How hypnotherapy can help fertility and IVF success rates
There's increasingly solid evidence that counselling, hypnotherapy and cognitive therapy (CBT) can be powerfully effective with fertility problems.
It's perhaps not surprising that this is so. It's easy to imagine that your baby wants to be born in a place utterly safe, secure, loving and protected. It is not surprising that nature guards against a baby being born where there is tension or anxiety present around the very moment of conceiving. I offer three levels of help, from the simplest to the most complex:
- Simply learning how to relax deeply, such as via self-hypnosis, is so powerful that on its own it can be extremely effective in aiding conception and IVF (see research below).
- Continuing life stress and anxiety, or attitudes such as perfectionism, can get in the way of fertility.There is a close relationship between levels of stress hormones and reproductive hormones. Metaphorically, it is as if the uterus thinks "Times are hard. This isn't the moment to give birth" and becomes infertile until things improve. I teach emotional coaching methods to make friends with negative thoughts and feelings and transform them into positive thoughts and life-affirming attitudes.
- Sometimes, there may be deeply unconscious issues getting in the way of conception. These benefit enormously from hypno-analysis to uncover and resolve the hidden factors.
- There may simply be worry about whether conception will happen, and this tension turns into a self-fulfilling prophecy that it won't.
- There may be fear of being pregnant or of having a miscarriage. This may happen in particular when there has been a miscarriage or any other problem with a previous pregnancy, which can build up into a self-fulfilling prophesy, where the fear of a miscarriage actually causes a miscarriage..
- The mother-to-be might previously have had bad experiences with men and her subconscious mind might wonder "is this finally the right man?" even when her heart knows he is
- Sometimes a woman may feel deep inside that "I'm only a little girl myself, I'm not grown up enough to have a baby."
- Having a baby is a big life-transition. Parts of the subconscious mind may have objections or fears, whether of loss of career opportunities or of freedom to go out clubbing. Hypnotherapy has an exceptional ability to bring harmony and resolution to such hidden (and maybe very disturbing) fears.
- If a woman's mother or even grandmother had a pregnancy or childbirth which was difficult, that may have left an unconscious imprint that "childbirth is a terrible thing", with a corresponding unconscious reluctance to conceive. Or pregnancy may have been OK, but bringing up children may have somehow been the terribly stressful for mother or grandmother, and again a feeling is left in the family that "having children is a disaster."
- A couple may make so much effort to conceive that sex becomes joyless. Think of it like this: if you were a very sensitive unborn soul, would you be attracted to parents where the sex seemed to be a mechanical duty? Wouldn't you want to be born into a relationship where sex is joyful? I am fully aware that this isn't a "logical" way of seeing things, but the unconscious mind is far from logical.
- There may have been trauma from sexual abuse.
- ... and many other things. Each person is unique.
I always aim to be both inspiring, and also realistic and honest. While provenly effective, hypnotherapy
and related emotional coaching techniques are not a cure-all. But there is good evidence to support their usefulness.
I have to say this: in my view, it is better to try these methods at the earliest stage. While there is evidence that these methods can and do help with IVF, they have the greatest potential for effectiveness earlier on when conception is still a simple, human affair.
My approach is warm, human and respectful. Please don't hesitate to give me a ring directly: 0845-3510604 / 0117-968-7307. I'm happy to answer questions or arrange, in Bristol or Taunton, a free, no-obligation half-hour initial meeting.
To take the first step to explore how hypnotherapy might help you conceive, just give me a ring: 0845-3510604 / 0117-968-7307. I'm happy to answer questions or arrange, in Bristol or Taunton, a free, no-obligation half-hour initial meeting. My approach is friendly, respectful, and very effective.
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