Trying to Conceive When the World Feels Unstable

I’ll be totally honest with you, right now my nervous system is shot to pieces! 2026 has been some year so far, and it's only March!!  I think perimenopause has a lot to do with it - but is definitely also the news! 

Wars, the Epstein files, a bigger divide between the political left and right than ever, uncertainty in the economy,  AI taking jobs, people struggling, and sometimes I lie awake wondering what kind of world will be left for my daughter.

I stopped watching the new for a long time (and my partner would always be totally surprised when I was blissfully unaware of some big event that had happened that day!) but I've kind of got sucked back into it again – and I'm once again realising that your nervous system is not designed for 24-hour global awareness.

It evolved to detect immediate physical threat, not to process wars, political scandals, climate anxiety, economic instability and the evils of the word - all before breakfast.

But now we consume it constantly and your body absorbs and needs to digest it, just like food. In Ayurveda (the sister science to Yoga) everything your see, eat, touch and smell is sustenance and when you're TTC, all of that matters for your body deciding if it's safe enough to conceive or not.

One thing is clear, in these uncertain times, we need more intentional regulation than ever and you also need to remember that:-

You cannot control geopolitics.

You cannot control headlines.

You cannot control decisions made in rooms you’ll never enter and made by egotistical men playing 'my d!ck is bigger than yours!'

But you can control what you take in.

Here's some practical things that you can do to regulate yourself (and believe me, I will be taking my own advice here too!)

• Reset your Instagram algorithm (go to Settings and activity from the menu and then Content Preferences ->Reset Suggested Content and set it from there)
• Mute or unfollow accounts on social media that spike anxiety
• Seek out positive and balanced news sources.  There are good people out there doing positive things!
• Take one small action so you don’t feel helpless (like me writing this blog!)
• Volunteer locally
• Donate
• Write
• Create
• Move your body
• Walk out in nature
• Sit in community (women's circles are ideal as that is how we regulate!)
• Meditate
• Limit news or social media to specific windows – or take a holiday from it for a weekend

That isn’t you sticking your head in the sand, it's nervous system protection and building safety within your body, so that you don't get sucked into that learned helplessness and can see the world clearly from a regulated perspective.

We need to stay hopeful, stay awake to what those in power are really trying to do – divide and conquer. Keep us small. Keep us fearful.  And as much as that doesn't sound like much, in my opinion - that is how we do our small part for the collective.