Infertility involuntarily changes your life. You’re not in the driver’s seat and the roller coaster climbs slowly and plummets quickly. With all this mental and physical motion and commotion, every day can seem like a year when your quest for a baby is thwarted.

If you relate to this description, take note: You may not realize that you can turn this crisis into an opportunity. Really! With the right mind/body coping options, you can be empowered to intervene in the dizzying effects of that roller coaster.

Okay, I admit that it takes work when you’re least in the mood for another “job”. It involves laying out a map of all the stumbling blocks of the infertility journey and turning them into building blocks. You can empower yourself—really empower yourself—with new or enhanced choices of how to cope when you’re thrown yet another curve ball.

The map allows you to discern:

  • What the impact of infertility is on you?
  • …on your relationship?
  • …on friendships and family interactions?
  • How to Normalize depression and anxiety
  • What the mind/body connection is?
  • The difference between problem-solving coping and letting-go coping
  • How hypnosis can be a powerful tool
  • Where you stand spiritually
  • How you can get to know yourself in a deeper way?
  • The upside of infertility—yes there is an upside!
  • Your potential for giving birth to a new, improved version of yourself

 

If you read my book, On Fertile Ground: Healing Infertility, you can see how over 2 dozen of my former patients developed the patience to slow down the feeling of frenzy and get under the turbulence of infertility. It allowed them—and it can allow you—to develop the benefits of enhanced mind/body coping. Each chapter ends with proven mind/body exercises which, if learned and practiced, will strengthen your confidence, mitigate your confusions, normalize your upsets, enhance communication skills and solidify the bond with your partner.

Life is full of curve balls. The really good news is that if you zoom in to the territory within the above map, you’ll be set to deal with whatever challenges come at you for the rest of your life.