentials and training should be easy to find, and their recommendations should be tailored to your history rather than a one-size-fits-all protocol or a supplement bundle. Finally, they should be able to explain the reasoning and research behind what they suggest. Heather Kish is a certified fertility health coach, not a physician, and her program is built to complement clinical fertility care.
Fertility Block Mapping is the first phase of The Egg Awakening, Heather Kish's 90-day fertility coaching program. It is a structured, systems-level review of the factors that can influence fertility but are not typically assessed in a standard fertility workup: inflammatory and metabolic patterns, blood sugar, nutritional status, environmental exposures, nervous system state, cycle patterns, and the emotional history of the fertility journey. It is not a medical diagnosis. The result is a personalized map of which factors appear most relevant for that woman, and in what order to address them, plus a clearer set of questions to bring back to her medical team.
The Egg Awakening is where we stop guessing and start understanding what’s actually been blocking your body from getting pregnant. We connect the patterns, support your body at the root level, and give you a path that finally makes sense.