Welcome to Day 4 of the Fearless AF 5-Day FAM Challenge! I am so incredibly excited to dive in with you today. Before we get into the challenge, a quick heads up! Cycle Love enrolment opens in 8 days! Get on the waitlist (learn FAM for birth control with me) for first dibs, $150 off enrolment, and Sex Ed for Witches Free.
Welcome to day 4!!
Today we’re talking about the elephant in the room: FAM efficacy.
So today’s episode is a really honest, nuanced conversation about efficacy.
Here’s the biggest thing I want you to understand going into it:
There isn’t one clean number that answers this.
Even with hormonal birth control, we already separate:
- perfect use (used exactly as intended)
- typical use (how people actually use it in real life)
And typical use always drops when user error is involved.
So methods that require:
- consistency
- interpretation
- communication
…will naturally have more variability.
That includes FAM.
But here’s where it gets interesting—
When you see stats like:
“FAM is 76% effective” or “FAM has a 15–20% failure rate”
Those numbers are:
👉 based on population-level data 👉 and often lump all fertility awareness methods together
That includes:
- apps
- calendar methods
- partially used methods
- people who were never properly taught
- people mixing approaches
Which is what happens across a really mixed group of people with very different levels of knowledge and behaviour.
We also talk about:
- why FAM is harder to study than something like an IUD
- why the biomarkers themselves are actually very well understood
- how your decisions during the fertile window impact efficacy
- and what it realistically looks like to build trust in this
DAY 4 CHALLENGE PROMPT: Head into Slack and share:
Your FAM elevator pitch! How would you describe FAM to someone who has no idea. Let's practice in a safe space. Go listen to today’s episode and then come share in Slack.
I’ll see you there 💛
NAT
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Warmly, Nat