Hi, I am Elise
I’m a certified Fertility Awareness educator based in Budapest. I teach women to understand their cycles — instead of just track them with an app.
I’ve been doing this work because I needed it myself first.
My story
I’ve been interested in women’s health for as long as I can remember. In my early twenties, living in a student house, I was already reading blogs about fertility and motherhood — long before I had any personal reason to. I was just fascinated.
About ten years ago, I stopped taking the pill. I was curious about what my body would feel like without it. That’s when I started tracking my cycle. First just my period, then some other health factors such as my migraines, then also my BBT and then finally properly the whole shebang. I haven’t stopped since.
What started as curiosity became something else entirely when I realised my cycles didn’t look “normal” and my own health got complicated.
I have PCOS and Hashimoto's. I've been trying to conceive for 3,5+ years. I've had a miscarriage, and my left fallopian tube was removed after an ectopic pregnancy.
I’ve done a lot of testing and sat in a lot doctor’s offices. I’ve received a lot of incomplete answers and a lot of suggestions to just take some medication to hide symptoms instead. I’ve felt the particular frustration of knowing something isn’t right but not receiving the help to actually start solving the issue as it’s root.
That experience changed how I understand this work. It’s not just about learning a method. It’s about having access to your own information. About being able to walk into an appointment, ask the right questions. It’s about not feeling like a mystery to yourself. And about knowing when and how to ask for help from someone you trust.
In 2024 I formalised my knowledge and became a certified FAM educator through the NFPTA, teaching the Double-Check sympto-thermal method. Since then I’ve worked with women in Budapest who are navigating the same questions — and the same frustrations — that I know well.
Why Women's Wise exists
Women’s Wise started as a knowledge base — a place to organise the information I’d spent years collecting: the podcasts, the books, the research, the things I wished someone had told me earlier.
But what I found, working with women in Budapest, was that information wasn’t really the missing piece. Most women have Googled everything. They have more information than they know what to do with.
What was missing was support. Someone to help them understand what they were reading. A room of other women to confirm: yes, this happens to me too.
"Not more information. Real understanding — in a room with other women who get it."
That’s what The Cycle Room is built around. And it’s what I believe this kind of education should always be: personal, connected, and grounded in your own actual body.
What I believe as a Fertility Awareness Method teacher
You have the right to understand what is happening in your body. Not just to be managed — to actually understand.
Doctors are not always wrong. But they are often rushed, working with incomplete information, and operating in a system that doesn’t leave room for your questions. That’s not the same as your questions not mattering.
Blind trust is not the same as good care. And isolation — feeling like what you’re experiencing is unusual, like something is wrong with you specifically — is one of the most painful parts of this. It’s almost never true.
The women I work with are smart, capable people who were never given the right tools. That’s what I’m here to change.
FAM training & credentials
I’m certified as a Fertility Awareness Method educator through the NFPTA (Natural Family Planning Teachers Association). I teach the Double-Check sympto-thermal method according to the guidelines of the NFPTA.
I’ve been tracking my own cycle for seven or eight years — through diagnosis, treatment, loss, and everything in between. That lived experience shapes how I teach.
I’m also the founder and co-host of InFertility Stories, a podcast where we share the stories about what it’s like to go through infertility, while you are still in it.
A few other things
You’ll see me riding around on a red bike that my father and I bought on a flee market in Amsterdam when I was 16. It used to be green received a vibrant red makeover in 2025.