Hazel Tree Holistic Health

What is Fertility Coaching?

Fertility coaching relies on the skills of a life coach and an understanding of the physical, mental and spiritual challenges a patient or client may face when problems with fertility arise.  Life coaching is already a quite popular method in both the business and personal worlds for creating happiness and wellness.  Creating a specific coaching process for those with fertility issues allows this very special set of patients the ability to feel understood and catered to.

What is the goal of Fertility Coaching?

The goal of fertility coaching depends on the client.  The most common goals are:

• Learn to understand and control unnecessary feelings of guilt
• Find emotional blockages and free yourself from them
• Rediscover (or discover) happiness, here and now, in the midst or inbetween treatments
• Regain (or gain) control of your life, here and now

In doing this, patients can literally unblock stuck emotions in their whole bodies, including the uterus and ovaries.  By learning how our emotions communicate with us, how we react to them and how we CAN react to them, patients begin to learn what is truely necessary for them in this life.  This allows patients to create happiness now, which in turn leads to a happy home, which any child would want to be a part of.

The best part of the above has not yet been mentioned.  When we start living for today and living in a happy state, our bodies start responding to us.  Read about Caitlin’s patient’s reaction after 4 weeks of fertility coaching:

We’re four weeks into our coaching sessions and already Mary* is taking control and feeling strong.  She has decided to stop working outside of her working hours.  She has also made the decision to help others only when she feels sufficiently rested.  As a result, she no longer feels like she is fighting with herself.  And the next piece of news is the icing on the cake:  Mary repeated her standard blood work before her embryo transfer that will happen this week.  Until this point, for the past 3+ years, Mary has had very high NK cell count (Natural Killer cells - at high levels they can cause miscarriage and prevent implantation).  She just got her results: NORMAL!!  This not only HUGELY improves her chances for a successful transfer, but also saves her thousands in medicine!

*Name changed for privacy.  UPDATE!  We have a pregnancy!  Mary has done three blood tests and will have her first ultrasound on friday!!

Fertility Coaching is meant to help each and every client on every level of healing.  Clients often report feeling stronger, more clear about life goals, wants and needs and more confident in their decisions - both those dealing with fertility and those not.  Caitlin absolutely loves guiding people through this exceptional transformation and is available to do so over Skype until she returns to the States.

How can I start Fertility Coaching?

For more information, please email Caitlin using our online form found in the Clinic Information section of this website!  Caitlin is available through Skype for fertility coaching.

How long will I need to be coached?

The general outline for coaching is 7 one hour meetings.  This amount can be adjusted in special cases.

What does the overall process look like?

The Fertility Coaching process that Caitlin developed with Ewa Blaszczak, a supervisor life coach specializing in women’s struggles, is a 10 step process and includes the following:

• Discover You - in this first step, we take a look at your view of your life at this moment.  You, as the coachee, remind yourself of core values and beliefs.  You remember what you like, what you are here for and you uncover resources that you may have forgotten you have.
• Goal - Childbearing - in this step, we review your motivations for having children and the emotions that are tied to this process.  You will be able to uncover beliefs and needs that may be stopping you in your path to motherdom.
• Goal - Life - in this step, we focus just on YOU.  What are your motivations for being you?  How can you build your life around this goal?
• Straight to the Point - here, we learn how to accept ourselves and take advantage of everything we have to offer in this life.  We reconnect with our bodies and discover / build our self worth.
• Beliefs and Fears - Do you feel like you may have a blockage?  At this step, we find it as well as finding the beliefs and values that support it.  You will confront your blockages and learn how they can be beneficial to you in certain situations.  You will learn to take advantage when you need to and switch to a different belief when you need something else.
• Inner Critic - Do you feel that you just cannot turn off that inner voice of negativity?  You will learn to listen to the background messages of this voice and turn it into positive background noise.
• Control Point - After all these steps, you need a minute to recollect.  At this step, usually done without the coach, the coachee will review their progress and reward themselves for how far they’ve come.  You’ll be amazed how much has already changed by this point!
• Success Strategies - Discover your unique strategy for success.  Find your strongest motivators and the beliefs and values that support them.  Realize that you are successful and are capable of amazing results.
• Visualization - With your success strategies in place, at this point we have a chance to visualize your end goal and create a path to get there.  This is an amazingly powerful and uplifting step - after this, you are ready to bring your vision into real life!
• Action Plan - Here, we make notes of a combination of your success strategies and your visualization.  The plan is made by the coachee according to a schedule and pace that the coachee feels comfortable with.  Action plans can range from 1 week to 5 years…. then, you’re off and running!