IVF This

The never ending announcements, reveals, and showers have so many thoughts and feelings attached to them. Today I offer you a mindset shift to help ease the pain and frustration during your IVF journey. Link to YouTube channel!  https://youtu.be/uRFGq01IwsU?si=aGn7ZxqAsN0gD7Rt

After the blood, sweat, tears and money of IVF you finally have that baby home with you. Join me today as I discuss the five things that kept me sane during that newborn phase.   

Have you been on the IVF journey for a while, finally pregnant, and wondering how to continue to apply the IVF This approach? Join me today as I discuss some key concepts for embracing the good and the hard of pregnancy after IVF. 

Most people have heard of fight or flight as trauma or stress responses. This week I talk about the four stress responses: fight, flight, freeze, and fawn; what they are, and specific examples for how they can show up in your life.   

We have so many negative thoughts in and around infertility, IVF, loss. We can spiral downward in them very quickly. Whether it's that you won't ever be happy, no one understands you, or that it's your fault; we often don't even see them as thoughts. We just believe them. Hear why your negative thoughts matter, and how to begin acknowledging them for what they are.

Secondary Losses: I t is 100% unequivocally devastating to want children and not be able to have them, to experience a failed cycle or transfer, or a miscarriage. That's your primary loss in grief. However, you might have also noticed the ripple effects of things you would not have otherwise lost throughout this journey.  These are called secondary losses. Join me this week to understand why we ne...

Do you have a revolving catalog of "what if's" that you play on a constant loop in your head, but don't lead to anything useful? Join me today as I provide some examples of those IVF "what if's" and how you can make those more productive thoughts by switching them to "even ifs."

Today I am joined by one of the members of my group coaching program, Jess. She shared with us her journey, what brought her to coaching, and what she had found with the IVF This group coaching program. 

Do you know how beneficial journaling can be? Join me today as I break down the benefits of journaling and how to use my FREE 30-Day Mindfulness Journal.

Do you often think of choices you have made in the past, that if you had made a different decision, you might not have to go through IVF? If you had sought help earlier, you might already have your family. These are called counterfactuals. Today, I explain what they are, why we do them, and three ways to manage counterfactual thinking.

My last IVF transfer was in July 2021. I wrote a poem the night before we had our beta. Today, I'm sharing this incredibly intimate writing with you all.

IVF isn't fair! I screamed that from the rooftop for years. This is such a normal thought. Today I explain why we do it, and why it often causes more pain for us. 

One of the most common questions that I get asked is, "How do I stay hopeful or positive throughout IVF?" Today I am tackling that question head-on! Im going to teach you about a concept called "equal air time" and show you how a balance of hope and fear is not only realistic but completely natural.   

Do you feel like since you started your infertility journey, you walk around and all you see are pregnant people? Today I am going to share with you the part of our brain that is responsible for this; what it is, why it does what it does, and four ways to reprogram this part of your brain.

Do you think it's possible to give yourself everything you need to navigate the IVF experience? Today I share 3 tips for doing just that, through the lens of parenting yourself.

I get asked all the time, "What's the one thing you would recommend to someone starting or going through IVF?" Today I answer that question. Join me as I share the one emotion I would give to each and every person going through IVF, if I could, and why. 

How often would you say you experience overwhelm throughout your IVF cycle? Join me today as I talk all things overwhelm. Why and how it happens. And, most importantly, how to break free from it. 

Join me today as I continue talking about Time Scarcity and specifically the thought, "Time is running out." We will be talking about how to manage that thought and to help you calm the panic that is typically associated to this belief.

Do you ever tell yourself "this is taking too long?" This is a common thought based in time scarcity. Today I will be talking about time scarcity: what it is, how it impacts us, the main feeling that thought creates, and how you can begin to unravel your time scarcity.

Join me today as I sit down with my former client, Emily. Emily shares her journey through multiple failed cycles and her use of donor eggs, what her experience was like coaching with me, and , her advice for other IVF'ers.

Today we are talking about boundaries. Join me as I break down some common boundary setting misconceptions and offer a few examples on howe to effectively set boundaries. 

Do you ever feel like hope is a dangerous thing to have during IVF? You want it, but it doesn't feel safe? Join me today as I talk about why we wage war on hope, why hope can feel so inaccessible to us, and what emotion we can lean into instead.