Fertility & Cycle Recovery
Fertility & Cycle Recovery with Dr. Ashley Burton
Helping women get their periods back, support healthy ovulation, and feel confident in their fertility.
FERN stands for Fertility Education Rooted in Nutrition, and it is the foundation of how I work with women who want to better understand and support their cycles.
Maybe you came off hormonal birth control expecting your period to return normally, but it hasn’t.
Maybe you are getting a period, but your cycles are long, irregular, or you are not sure if you are actually ovulating.
Or maybe you are the woman who does everything “healthy.” You exercise regularly, eat well, stay active, and take care of yourself, but somewhere along the way your cycle started telling you that your body may need more support.
This is where we start.
Rather than giving you another list of generic hormone tips, we look at the bigger picture: your cycle, nutrition, training, energy intake, stress, recovery, lifestyle, and reproductive goals.
Together, we work to understand what may be influencing your period and ovulation and create a realistic plan to help your body feel well-fuelled, supported, and ready to cycle.
This may be for you if you are:
- Missing your period after coming off hormonal birth control
- Experiencing long or irregular cycles
- Unsure whether you are ovulating
- Exercising a lot while struggling to eat enough to support your activity
- Working to recover your period after under-fuelling or overtraining
- Thinking about pregnancy now or in the next few years
- Trying to conceive and wanting to better understand your cycle
- Interested in learning fertility awareness and becoming more confident reading your body’s signs
What We May Work On
Depending on your goals, your coaching may include fertility awareness and cycle charting, personalized nutrition strategies, improving overall energy availability, adjusting training and recovery, supporting healthy ovulation, supplement recommendations when appropriate, preconception nutrition, lifestyle strategies, and ongoing cycle review.
The goal is not perfection.
It is to give your body the nutritional and physiological support it needs while helping you understand what your cycle is actually telling you.
Because your period is more than something that happens once a month. It gives us valuable information about your energy availability, ovulation, reproductive health, and overall physiology.
Personalized Support
There is no single protocol that works for every woman.
A woman coming off the pill after ten years has different needs than an athlete who has gradually lost her period through under-fuelling and overtraining. A woman hoping to conceive this year may need something different from someone simply wanting to restore her cycle now and protect her future fertility.
Your coaching plan is built around your cycle, your lifestyle, your goals, and the level of support you need.
Start with a Fertility & Cycle Recovery Call
Missing your period, struggling with irregular cycles, or unsure if you are ovulating?
The Fertility & Cycle Recovery Call is a focused 1:1 session where we look at what your body is telling you and explore whether post-pill changes, under-fuelling, overtraining, stress, or other factors may be playing a role.
You will leave with clearer next steps for supporting your period, ovulation, and fertility.
Book Your Fertility & Cycle Recovery Call
You can also email hello@drashleyburton.com with a brief overview of what is going on with your cycle and what you are hoping to work on.
Fertility and cycle recovery coaching is available virtually across Canada and in person when availability permits.