Dr. Erin Taliaferro-Attaway
Co-Founder, Clinical Director, Doctor of Acupuncture & Chinese Medicine, FABORM
If you are reading this, then you must be experiencing some degree of infertility, or at least some degree of concern. That's a crappy reason for us to be together, but I am so grateful for an opportunity to help someone who's on a tough journey.
I've been practicing Chinese medicine since 2007, and I began my graduate program in 2002, just out of college. I've been living the CAM way my whole adult life, pretty much, and I've seen amazing things as a result. I'm an old soul, a bit old fashioned, and living a pretty unscripted life. In all these years I have learned to relax and enjoy the ride, and I hope my methods help you navigate your path.
For years I dreamt of writing book about the conversations around having a baby, the unique circumstances and feelings each couple goes through while trying to conceive, but there was never enough time. In life's surprising way, I met a lady I am mad about, (in that amazing platonic friendship way), and she invited me to join her crusade and build this platform. This incredible opportunity appeared right when I needed it.
For practitioners everywhere, we all have so much knowledge to share but find it very challenging to get the information out to the right person at the right time. We want to customize your experience but can't navigate all the individual needs. One on one clinical time only goes so far, and there is still so much to do. I hope to create a space that allows people like me, allied health professionals and fertility specialists of the CAM world, to interface with lots of people and bring all of our cumulative knowledge together to create a well rounded and thoughtful experience.
For any journey into the wild, it's nice to have a guide, a sherpa that leads the way. That's how I see myself in The Fertility Resort, as a sherpa of sorts, to help you pack a better pack, travel an easier road, and support you along the way when the hard things happen.
The journey belongs to you.
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Dr Erin Taliaferro-Attaway, DACM, FABORM
Co-Founder & Medical Director
Bryant Liggett
Co-Founder, Chief Operations Officer
Five years ago, my husband and I were so excited to start a family. But we didn’t know what we didn’t know.
We didn’t know that we were about to embark on a journey that would take seven beautiful babies away from us before we got a chance to meet them. We didn’t know that we were about to spend our entire life savings on just a chance to bring a baby earth side. We didn’t know that in order for our fertility doctors to create little miracles in their labs, they first needed healthy sperm and healthy eggs. We didn’t know that that part was going to be all on us.
We had so many questions. But I didn’t feel like I could ask them because they weren’t necessary “clinical.” I had questions like: What is an egg quality diet? What do you mean I shouldn’t touch plastic? Should I go to acupuncture? Can I have a glass of red wine?
Infertility hijacked my life. We were broke, depressed, and isolated. I was exhausted from doom scrolling fertility blogs, sliding into IVF influencers DMs, and frantically checking my IVF reddit notifications screaming “there has to be an easier way” - So I decided to make one. And the foundation of The Fertility Resort was born.
I knew immediately that I needed Erin as my co-founder. Erin was, and still is, my fertility acupuncturist. She was my fertility quarterback. My confidant. My cheerleader. My armchair therapist. The person who takes all of my doctor’s thoughts and synthesizes them down so that I can understand what the actionable items are. She helps guide me in my quest to figuring out what the next right decision is for me, my body, and my future family. She’s my coach, and if there’s anything I’ve realized over the last 5 years, it’s that everyone on this path needs an Erin.
I am so happy to be on this journey with Erin. To help bring her one-of-a-kind methods and practices to women all over the world. I know she will impact your journey just as much as she's impacted mine.
It's time to get started. Let's work together to end the "I didn't know what I didn't know" from the Infertility Narrative, and bring home some babies, y'all!
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Bryant Liggett
Co-Founder & COO
Molly Kasper
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, IVF Mama
I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who works specifically with couples and adult individuals. I am an Iowa native but moved to Florida after meeting my husband (a Floridian) in Haiti on a mission trip. I have been in Pensacola since 2011 and I have been working with couples and adults since. While my strengths tend to be helping others heal in relationships and helping individuals with anxiety, depression, and self-esteem issues, I also accidentally fell into the specialty of infertility after experiencing it myself. My husband and I started trying for children a couple of years after being married. But like most infertility couples, soon find ourselves in a doctors office trying to figure out what was wrong. We are one of those “unexplained” cases, and it took us 7 years to finally have our son via embryo adoption. My experience with so many egg retrievals, transfers, and miscarriages has given me the honor and experience to help those who have found themselves on a similar path. Infertility is this unique world where most people who are suffering from it don’t want support from others who haven’t experienced it. And while I never would say that I’m grateful for what I went through, I am able to see the silver lining as I am able to be many people’s “person” as they go through the hell that infertility is. I’m so honored and excited to be a part of The Fertility Resort and I hope my professional and personal experience can touch the members of this group!
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Molly Kasper, LMFT
Colleen Donovan Brown
Licensed Mental Health Counselor
Colleen has a serious passion for the healing process but doesn’t take life too seriously. She’s been practicing and teaching yoga and meditation for over 20 years and working as a counselor and life coach for the last ten years. Offering individual counseling to teens and adults, couples, families and groups in clinical and retreat settings.
Colleen values the sanctuary space of the individual counseling relationship and has a deep love for the community connection found within the shared group spaces she’s been fortunate to be a part of.
She aims to support you in creating a space of ease in which you can relate to yourself and your emotional experience in a healthy and balanced way. Colleen believes that you don’t have to suffer to grow and that healing can be empowering and even amusing.
She considers is a great honor to play a role in the healing process for the clients that choose to work with her. Colleen finds her work deeply meaningful and she’s always eager to continue learning and oversharing with her community.
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Colleen Donovan Brown, LMHC