Why an infertility coaching group for women only?
In a women-only coaching group, women who have been diagnosed with infertility can receive a level of support from each other and from the fertility nurse that is powerful, compelling and life-changing. In a women-only group, you can speak openly about your emotions, struggles, disappointments and successes with others who understand, empathize, know and care.
Much is expected of you along the infertility journey. Many treatments for infertility are performed on the female partner, even when the diagnosis is male factor infertility. There are countless visits with your physician, there is a great deal of work and home that is missed, there are many invasive procedures, and there is much physical and mental discomfort. Moreover, the medications that you take have a significant impact on your emotions and behavior.
Tension often runs high between you and your significant other. He doesn’t understand what you are going through and he doesn’t appear to be as invested in or committed to the process. How will you find the balance between your desire to have a baby and living life as you know it with your man?
How will you find the balance between doing everything in your power to achieve your dream of a family and living life as you know it with family, friends, and colleagues?
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What you can expect in a fertility coaching group for women only.
This group provides an incredible opportunity to receive support – support in many different forms.
Emotional, physical and relational health.
You will receive coaching from the fertility nurse as to how to engage this journey in a healthy manner – how to achieve balance in your life.
It is true that you desire more than anything to have a baby. How do you balance this with everything else important in your life? There is a significant other that covets a healthy relationship with you. There is family and friends that desire your presence. There is still your professional life that needs attention, colleagues that wish for your time and unfinished business that relentlessly calls for you.
Yet, in all of this, there is a powerful tendency to completely immerse yourself in the pursuit of fertility to the point that all else suffers. The Fertility Nurse will coach on maintaining a healthy balance in your life – how to pursue with passion your dream of having a baby and continue to foster the other relationships in your life.
You may be experiencing many different emotions. You may be excited because you’re taking a new step. You may be experiencing a sense of loss because you were not able to get pregnant on your own. You may have much fear because of the many unknowns that lie ahead. You may be experiencing all of these emotions at once.
This is an emotionally charged time for you. The fertility nurse will help you cope with the emotions you are facing and the strain it may be putting on your relationships, particularly the relationship with your significant other.
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Space for open communication and helpful feedback.
This group is an opportunity for women to engage each other and the fertility nurse in an open, dynamic and safe environment and receive care, insight, encouragement, direction and energy like never before.
This coaching group provides a space to talk about the conflicts and feelings that are arising in this process. There will be listening and empathizing ears. There will also be opportunity to receive powerful and supportive feedback, whether from patients who too know exactly the tensions you’re experiencing or from the fertility nurse who has coached many other women through this same experience.
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Sound, compassionate, valuable advice. Focused, relevant, timely support.
You will have many opportunities to ask questions relating to the medical procedures that you and your spouse will encounter. The fertility nurse can answer your questions and coach you through important considerations, options and implications.
| In a Women’s Group, you will have the opportunity to: |
| - Ask your questions regarding treatments, procedures and medications. |
| - Realize, explore, understand and take control of the emotional and physical symptoms you are experiencing. |
| - Discuss your experience and explore the impact it is having. |
| - Set your expectations regarding future treatments. |
| - Learn what to ask your healthcare providers and receive feedback on how to make the most of your time with your physician. |
| - Voice concerns regarding how aggressive or not aggressive you and your partner are in perusing fertility treatment. |
| - Benefit from the experiences, wisdom, challenges and insights of other similarly-situated infertility patients. |
| - Be educated on what’s ahead in your fertility treatment process, and receive insight and direction on your path forward. |
Within a Women’s Group, you will receive vital support along your journey. Support will come from the fertility nurse and from the other women going through the same experience.
This group is the perfect way to connect with others and experience the power and impact community and shared experience can have for you.
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A knowledgeable and caring coach familiar with every facet of the process.
| This group will provide you a great deal of opportunity to interact with a fertility nurse coach. You will be coached by a seasoned fertility nurse who has worked with thousands of patients. She is thoroughly familiar with all the tests and procedures that you will be undergoing. She has over 10 years of wide-ranging experience in the field of infertility. This means that she is thoroughly knowledgeable of: |
| - All the medical terminology. |
| - All the testing and procedures that you’ll face. |
| - All the options and implications that lie ahead. |
| - All the decisions that you’ll have to make. |
| She will coach with your best interests in mind. She will ask questions. She will listen well. She will share a wealth of professional knowledge. Your fertility nurse will: |
| - Help you maximize the time you have with your physician. |
| - Help you work through the roller coaster of emotions that typically accompany this process. |
| - Explore with you the options and their implications and guide you through the difficult choices that lie ahead. |
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A strong, powerful and supportive community.
Another valuable form of support you will receive is support from others in the group. Your fellow group participants are moving through the same experiences as you. They may be at the same point or at a different point in the process. You will benefit from their support, encouragement, wisdom, challenges, ideas and responses.
Participants at different points along the journey can offer insight, dispel fears and lend guidance. They will provide you a valuable view based on the process, decisions and outcomes they’re facing.
| There is much to gain from others in the same situation as you: |
| - Feedback as to what worked well and what didn’t work so well and what could be done differently. |
| - Insight from what other physicians may have recommended to other participants. |
| - Guidance from the questions others have asked their physicians and from the ways they have engaged their health care providers. |
| - Direction from the measures others have taken to ensure they were comfortable with their treatment plan. |
| - Counsel from participants who have successfully ensured that their relationships (with spouse and/or others) haven’t broken down. |
| - Advice from others regarding what areas in their relationships were more apt to break down and why. |
The value of community at this time in your life cannot be overstated. We are not meant to engage these times in our life alone.
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What are the logistics?
The group will comprise no more than 10 women.
We will meet by phone for 1 hour every week for a 16 week period
After your payment is received, you will be sent a phone number and pass code. Just prior to each designated group coaching time, simply call the phone number and when prompted, dial the pass code. You will then be connected to your group.
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