When we talk about getting pregnant, we usually talk about things like:
* when do I ovulate?
* what am I eating?
* is my body weight normal?
* how are my hormone levels?
* are we timing sex right?
* how old am I?
* have I given up coffee?
But, oftentimes, the causes of infertility (especially that which is unexplained) has a very deep body-mind-spirit connection. I was reading a wonderful book by Christiane Northrup yesterday called, “Women’s Health, Women’s Bodies” and she devotes a chapter to fertility. In it, she says the following, “Prenatal and birth memories, and their potential impact on the unborn, are one of the many reasons why women must learn to manage their fertility well and learn how to conceive consciously. We must become conscious vessels. When a child perceives that she is loved and wanted from the very beginning, her sense of safety, security, and belonging creates an enormously resilient immune system as well as bone and blood health that set the stage for a lifetime of health… The important point is to see your body as a channel for a new spirit and to surrender yourself to the experience- to be open to all that it has to teach you.”
Having gone through four years of secondary infertility, when I work with clients who have been TTCing for a while and are having trouble, one of the first things we discuss is this mind-body connection. What views do you have about having children and being a parent that you got from your own parents growing up? What reproductive history has happened in your family and how has that affected you (i.e., miscarriages, abortions, having too many kids, too few kids, and those family members views on what having those children meant to them)? What fears do you have about getting pregnant, having children, and being a parent? What feelings of scarcity, loss, love, insecurity, jealousy, sacrifice, stress do you have pertaining to getting pregnant, being pregnant, labor and delivery and rearing children? All of these are questions that must be worked through if conception is going to happen consciously. These are questions that must be asked apart from the nutrition/exercise/ovulation checklist.
When you work with me as a health coach, you’re getting more than a fitness and nutrition program. You’re getting a whole life program.
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The TTC Mind-Body Program includes the following:
* 1 one hour TTC assessment session
* 8 thirty minute coaching sessions (via telephone- one per week)
* weekly TTC exercises
* nutrition notes
* the TTC Healing From Within MP3 podcast
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